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REVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 3 “Lamentis”
With “Lamentis,” Loki takes on another of the characteristics of its eponymous trickster and shapeshifts, becoming a buddy cop action-comedy without breaking stride. The story and mythology behind the Time Variance Authority take a backseat (though an important piece of the puzzle does lock into...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 2 “The Variant”
The tragedy of “The Variant” may be that a lot of potential viewers won’t check it out after sitting through the glacially-paced “Glorious Purpose.” That would be a shame because, in its second episode, Loki becomes considerably more interesting, hinting at a much smarter story lurking ben...
Read MoreIs Kevin Feige’s Development of the MCU a Myth?
Spike | Jun 10, 2021 | 1
The phrase “Captain Marvel is the most powerful character in the MCU” was a popular Kevin Feige quote from an interview with Vulture to promote that character’s already controversial film. These types of statements are dumb since a character’s diegetic power levels are irrele...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 1 “Glorious Purpose”
Loki was supposed to be my reward for sitting through The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. After a series of lectures about race and borders and how terrorists who gleefully kill innocent people are the real heroes, the God of Mischief was set to bring back the fun that had been sucked out of the &hel...
Read MoreMarvel Adds Actors to Moon Knight and Secret Invasion
A couple of former villains are making their way to the Disney+ corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First, Marvel tweeted confirmation of a long-running rumor that Oscar Isaac will play Moon Knight in an upcoming show. He’ll be joined by Ethan Hawke, who is supposedly playing the villain, and...
Read MoreEternals Trailer Stands Around and Looks Pretty
The outer reaches of the comic book world are being mined, as Marvel has released a trailer for Eternals (as opposed to “The Eternals,” as I’d been incorrectly calling it until I saw the title card at the end). Eternals concerns an alien race who’ve spent millennia in hiding on Earth coming ...
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