The summer blockbuster season has started! Iron Man 3 has premiered, and it is a great start to Marvel Phase 2. Taking place after The Avengers film, the story is still independent of all the other features, but has ties to the previous Iron Man films as well as The …
This weekend marks the opening of the first Marvel occurrence at a Disney theme park. As a promotion for the upcoming movie Iron Man 3, Disneyland is host to the Iron Man Tech exhibit. Housed on the top floor of Innoventions in Tomorrowland, this exhibit originally was at Comic Con …
It is only a couple months plus away for Iron Man 3, but it’s time to start talking about Amazing Spider-Man 2 which is currently filming. The sequel to the blockbuster film will have not only one, but two villains! Yes, firstly, the internet has been abuzz about both Electro …
I’d like to say patience is one of my current virtues, but when movie trailers premier to hype up a possible blockbuster, an eagerness takes over that is hard to resist. Yesterday was such a day where a new trailer for Iron Man 3 hit the internet. So, what can …
It’s almost the end of February, but still the beginnings of 2013. What a perfect time to talk about Marvel’s phase 3 of movies. Wait…phase 3? We’ve not even started phase 2 movies! While Iron Man 3, the first of Marvel Studios’ phase 2 movies, is yet to premier, the …
Hello! It’s 2013, and Marvel’s revamp of all their comics is almost totally complete. One of the final components is in place: The Superior Spider-Man. Wizard Victor did a great job at setting up this ground-breaking comic. In Amazing Spider-Man #700, the comics world said good-bye to the Spider-Man we …
Happy New Year everyone! 2012 had some great films, including the blockbuster Avengers. But, 2013 may be just as big with the releases of a few Marvel films, and the beginnings of Avengers 2 from a couple of them. Here’s some things about the films to gear up for this …
It’s Halloween! And it happens to fall on a Wednesday! So, to celebrate the holiday here’s a reprint of an entry from last year. Featured in the entry is a look at Spider-Man’s costume history. Happy Halloween! For the most part, Peter Parker has donned the red and blue costume …
If you didn’t catch Mr. Daps’ post yesterday, the Iron Man 3 trailer is out. This highly anticipated sequel looks to be a little bit of a different version from the previous two. The same characters and actors that portrayed them in the previous film are back. What is different …
It’s mid-September, and that means that summer has come and gone. That also means that the summer movie lineup is coming to a close as well. This summer had its fair share of major comic book motion picture releases. The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises are …
Marvel is plowing ahead with a revamp of the main books of their comics and universe. One mainstay is Iron Man, but the team of Kieron Gillen and Greg Land are going to have a new perspective on the playboy scientist. In a recent interview they likened Tony Stark, the …
Wow! Believe it or not, but it has been one year since Watcher Wednesday started! I have been grateful to the DAPs Team for letting me start it, and especially having DC and Wizard Victor contribute. So, what now? Where do we go from here? Well, there’s plenty more Marvel …
A big thanks to Wizard Victor for his wonderful articles these last few weeks. He was contributing for three weeks in a row as I was out of the country (more on that in some blog entries soon). He’ll be back to write again, I’m sure. The day after I …
With Watcher Wednesday, it’s all about introducing Marvel Comics to new audiences. Perhaps you’ve been catching the movies or tv shows of Marvel Studios. Maybe you’re a Disney fan and wondering what Marvel is really about and how it might fit in the company. This blog, and especially this post, …
This last Sunday I had the opportunity to check out the soft opening of Mad T Party at Disney California Adventure. I’ve got to say I was surprised. And surprised not so much by the Party itself, but by my reaction to it. Mad T Party is the after dark …