As part of our lead-up to Marvel’s Jessica Jones, we’ve put together a few posts to introduce you to what we know about the show’s cast of characters—most of whom have quite a bit of history in Marvel Comics. Today, we meet Luke Cage. The ’70s were a weird time, with just about every pop culture medium […]
It looks like Marvel’s building what will be, for all practical purposes, two cinematic universes. The first is the big, bright, billion dollar one we all know about with The Avengers, Agents of SHIELD and the rest. The second, Netflix-based universe is a darker, grimmer one with Daredevil, Jessica Jones and, eventually, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. The two properties can and do reference […]
The expectations for Daredevil season one were modest: a low-budget show with a mostly little-known cast attempting to resurrect a b-list superhero whose own film franchise went belly-up back in 2003. But the Netflix series blew expectations through the roof, crafting a gripping crime drama packed in a world far removed from the MCU’s slick and glisten. Daredevil exists in a […]
Marvel’s got hip-hop on the brain. After the Run the Jewels covers of Howard the Duck, Secret Wars and Deadpool took off this year, Marvel launched more this summer and fall, honoring iconic albums like Raewkon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. Each of these variants are sure to […]
In the comics, Jessica has one of the more tragic storylines. She’s a washed-up Avenger who has been the victim of terrible, terrible abuse that I don’t even want to talk too much about. Let’s just say she’s a troubled character with a dark and tragic past. Let’s also say this dark, tragic, and abusive […]
Today in good news for people who like good comics, Marvel has announced a new Black Widow comic coming from writer Mark Waid, artist Chris Samnee, colorist Matt Wilson and letterer Joe Caramagna—the award winning team behind the most recent Daredevil run (if you haven’t read it, what on earth is wrong with you?)
There’s an ongoing joke about the Marvel Cinematic Universe that says that there’s never any blood shown in any of the action scenes. It rings true, for the most part since many of the action scenes in the feature films are very PG, and few are borderline PG-13 when it comes to violence. Marvel knows […]