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May 7, 2018 12:27 pm "I'm exhausted by all that." Really? There have been 40+ writers of the main Captain America title in 75 years. Of those there have been maybe two that were not white. One of which was Robert Morales who wrote the amazing "Truth" and dived deep into political waters and put a spotlight on the awful history of black experimentation and exploitation in WW2. These are the kinds of stories that don't often get told in comics and most writers stay away from. I personally am really looking forward to what Coates does with Captain America and expect it to be boundary pushing in a positive way unlike Spencer's awful run.
April 30, 2018 11:24 am I agree with your reasoning for Cap not to pick up the shield. I watched Civil War the night before Infinity War and the schism between the two felt very real. Cap betrayed Tony and he knows it. Overall I loved the film and i'm looking forward to seeing it again.
April 23, 2018 12:29 pm Action Comics 1000 was definitely my PotW. It was a wonderful tribute to the many era's of the man of steel. My favorite story was also the Car and I can't for more Olivier Coipel art! I would have loved for it to be 100 pages or 120 pages and make more room for some of the other legendary artists and writers who have worked on Superman like Morrison/Quitely, George Perez, Waid/Ross, Joe Kelly, Mark Millar, etc.If there was any single issue of a comic book that should have reunited Mark Waid and DC it was this. A question for everyone though. I got deja vu reading the Tom King story. As though I had read it before or a very similar story where superman keeps returning to earth millions of years into the future. Does anyone have any idea what that might have been?
December 21, 2017 5:08 pm I felt the same way! And I also did after TFA. During my first viewing of TFA I went in with super high expectations and came out feeling conflicted and very bothered by the "beat-for-beat remake of ANH" criticism. But then seeing it again and again I've been drawn into the movie and now I love TFA as much as Connor. After TLJ I came out feeling like Ron but after seeing it again I enjoyed it much more. The Rey/Kylo/Luke storyline is really a highlight of the entire series while on second viewing the excursion to canto bite and the Del-torro and Dern performances were much less distracting. My rankings seem to be a little different. 1. Return of the Jedi 2. Empire Strikes Back 3. A New Hope 4. The Force Awakens 5. The Last Jedi 6. Rouge One 7. Phantom Menace 8. Revenge of the Sith 9. Attack of the Clones
December 21, 2017 4:47 pm It's been a busy week so I haven't had the chance to listen to the pod yet but this is one of my favorites of the year. I was wondering though what the iFanboy team thought of a couple of movies I didn't see on the rundown: Baby Driver - One of my favorite movies of the year. Mother - The worst movie I saw this year (and maybe ever). And I know it's impossible nowadays to do a full podcast about all the comic book related tv shows but has any of you jamokes had the chance to check out Punisher or Runaways? I've been pleasantly surprised by both. Especially Punisher. I wasn't looking forward to it at all and I think it ended up being really good.
November 20, 2017 3:24 pm Between the iFanboy brain trust and the feedback received so far from Randal and Bionic Dave I am probably closest to Randal with my opinion. I was surprised how much of it I enjoyed and it did exceed my rock bottom expectations of it being terrible. I do have a fresh hope though that the next Justice League or Wonder Woman/Batman/Flash movies will have better villains to create a real story around.
November 14, 2017 3:30 pm I saw that too. Congratulations Ron!
November 5, 2017 10:08 pm Calling this an "Annual" issue is as accurate a description as I've heard. Not just because of the mash-up of characters but because there are whole sections of the movie that feel like they are different stories by different creative teams. But like the best annuals it all comes together and I felt like the end with Thor sitting on the throne he rejected at the very beginning of the first movie to show how far the character has come. Overall I enjoyed the movie even though it did focus at times on a character laying in a one liner instead of highlighting any dramatic tension. I've also read a lot that a lot of people found this to be the funniest Marvel movie which I disagree with. Spider-Man homecoming had me dying laughing at some points and unlike Thor the humor felt natural as the character is meant to embrace humor.
October 16, 2017 5:35 pm Every now and then I think about picking up G.I. Joe or a Transformers book from IDW and i'm actually intimidated. I have no clue where to start. No clue which books are connected. They seem to reboot every year. Seem to be in a constant state of crossover. And the art on a lot of it is pretty ugly. If i'm wrong please let me know. But I guess now I know how a new reader for Marvel or DC must feel making sense of their continuities. As for Patrick's question about binging, just like TV shows I think it depends entirely on the book if it works better or not. I got Marvel Unlimited this year and also "binged" BMB's and Brubaker's entire Daredevil run and thought it was an excellent read as a giant story. There were mini-arc's mixed in there so it never felt repetitive or like it dragged on. Alternatively I read the first two giant volumes of Walking Dead one after the other. Something like 75 issues in a row. And I got bored with the repetitive story line of the group finding temporary shelter and running after volume one. I've never felt a need to go back to the comic book or the TV show since. Whereas if I was reading it monthly I don't think the story would have felt as borning.
October 6, 2017 5:15 pm I really enjoyed the 3rd episode just like the first two. Again, I had no problem with the technical inconsistencies like side-to-side transporters or that they are working on a mysterious transportation method that never carried over to the other series. Discovery feels self contained and we don't know the whole story yet. The end of the season could see the ship mysteriously destroyed scaring Starfleet from trying it again. Or it's successful and classified top secret through the TNG era because if it fell in the hands of another alien race it which could be disastrous. At the same time though the show feels like Star Trek to me. A number of plot points have been used in previous series. -Mutineer rejoins Starfleet - Ro Laren in TNG -Starfleet experimenting with mysterious tech - The Pegasus in TNG or The Equinox in Voyager -Commanding officers with dark intentions - too many to list. And even if Captain Lorca and some of the crew may have bad intentions we spent enough time in the first two episodes to establish that the Federation does have good intentions.