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Written by: Angela Rairden In a sense, Marvel’s latest installment in the MCU, Thor: Love and Thunder is a call back to the very first Thor film. In that movie, released all the way back in 2011, audiences were first introduced to Chris Hemsworth’s god of thunder – young, brash, and not entirely aware of what life had in store for him. That Thor was one who needed to do a lot of growing up in order to reach his full potential.   Now, in 2022’s Love and Thunder, we are reacquainted with a Thor has been through a lot...

Written by Angela Rairden Poison Ivy finally has her own title again and I couldn’t be happier about it! Written by G. Willow Wilson (the same writer who created Marvel’s Kamala Khan!), this is a deadlier version of Pamela Isley than we’ve seen in a long time. After obtaining god-like powers, only to have those powers stripped from her, Ivy’s feeling less like herself than ever before. Add to that the fact that she’s still processing her complicated break-up from Harley Quinn, and we have a version of Ivy that just wants to watch the world burn. Except, it isn’t...

ATTENTION: This blog contains a slight spoiler concerning who the villain of the movie is (which will not be a spoiler to fans of the Morbius comic). Read on at your own risk.   Morbius, which is based on a Marvel character but distributed by Sony, plays out more like a horror film than it does the typical sort of superhero film that we’re used to seeing about Marvel characters. The third film in Sony’s Spider-man Universe (following Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage), Morbius features a darker, bloodier theme and the creepy reality of its protagonist needing to...

  DC Comics released issue one of new title Batman: The Knight on January 19th. The planned 10 issue comic, written by the acclaimed Chip Zdarsky (Daredevil, Sex Criminals) with art by Carmine Di Giandomenico (The Flash, Batgirl) promises to tell “the story of [how] Batman begins”. Although I didn’t dislike the first issue at all, there are a couple of things that I found curious (which admittedly probably have more to do with DC itself than with this series). The first one being that the title of this comic is written in a very medieval style script, which is...

The Good Asian was a comic that I had heard positive things about since its initial release; however, it was a comic that I knew nothing about. Therefore, I picked up its first trade, which encompasses issues one through four, not knowing what to expect from a comic with such an unusual and, frankly, slightly uncomfortable title. What I discovered was a gripping tale exposing a rarely discussed time in American history told in a deeply authentic noir tone. Taking place in 1936’s San Francisco, The Good Asian shines a light on a time period that most modern Americans either...