Tag: MCU
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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…