Happy Halloween! There’s no better day than today to follow-up on Superheroes Unmasked Part 1. Haven’t read that P-Booth yet? Click here and then click back. Movie stars never play Superman. They may become stars after the fact, but first they’re plucked from obscurity to inherit the red cape (and some fall back into obscurity […]
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SUPERHEROES UNMASKED (and the fanboys who hate them) PART 2
October 31st, 2013 
Steven D'Arcangelo MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 5: The Girl in the Flower Dress (T.V. review)
October 23rd, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo The promos for this week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. feature an Asian guy with firestarter powers. Marvel comics fans wouldn’t be wrong to think it was Sunfire, a Japanese hero who’s been around since 1970. But no, it’s Scorch, a Chinese villain — the show’s first genuine super villain — created for the series. Is this […]
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Ep. 4: Eye Spy (T.V. Review)
October 16th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo SPY GENRE CLICHÉ #86 — THE ROGUE AGENT. A former spy goes rogue and battles the hero who works for the same agency that, in the rogue’s eyes, did him wrong. Torn between loyalties, hero spy must defeat rogue spy/villain despite personal connections. Every espionage franchise eventually gets to the rogue agent trope. Tom […]
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1 Comment »MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Ep. 3: The Asset (T.V. Review)
October 9th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo As season one progresses, Marvel Studios’ first foray into live-action T.V. is beginning to show its strengths and weaknesses, both of which are on display in last night’s episode. The plot rotates around a kidnapped S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist whose contribution to the Periodic Table of Elements is a theoretical particle that controls gravity fields and is […]
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October 4th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo Whenever books or plays are adapted to film, something gets modified along the way. To exist in another medium, things have to change. It’s the nature of the beast. Otherwise a 1,000 page Stephen King novel would turn into a 10-hour movie. Same rule applies to comic books, the new Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. being just […]
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. episode 2: O-8-4 (T.V. review)
October 2nd, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo Last night’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode, entitled 0-8-4 (not to be confused with OU812), continues the small screen exploits of everyone’s favorite fictional global protection agency. As led by Agent Coulson, the team investigates an 0-8-4, which is a S.H.I.E.L.D. prefix for “object of unknown origin”. Considering that the last reported 0-8-4 (not to be […]
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (T.V. pilot review)
September 25th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo One of the most anticipated new series of the fall TV season (if not the most anticipated) is Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Picking up where Marvel’s The Avengers left off… Okay, wait, time out. We all know Marvel rules Hollywood these days so there’s no need to shove it down our throats like Lee Daniels’ […]
