Captain America Movie News

A bunch of news came out this weekend reguarding the upcoming First Avenger: Captain America movie. BEWARE SPOILERS AHEAD. Director Joe Johnson, who is doing press for The Wolfman currently, revealed three bits of information: one regarding Cap’s costume, who the main villain will be, and what other WWII heroes will show up in the [...]

Who is Hawkeye? A Lesson in Marvel Lore.

A recent comment by Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) has set the comics internet ablaze with speculation as to whether Marvel mainstay character Clint Barton aka Hawkeye will appear in the upcoming slate of Marvel movies, particularly The Avengers. For those that don’t know, Hawkeye is a Marvel comics superhero who made his first appearance [...]

First Poster for Iron Man 2

First reported by Yahoo! Movies. Speculated to be THE summer movie of 2010, Marvel and Paramount released the first poster for Iron Man 2, the sequel to the 2008 superhero movie. The poster features a new model of the Iron Man armor on the right foreground, and in the background is the new character, War [...]

FrankenCastle: A New Take on The Punisher

What Is It? It has recently come to my attention, via an article on Comic Book Resources, that as of Dark Reign-The List-The Punisher, Frank Castle has been murdered and dismembers by the forces of Norman Osborn, the former Green Goblin and current director of H.A.M.M.E.R.. His body is seen at the very end of [...]

Interview with a Geek

This week I interview another geek, Jonny Chandler, a music education major at Towson University, to get an alternative view on comics.

Deadpool is the New Wolverine: A Character Representing the Times or Just One Shoved Down Our Throats?

Everyone knows Wolverine, right? The guy Hugh Jackman played in the three X-Men movies and recently spun off into his own origin film this past summer? Well, before the characters mainstream success, Wolverine was a superstar of Marvel Comics. Well, all comics for that matter. You see, back in the 80′s and 90′s, anti-heroes (amoral [...]

The Ideology of DC and Marvel Comics: Conservative Vs. Progressive

I’ve always thought of the Big Two (DC and Marvel comics, the two largest comics publishers in North America) as being like the Republican and Democratic political parties respectivly. not in terms of politics, but rather as ideologies. DC is conservative, the company ideology is that the heroes they produce are absolute, they are above [...]