Friday movies are opening all the way on Wednesdays now? At this rate, they'll wrap all the way back around to friday in a decade or so
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Sony seem to stretch the concept of the opening weekend to the point of ridicule. I remember the last Bond film had screenings on the Monday which is insane.
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Marvel Television and Netflix announced that Mustafa Shakir (“The Deuce,” “The Night Of”) and Gabrielle Dennis (“Insecure,” “Rosewood”) have joined the cast in the sophomore season of “Marvel’s Luke Cage,” set to premiere in 2018. All 13-episodes of the first season of “Marvel’s Luke Cage” are now streaming on Netflix.
Shakir has been cast as ‘John McIver,’ a natural leader, brimming with charisma, whose mission is focused on Harlem and vengeance.
Dennis will play the role of ‘Tilda Johnson’ who is a brilliant, holistic doctor with a complicated history in Harlem where, as much as she tries to stay far from trouble, it seems to always find her.
John McIver is also known as Bushmaster in the comics, where he was a mob boss who was at one point seduced by Misty Knight in order to bring him down.
Tilda Johnson is also known as Deadly Nightshade in the comics, where she's good at two things: Building super realistic robot doubles of people, and turning people into werewolves. She's been pretty great recently in David Walker's Nighthawk and Occupy Avengers series, and I seriously doubt the MCU version will be anywhere near as interesting.
We have our first Legacy creative team and thank God Nick Spencer isn't writing Falcon. Rodney Barnes (head writer and EP on The Boondocks) and Joshua Cassara are the creative team, with the new Patriot introduced in Secret Empire joining as Sam's sidekick.
We have our first Legacy creative team and thank God Nick Spencer isn't writing Falcon. Rodney Barnes (head writer and EP on The Boondocks) and Joshua Cassara are the creative team, with the new Patriot introduced in Secret Empire joining as Sam's sidekick.
One bright side of Sam losing the Cap title is, in the very least, Falcon IS Sam Wilson. He effectively owns that persona. ANd while it sucks that he's being pushed out of the Cap legacy, if they can establish the Falcon as a perennial title, then that might be better in the long term.
So of course they'll canceled that book after six issues.
We have our first Legacy creative team and thank God Nick Spencer isn't writing Falcon. Rodney Barnes (head writer and EP on The Boondocks) and Joshua Cassara are the creative team, with the new Patriot introduced in Secret Empire joining as Sam's sidekick.
One bright side of Sam losing the Cap title is, in the very least, Falcon IS Sam Wilson. He effectively owns that persona. ANd while it sucks that he's being pushed out of the Cap legacy, if they can establish the Falcon as a perennial title, then that might be better in the long term.
So of course they'll canceled that book after six issues.
It would ring better for me if they hadn't recently introduced a teenage Hispanic Falcon as Sam's sidekick since Sam reclaiming the Falcon identity will absolutely to him either just disappearing or slowly falling into obscurity
We have our first Legacy creative team and thank God Nick Spencer isn't writing Falcon. Rodney Barnes (head writer and EP on The Boondocks) and Joshua Cassara are the creative team, with the new Patriot introduced in Secret Empire joining as Sam's sidekick.
One bright side of Sam losing the Cap title is, in the very least, Falcon IS Sam Wilson. He effectively owns that persona. ANd while it sucks that he's being pushed out of the Cap legacy, if they can establish the Falcon as a perennial title, then that might be better in the long term.
So of course they'll canceled that book after six issues.
It would ring better for me if they hadn't recently introduced a teenage Hispanic Falcon as Sam's sidekick since Sam reclaiming the Falcon identity will absolutely to him either just disappearing or slowly falling into obscurity
Well, that's specifically what I'm talking about. Joaquín Torres is the also-ran Falcon: A character literally created because the Falcon name was up for grabs. Sam at least has a lot of history with the name.
EDIT: Not to say it's a good thing that such a character is, in theory, being treated as disposable, make no mistake.
We have our first Legacy creative team and thank God Nick Spencer isn't writing Falcon. Rodney Barnes (head writer and EP on The Boondocks) and Joshua Cassara are the creative team, with the new Patriot introduced in Secret Empire joining as Sam's sidekick.
One bright side of Sam losing the Cap title is, in the very least, Falcon IS Sam Wilson. He effectively owns that persona. ANd while it sucks that he's being pushed out of the Cap legacy, if they can establish the Falcon as a perennial title, then that might be better in the long term.
So of course they'll canceled that book after six issues.
It would ring better for me if they hadn't recently introduced a teenage Hispanic Falcon as Sam's sidekick since Sam reclaiming the Falcon identity will absolutely to him either just disappearing or slowly falling into obscurity
Well, that's specifically what I'm talking about. Joaquín Torres is the also-ran Falcon: A character literally created because the Falcon name was up for grabs. Sam at least has a lot of history with the name.
But immediately writing that character odd as an also-ran and taking the title from him is super shitty?
Like, I'm not gonna pretend I am a Joaquin super-fan but he's been perfectly fine from what I've seen (and is a huge wrestling nerd so he gets bonus points) and having Sam go NAH I'M FALCON AGAIN so he either has to drop the identity or become yet another shared identity with the higher profile original namesake which sucks
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We have our first Legacy creative team and thank God Nick Spencer isn't writing Falcon. Rodney Barnes (head writer and EP on The Boondocks) and Joshua Cassara are the creative team, with the new Patriot introduced in Secret Empire joining as Sam's sidekick.
One bright side of Sam losing the Cap title is, in the very least, Falcon IS Sam Wilson. He effectively owns that persona. ANd while it sucks that he's being pushed out of the Cap legacy, if they can establish the Falcon as a perennial title, then that might be better in the long term.
So of course they'll canceled that book after six issues.
It would ring better for me if they hadn't recently introduced a teenage Hispanic Falcon as Sam's sidekick since Sam reclaiming the Falcon identity will absolutely to him either just disappearing or slowly falling into obscurity
Well, that's specifically what I'm talking about. Joaquín Torres is the also-ran Falcon: A character literally created because the Falcon name was up for grabs. Sam at least has a lot of history with the name.
But immediately writing that character odd as an also-ran and taking the title from him is super shitty?
Like, I'm not gonna pretend I am a Joaquin super-fan but he's been perfectly fine from what I've seen (and is a huge wrestling nerd so he gets bonus points) and having Sam go NAH I'M FALCON AGAIN so he either has to drop the identity or become yet another shared identity with the higher profile original namesake which sucks
I'll be honest, "new Falcon" seemed like such a hamfisted and obvious checkbox marking that I never really bothered to look into the character. (And I've never been big into Cap's comics, this was a mostly academic conversation) They needed a new Falcon so POOF here's a new Falcon.
And again, I'm not trying to paint this as "This is the best thing that ever happened!" It's shitty. I'm just trying to find the silver linings here, one of which is I think Sam has a better chance of being a stand-out success as the Falcon than he does as the stand-in Captain America or Joaquin has the new Falcon.
But again, his book will probably be canceled after issue 2 and Marvel will tell everyone it was always meant as a miniseries.
X-Men Blue and Gold are keeping their creative teams and crossing over in a story where Mojo invades Earth in an attempt to increase ratings and drags the X-Men through their greatest hits remixed for the event.
X-Men Blue and Gold are keeping their creative teams and crossing over in a story where Mojo invades Earth in an attempt to increase ratings and drags the X-Men through their greatest hits remixed for the event.
So "Mojo" is remixing a bunch of popular old stories in an attempt to "increase ratings"
Holy shit Gerry Duggan is the first writer to really successfully incorporate what is great about MCU Star-Lord into the comics and I love it
Quill goes "audio surfing" after one of his cassettes dies ("I like using analog. It degrades over time, just like us.")which is cruising through space picking up long past Earth radio and TV signals until he picks up the right song and recording it
He's literally flying between decades of Earth culture sent flying out into space.
We also get this fantastic page
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Holy shit Gerry Duggan is the first writer to really successfully incorporate what is great about MCU Star-Lord into the comics and I love it
Quill goes "audio surfing" after one of his cassettes dies ("I like using analog. It degrades over time, just like us.")which is cruising through space picking up long past Earth radio and TV signals until he picks up the right song and recording it
He's literally flying between decades of Earth culture sent flying out into space.
We also get this fantastic page
This is really neat because it's superficially similar to MCU Quill but also incorporates a different spin on it that shows how he's a much more fully formed person
MCU Starlord is enraged at the destruction of his connections to Earth, 616 Starlord uses it as an opportunity to make new ones
X-Men Blue and Gold are keeping their creative teams and crossing over in a story where Mojo invades Earth in an attempt to increase ratings and drags the X-Men through their greatest hits remixed for the event.
So "Mojo" is remixing a bunch of popular old stories in an attempt to "increase ratings"
All snark aside I'm super pumped for that book as Mojo stories are usually fun and considering Bunn is one of the writers on that it's gonna probably be more meta and tongue in cheek with him as one of the main drivers.
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My dream would be for that book to be completely self aware, but I'm somehow not optimistic
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Maybe have the X-Men explain to Mojo that while calling back to older material may elicit feelings of nostalgia and get people excited, there's real diminishing returns in going back to nostalgia over and over again, and even though it's riskier, when something truly new and unique works that's what actually resonates with "viewers" and creates long lasting fans.
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And then Mojo fires the consultant he hired that came up with the entire idea in the first place, uh, Maxel Balonso
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It seems to be a summer thing, mostly because kids are out of school & people on vacation more than usual during those months
Yeah, basically. A lot of people are free in the middle of the day, so it increases the buzz for the weekend.
John McIver is also known as Bushmaster in the comics, where he was a mob boss who was at one point seduced by Misty Knight in order to bring him down.
Tilda Johnson is also known as Deadly Nightshade in the comics, where she's good at two things: Building super realistic robot doubles of people, and turning people into werewolves. She's been pretty great recently in David Walker's Nighthawk and Occupy Avengers series, and I seriously doubt the MCU version will be anywhere near as interesting.
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That's from the actress in Black Panther so it's the same real name too
I meant they're using different names in the casting announcements than the characters actually have in the series. (For the netflix stuff)
They've done that before, right?
Like the casting call would call her Jane Smith or something but all casting announcements have had the real deal character names
One bright side of Sam losing the Cap title is, in the very least, Falcon IS Sam Wilson. He effectively owns that persona. ANd while it sucks that he's being pushed out of the Cap legacy, if they can establish the Falcon as a perennial title, then that might be better in the long term.
So of course they'll canceled that book after six issues.
But All-New Guardians was pretty delightful so ok, I'll stick to a few titles at least.
Also, suprise (to me at least) Nova Corps member!
I know tv and movies are run by separate divisions but that seems like a big thing to slip through
Well, that's specifically what I'm talking about. Joaquín Torres is the also-ran Falcon: A character literally created because the Falcon name was up for grabs. Sam at least has a lot of history with the name.
EDIT: Not to say it's a good thing that such a character is, in theory, being treated as disposable, make no mistake.
Like, I'm not gonna pretend I am a Joaquin super-fan but he's been perfectly fine from what I've seen (and is a huge wrestling nerd so he gets bonus points) and having Sam go NAH I'M FALCON AGAIN so he either has to drop the identity or become yet another shared identity with the higher profile original namesake which sucks
Black Mariah in LC was played by the same actress who shamed out Iron Man in civil war. No relation.
Marvel tv shows and movies are not connected and we really have to just accept that.
I'll be honest, "new Falcon" seemed like such a hamfisted and obvious checkbox marking that I never really bothered to look into the character. (And I've never been big into Cap's comics, this was a mostly academic conversation) They needed a new Falcon so POOF here's a new Falcon.
And again, I'm not trying to paint this as "This is the best thing that ever happened!" It's shitty. I'm just trying to find the silver linings here, one of which is I think Sam has a better chance of being a stand-out success as the Falcon than he does as the stand-in Captain America or Joaquin has the new Falcon.
But again, his book will probably be canceled after issue 2 and Marvel will tell everyone it was always meant as a miniseries.
The Enver Gjokaj rule.
Frankly if you aren't using Enver Gjokaj in multiple roles you're wasting him.
So "Mojo" is remixing a bunch of popular old stories in an attempt to "increase ratings"
He's literally flying between decades of Earth culture sent flying out into space.
We also get this fantastic page
All snark aside I'm super pumped for that book as Mojo stories are usually fun and considering Bunn is one of the writers on that it's gonna probably be more meta and tongue in cheek with him as one of the main drivers.