MCU Abandoned Characters Marvel Keeps Pretending Are “Totally Coming Back Soon”

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back to blog listing introduction the author James smith Author James Smith is a writer and editor for Work in Progress and host of the Dropbox podcast Working Smarter. similar blogs view all Marvel has a storage closet somewhere filled with unresolved post credit scenes, half-finished character arcs, and one deeply confused Harry Styles wig. […]

Civil War Comic Retrospective After 20 Years of Superheroes Acting Like Reddit Mods

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Marvel really looked at its entire superhero universe in 2006 and said, “What if we gave every emotionally unstable person in spandex a political podcast?” That is the energy of this civil war comic retrospective. Pure chaos. Expensive chaos. The kind of chaos where Captain America fights Iron Man in public while Spider Man has […]

Marvel Acolytes: Magneto’s Book Club With a Body Count

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Magneto rarely stands alone for long. Give him an asteroid, a speech about mutant sovereignty, and five minutes of screen time, and the marvel acolytes assemble like it is a religious revival in low orbit. They are not random henchmen. They are believers. They build Asteroid M. They defend it. They treat Magneto’s ideology as […]

Backlash Marc Slayton Is The WildStorm Character You Keep Calling Marvel

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Every few months someone searches backlash marc slayton and accidentally drags Marvel into the conversation. No. Backlash is WildStorm. He was born in the Jim Lee Image era. He came out of the same creative explosion that gave us StormWatch, WildC.A.T.s, Gen¹³, and an entire 90s superhero ecosystem fueled by shoulder pads and trauma. If […]