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shadowkat1. Freshman college roommate -- indicated that I should try Emergence Awesome to see all the MCU/Disney + news.
Black Widow Movie Preview and casting news, along with news on all the other Marvel Tv Series on Disney + -- they are planning on having a new Black Widow pop out of the movie.
The movie actually looks really good.
Eternals? Kit Harrington is cast as the Black Knight. He's joining the Eternals Movie. (Black Knight is among the very first of the Avengers characters.)
Also the comic book they are basing the Eternals on is ...Neil Gaiman's Eternals.
News on Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and SheHulk
They are airing the shows weekly not binge style like on Netflix.
Here's the site for fellow geeks... Emergence Awesome
2. The new Joke trailer is out. Which is an origin story that looks like a combination of the back story shown in Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and that old Robert Deniro/Jerry Lewis film The King of Comedy (considering how much I despised The King of Comedy and dislike the Joker, I don't foresee myself watching this movie...but who knows?).
Someone on scans daily asked who this film was being made for exactly. Well, let's see...the Breaking Bad crowd, the Joquain Phoenix/Deniro fans, people who like dark gritty character studies about anti-heroes -- which is a huge number of people.
It's getting awards attention apparently.
3. I'm reading the newest issue of Hickman's X-men reboot, House of X #3, and my major quibble is...I would like more storytelling in graphic art form, and less difficult to read charts, weird symbols that are creating a new code-like language, and expository content. I have a feeling that Hickman is a frustrated computer software programmer/guide book writer or maybe frustrated Apple handbook writer -- his charts and expository content in tiny print remind me of that.
The story is good, but you have to do a lot of work to get to it.
Black Widow Movie Preview and casting news, along with news on all the other Marvel Tv Series on Disney + -- they are planning on having a new Black Widow pop out of the movie.
The movie actually looks really good.
Eternals? Kit Harrington is cast as the Black Knight. He's joining the Eternals Movie. (Black Knight is among the very first of the Avengers characters.)
Also the comic book they are basing the Eternals on is ...Neil Gaiman's Eternals.
News on Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and SheHulk
They are airing the shows weekly not binge style like on Netflix.
Here's the site for fellow geeks... Emergence Awesome
2. The new Joke trailer is out. Which is an origin story that looks like a combination of the back story shown in Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and that old Robert Deniro/Jerry Lewis film The King of Comedy (considering how much I despised The King of Comedy and dislike the Joker, I don't foresee myself watching this movie...but who knows?).
Someone on scans daily asked who this film was being made for exactly. Well, let's see...the Breaking Bad crowd, the Joquain Phoenix/Deniro fans, people who like dark gritty character studies about anti-heroes -- which is a huge number of people.
It's getting awards attention apparently.
3. I'm reading the newest issue of Hickman's X-men reboot, House of X #3, and my major quibble is...I would like more storytelling in graphic art form, and less difficult to read charts, weird symbols that are creating a new code-like language, and expository content. I have a feeling that Hickman is a frustrated computer software programmer/guide book writer or maybe frustrated Apple handbook writer -- his charts and expository content in tiny print remind me of that.
The story is good, but you have to do a lot of work to get to it.
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Date: 2019-08-29 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-29 12:16 pm (UTC)Sort of my reaction to it as well -- a mashup of Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, with a touch of Dark Knight thrown in --- the only interesting twist, that Deniro is now playing the host or the authority figure. It would be one thing if I liked the prior movies....sort of a been there done that. Also, I'm tired of the disenfranchised white anti-hero story. The little sympathy I had for these anti-heroes jumped out the window after 2016.
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Date: 2019-08-29 02:28 pm (UTC)I'll confess to feeing a little giddy when I heard the Black Knight was going to be appearing in the MCU. He was in the first Marvel Comic I bought for myself -- Defenders #7, back in 1972. Yeah, not the story they're telling (it wasn't a great story, looking back at the first 10 issues of that book -- which I still have), but it's cool to see another piece of my entry point coming to life.
Hickman -- I enjoy his work, but I've found it reads better for me if I pile up four or five issues and read them in a single go. Otherwise, I feel like I'm missing something. So I haven't dipped into his House of X yet. Probably in another week or so.
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Date: 2019-08-29 05:14 pm (UTC)Agree on The Joker -- the trailer just turns me off.
I'm surprised and giddy with some of the characters they are bringing into the MCU -- they are ones I'd never have expected. And...the head of the MCU has chosen to ignore the Inhumans completely, and possibly make Ms. Marvel a mutant. The Black Knight is an interesting choice.
Hickman -- is like reading a very good sci-fi novel. He's a frustrated speculative science fiction novelist. But, I'm loving his work and the art is amazing. That said, it is dense. And I think it might work better if you read them together. I may re-read after he completes the arc. I think I've figured out where they are going with this -- and am rather pleased, because it is a completely new direction and something they haven't really done before -- also it will bring the X-men into the MCU in an interesting way.