The Warped Shelf – What If…?
The MCU dips its toes into alternate universe shenanigans yet again, but this time, there’s not much of a leash. Let’s talk about this animated affair. Episode #99
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The Warped Shelf – How To Get Into Comics
Following our anime episode, we have another installment to help you get cut your teeth on comics.
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Captain America: Civil War
Despite the massive roster of characters appearing in this film it is still ultimately Captain America’s story. Using the frame work of The Sokovia Accords and his relationship with Bucky/The Winter Soldier, Cap finds himself having to choose between doing what’s right and what’s legal as well as protecting a friend, even if the person he is protecting them from is also a friend. In typical Cap fashion he of course refuses the path of least resistance. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Here’s the thing though about middle chapters, and Avengers: Age of Ultron should absolutely be thought of as the middle chapter, it’s hard to properly judge it until you have seen where it was going. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Iron Man 3
Let’s just get it out of the way. Iron Man 3 gets a lot of crap it doesn’t deserve. Being the first film to follow The Avengers it was always doomed to comparison. Comparison it never could win. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: The Avengers
The Avengers was a massive event at the time. Even people who had only shown a little interest in the Marvel films up to this point lined up to see The Avengers assemble for the first time on film. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Iron Man 2
It can be easy to forget how big of a swing Iron man 2 really was for audiences. It really deserves credit though for being the first true MCU film and the first time that it truly felt like these characters inhabited the same universe.
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Iron Man
We’re in the Endgame now. Just 20 days to go before Marvel Studios unleashes the biggest theatrical event in a generation (if not ever), capping off a story that is 11 years and 21 films in the making. There’s no denying that what Marvel has done here is unprecedented. As we approach the big day lets take a look back […]
Read moreReview: Avengers: Infinity War – 10 years snapped by
Regardless of how you feel about the Marvel movies as a whole, Avengers: Infinity War is the definition of a cinematic event. Not just for the sheer spectacle or massive cast, though it has both of those to spare, Infinity War is a film that has done something no other film has done before. It is the culmination of 18 films and the world those films have built. Does it (can it?) live up to the hype?
Read moreBacklog Quest II: Day 17 – Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth – Assemble in front of the Kinect
Dear Journal, Today I pretended I was Iron Man and also got a little bit of a work out. The Avengers: Battle for Earth is one of the newer games to make it into my backlog, and as anyone with a backlog will tell you, not all games spend as much time there. Still sort of hopped up on The […]
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