When Marvel UK republished the comic strip adaptation of the phenomenally successful film Star Wars in 1978, they did so in the manner traditional to British comics of the time; stripping the episodes into smaller chunks and filling out the … Continue reading The Back Pages: Monark Starstalker
Warning! Contains Spoilers! There’s a lot that is familiar to me about Thunderbolts*. I had a renaissance of comic book buying in the early noughties, suddenly finding myself with disposable cash and a commute that took me past Forbidden Planet … Continue reading Thunderbolts*: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Brave New World arrived during the worst possible set of circumstances for a Captain America movie. Its title may be intended to convey the progressive notion of having a black Captain America and the move forward from … Continue reading Captain America – Brave New World: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! The MCU is dead… or at least that’s what the Internet would have you believe. But the Internet is at best an unreliable narrator and at worst a downright liar, so you’d be a fool to … Continue reading The Marvels: Review
Caution: Contains Minor Spoilers Marvel took a big risk with the original Ant-Man movie in 2015, because Ant-Man really isn’t one of their big hitters. I mean, sure, in his comic book Hank Pym form he was a member of … Continue reading Ant-Man and the Wasp – Quantumania: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! She-Hulk emerged from the late-70s/early-80s boom for female Marvel Superheroes, which also saw the arrival of Spider-Woman, Dazzler and the original Ms. Marvel. In her early adventures, she was pretty much a female version of the Hulk, … Continue reading She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! There’s a pattern that occurs in film series when they make the decision to become more light-hearted and it can be clearly seen in everything from 1970s Bond to 1990s Batman; you start with a movie … Continue reading Thor – Love and Thunder: Review
I remember Ms. Marvel from my childhood in the early 80s. Not this Ms. Marvel, of course – the Ms. Marvel who became Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel was a man. Look, it’s all very complicated; all you really have to … Continue reading Ms. Marvel: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! The title character in Moon Knight has Dissociative Identity Disorder and the story that surrounds him is equally schizoid. He’s never quite sure whether the events that he is experiencing are real, a dream or an … Continue reading Moon Knight: Review
Following cinematic trends in the 1970s frequently did Marvel Comics a great many favours in later years; the trend for ‘Blaxploitation’ movies in the early 70s witnessed the birth of Blade the Vampire Slayer and Luke Cage: Power Man and … Continue reading Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Review
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