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Film Trailers Here's another li'l trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2 - which I've already seen!
(Dudes it's good - both hilarious and heart-breaking dammit!!!!)
OK, the thing that made nerd-dom collectively lose its sh** this week was the first teaser trailer for Thor: Ragnarok!
(And once again, proof that Chris Hemsworth needs to be in more comedy - his timing dudes, his timing.)
I really need to watch the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, because this new trailer for #2 has confirmed that me and Rocket Raccoon are well-matched personality-wise.
(Which is quite worrying, when you think about it...)
OK, due to a) a sh**ty cold that makes it hard for me to concentrate, and b) Loki (alwaaays blame Loki guys, 9/10 times, it was him,) everything I have for you today falls under the heading of 'Other Stuff.'
Film Trailers Ryan Reynolds, king of the Deadpool fandom, has released a sneak-peak teaser type-thingummy/featurette of Deadpool 2!
As this is Deadpool, beware of swearing, violence, gore, and brief nudity!
Another trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2!
(I really need to watch #1 - plus, I'm beginning to worry about how much my personality may or may not be like Rocket Raccoon's.)
WARNING: flashing images
Other Stuff
The Screen Junkies people who make Honest Trailers did one for Doctor Strange!
Now, I really did like Doctor Strange (whitewashing is inexcusable though,) but this pretty much hits the nail on the head!
Drug references, so be careful if playing this in public guys. Oh, and there are SPOILERS.
WARNING: flashing images everywhere.
And here's this week's comics-related links I tripped across while frolicking around the Internet:
Renaldo Matadeen @ Comic Book Resources gave us 15 reasons Suicide Squad didn't suck (which is totally legit - because I really enjoyed that film dammit!)
Film Trailers Another li'l teaser trailer for you, from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2!
Other Stuff
First look at Avengers: Infinity War!!!!
Granted, this featurette feels a little pompous, and there's a lot of milking-it, (did she just dare to say that?! Yes, she did. #DealWithIt,) but still - as long as they don't let the hype out-do the film, it should be awesome!
Do you guys remember the Team Thor vid that was released a few months back?
It was basically a hilarious mockumentary of where Thor and Bruce Banner were during Captain America: Civil War (UK - US).
Well there's now a part 2 - which once again is just awesome.
I love Chris Hemsworth - he needs to be in more comedies; like, really badly!
'Yay! It's settled. We're getting a servant!"
That's all for this week my nerdlets - more comics and superheroes next Thursday, as usual!
In the wake of a whole lotta stupid coming out of the US in terms of policy this month, let's take a look at some excellent webcomics/cartoons/art from the webs, which make the world a better place.
(I'm embedding tweets here, and I've never done that before - so let's hope this works!)
First, let's let Ms. Marvel, aka Kamala Khan, show us how it's done:
My dear friend @TheKeyThief's art is being shared around the world as a call to arms. If you want a printable version for protests DM her!! pic.twitter.com/HFM4HVT3l3
This was another one of those weeks where I only have stuff for the 'Other Stuff' section of these posts. *shrugs* It happens occasionally. I blame Loki.
If you're not aware of Spideypool (whereby the Internet took Spider-man (the grown-up version) and Deadpool, and decided they were meant to be,) then you won't know that Spideypool shippers are a passionate and unusual bunch.
While the Stucky shippers have the romantic-tragic soul-mates corner covered, Spideypool shippers rely on a steady stream of Deadpool arguing with himself, random cr*p happening every five minutes, upside-down kissing, and d*ck jokes.
And Ryan Reynolds - the king of the Deadpool fandom, and y'know, actually the actor who plays Deadpool - never disappoints. He made out with Andrew Garfield, just to make us happy.
And that is it for this week! Not a lot I know, but Comics Wrap-Up is taking a break next week for Disability Diaries, so there'll be more on 26th Jan.
Since Comics Wrap-Up took a break over Christmas, this week's edition is a catch-up of my comics reading and all related stuff in the last couple of weeks :)
Film Trailers Here's an extended Batman TV spot for you all :)
(This film looks hilarious!)
Single Issues I read a butt-load of short and preview comics to help prop up my Goodreads challenge total, so I'll just give you my three top picks.
(Trust me, these three are the ones worth mentioning!)
Heart of a Corpse: An Undead Engagement #1 (UK - US) and Bloody Dreadful #1 (UK - US) are two comics by creator Justin Sane.
Both are fairly interesting, creepily executed, tales of Victorian Gothic horror. Heart of a Corpse actually plays out like a silent movie in silhouette - and was really moody and cool. :)
I enjoyed both, and they def. came as a pleasant surprise.
Loki: Agent of Asgard #1 (UK - US) is the start of the whole Loki-as-a-teen series.
(Fangirling note:
Loki is one of the most difficult Marvel characters to define because s/he spends periods of time as a child, a teenager, a woman, a man, and two people. In honesty, I've probably missed something out.
Just trust me. In this period of time, Loki = reincarnated teenager. Thor = adult. That's as basic as it's gonna get, so let's leave it there.
You can't sweat the small stuff in comics. Your brain will explode. #TrueStory.)
This is the first part of Loki: Agent of Asgard Vol 1 (UK - US) and is pretty awesome. I really want to read the full volume soon for more sassy Loki awesomeness!
Webcomics
Over Christmas, I also read webcomic Princess Princess by Kay O'Neill
This is about two princesses who are faffing around a magical kingdom, challenging gender norms, and falling in love with each other.
One of the princesses is black - so there's a strong person of colour (PoC) lead too 😄
Princess Princess: Ever After (to give it it's fancy in-print title) is also available in printed format (UK - US.)
For anyone who doesn't know, 'Women in Refrigerators' or 'fridging' is a phrase that was invented by comics artist Gail Simone for unnecessary acts of violence against women in comic books - often used as a plot device to motivate the male hero.
The origin of the phrase was an infamous storyline where the Green Lantern finds his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in his fridge by a super-villain - apparently just to make him angry.
Valente's book plans to give a voice to fridged women - and it looks incredibly poignant, and undoubtedly awesome.
I loved the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer! Looks like soooo much fun!
He's such a dork (and the dorkiness is awesome!)
I'm totally looking into getting one of those unlimited card-thingies for my local cinema, because even though they seem like a large amount of money as outlay, the price of cinema tickets just keeps going up - and I can't afford an average of £10.00 per trip.
This week, I reviewed Rendez-Vous in Phoenix by Tony Sandoval (UK - USA) a generally great graphic novel about a young man crossing the border into America.
There are some issues with the representation of black people, which I went into further in my review, but overall it's a great book.
Alexis, quite rightly, points out that The Big Two (Marvel and DC to those who don't speak hard-core nerd,) are cr*p at selling queer comics, but that queer comics do sell elsewhere.
It's a really interesting piece, so give it a glance :)
I actually don't have much comics-y goings-on for you this week, but I did read a couple of single issues:
Single Issues
I read Alganon #1 - a one-shot from DC.
This is actually based on some sort of free game? I'd never actually heard of it before, but the art was fairly cool.
The plot was a bit 'and now, for no reason, here's this monster we didn't mention before!' but I assume that's because of the free-based-ness.
I also read Dreamless... which is kind of... stunningly beautiful.
Seriously, every panel was like an oil painting.
And the whole concept of an American girl and a Japanese boy sharing one alternating life - when he's awake, she's asleep and dreams his life, and vice versa - and then just wanting to be together because they were MADE FOR EACH OTHER GODDAMMIT! ;)