That didn’t feel like a war

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So, I recently decided to start reading comics again, maybe get one of the omnibus-style publications every month so as to not go too crazy - and for whatever reason, I started with the Civil War trade-paperback. I got home and read it from cover to cover in one sitting and to be quite honest I was quite disappointed. I…
Avengers Assemble

Avengers Assemble

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This is it, what we've been building up to! Wow - I over-egged that a little. There was no real build up, was there? And this is a pay-off? Poor reader. Anyway - Avengers Assemble. I just had to have a picture of the delightful Black Widow in here somewhere, she stole the show if I'm being honest. It appears…
Thor

Thor

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The fourth film is Thor. This was a beautiful film, both in terms of visuals and in content. Thor starts off as an arrogant and cocky young man, starts a war, and is sent to Earth, stripped of his Godly powers. He then slowly comes to terms with his newfound mortality, and his father's apparent death. His personality-changing-montage wasn't quite…

The recent spate of Marvel films

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I am going to watch them. I will call it: Avengers Week. Have a shitty graphic in putrid colours and Comic Sans. Starting with Iron Man, then The Incredible Hulk (the one with Edward Norton in it, I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it), then Iron Man 2, then Thor, then Captain America (which I'm not looking forward to if…