The Warped Shelf – Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor’s back in his fourth solo outing! A big first for the MCU outside of the crossovers. How does Waititi follow-up Ragnarok and how did it land with us? Episode #130
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The Warped Shelf – Loki
We’re three for three with the Disney+ MCU shows. How does Loki compare to the previous two series and what ripples does it cause for the universe as a whole? Episode #84
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: Thor: The Dark World
Watching Thor: The Dark world two things immediately sprung to mind. The first is that the film looks great. The second thing is that it is much funnier than you remember […]
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: Thor
Thor is really when Marvel went all in on this comic book movie thing. Everything coming before it was still, at its heart, a grounded story in which the most “realistic” version of these heroes in our world was represented. Then came Thor […]
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 […]
Read moreBacklog Quest: Day 12 – Thor: God of Thunder – Thunder? More like blunder!
Dear Journal, Today I traversed the nine realms only to be defeated by poor frame rate, pixelating graphics and, well, just too much bad to cover in an opening line. I want to just go on record right now and say that Thor: God of Thunder may be one of the worst super hero inspired video games of this generation; […]
Read moreReview: The Avengers
Over the last decade and change, movie goers have been overwhelmed by a deluge of superhero movies. Most of them have been good to great, while others are best forgotten altogether. At any rate, it’s a good time to be a comic book fan who also happens to love movies. While Bryan Singer’s seminal X-Men flick is usually considered to […]
Read moreDr. Geek: Jesus Christ, Superhero?
With C2E2 almost set to launch from the McCormick Place in downtown Chicago, I wrap up my three part series on superheroes with this entry, in which I attempt to answer this question: do religious figures and the heroes of legend fall under the definition of “superheroes,” as outlined in part I? First, let’s look at the heroes of legend […]
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