Category: Avengers

Revisitation 38: Listen Bud...

10/9/2021

Two very short pieces this week, one because it's simply setting the stage for the backup strips we'll be getting over the next few months and the other because it's the single worst issue of Transformers published up until that point.

So, in reverse order...

Sigh.You'll believe a Doom can die in New Avengers/Transformers issue 4!

And a look at Transformers Mosaic.

Better stuff next week though!

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Revistation 36: Pants.

26/8/2021

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Which Avenger takes the whole fighting crime in your underwear idea a bit too seriously?

Find out and see the most useless evil alliance since the Tories and the Lib Dems in Man and Machine Part 3!

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Revisitation 33: Enter the Ramjet.

6/8/2021

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This week, it's the Transformer we've all been waiting to see meet the Avengers as Ramjet puts his mysterious and dangerous agenda into play.

But is he as dangerous as an airbag?

Find out as I look at New Avengers/Transformers issue 2!

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Avenging Angels [SPOILERS]

12/5/2012

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The road to bringing The Avengers (and no, I'm not going to use the UK title on the quite sensible grounds that no one actually says “Avengers Assemble!” once in the entire movie) to the screen has been a very long one, covering five movies over four years and an immense amount of ball juggling to get us to the point where Joss Whedon's movie picks up.

I've enjoyed the set up films, the worst is the poor unloved Incredible Hulk and that's more a bit dull in places than outright terrible. But Captain America and Thor were never as engaging nor as fun as Robert Downey Jr's career saving performance as Tony Stark. If The Avengers was going to be a successful team movie it needed to be more than just Iron Man and Some Other People. It actually almost succeeds at that, even if some super heroes are still more equal than others.

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Fantastic Thor [SPOILERS]

29/10/2011

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Of all the characters Marvel has been carefully plotting to bring to the big screen individually before getting them all together for The Avengers, Thor was always going to be the most difficult sell for the non-comic fan audience. He looks silly, speaks silly, and isn't even as well known as either Iron Man or Captain America were before their films.

The smart move Marvel Pictures made was to appoint Kenneth Branagh as director. Not an obvious big action movie choice, but throughout their work to create their cinematic Universe Marvel have repeatedly shown enough faith in the pull of the characters themselves to get people involved who wouldn't have gotten near a Summer Blockbuster tm at the time. It worked with Robert Downey Jr. and John Faveau on Iron Man in spades, and Branagh was a perfect choice here for what is a very Shakespearean set up in the Asgard portions of the film. He knows how to get large performances from the actors without it feeling too OTT or hammy.

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Revisitation 38: Listen Bud...

Revistation 36: Pants.

Revisitation 33: Enter the Ramjet.

Avenging Angels [SPOILERS]

Fantastic Thor [SPOILERS]

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