Marvel Comics

Two words that have shaped many lives, Heros and Villans. Hero’s are the ones everyone seems to like considering they’re the good ones in the story. A Hero is someone who has powers that are not human like, but according to Marvel creator, Stan Lee “In order to be a superhero, you need a power that is more exceptional than any power a normal human being could possess, and you need to use that power to accomplish good deeds.” “ "Stan Lee on What Is a Superhero." OUPblog. N.p., 14 Jan. 2015. Web.…

Reported from Variety, actors Jared Leto and Chris Evans are being strongly considered for the Dreamworks film adaptation of Paula Hawkins best-selling novel The Girl on the Train. The novel follows a woman who has just gone through a tumultuous divorce, but finds relish in her train commute. She observes a married couple from a far on her way to work, envisioning they live a perfect romantic life, but then finds herself tied into a strange mystery involving this couple. The film has already…

her body of comic book characters and fictional weapons that reference her self-proclaimed nerdiness. For instance, In May 2014, Lights got this tattoo of a retro-style rocket ship as a tribute to her daughter Rocket Wild Bokan. It’s on her right thigh next to the portrait of her husband Beau Bokan. Written on the ship is “Player 3” to symbolize that Rocket is the third member of their family also, Valerie had a comic book version of herself called “Captain Lights” designed by Marvel for a…

Tyr is considered a lesser known deity in comparison to the other Norse gods, however, no less in significance in European culture. The Younger Edda states that warriors call on his name “to [sway] victory in war” (Snorre). There are other examples in the real world of reverence and recognition of the god Tyr. Towns in what we call Scandanavia were thought to be inspired by their devotion to this deity based on their names, such as Tyslundr or “Tyr’s Grove” and Tysnesoen or the “island of Tyr’s…

Nietzsche Comic books have engaged young people since the Golden Age of the 1930s to 40s and continue to engage young readers of the 21st century. Little did we know that according to Dr Fredric Wertham, M.D., comic books seduce the innocent. He was so concern about how the child’s mind reacts to the ‘badly drawn, badly written and badly printed…’ comics, that he set up a clinic and his findings indicated that comic books were a major cause of juvenile delinquency. So, why have we allowed…

talkative, with long streams of dialogue, rambling, and vocal thoughts” (Dustcircle). Many authors make stories of Deadpool either being a good guy or a bad guy. For example, there is a comic by Cullen Bunn that tells a story of how Deadpool killed every single Marvel hero because “in an apparent attempt to rebel against his comic book creators” (Bunn), even though he Psycho-Man tried to brainwash…

“Set in 2029, “Logan” is the closest thing to a valedictory the Marvel universe has yet concocted.”1 ”Unlike any of its predecessors, Logan feels organic and, despite being loaded with plenty of references and Easter eggs, manages to work well as a standalone film.” 2“James Mangold’s Logan is a grizzly and exceptionally dark character-driven tale; one that is unlike any other comic book-inspired story you would have come across before.”² “When the newer superhero films go for sincerity, they…

from the classic comic book series, Captain America. While keeping this in mind, one would have to think about how they are going to introduce this to the public. Also, one would have to know what a serial film is. A serial film is an extended motion picture broken into a number of segments that was shown before the feature film. How would one incorporate the style of a comic book to interest comic book readers and integrate a normal style to interest people who have not read the comics into a…

Thousands of people die everyday and I don’t really care. Even though you’ll find tons of awkward zit faced nerds inside them, comic book stores are some of the best places on earth because there are hundreds of adventures that take place in just a few pages for 3.99 or less. Saturday afternoon my parents were in a fight over where we’d go for my brother Josh’s birthday and after hours of arguing they agreed that we’d go to “Fat Nats Eggs”, meanwhile my brother’s birthday was drawing nearer and…

easy to be a vigilante, as Elodie Yung learned when she was trying out for a major role in the Netflix series Daredevil. The French actress admitted that she had to go through several auditions before she found out she was being screened to portray Marvel character Elektra Natchios, who is set to get Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock into a lot of trouble! Yung spoke to Collider, where she confirmed that it took a long time before she realized she was auditioning for Elektra. "After I had five or six…