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Destroy All Monsters: The Abysmal Fathers Of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Arguably, GOTG2 isn’t paying anything off that Vol. 1 didn’t require of its own sequel. Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) has dealt with the death of his mother, several decades after the fact. The ersatz family (Gamora, Groot, Rocket and Drax) has come together on the Milano II. The lingering question of why the gang survived their…
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Destroy All Monsters: Did Marvel Seriously Just Pivot To The Right?
The fiasco, last fall, of making Captain America a literal nazi (reinforced last week via the “Secret Empire” storyline, where it does indeed turn out that Cap was a nazi all along) seems now like a canary in a particularly inhospitable coal mine.
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Destroy All Monsters: IRON FIST Doesn’t Just Suck, It Sucks the Rest of the Marvel Television Universe Down With It
Iron Fist isn’t just the worst thing in Marvel’s nearly-ten-year MCU arsenal; it’s indeed one of those rarest of pop cultural entities, an outright creative disaster. It can be used as a teaching case in universities for everything from film classes to project management: just because A was successful (and B, and C, and D…
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Destroy All Monsters: It’s Not About You, DOCTOR STRANGE
One of the running jokes in Doctor Strange has Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) constantly having to reassert his title to anyone and everyone, because after the accident that shatters his hands sends him scouring the world for a cure, no one will call him “Doctor.” This is a useful line of insight the character, and…
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Destroy All Monsters: Ideals Will Destroy Us All, And Other Things I Learned from CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
Hard to believe I’ve been writing this column for 3 years – literally feels like I just got started. Naturally, this week, the conversation turns to Civil War.
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Destroy All Monsters: My Team’s Better Than Your Team, So There
Kind of proud of this one, mostly because it started as an all-out rant about internet argument culture and somehow metastasized into an appreciation of how the DC Expanded Universe, through its Infinite Earths model, might actually be a better gambit for consumer choice than my beloved MCU.
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Destroy All Monsters: Winter In The Captain’s America
Institutional paranoia may be the low-hanging fruit of the American blockbuster, but Captain America 2 exploits it well – even ingeniously, when the movie does reality one better by claiming that all of our online presence is being cobbled together, not into a giant database by which to drive ad sales, but rather into a…