I could be standing behind the glass-front counter at my retail comic shop job, or behind the formica circulation desk the library where I serve as assistant manager, young adult services coordinator, and overseer of graphic novel collection development, but the parent will always be the same: looking at their phone, occasionally glancing over the…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Shiny!
It’s Mighty Marvel Monday, home of suspicious eyebrow-raising regarding casting choices! Let’s dive right into it:
Mighty Marvel Monday: Special Edition NYC!
Marvellites! It’s Monday again, so let’s talk about what’s new at the House of Ideas.
Mighty Marvel Monday: What About Moon Knight, Though?
What’s up, Marvel Zombies? It’s Mighty Marvel Monday, and we have a multitude of movie…morsels (yeah, I don’t know either) for you! For the record: I will never, ever get tired of forcing a totally cheeseball alliteration in this intro paragraph. Deal with it. Anyone reading the current Moon Knight series from Warren Ellis and…
BookCon 2014: “What Even Is This Place?”
Early March: I get a lot of advertisement emails, as a Librarian, to attend various conferences with long acronyms for names: YALSA, ASCLA, PALA, etc etc. So when I got one that simply said “BookCon”, I was intrigued by the overt simplicity of the name. BookCon. A Book Convention. A quick look told me it…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Rumors for Days
It’s Monday, so you know what that means — time for Mighty Marvel Monday! Let’s take a look at what’s going down in the six-one-six:
News Beat: Friday Round-Up!
Hey kids! It’s Friday, so it’s time for me to round up some of the links you may have missed over the course of the week…Y’know, if you have “real lives” that don’t involve just looking at the Internet all day. Without further ado: Marvel’s “Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N” (no, I’m not going to spell out that…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Questionable Directorial Choices
Let’s bask in the glory of today’s alliteration: Memorial Day Mighty Marvel Monday! Hope everyone (in the US) is enjoying a day off. Unless, of course, you’ve been waiting with baited breath for me to round up this week’s Marvel-exclusive news for you: Marvel Cleans House on Directors Marvel fans let out a collective chorus…
Holding You Accountable: Goyer, Mazin, and A Giant Green Porn Star
Earlier this week, during the taping of a live-audience podcast named Scriptnotes, screenwriter David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) sat and talked with a number of other screenwriters (Andrea Berloff, Stephen McFeely, and Christopher Markus, to be exact) and the podcast hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, about writing superhero movies. A major point of…
News Beat: Friday Round-Up!
It’s Friday! End of the working week, beginning of the weekend, official start date for when Robert Smith is in love (versus other days of the week). All week, we’ve been bringing you news tailored to a couple of individual topics—Marvel (with me!), Indie comics, games, books (without pictures! Can you believe it?), etc. So…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Snikt!
Hey there, True Believers! (© “True Believers” is copyright Stan Lee, upon penalty of death. Excelsior!) We will be splitting up the news a little bit differently from here on out, and as resident lifelong Marvel Zombie, I will be taking on some of the coverage of the (obviously vastly superior) half of the Big…
News & Things: Star Wars Fades Out
“The Fade Out,” New From Brubaker & Phillips Hot off their exclusive contract with Image, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have a new title that is about — wait for it — vintage style noir crime! Still, the book looks gorgeous and this is Brubaker’s wheelhouse — what are you going to do? Not read…