With 'Captain America: Civil War' raging in theaters, it is a good time to take a look at the comic that inspired it: Marvel’s 'Civil War' (2006-07) by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. Like Frank Miller’s 'The Dark Knight Returns' (1986) and Alan Moore’s 'Watchmen' (1986-87), Civil War pits superheroes against one another in a battle to decide the proper role of super-powered crime-fighters in a democracy.
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With the war settled the issue now becomes whether or not 'Captain America: Civil War' is Marvel's best film yet.
Read More »Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther: a symbol for the Black Lives Matter generation
The acclaimed cultural commentator has penned a limited series of Marvels African superhero, and the timing couldn’t be better. You have no people. You are no longer my son. The first issue of the much-hyped, Ta-Nehisi Coates-penned Black Panther limited series landed at comic book shops this Wednesday, with fans …
Read More »You don’t need money, smarts or beauty to be an Avenger
Perhaps the biggest fallacy that some young people grow up believing is the idea that you need money, smarts, power or beauty to be an Avenger or superhero.
Read More »‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’: more, bigger, and faster but how much is too much?
'Avengers: Age of Ultron' brings Marvel's Phase Two to a fittingly spectacular climax. No doubt, it is fun. But how much spectacle starts to be too much?
Read More »Preview: The new Captain America becomes born in ‘Captain America’ #25
Captain America #25 will be a double-sized issue in which writer Rick Remender and artists Carlos Pacheco and Stuart Immonen bring the Z Dimension storyline to a close and have Steve hang up his shield, or rather pass it on to Sam Wilson.
Read More »Own all the great Marvel classics in the ‘Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set’
If you're a Marvel completist, the Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set is everything grandiose missing in your life that you didn't know you needed.
Read More »Witness the best of Steve Rogers the man in ‘Captain America, Vol. 2’
If you’re a parent, I implore you to buy this book and give it to your kids. Raise them on Captain America because there are enough young people out there already who aspire to be like Tony Stark or Wolverine but not enough who aspire to be like Steve Rogers, and that is what we need more of.
Read More »‘Odyssey, Vol. 1’ plays with an occult-powered Captain America archetype
Excellent art and some interesting ideas aren't quite enough to make this ambitious but messy riff on Captain America work.
Read More »‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ won’t leave you out in the cold
For anyone who feared that the good-but-not-great Thor: The Dark World was indication that the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise was losing some steam, there’s nothing to fear: Captain America is here.
Read More »Captain America takes on fellow super soldier Master Chief in new ‘Super Power Beat Down’
Good timing on this latest episode of Super Power Beat Down since we're a couple weeks away from the U.S. release of Captain America: Winter Soldier and just several days away from the international release.
Read More »Cute new advert has kids playing the roles in ‘Captain America: Winter Soldier’
Here's a great new advert for Chevrolet in which the actors in the trailer for Captain America: Winter Soldier are replaced with kids.
Read More »27 Reasons to Stay Alive for 2014
No matter how hard life gets there are always reasons to live, and at Pop Mythology we find that pop culture alone gives us more than enough reasons to endure. And so with 2014 coming on fast, here is our list of the stuff we anticipate most.
Read More »What Webslinging Window Washers Can Teach Us
Last fall, I saw a few articles online about how some window washers who serviced a local children’s hospital came up with the idea of donning costumes of superheroes like Spider-Man and Captain America and going to work that way. Their management approved of the idea and they did it …
Read More »How to transform your life (and society) by being like Captain America
More than any other character in the Marvel universe, Captain America (aka Steve Rogers) didn’t become a hero. He always was one. This is the key when it comes to changing our own lives and that of society.
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