Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a rather perplexing movie for me, because despite being genuinely pumped to see the last one, No Way Home, my excitement for this one was much more lukewarm. My wife and I saw it this past Saturday, about a month after it hit theaters. I really had no idea what…
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Things I Like: X-Men ’97 (TV Series) Season 2
I remember catching the X-Men cartoon as a kid in the 1990s, though it always seemed to air at inconvenient times. It was my first real introduction to the team, and when X-Men ’97 arrived and picked up the old series as though it had never stopped, I was genuinely excited. Season 1 delivered on…
Things I Like: The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025 Film)
The Fantastic Four isn’t exactly Marvel’s Mightiest Heroes… ah yes, that title goes literally to the Avengers. The Fantastic Four has now had three movie franchises. The first one was… okay. The second one was so awful that it ruined itself and any chance at a sequel. But with the Marvel Cinematic Universe getting close…
Things I Like: Captain America: Brave New World (2025 Film)
Captain America: Brave New World is the latest installment in the Captain America franchise, and the first since Captain America: Civil War. It also marks the debut of Anthony Mackie as the new Captain America, Sam Wilson, who inherited the shield—and the title—after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Due to my wife’s surgery back in…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Comic Books
The first prototype of an American comic book was published in 1840. It was titled The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, a translated version of a Swiss publication originally published in French as Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois. What many consider to be the first modern American comic book was Famous Funnies, published in 1933….