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Why Marvel Should Really Publish A #STUCKY Comic After Secret Empire
When it was first announced, a year or so ago, that Captain America was going to have big headlining news, some people seized on the possibility that Captain America may be getting a boyfriend Instead, the reveal was that he'd been a sleeper agent for decades for the fascist organisation Hydra, which led to the[...]
How Secret Empire Doesn't Get Mainstream Superhero Comics
The people it's attempting to appeal to are going have trouble enjoying it, because it's not really making any clever or poignant statement about fascism — because it's fascism, and obviously wrong and evil. It also seems imprudent to preform something of a character assassination on Steve Rogers, one of the most beloved comic book characters[...]
Quintessential Captain America Stories To Read This July 4th
In celebration of the American Day of Independence, it's a great time to point people in the direction of some great stories about the greatest champion of the United States, Captain America: The Sentinel of Liberty. It happens to be more relevant these days when the current mainline story about Steve Rogers is…less than satisfying and[...]
Secret Empire To Secret Empire: Interview With A 40-Year Captain America Fan
Over time, it developed, and I got more interested in characters like the Avengers, the X-Men, Hawkman, the Flash, and others. It's worth mentioning that he also introduced me to Bleeding Cool, has been a longtime reader, and helped point me in the direction of the site when I was looking for writing jobs. There was one[...]
Spider-Man
Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, was crucial in bringing Spider-Man into the MCU with the characters introduction in Captain America: Civil War On Friday, Spider-Man: Homecoming opens, which is the third 'first' film in the Spider-Man franchise in less than 18 years, sixth overall What makes this one different? Two things This is the[...]
Find Out How [SPOILER]'s Cameo In 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Came To Be
Proceed with caution. * * * * * * The trailers for Spider-Man: Homecoming have been giving away a lot, and one of them was the cameo of one Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America (Chris Evans) Steve actually shows up twice in the movie; once for a fitness challenge video, and then again in another short video scolding students for getting detention. The[...]
Secret Empire #5 Review – Just Not Good Super Hero Fiction
Writer Nick Spencer, before he was fighting off critics of his work on Twitter (which is still not good behavior), was busy pissing off Fox News with his first issue of Sam Wilson: Captain America, which was a comic that put the anti-immigration crowd on blast by making them the Sons of the Serpent (Marvel's[...]
Mark Waid And Chris Samnee To Put Captain America Through Detox For Marvel Legacy?
Last weekend, Bleeding Cool ran some mindless speculation on the future of the Captain America comic book, given that Marvel hadn't included it in their Old 52 Marvel Legacy list of monthly comics out in October. We suggested that, as Donny Cates had just appeared as co-writer on the latest Captain America: Steve Rogers, he might[...]
Who's The Old Dude? Secret Empire Mindless Speculation
Possibly connected to either plot threads left from Rick Remender's run that saw Steve depowered and turned into an old man in the first place, or connected to Ed Brubaker's Captain America: Reborn, where it was revealed Steve was affected by a time-gun (because comics). Well, what if it's not? Who else could it be? Well, how[...]
Fans Campaign For Google To Honour Jack Kirby
A fan campaign has started to try and see comics legend Jack Kirby honoured on the centenary of his birth with a Google Doodle for the day, this August 28th. Jack Kirby was of course instrumental in the creation of numerous Marvel characters, including Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor and the X-Men, who have[...]
Ta-Nehisi Coates
When Marvel recently released the names of their 52 monthly comics from October, as part of their Marvel Legacy and Make Mine Marvel promotions, one book was notable for its absence, Captain America The current Captain America comic and the Secret Empire event series has seen Steve Rogers revealed as a secret sleeper agent for[...]
Are Disney Parks Planning A Captain America Shield Toss Attraction?
In a patent application filed by Disney in December of 2015, it appears that fans may get a chance to throw Captain America's shield at bad guys in a new Captain America Shield Toss attraction According to the patent: "Launching virtual objects using a rail device: Embodiments herein describe a throwing apparatus that includes a projectile that slides[...]
The Powerful Popularity Of Superhero Comics During World War II
You said what!?" The other day while responding to a friend's Facebook post, a gentleman got angry at me for using the Yellow Kid and Captain America as historical examples of politics in comics, and I got the following gem of a reply: "Hell, superheroes weren't even a big thing at the time They had them for[...]
Chris Evans Reveals Why He Extended His Marvel Contract
It's an answer we're probably not going to get until after the credits roll in Avengers 4, but Captain America star Chris Evans recently said in a Telegraph interview why he decided to extend his contract Evans was supposed to be done with Marvel movies after Avengers: Infinity War but extended his contract to include[...]
Here Are The Marvel Funko SDCC 2017 Exclusives!
without further ado: Funko Rock Candy Gwenpool Funko Pop Selfie Gwenpool Funko Pop Red She-Hulk Funko Pop Captain America- Bucky Cap Funko Pop Spider-Man: Homecoming Tony Stark holding his Iron Man Helmet   Right away the standout for me is the Bucky Cap That is one I have wanted for my collection for a long time, and it is also curious that[...]
Captain America Begs Trump To Tweet During Comey Hearings
Captain America may not even know what Myspace is, but Chris Evans, the actor who plays Captain America in Marvel's superhero universe, is an expert at Twitter The star has used the social media platform to carry out a war with former KKK leader David Duke, and now he's using it to encourage President of the[...]
Sam Wilson: Captain America #22 Review – Full Of Action, Humor, And A Whole Lot Of Heart
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties in with the Secret Empire crossover Sam Wilson: Captain America is the best Marvel comic written by now-controversial writer, Nick Spencer, with Astonishing Ant-Man coming in at a close second. Sam Wilson has been a phenomenal book that has been more than willing to tackle heavy subjects with grace and tact (for the most part)[...]
Secret Empire #2 Review – Now With More Tie-Ins And That New-Marketing Smell
This was the one brought by Rayshawn in the last issue, and it details essentially the events of Steve Rogers: Captain America: Kobik making friends with the Red Skull, her corrupting of Steve Rogers, the apparent death of Bucky Barnes (please don't be true), and Selvig's scattering of Kobik's shards to the four winds to keep[...]
No More Sam Wilson Or Steve Rogers – It's Just Captain America Going Forward
Come a little bit closer baby Get it on, get it on Cause tonight is the night When two become one – The Spice Girls, written with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard. July 2017 sees the publication of Captain America: Sam Wilson #24 and Captain America: Steve Rogers #19. The books initially split when Sam Wilson took on the role[...]
Captain America Was No Longer Asked If He'd Heard Of Myspace, But Twitter
How were we to know? A scenario had developed in a previous issue of the ground-level Civil War tie-in series written by Paul Jenkins when journalist Sally Floyd interviewed the fugitive Captain America Who had lots of things to say. Man, such innocent times How was Cap to know? And look, Captain America making spurious comparisons between the[...]