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Well, time to talk about Punisher for the last damn time and get everybody mad at me.https://twitter.com/jpalmiotti/status/1348080419523194884 Punisher is a fascinating character and has been a useful tool for propaganda.
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Diana Rigg’s looks were so iconic that for decades she directly shaped the history of women’s fashion in the @Marvel Universe. (I’ve talked about Rigg’s influence on the Dark Phoenix
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Still, I don't think DC is going to learn anything from Watchmen, which makes me sad. Because what it should be doing is sifting through old Vertigo with a fine-toothed
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“We live in a society” is not the bit of brilliance some of y’all think it is which is why so many folks are laughing at it. It’s absolutely ridiculous
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Former Marvel EIC Jim Shooter gives an interesting account of how the Claremont/Byrne tension continued to impact Marvel’s publishing line even after the two creators split up, describing an ongoing
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Marvel jumps into the horror anthology water with DC as TOWER OF SHADOWS #1 is published OTD in 1969. Immediately there's controversy, as Jim Steranko is unhappy with how Stan
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Here's an example of how research can take on a life of its own. In 1990's The Saviour #2, Millar takes the job of replying to the mostly positive letters
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An engineering marvel unlike any otherThe Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanvajur represents the zenith of the Chola architecture. It is built using interlock method where no cement, plaster or adhesive was used
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If Kraven isn't in Spider-Man 3, we know who to blame. Sony has been single-handedly abusing Spider-Man and all of his characters in live action for well over a decade.
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Remember when Nightcrawler had a beard in X-Men Red? This thread here is the story of how it came about.#beardednightcrawler So in the beginning, I was asked to draw X-Men
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Claremont is on record as being opposed to gendered superheroine codenames. As such, none of his female character creations have the word “girl” or “woman” in their superhero names, a
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Apropos of nothing, here’s a brief thread of comic book characters and the celebrities they were (far as I’m aware) modelled on.Just cause. The obvious one.Joker
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Good morning. The Loki trailer has been released.Please see thread below for my commentary.https://youtu.be/PlpjPCssEXE  I mean firstly, Loki is back, let me just get it out of my system and
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At the time of his departure from the book, Claremont had spent years cultivating Forge into a dynamic leading character. This was quickly undone, however, with the soft reboot of
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Yesterday I tweeted about how they ditched the fact that Marvel's Wanda is the child of Holocaust survivors in the movies/tv. Multiple people made the excuse that it's because the
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Superhero movies cause brain rot istghttps://twitter.com/ecareyo/status/1346711673558581248 Contrary to popular belief I don't think the desire for heroes is an American individualism problem, I think that's fairly human, to seek a
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