“Marvel” Articles

I now understand why the fantasy world imagined by Stan Lee offered a more compelling mythological lens than the world imagined by Tolkien did.

Sarah and Kevin dive back in to the MCU with James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Then, they take on Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime, Akira.

In the age of the “gritty” anti-hero, rare is the genre story that begins with the assumption that evil is real and must be dealt with.

Does lightning strike again with Thor: Love and Thunder? After Kevin and Sarah deliver their shocking review, it’s onto 1986’s Something Wild.

Kevin and Sarah dive into the multiverse of the MCU with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madess then the world of Jules and Jim.

The Hawkeye Scrooge faced his past, burned the suit, and gained something of a daughter in the process.

It’s an almost impossible task, to give up your right to another’s life.

Now that Ronin is “out there” again, Clint can’t let the wrath reserved for Ronin fall on someone else, let alone a kid who needs his help. 

Shang-Chi’s actualization into an MCU superhero gives us a hero who comes from a culture that is more we-focused than me-focused, and I see that as a good thing.

It feels weird admitting that something as trivial as a Marvel movie thrust open theism back to my consciousness.

Wade & Kevin celebrate the MCU as it makes its return to Seeing & Believing with Black Widow from director Cate Shortland.

The Variant Lokis embody the literal thousands of branches the God of Mischief’s life could have taken.

Perhaps Loki’s moment of self-clarity all the way back in episode one was actually describing the TVA itself: “It’s part of the illusion. It’s the cruel, elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear.”

At the very least, even if you learn that much of what you loved was an illusion or enchantment, your pain is the grief of something real.

And while Loki can’t articulate why he wants to rule, he is certainly attracted to power.

As a Black man, Sam Wilson carries the lineage of America’s broken promise, by both heritage and by lived experience.