Side blog for all my Marvel posts and reblogs. I grew up around the comics, but have read way fewer than I would like. Attempting to keep up with the MCU. I regularly get lost for hours in the marvel wiki. Comic suggestions are always welcome
tony in ms marvel is such a fucking????? pure gift to my heart in this time of stress and struggle???????? tony + kids content is my everything my heart is so full he’s!!!! such a good egg i lov him
What would be your characters of your choosing for a marvel space opera au? (Hard-Mode: without characters that have been to space for an extended period of time)
I’d like to see a series that was earth-born aliens getting out and about in the galaxy. Though it seems as though that would probably just end up being GAY TEENS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
“I understand your frustration in dealing with a black man who can’t be bought with a truck full of guns, a plane load of blondes, and a swiss bank account. But hold on to what little class you have..”
this movie bout to be lit!!
Shit!
yeah t’Chaka read that fool…you can keep that plane load of blondes bruh!
Daaaaaaaayum@ that quote.
My soul is so CLEANSED.
I’m so torn on this scene because its fucking great about this but fucking awful conspiracy theory shit in what’s not pictured. They are asking Wakanda to share their cure for a disease that kills millions (cancer iirc) and t’Chaka’s response is not only to refuse, but to accuse the West of not pursuing a cure because they can get more money out of a life time of treatments, which is a well worn conspiracy theory with plenty of counter examples in reality and little evidence. They also say something about turning whatever cure into a weapon?
Like I love how t’Chaka handles himself and how he takes no shit from racist, but um actually maybe share the cure for cancer? And don’t use your comics to promote conspiracy theories when there are plenty of real life medical horrors that the West has perpetrated, largely against poor black/brown folk, often in persuit of the cures that t’Chaka accuses them of not being interested in.
Rather than saying no, he could have called them out for not finding it despite all their unethical medical testing on POC and then done the humane thing and saved millions from horrible unnecessary deaths for free, depriving these evil phrama companies he’s lambasting of billions.
“We both read the newspapers,” Simon said. “We knew what was going on over in Europe. World events gave us the perfect comic-book villain, Adolf Hitler, with his ranting, goose-stepping and ridiculous moustache. So we decided to create the perfect hero who would be his foil. I did that first sketch of Captain America, and Jack and I did the entire first issue before showing it to (publisher) Martin Goodman at Timely Comics. He loved it immediately.”
Friendly reminder that the first issue of Captain America, which featured art of Steve punching Hitler in the face, caused a lot of controversy among the Nazi sympathizers in New York, so much so that Simon and Kirby were constantly being threatened. At one point Timely (re:Marvel) received a call from someone in the lobby threatening bodily harm to Kirby if he showed his face. And Kirby, proving just where Steve got his spirit from… went on down there to fight the bastard.
“…Jack took a call. A voice on the other end said, ‘There are three of us down here in the lobby. We want to see the guy who does this disgusting comic book and show him what real Nazis would do to his Captain America’. To the horror of others in the office, Kirby rolled up his sleeves and headed downstairs. The callers, however, were gone by the time he arrived.” Based on everything we know about Kirby, these Nazi crank-yankers got lucky.”
But the threats did not stop there…
“Years later, [Kirby] told an interviewer, ‘I once got a letter from a Nazi who told me to pick out any lamppost I wanted on Times Square, because when Hitler arrived, they’d hang me from it. It was typical of a genre of fans who have long since died out.”
Friendly reminder that when America did join the war, and despite the success they had with the Captain America comic, both Simon and Kirby joined the service.Kirby was drafted into the Army, Simon joined the Coast Guard. In fact Kirby was a successful scout for the army and during that time discovered and helped liberate a concentration camp. During his service he got severe frostbite and almost lost his legs. Afterwards he was awarded a
Combat Infantryman Badge and a bronze battle star.
Friendly reminder that both Kirby and Simon were proud of Steve to their dying day. In fact,according to Joe Simon’s granddaughter, Megan Margulies, Joe’s apartment, right up until the day he died, was covered floor to ceiling in Captain America paraphernalia.
…and this is the legacy that Nick Spencer is denigrating with this current story-line.
to make things even more disrespectful beyond the “captain america is a nazi” twist, the new nick spencer storyline now states that in the ‘true timeline’ the allies /lost/ WW2. and they don’t even mention the holocaust or how an axis victory would actually mean the continuation of the holocaust. the implications of this are chillingly antisemitic, and basically the equivalent of spitting on what the creators literally fought for by co-opting this painful history for their sensational edgy twist.
you know that trope in shows or movies where the evil character is in captivity and starts talking to the Heroes to try and mess with their minds, and starts analysing them going “face it you’ll never be good enough” … “you try to act tough but inside you’re broken” … and the Hero gets really rattled and upset.
well i want a scene like that where it doesn’t work
Villain: “You have a darkness inside of you. You try to hide it, but it’s there–”
Hero: “Yeah that’s the depression, there’s pills for that.”
Villain: “You try every day to make your mother proud. Even after death, it still haunts you. But she’ll never be proud of.”
Hero: “Well yeah, she was an emotionally abusive narcissist, she was never proud of anything I did, what else is new.”
Villain: “You put on a good show, but deep inside I know you don’t feel worthy.”
Hero: “I know, man, I’ve been trying to work on that in therapy.”
Like… give me characters who know they’re mentally ill and traumatised who can’t have it used against them because they’ve fully accepted it