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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'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 »The week in Applied Geekism, positive geek news: 03/15/15
This is the first in a new weekly round-up of positive geek-themed news that we here at Pop Mythology like to call #AppliedGeekism.
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.
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Here are some awesome comic characters that movie-makers would nevertheless be wise to avoid including in their next comic-to-film adaptations.
Read More »Men Want Catwoman, Women Want Iron Man
British gaming company Ladbrokes recently conducted a survey about superheroes and published some stunning results: men like hot chicks and women like rich guys!
Read More »Iron Man Unplugged: The Importance of Being Tony
Iron Man 3 devotes a surprising amount of time to showing Tony without the suit, almost to the point where some viewers might be disappointed that he doesn’t spend more time suited up. Personally, I was thrilled because it shows an important lesson that I had hoped at least one of the movies, at some point, would show.
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From the quiet opening narration to the illogical but hilarious tag, Iron Man 3 is a smorgasbord of action, explosions, metal and humor.
Read More »Marvel Heroes to Deploy on June 4
Pop Mythology is all about using superhero stories and imagery to bring out your inner hero in a symbolic way. Sometimes, though, symbolic just doesn’t seem good enough. Sometimes, we want to literally put on some spandex and go clobber bad guys. Well, thanks to the upcoming game Marvel Heroes, …
Read More »Iron Man: Step Up to the (Metal) Plate
One look at Iron Man in both the comics and the movies and it’s not hard to see why, on the surface, he’s such a popular character: He’s rich, famous, good-looking, surrounded by cutting-edge technology, creatively and intellectually brilliant and armed with the funniest mouth in the Marvel universe next to Spider-Man. In short, he’s everything that women want and everything that men want to be.
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