Category: Fantastic Four
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I have to tell you, I wasn't sure what to expect from The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The history of Marvel's first family on film has been more than rocky, what with the Roger Corman boondoggle (financially if not creatively) in 1994, the two entertaining but lightweight attempts in the 2000s (which I liked more…
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SPOILERS FOR DEVIL'S REIGN #1 BELOW! In last week's Devil's Reign #1, the first installment in the Daredevil-centered Marvel Comics event by writer Chip Zdarsky, artist Marco Checchetto, and colorist Marcio Menyz, Wilson Fisk—better known as the Kingpin, and currently the Mayor of New York—has enacted a citywide ban on superheroes to get revenge on…
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SPOILERS FOR THE CURRENT RUN OF DAREDEVIL BELOW! For the last year, Daredevil has been in prison, where he was sentenced in Daredevil #24 for second-degree manslaughter, resulting from the eventual death of a burglar he beat up in the first issue of the current run. Since he's been incarcerated—as Daredevil, mind you, avec mask…
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Why do I feel inspired to write about only the movies I'm disappointed in? Maybe I worry I'll be too fanboy-ish about the movies I love and will fail to say anything insightful about them, sounding like Chris Farley meeting his idols on Saturday Night Live ("You know that movie you were in? … That…
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Hard to believe this is my first post here in 2015… sad but true… Nonetheless, just a quick post to point your swiping or clicking finger toward several items of potential interest: I have a guest post at The Cultural Gutter, one of my favorite websites, recounting my experiences and impressions reading the entire run…
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Just a quick post to share a page from Matt Fraction and Joe Quinones' FF #6, featuring the Moloids (Mik, Korr, Turg, and Tong), which seems not to gotten the widespread attention it deserves: Both in this volume of FF as well as Hickman's that came before, the Moloids are usually adorable comic relief, often…
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Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic) is often portrayed as clueless when it comes to the more romantic and emotional aspects of his marriage to his wife Susan (aka the Invisible Woman), but once in a while he shows his feelings as only one of the smartest people in the Marvel Universe can. In yesterday's Fantastic Four…
Mark D. White 