(An excuse for an external memory aid)
2022, directed by Sam Raimi
It’s a bold artistic choice on Marvel’s part to spend the entire two hour runtime of the guy’s own movie telling us how literally every version of him is fucking terrible and this one’s only the hero because Wanda managed to be even worse. I’d like to say I respect it.
Once again it’s Steam’s Next Fest, the regularly occurring event that highlights demos for upcoming games. It’s always a favourite of mine and I try to always participate by playing through several interesting looking titles. Today I tried three that were all extremely relaxed with no real time pressures involved.
(more…)With new trailers for Thunderbolts and Captain America 4 out over the last couple of months there’s been a resurgence of “Bucky should have been Cap instead of Sam” opining, with one of the main reasons given being “Bucky was Cap first in the comics!” Sure, he was, it’s true (mostly – there’s an issue that’s published after Bucky’s Cap run but takes place before it where Sam takes up the shield while Steve is briefly incapacitated, but that’s a somewhat flimsy counterargument), but there’s an awful lot of nonsense that happens in the comics that shouldn’t be used as precedent for the movies. More importantly, if you’re talking about story then the circumstances in which Bucky became Cap don’t support the argument themselves.
(more…)I watched this movie three times in two days so you wouldn’t have to (but should anyway, it’s exquisite). You should definitely watch it at least once before reading this even if you don’t care about spoilers because most of this doesn’t give much context.
(more…)As a comics fan, watching Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been an absolute joy. It is chock-full of comics references from the obvious to the obscure. I wanted to put together a few of them in case anyone was interested – I may add more later, but for now:
(more…)This run tied in with the whole Avengers Disassembled thing where Wanda went nuts. It did not do good things for Sam. I had to revisit this for roleplaying reasons, so…
Sam and Steve have been tasked with bringing in the Anti-Cap, a super sailor who never even gets a name. Bad luck, kid. He’s like Steve, if Steve was in the Navy and inspired by the Oklahoma City bombing instead of WWII. Oh, and kind of nuts.
The event all shook out a couple weeks ago, so, the highlights!
I’m dipping into the Ultimate verse at the moment, starting with Nightmare/Secret/Extinction yesterday, and since Vision comes immediately afterwards I figured that was the next logical title.
(Oh yeah, and Sam Wilson’s in it. *cough*)
The letters page in ANAD Avengers is polarised. A lot of people are super mad that they’re changing things, like comics (and especially Marvel comics) haven’t literally always been pretty damn progressive. And this iteration of the Avengers has good stuff – a mix of the old guard (Tony Stark, Vision, Sam Wilson, and I guess Jane Foster though she’s new as an actual hero) and brand new (Miles Morales, Kamala Khan, Sam Alexander), lots of tensions, Vision being a creeper, the dynamic between Little Sam and Kamala, Big Sam and Tony trying to be Team Dads… Hell, Cap and Tony just in general have some great interactions in the way they’re not exactly BFFs and definitely disagree on a lot, but still have that long history of working together and respecting each other. Well. Mostly. Sometimes.
Oh look, I’m back on Captain America. >.> This run established a potential link between Steve and Hydra through the Lazarus formula which he was (retcon-actively) injected with back in 1944.
