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Month: June 2018
Venom Is Becoming One of Marvel’s Best Comics
More than any other series, Venom embodies what Marvel’s Fresh Start relaunch is trying to accomplish. It offers a clean entry point for a long-running franchise. It captures just enough of what readers loved about this character in his glory days while bringing a whole wealth of new elements to the table. This Venom relaunch is completely unlike any that’s come before, and that’s a very good thing.
The new series started off strong in its first issue but stumbled slightly in issue #2 thanks to a decompressed script. That’s not a problem here. While Donny Cates still crafts a fairly minimalist story that relies on imagery more than dialogue, there’s a lot going on in issue #3. He briefly but effectively showcases the dynamic between Eddie Brock and Miles Morales (making full use of Miles’ history with the Ultimate Universe version of Venom). Then he turns his attention to the big showdown between Venom and the Klyntar dragon storming its way through Manhattan. By the end, the mythology of this franchise has been completely turned on its head.
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Our Xbox crew looks at the new summer game releases in a normally dry time of year for gaming. Plus: we debate Gears (of War) 5’s name change, discuss Minecraft’s Xbox/Switch cross-play, salute Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, and more!
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DC Finally Reveals Who’s Faster – Superman or Flash
The question of whether Superman or The Flash is truly the fastest hero in the DC Universe has been the source of fan debate for decades. And today, DC Comics finally settled that question once and for all in the pages of The Flash #49.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Flash #49!
This issue features the penultimate chapter of “Flash War,” as former allies Barry Allen and Wally West have come to blows. Wally has been convinced by Zoom that his children (supposedly wiped out of existence thanks to the New 52 reboot) are trapped inside the Speed Force. He wants to use his speed to destroy the Speed Force itself and free them, while Barry would prefer to use less drastic measures.
DC’s Doom Patrol TV Series Explained
Apparently the DC Universe will never run out of new characters with which to build new live-action TV series. DC recently announced that a Doom Patrol series is in the works for the DC Universe streaming service, joining other series like Titans and Young Justice: Season 3.
The Doom Patrol may not be the most well-known of DC’s various super-teams, but fans know that this group is a perfect fit for the streaming format. Here’s everything you need to know about the Doom Patrol and their strange comic book history.
Doom Patrol Explained: The Basics
The simplest way to describe the Doom Patrol is that they’re DC’s answer to the X-Men. They’re a team of misfit heroes led by a brilliant man in a wheelchair and who fight to protect a world that hates and fears them. Though depending on whom you ask, the Doom Patrol concept might have been developed first.
Jessica Jones: Krysten Ritter to Make Directorial Debut on Season 3
Krysten Ritter, who plays the titular role in Marvel’s Jessica Jones, is set to make her directorial debut in the show’s third season.
As reported by Deadline, Ritter will direct a single episode of the season, and while Season 3’s episode count has not been officially released, both the first and second seasons of the show contained 13 episodes. Ritter’s role as director will continue the second season’s trend of having separate female directors helm each episode.
“I am beyond thrilled to make my directorial debut on Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” said Ritter. “The entire crew and cast has become family to me, and I’m so appreciative of the opportunity to work with our incredible team in this new way.”
Frontrunners for Top Gun 2 Lead Role Reportedly Revealed
The frontrunners for a lead role in Top Gun: Maverick have reportedly been unveiled.
THR reports Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller are all in the running to play the son of Maverick’s (Tom Cruise) best friend, Goose. Anthony Edwards portrayed Goose in the original Top Gun, while his son is featured as a young boy with Meg Ryan playing the mother in that original film.
Hoult is most known for his role as Beast in the new X-Men films. Teller’s breakout movie was 2014’s Whiplash, while Powell currently stars in Netflix’s Set It Up.
Val Kilmer is also set to reprise his role as Iceman in the sequel, with Tom Cruise leading the cast as Maverick. The film will feature a new version of the 1980s hit, Danger Zone, while Cruise also recently teased a look at the film as production of Top Gun 2 started.
Jumanji Sequel Release Date Announced by The Rock
The official release date for the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel has been revealed by the film’s star.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared a brief video on Instagram announcing the film will open in theaters on December 13, 2019. Johnson did not specify if this release date is only for North America or a worldwide release.
The third Jumanji movie will opening in the same month as Star Wars: Episode IX, but Jumanji will have a week to breathe, as Star Wars: Episode IX opens on Dec. 20.
The Last of Us 2 is Great – But There’s Still a Way to Go for LGBTQ Representation in Games
I joked about the lesbian sex scene in Mass Effect 3 to anyone who would listen at the time, whooped about it as if it was the novelty porn my flatmates and I had watched in our first shared apartment. I thought it would be a scene I cringed through, a cynical product of my calculated romance option selections set deep in the Uncanny Valley. As it began, though, it hit me that I was watching an actual lesbian sex scene in a video game, between two characters I had grown to care about over a long period, whose relationship felt important to me. It felt too big to laugh at.
That was 2012. The Mass Effect trilogy was the first experience I had with LGBTQ characters in a video game since my grandma bought me a Gameboy in 1990. Nothing has measured up to that experience for me since, and of course, nothing could. It was revelatory to me in the way late-‘90s queer films like But I’m a Cheerleader were — my palms sweating, clutching the side of the couch and furtively glancing at the door in case my parents came in.
Ant-Man And The Wasp: Review Roundup
The first reviews are rolling in for Marvel’s newest film as the general release of Ant-Man and the Wasp is fast approaching. The film stars Paul Rudd as Ant-Man and Evangeline Lilly as The Wasp, and it follows the physics-defying duo as they embark on a mission to find Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) and subvert an intriguing new villain.
The film includes all kinds of other characters besides the two that are named in the title and has been pretty highly anticipated after the success of the first Ant-Man and the questions regarding his absence from Infinity War. So far, the film has a score of 70 on Metacritic which is a solid endorsement, but if you want a better look into the good and the bad from Ant-Man and the Wasp, check out the snipits from the reviews below.
GameSpot — No Score
“Like the original Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp is primarily a palette cleanser in the MCU as a whole (the first movie was sandwiched in between the dense Age of Ultron and the dour Civil War). Ant-Man and the Wasp is hilarious, fun, silly, self aware, and creative. Filled with pseudo-science gobbledigook, crazy action, and multiple villains all vying for screen time, it’s one of the most comic-booky MCU movies yet. The fates of all our favorite heroes after Avengers: Infinity War may still be up in the air, but in the meantime, Ant-Man and the Wasp is a welcome distraction.” — Michael Rougeau [Full Review]
Den of Geek — 2.5/5
“Lacking any chance of displaying cinematic flourish or a point-of-view, Peyton Reed’s straightforward effort misses the righteous zeal of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther or the playful cheekiness of James Gunn and Taika Waititi’s Marvel entries. Ant-Man and the Wasp, by comparison, is just there, a flat-looking comedy that’s bereft of too few laughs when juxtaposed with Thor: Ragnarok, even though that film was ostensibly about the apocalypse and this one is supposedly a laugher.” — David Crow [Full Review]
CNET — No Score
“Ant-Man and The Wasp takes the stakes and scale of a typically colossal Marvel film and brings them down to the most intimate level, focusing on families in this love letter to father-daughter relationships.The 20th Marvel Cinematic Universe film is a light, welcome break from the mess that is reality — more specifically from thinking about the epic scale of destruction in Avengers: Infinity War. It’s a silly, fun comedy, well-timed after the superhero smashes of the last few months, with an easy-to-follow plot (even with multiple foes) and a whole lot of love, making it one of the best MCU sequels.” — Caitlin Petrakovitz and Eric Franklin [Full Review]
ComicBook.com — No Score
“Most of Marvel’s stars and directors recently attended the premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp and, unsurprisingly, many of their reactions are incredibly positive.The same goes for James Gunn, writer and director of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. After seeing the film at the premiere on Monday night, Gunn took to Twitter to share his thoughts on the work done by his Marvel cohorts. ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp is everything you want it to be,’ Gunn wrote. ‘Hilarious, sweet, moving, & wall-to-wall fun. Killer work @MrPeytonReed! And great performances by @EvangelineLilly, @hannahjk1 & of course @Dastmalchian. I loved it! (Pro tip: see it before Avengers 4!)'” — Charlie Ridgely [Full Review]
ScreenRant — 3.5/5
“All in all, Ant-Man and the Wasp represents Marvel Studios at its best. The movie balances exciting action, well-timed humor, and a heartfelt emotional storyline to great effect, letting the heroes shine in their own unique way while also tying the movie into the larger MCU. After the weighty and stuffed team-up that was Avengers: Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp provides a return to form for Marvel. It operates as a reminder of how well the studio works on a smaller scale, even as fans may be more interested in Marvel’s loftier goals of tying together a decade’s worth of movies for a grand event.” –Molly Freeman [Full Review]
Variety — No Score
“The director, Peyton Reed, also made the first Ant-Man (2015), but at the time he’d never helmed a special-effects blockbuster before, and his inexperience showed. He jammed comedy, action, and origin-story mythology into a film that had more amiable spirit than craft. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Reed keeps the entire movie — one-liners, Macy’s Parade effects, hand-to-insect-wing combat — spinningly aloft. Always an inspired director of comedy (Down with Love, Bring It On), Reed has learned how to operate the heavy machinery of a Marvel superhero movie yet keep it all light and fast and dizzying.” –Owen Gleiberman [Full Review]
IndieWire — B-
“No matter its uneven variables, Ant-Man and the Wasp remains satisfying in that slick, crowdpleasing sort of way that became Marvel’s hallmark, at least until the shocking finale of Infinity War. That movie upended years of formula with a grim cliffhanger that left audiences reeling. Released just a few weeks later, Ant-Man and the Wasp practically feels like a mea culpa, or at least the opportunity to take a breath. At this point, no studio does a better job of giving the people what they want.” –Eric Kohn [Full Review]
Entertainment Tonight — No Score
“The sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, whether by nature or by design, is as close to the polar opposite of Infinity War as can be: Like something of a palate cleanser, light and a whole lot of fun and on a significantly smaller scale. (As small as one of these massive Marvel movies can get, anyway.) Our eponymous duo is not trying to save the galaxy, or the planet, or even their neighborhood. A simple rescue mission drives this story: Save Janet van Dyne.” — John Boone [Full Review]
Vox — 3/5
“Ant-Man and the Wasp is an airy, nimble piece of filmmaking: Reed’s confidence to unapologetically embrace weirdness — like imagery of ants playing drums or responding to telepathic commands — gives the franchise its distinctly playful spirit. His stars, Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, reprise their roles and further energize Marvel’s most lovable romance. And the action sequences, with their constant, dynamic manipulation of size and scope, are as creative as they are thrilling. The film is bundles of fun, so much so that I found myself wishing it had a bit more to offer than just a good time at the movies.”– Alex Abad-Santos [Full Review]