superheroes & media & hopeful moping
So, this is happening, I wrote a mashup adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT (one of the first plays I ever saw) with DC Comics characters, notably the unbelievably-conveniently named star of WONDER WOMAN, Gal Gadot. (The WONDER WOMAN TV show starring Linda Carter was one of the first shows I followed, in reruns,…
Keith Chow from NOC and I assemble many, though hardly all, of our thoughts on Marvel’s AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Among other topics, I try to disambiguate a common misunderstanding about SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH, as it’s conceived in comic books. Superhuman strength has nothing to do with human body type: you can be short, tall, wide, skinny, but…
“I don’t own anything.” But I have spend a lotta money on Marvel comics and bought a lotta Prince ticket and albums. So I feel okay about making this mashup. Prince Rogers Nelson passed away three years ago today, April 21.AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR premiered in April 2018.AVENGERS: ENDGAME debuts this Thursday, April 25, 2019.Sometimes it…
Marvel’s CLOAK & DAGGER Season 2 premiered last week on Freeform; graciously returning for a fresh new interview is filmmaker Jennifer Phang, who directed S2’s premiere episode “Restless Energy.” (My earlier chats with Phang on her work on CLOAK & DAGGER S1 and THE EXPANSE can be found here and here.) Dom Mah: Hi again!…
….And it’s looking like ‘19 is gonna be another tumultuous year for the planet, am I right? And yet we still push ahead. SPOILERS for the CAPTAIN MARVEL film ahead, as well as fun facts, science-fiction trivia, and Marvel Minutiae: 1. The score by Pinar Toprak is, I would opine, a bad-ass score. One of the…
