tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35279314151115974012024-03-19T03:26:17.809-07:00Captain Marvel CultureCaptain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-71976623850611217562023-11-25T07:25:00.000-08:002023-11-25T07:43:21.464-08:00The Marvels movie review part 3: COSTUMES AND CHARACTER NAMES!Here is the third part of my 3-part review of "The Marvels," focusing on the costumes and charcter names, revealing some Easter Eggs and other details that may fascinate you!
<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/n-4tSN4olTA?si=xYYbrxj2tgEiCAU0" frameborder="0"></iframe>Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-70426308375177800052023-11-10T10:08:00.004-08:002023-11-25T07:50:33.663-08:00THE MARVELS Movie Review Part 1HEre is a "video preface" to my upcoming review of "The Marvels"
<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/huA_AuaIZdo?si=YdUtqdf-vIHCEBHg" frameborder="0"></iframe>Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-70893157465130216362022-07-23T15:37:00.009-07:002022-07-24T15:33:39.042-07:00"SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods" first trailer!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zi88i4CpHe4" width="320" youtube-src-id="Zi88i4CpHe4"></iframe></div><br /> After the positive reviews and reception of the first SHAZAM! movie (not stellar, but positive), we now have the sequel. We still don't see Black Adam in it (Dwayne Johnson is such a big star and the character is so popular in the comics that they decided to give them a stand-alone origin picture before putting him in the same movie with the SHAZAM! family), but instead we have a couple of highly regarded actresses (Hellen Mirren and Lucy Liu) playing ancient gods, a theme of "family" so self-aware that the Fast And Furious movie franchise is even mentioned in the first trailer (with a funny pay-off), the return of the Old Wizard, but in apparently a more "down-to-earth" role, some powerful magic people who might be allies or villains, a dragon, meta-recognition of the Shazam-Flash costume similarities (thanks, Carmine Infantino), super-feats, and some self-doubt and insecurity from the titular hero.<p></p><p>It looks fun, it looks funny, and it could be very exciting. It is always hard to tell with trailers. It could go too far into the comedy, but the original Captain Marvel was never meant to be all dead serious and stuff. The action clips are very short, so we can;t tell how much there will actually be. The progression from insecure hero to fighting evil with the family is not presented at all, so we can only hope that it is a convincing Campbellian hero's journey.<br /><br />But let's not forget that this is only the first trailer, designed to get the "sizzle" out. We will have to wait for the movie to get the steak.<br /><br />There is no hint of Dr. Sivana or Mr. Mind (the work from the post-credit scene from the first movie), no emphasis on the tiger motif that was all over the first film (though the cabochons holding his cape still have the tiger face on them), and we only see one shot of the foster parents, but at least we do see all the kids both in and out of their heroic personas.</p><p><br />
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</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-80120791780715145862021-08-30T00:30:00.003-07:002023-11-25T07:46:46.736-08:00Carol Danvers Continued; Part 19 of the Blog history of ALL the Captain Marvels)Meanwhile...<br />
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When last we left Carol Danvers, it was 1982, and she had just gained the power of a "white hole" (a theoretical astronomical phenomenon that must be the opposite of a "black hole") and became the superhero "Binary" while in outer space with the X-Men.<br />
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She returned to Earth where, with the help of Professor Xavier, she regained most of her memories, and started to regain her Ms. Marvel powers.<br />
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In 1998, she rejoined the Avengers, went back to her second costume (the black leotard with the lightning bolt), and started to lose her Binary powers. 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<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">She then recovered from her alcoholism and joined S.H.I.E.L.D, switching to a more militarily-practical costume with utility pockets and an armored vest.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In 2005, Marvel Comics' big company-wide, history-changing crossover event was "House of M," an alternate reality created by the mentally unstable Scarlet Witch in which mutants had become the dominant species. In this world, her friend Carol Danvers was Captain Marvel, who, despite being of human birth, was the greatest hero in the world. In short, she was this reality's Superman.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the 2006-7 company-wide crossover event "Civil War," she sided with the government, supporting superhero registration, despite an appeal from Captain America.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was during this last event that a return apparently occurred. Captain Mar-Vell.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The person who seemed to be the once-dead hero appeared through what appeared to be a hole in time, and he had come to the present day from before he died. He was given the assignment of guarding the orbital prison for unregistered superheroes while he wallowed in melancholy about why he was in a future in which he was dead.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div> </div></div>
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We can see his monster physique is covered by a loose tunic that drapes about him like a tent off of those massive shoulders. In addition to his words being very gracious, generous, and thankful towards the crew, it also really sounds like this role is a very big deal for him. </span></p><p>He also posted the following text: <span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Honored and proud to say that’s an official wrap on BLACK ADAM⚡️</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">I knew many years ago, the opportunity for me to make BLACK ADAM would be a ONCE IN A CAREER EVENT.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">It has been my true honor to go shoulder to shoulder with over 1,000 brilliant and hungry crew of filmmakers and storytellers to bring the antihero known as, BLACK ADAM to life.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">This has been one for the ages and easily the hardest labor and toughest grind mentally and physically of my entire career.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Worth. Every. Second.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Love you all.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Thank you all.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">And I’ll see you down the road.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Now go have some fun with that $10,000 🤣💰</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">The hierarchy of power in the DC UNIVERSE is changing.</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Black Adam⚡️</span><br style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" /><a class="xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/themaninblack/" style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;" tabindex="0">#themaninblack</a> </p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I recall back in the mid 2000's <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2008/09/funny-papers-and-moving-pictures.html">when an MTV survey asked whether he should play Captain Marvel or Black Adam</a> (rumors had him pegged as either one) he responded to the result (Black Adam) by saying that he would be interested in talking about it (or words to that effect). It was apparent that he was not so familiar with t he character.
<a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1573336/the-rock-put-his-shazam-role-to-a-vote-and-the-results-are-evil/">Here is an article about the results of that poll.</a>
Through the years that the project was in pre-production hell, however (repeatedly being delayed with directors and writers being hired and fired), he would talk about the character as being important, and meaningful. <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-announcement-about-shazam-movie.html">When Peter Segal and John August were tapped as director and writer</a>, things were really looking up for the project, and when a comedy that they worked on featuring Johnson was released, some folks were trying to deconstruct it to see what it revealed abut how they would work together for the SHAZAM! movie.
Since then, Johnson had become such a big star that it was decided to give him his own stand-alone Black Adam movie. This makes sense, because Johnson's presence in the movie would distract from the lead characters, Billy Batson and his super-hero alter ego. Besides, with two movies instead of one, the DCCU will have more entries into the superhero film realm, and potentially more profits.
So I am interested and excited to see this movie. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="3ejs2-1-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The</span></span><span data-offset-key="3ejs2-2-0" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"> cast of characters alone is fascinating (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkman">Hawkman</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Fate">Dr. Fate</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(DC_Comics)">Isis</a>, particularly) showing that DC is not afraid to put lesser-known, even obscure superheroes in their movie, trusting that the overall popularity of superhero movies, and the specific quality of this movies will be strong enough to overcome the unfamiliarity of the characters.</span></span></p><span data-offset-key="3ejs2-2-0" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">But they have also cast some popular names in the movie as those characters (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388038/">Aldis Hodge</a>, <a href="http://www.piercebrosnan.com/">Pierce Brosnan</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Shahi">Sarah Shahi</a>), meaning that the actors believe in the project and the studio is willing to spend that kind of money on it.
It would be easy to say that everything about this movie is just being built around the star power of Dwayne Johnson, but why does he have such star power? Because enough of his recent movies have been entertaining, and he has been entertaining in them. He has proven himself to be likeable, with charisma to burn, and just good enough an actor to pull off most of the roles that he has been given. I saw him as very much an Errol Flynn type in "The Scorpion King," and that franchise has suffered without him. H did well as a villain type in his debut in "<a href="https://youtu.be/DYUyTcoe0qw">Star Trek: Voyager</a>" and "<a href="https://youtu.be/zzxM7MX7ug8">The Mummy Returns</a>," so we will see how he does as the "anti-hero" that DC has developed Black Adam into since his revival in <a href="http://jerryordway.com/">Jerry Ordway</a>'s "<a href="http://www.captainmarvelculture.com/powerofshazam.html">The Power of SHAZAM!</a>"</span></span><div><span data-offset-key="3ejs2-2-0" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span data-offset-key="3ejs2-2-0" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">As a footnote, there are some interesting possible clues to the movie visible. We don't know for sure if that tunic Johnson is wearing is costume or is hiding/protecting his costume, but a couple of other actors are wearing what could be some kind of fantasy/sci-fi outfits that could be Kryptonian, for all I know. The background is a cyclorama of a cloudy sky with patches of bright white clouds popping up randomly. The actors have cables attached to their back, so this may have been a flying scene. Many of the crew are wearing Hawaiian shirts and leis. I don't know if that is because the scene is set in (or above)Hawai'i or if it was thee party theme of the day.
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</span></span></div>Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-23808430399520810832020-12-01T02:43:00.006-08:002021-07-24T02:25:15.643-07:00"X" Marks the Mar-Vell! The Blog History of ALL the Captain Marvels, Part 18<u>"X" MARKS THE MAR-VELL</u><br />The largest and most extensive of the realizations of an Alex Ross idea, the "high-water mark," if you will, of these limited-series extrapolations of possible alternate futures of the superhero universe, was undoubtedly <i>Earth X</i> and its follow-ups, <i>Universe X</i> and <i>Paradise X</i>, and a Captain Marvel or two were right in the middle of it.<br />
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<br />Mar-Vell did appear in two distinctive guises: One of them was the dead Kree warrior in the afterlife, leading an army of dead Kree warriors into battle, inspiring them with a speech to convince them that they were actually dead, though their enemy told them otherwise; The other was a 5-year-old child battling the Supreme Intelligence and pining over his late lover, Una.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG6fBlLIdBjEn6CIYfke_xR1pXBRCFgrOnYXvM8a2oDfMedTxH5glvnSyy4cmoZJGc1pC3l5Uia4a7u_j6PFDPsb9_0u-ol8KmpnrdCzUkanB1dBem8A-gTXu2bgyQUkJaTROy4TpRAk/s600/universex.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG6fBlLIdBjEn6CIYfke_xR1pXBRCFgrOnYXvM8a2oDfMedTxH5glvnSyy4cmoZJGc1pC3l5Uia4a7u_j6PFDPsb9_0u-ol8KmpnrdCzUkanB1dBem8A-gTXu2bgyQUkJaTROy4TpRAk/s320/universex.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcydXvy_t_7UNu7TJJX05DtllP60q2vWGlT1Rg0xWVvk13QioHdDgbCai8lqawHkcD7UkrGJWKKyBRafCLYip6e3I9ysUjD5QWH5EF-R0u6VpoGa8axXw822T4ZV74XKN_p-y6hIxltW8/s432/earthx2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="246" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcydXvy_t_7UNu7TJJX05DtllP60q2vWGlT1Rg0xWVvk13QioHdDgbCai8lqawHkcD7UkrGJWKKyBRafCLYip6e3I9ysUjD5QWH5EF-R0u6VpoGa8axXw822T4ZV74XKN_p-y6hIxltW8/s320/earthx2.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDDVzwJ3ol2DCqaReHegdvyhVmuWxdSH5qnKzWpTlaPK_N_05OyzBJFAuSW4fzH75V3QpHJPIFB5olz1M33wLwxTNkmuI-ocjTuMykjW0f1CNCz7wFrNUqdPmHrm0wfthPYcMUEP0VyY/s512/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDDVzwJ3ol2DCqaReHegdvyhVmuWxdSH5qnKzWpTlaPK_N_05OyzBJFAuSW4fzH75V3QpHJPIFB5olz1M33wLwxTNkmuI-ocjTuMykjW0f1CNCz7wFrNUqdPmHrm0wfthPYcMUEP0VyY/s320/unnamed.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><i>The child and dead versions of Mar-vell in Earth X</i><br /><div><br /></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3tqnwjQKu28" width="480"></iframe>Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-34421192545954968252020-09-15T04:48:00.001-07:002020-09-15T04:48:56.796-07:00DEEP DIVE: DC's reprint of "SHAZAM! Th World's Mightiest Mortal #19-35"Here is the first part of a three-part "deep dive" into DC's new full-color, hardcover reprint of their 1970's comic book series "SHAZAM!" #19-35, reviving the original Captain Marvel. It provides background to the history of the character and places this series in its historical context.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P4w_hF7_OAk" width="480"></iframe>Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-88930586592528838062020-06-21T23:43:00.000-07:002020-06-21T23:43:48.396-07:00HAPPY BIRTHDAY C.C. BECK! (An appreciation)C.C. Beck was the first man to draw the original Captain Marvel. According to all available evidence, it was he who designed the costume (although the coloring may or may not have been the choice of an anonymous colorist) and who established the definitive look of the hero and the stories of Captain Marvel/Billy Batson.<br />
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He was a 30-year-old staff artist for Fawcett Publications when he was tapped to do the job. According to his own words, he never really thought of cartooning as serious business. But he did it with a professionalism that was expressed in his writings as the "Crusty Curmudgeon" in later years.<br />
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His deceptively simple style was unsuccessfully imitated by a series of artists for Fawcett in the early years, until Beck's shop became the sole source of Captain Marvel art, and eventually the house style was cleaned up ad a certain stability in quality level achieved.<br />
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I have found it hard to give a fair assessment of the full arc of Beck's art development for the character, considering the scarcity of reprints available until recently and the prohibitive pricing of the original comics. Most of the reprints DC made available were originally drawn in 1945 or later, by which time the style and quality level was pretty much set. But the "Archive Editions" DC put out showed every single Captain Marvel story from the first couple of years of his publishing history.<br />
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The earliest stories were kind of rough. Beck's art was deliberately simple. He was a fan of such newspaper strips as Little Orphan Annie and Barney Google, and it shows in the charicaturistc renderings of certain characters. Captain Marvel's face was said to be based on Fred MacMurray,and was pretty well-defined from the beginning, but Billy Batson was little more than a small mouth, a small nose, and two dots for eyes. Figures seemed awkwardly positioned, layouts rough and simplistic. Some stories, like the origin of Dr. Sivana, showed Beck at the top of his craft, but others must have been done in a mad haste or by staffers.<br />
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When at the top of his game though, as he was after those first few years, a close examination of his work reveals an undercover sophistication and depth that is truly underappreciated by many comics fans today.<br />
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Clarity was his watchword, and he believed that everything on the page should advance the story. Thus, nothing that didn't advance the story should be on the page. This meant that excessive detailing, shadows, wrinkles, etc, were not necessary. The linework was always clean, not sketchy. Sometimes there was no background at all. But if you took a moment to look, you would notice that the perspective, very deliberately chosen, was drawn with precision. Little details, like a telephone on a desk, grain in wood, or a wrinkle in a carpet would give the image an touch of authenticity. There would be a key shadow under an armpit or highlights on the golden wristbands of the hero that gave the figures depth.<br />
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Landscapes would show true depth of field. Longshots used to establish a scene would show details like certain types of trees that would indicate the location. A long shot over the ocean would include cloud formations. A sunset might show silhouettes of palm trees.<br />
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And oh, those clouds and smoke! If ever Beck had to draw smoke from a fire or the clouds around a bolt of lightning, the billows would roil like a Wagnerian opera!<br />
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Space ships and fortresses would have a Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers art-deco style that gave them a fantastical, yet believable appearance.<br />
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His anatomy was impeccable.With just a few lines he could establish a person's figure and character from any angle. Ofttimes Captain Marvel would be shown flying, with his feet in the frame, and the feet were always drawn perfectly, with appropriate perspective. The difficulty of this was highlighted by the awkward, inexpertly drawn feet of other artists that drew attention to themselves like a blemish on the page. But Beck's feet were so perfectly drawn that they almost disappeared.<br />
<br />His animal anatomy was likewise fully believable. He was even able to show a gradual evolution of Mr. Tawny, the talking tiger, evolve from his natural, four-legged stance to his anthropomorphic, two-legged stride in just a few pages. The effect was so subtle you wouldn't even think about it.<br />
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<i>Two pages showing the evolution of Mr. Tawny from four-legged beast to anthropomorphic tiger.</i><br /><br />
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His sparing use of shadows in most of his work was a deliberate choice, keeping the images clear and whimsical, but he showed true mastery when he did use them. A scene on a city street at night would show the dark shapes of blackness that would be cast by a shadow in lamplight.<br />
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<i>Three pages from Capain Marvel Adventures #100 showing C.C. Beck's work at it's finest:<br />Note ease of following the story left-to-right, top-to-bottom, use of perspective, expressive gestures, anthropomorphic animal anatomy, judicious choices of how much background and foreground elements, use of silhouette and shadow, and juxtaposition of close-up, medium, and long shots.</i><br /><br />
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After the 1953 shutdown of Fawcett's comics line. Beck never returned to comic full-time except for a brief revival in 1966 and his return to Captain Marvel in the 1970's But his legacy had been established through those 13 years of Captain Marvel and the Marvel family, and even still is underappreciated for those little things that made his art so perfect.Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-6195100888376770822019-09-05T02:48:00.000-07:002019-09-16T09:05:28.199-07:00MARVELS and RUINS of the KINGDOM of ROSS! Blog History of the Many Captain Marvels Part 17!The 1970's had been an era of creative exploration at DC and Marvel Comics because of the new directions pop culture was going at the time the generational change in editorial staffs, and some works of real genius wound up on the stands. The 1980's was an explosion of creative possibilities in the independent comics scene as brand new comic book companies gave creators full ownership of their properties and had no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority">Comics Code Authority</a> to censor their work.<br />
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Here is an interesting dialogue-style <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133253953/censors-and-sensibility-rip-comics-code-authority-seal-of-approval-1954-2011">history of the Comics Code Authority</a> from NPR.<br />
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The 1990's, however, incubated creativity through the need to come up with the next big, flashy, collectible "thing" that would prove to be a groundbreaking triumph and raise the bar for the comic book industry. Alternate covers! New first editions! Exciting new changes to characters! Foil-embossed! Polybagged with a trading card! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)">Pogz</a>!<br />
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<a href="https://www.cbr.com/all-time-greatest-comic-book-gimmick-covers/">All-Time Greatest Comic Book Gimmick Covers according to Comic Book Resources</a><br />
<a href="https://www.newsarama.com/10403-memories-of-comic-book-gimmicks-resurface.html">Memories of Comic Book "Gimmicks" Resurface</a><br />
<a href="https://www.cbr.com/bad-90s-comic-book-covers/">Blown Cover: 15 Covers from the '90's that Destroyed Comic Books</a><br />
<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/mcscroggz0377/gimmick-covers-i-want/">A Pintrest page of gimmick comic book covers through the ages</a><br />
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The success in the late 1970's and '80's of comics that broke ground creatively and in format while referencing or reinventing familiar superheroes and other comic tropes (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Sim">Dave Sim</a>'s <i><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/415888/the-most-important-non-superhero-comic-youve-never-heard-of/">Cerebus the Aardvark</a></i>, <a href="https://fan.kevineastmanstudios.com/">Eastman</a> & <a href="http://peterlairdstmntblog.blogspot.com/">Laird</a>'s <i><a href="https://www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com/">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</a></i>, <a href="http://www.moebiusgraphics.com/">Frank Miller'</a>s <i><a href="https://www.techtimes.com/articles/78146/20150820/deep-cuts-frank-millers-ronin.htm">Ronin</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns">The Dark Knight Returns</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore">Alan Moore</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Gibbons">Dave Gibbons</a>' <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen">Watchmen</a></i>) and works that re-set or re-organized the superhero universes of Marvel's and DC's superheroes (Marvel's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Wars">Secret Wars</a></i>, DC's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i>) had established precedent for what was thought to be needed to have a popular, top-selling comic book.<br />
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The work that may well have had the most success as a creative re-imagination of a superhero universe, comic book format, and gimmicky concept and packaging, was 1994's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvels">Marvels</a></i> limited series, by writer <a href="https://www.busiek.com/">Kurt Busiek</a> and artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ross">Alex Ross</a> (that is, the <a href="https://www.alexrossart.com/">artist Alex Ross</a>, not the <a href="https://www.therestisnoise.com/">music critic Alex Ros</a>s).<br />
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This series re-told the history of the Marvel Comics characters from before WWII up to the present day, but through the eyes of a news photographer, who called them "Marvels" (hence the title). The only Captain Marvel who appeared was <a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Mar-Vell</a>, who was in one double-page spread of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kree%E2%80%93Skrull_War">Kree-Skrull</a> war, but The impact of this series, with its deluxe format and gloriously painted covers, was to become a superhero comic book benchmark.<br />
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This comic totally changed the game. Alex Ross set a new visual standard with his realistic painting, often compared with Norman Rockwell (he used models). The cover was a clear acetate sheet with a black border and the title framing the cover painting on the page beneath it. From thence on, the look of an Alex Ross-painted comic book, or even a book with his painted cover, would be seen as a mark of high quality epic storytelling.<br />
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The most directly-referencing work was a dark satire titled <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins_(comics)">Ruins</a> </i>(written by Warren Ellis, painted art by Terese Nielsen, Cliff Nielsen, and Chris Moeller), in which <a href="http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix7/earth-9591-ruins.html">everything that could have gone wrong with the Marvel superheroes did</a>. In the case of <a href="https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Mar-Vell_(Earth-9591)">Mar-Vell</a>, he was part of a <a href="https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kree_Liberation_Force_(Earth-9591)">Kree invasion force</a> that, due to a mishap involving the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Surfer#Ruins">Silver Surfer</a>, fell prey to American nuclear missiles that wiped out 90% of the force. They were captured and put in concentration camps in a former nuclear testing base.These last survivors and their children were slowly and painfully dying of radiation poisoning, and Mar-Vell was especially miserable, as his objection to the invasion was blamed for its failure.<br />
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Another, and much more well-known and impactful conceptual follow-up was from DC Comics in 1996, a vision of a dystopian superhero-deconstructionist future titled <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(comics)">Kingdom Come</a></i>, by writer <a href="http://markwaid.com/">Mark Waid</a> and writer/artist Alex Ross. This story turned out to be the greatest use of the human/hero dichotomy of the <a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-original.html">original Captain Marvel</a> ever.<br />
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Based on an idea Alex Ross imagined while working on Marvels and set in he hear future, super-powered being filled the skies and streets of cities having near-apocalyptic battles every day. <a href="http://captainmarvelculture.com/">Superman</a> had retired to his family farm in <a href="https://portal.kansas.gov/">Kansas</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Luthor">Lex Luthor</a> was organizing a movement against super-powered heroes. His personal bodyguard was Captain Marvel, dressed in a suit, standing quietly behind him lighting his cigar when needed. The threat of his power is enough to keep all other superheroes at bay.<br />
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A tragically destructive incident in a hero-villain battle brings Superman out of retirement, recruiting other superheroes to become the world's police and arresting and detaining those who decline or resist. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman">Batman</a> leads a resistance to this and teams with Luthor. I turns out, though that "Captain Marvel" is really a grown-up Billy Batson, brainwashed and mind-controlled by Luthor into believing that super-powered heroes are evil monsters. The climax occurs during a final, apocalyptic battle between all the superheroes and villains, and Billy Batson/Captain Marvel has the choice of either allowing them to all be destroyed (by a United Nations-launched nuclear weapon) or allow them to survive, their conflict to continue, and thus doom humankind.<br />
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It is Superman who gives him this choice, the reason being that because he has seen life from both the normal human and super-powered perspectives, Billy Batson/Captain Marvel (along with the wisdom of Solomon) is uniquely qualified to pass judgement on the existence of super-powers heroes. His decision sacrificed himself to same a portion of the heroes and inspired Superman to realize that it was the role of superheroes to help, but not lead, humanity to its future.<br />
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Other members of the Marvel Family were present in future-ized incarnations. Freddy Freeman/Captain Marvel, Jr. was now "<a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Frederick_Freeman_(Earth-22)">King Marvel</a>," with a costume redesigned to evoke an Elvis Presley jumpsuit (a deliberate homage to the King of Rock & Roll, who was a <a href="https://bigshinyrobot.com/comics/elvis-has-left-the-building-but-his-comics-legacy-lives-on/">big fan of the Little Blue Cheese</a>). Mary Batson/Mary Marvel was now either "Lady Marvel" or "<a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Batson_(Earth-22)">Queen Marvel</a>" (depending on which fan wiki you read). She and Freddy Freeman were married and had a child, "<a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Whiz_(Earth-22)">Whiz</a>," who was the inheritor of the SHAZAM! power. Their family dynamic was obvious in their actions (always visible in the background), but none of these characters were given anything significant to do in the story.<br />
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This production established two things:<br />
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1. Captain Marvel truly was the World's Mightiest Mortal in the DC Universe, able to go toe-to-toe with Superman and with power enough to hold all other heroes at bay. His magic lighting could even be used as a weapon.<br />
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2. Alex Ross was a big fan of the original Captain Marvel, and his vision of the character became the most popular iconic image through which the character would be marketed by DC for some time. He has placed the hero in the same level as DC's "Trinity" of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.<br />
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Ross had worked on a <a href="http://twomorrows.com/alterego/articles/03ross.html">potential new SHAZAM! series</a> in the very early 1990's.<br />
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It never came to pass, being superseded by Jerry Ordway's <i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/power-of-shazam-and-how-it-fits-into.html">Power of SHAZAM!</a></i>, but Ross' star rose with <i>Kingdom Come</i> and other projects. He soon got more assignments designed to take full advantage of his majestic interpretation of comic book superheroes. One such was four tabloid-sized issues, each featuring one hero of DC's Trinity, plus one with the original Captain Marvel. That book was titled <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam!_Power_of_Hope">SHAZAM! The Power of Hope</a></i>.<br />
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In this gloriously-painted book (written by Paul Dini), what was presented as special and unique about Captain Marvel was that even with his mighty powers, he could still relate to children (being, in his alter ego, a child himself) and give them hope in the midst of despair.<br />
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<a href="https://www.groundzerocomics.com/?p=60">Review of <i>SHAZAM! Power of Hope</i> from Ground Zero Comics.</a><br />
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Ross continued to use the Big Red Cheese as a subject for his art in other publications, and just this year produced this piece, which in one picture sums up the entire focus of my project here:<br />
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<br />Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-84906338020468203392019-08-20T11:20:00.001-07:002019-08-24T23:16:18.717-07:00CAPTAIN AMALGAM! Part 16 of the Blog History of ALL the Captain Marvels! (Contest inside!)Before we get too far away from the 20th century, there is one short-lived Captain Marvel and several related characters we should mention for the intriguing possibilities of these characters as well as the groundbreaking means by which they were created.<br />
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By 1995, the comic book boom had pretty much busted. The excitement engendered by the birth of <a href="https://imagecomics.com/">Image</a> and <a href="http://valiantentertainment.com/">Valiant</a> Comics, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Superman">Death of Superman</a>, and the reveal of the <a href="https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Azrael_(Jean-Paul_Valley)">new Batman</a> after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Knightfall">Bane broke Bruce Wayne's back</a> had run its course. Sales were dropping, comic book shops were closing, and independent companies were dying off.<br />
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<a href="https://www.marvel.com/">Marvel Comics</a> itself, having been acquired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Perelman">Ronald O. Perelman</a> in 1989, went public that same year, spent hundreds of millions of dollars under Perelmen buying up or into companies that produced toys, stickers, trading cards, and other comic books, and a distribution company, and by 1995 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/24/business/pow-the-punches-that-left-marvel-reeling.html">found themselves under mountains of debt</a>.<br />
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Since the success of Marvel's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Super_Hero_Contest_of_Champions"><i>Contest of Champions</i></a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Wars"><i>Secret Wars</i></a>, and DC's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths"><i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i></a>, company-wide crossover events had become the go-to attempted circulation boosters for both Marvel and DC. Furthermore, comics fandom was always a-chatter with theories and speculation on what would happen if superheroes from the two big rival companies were ever to meet.<br />
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With this no doubt in mind, DC and Marvel got together and launched <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_vs._Marvel">DC Versus Marvel</a></i>, a crossover between both companies! In this 1996 4-issue miniseries, (with one "#0" free preview giveaway issue), fights were staged between comparable characters of the two companies.. This included <a href="https://www.supermanhomepage.com/">Superman</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk">The Hulk</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman">Batman</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America">Captain America</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman">Aquaman</a> vs. the <a href="http://sub-mariner/">Sub-Mariner</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman">Wonder Woman</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_(Marvel_Comics)">Storm</a>, and <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/power-of-shazam-and-how-it-fits-into.html">Captain Marvel</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(comics)">Thor</a>. (Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel, still technically <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-true-story-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Monica Rambeau</a>, only appeared n one panel, and <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-legacy-of-mar-vell-part-13-of-blog.html">Genis-Vell</a>, the all-but-official inheritor of the title whose comic had recently been cancelled did not appear at all).<br />
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There was an extra gimmick to this series, though, that did engender greater reader interest, and that was that for the matches between the bigger names of each company, the winners would be decided by reader vote! For better or worse, however, Captain Marvel vs. Thor was not one of those matches.<br />
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I suppose this was as logical a matchup as one could imagine. Both of them being of godly power and with a lightning and thunder theme. And though they threw in a one-panel gag that acknowledged how one character was a rip-off of the other, DC's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapper_Carr">Snapper Carr</a> and Marvel's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Jones_(comics)">Rick Jones</a> razzed each other.<br />
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The fight was won by Thor in a conclusion some Captain Marvel fans felt unsatisfying. But that was not the last appearance of a Captain Marvel in the DC-Marvel co-production.<br />
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The story that contained these battles was extended to bring the two universes, Marvel's and DC's, together in an amalgam not just of the worlds, but of the characters and the companies. Superman and Captain America became "<a href="https://amalgam.fandom.com/wiki/Super-Soldier">Super Soldier</a>," Batman and Wolverine became "<a href="https://amalgam.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Claw">Dark Claw</a>," Wonder Woman and Storm became "<a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/amazon/4005-47299/">Wonder Woman</a>," but looked like Storm in a mashup of her and Wonder Woman's costume, and Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel became..."<a href="http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/amcptmvl.htm">Captain Marvel</a>."<br />
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The conceit of the concept was that it was a line of comics called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_Comics">Amalgam Comics</a>," and that these "amalgamated" heroes had been around all along, in place of the ones with which we were familiar. There were backstories and publishing histories of each character with made-up titles of comics combining titles of existing comics. Captain Marvel fit into this paradigm easily.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Though only seen briefly in two published comic books and a few trading cards, he had a secret identity and backstory. His alter ego was young Billy Mar-Vell, who upon saying the alien word "Kree!" would "super-scientifically" transform into Captain Marvel, with a white suit, green gloves, boots, briefs, and yoke, and green lightning bolt logo on chest. He had powers of super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, and flight.</span></div>
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As he was only one of a bunch of heroes in "<a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Judgment_League_Avengers_(Amalgam_Universe)">Judgement League</a>: <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/judgment-league-avengers/4060-56161/characters/">Avengers</a>," he didn't get much to say or do, but he did express disdain and distrust of aliens and "<a href="https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Metamutants">metamutants</a>." This disappointed me, as all other Captain Marvels had actively fought against prejudice in some form or another.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The fictional history of this character included him first appearing in "<i>Whiz Marvels</i> #1," being a founding member of the "Judgement League: Avengers" and present in the "<i><a href="http://www.geocities.ws/schablotski.geo/SCIH.htm">Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour</a></i>" (a crossover epic that was never really published, but key story points were related in a series of trading cards. the title referenced Marvel's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Wars">Secret Wars</a></i>, DC's <i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/shazams-worlds-finest-crisis-history-of.html">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i>, the series of <i><a href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/events/29/infinity_war">Infinity War</a>-</i>related stories from Marvel, and DC's <i><a href="https://comicbook.com/blog/2012/09/10/dc-comicss-non-crisis-crisis-dan-jurgens-looks-back-at-zero-hour/">Zero Hour</a></i>) when "<a href="http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix7/americangirlamalgam.htm">American Girl</a>" (a pastiche of Ms. Marvel and Supergirl named "Carol Barnes," a combination of Carol Danvers and <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/bucky-barnes/4005-40470/">Bucky Barnes</a>) sacrificed herself to save the universe. </span></div>
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Rick Jones was not left out of this. He appeared in an amalgam with his DC counterpart/inspiration, "Snapper" Carr, as Snapper Jones, a.k.a. "<a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/bismuth/4005-58857/">Bismouth</a>," a member of "<a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/the-magnetic-men/4060-48704/">Magneto's Magnetic Men</a>" who appeared in an <a href="http://notblogx.blogspot.com/2011/07/magneto-and-magnetic-men-1-april-1996.html">eponymous comic</a>. He was super villain, an amalgam of Tin, a member of DC's Metal Men, and Toad, a member of Marvel's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">(Incidentally a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_%22Snapper%22_Jones" style="text-align: left;">Steve "Snapper" Jones</a><span style="text-align: left;"> was a star basketball player in the American Basketball Association who became a popular broadcast announcer)</span></div>
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Another miniseries involving the Amalgams came out in 1997, titled <i>Unlimited Access</i>. In it, the character of "<a href="http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/accessam.htm">Access</a>," a normal Earth Human who wound up with the power to amalgamate characters from the DC and Marvel universes, created more of these amalgams, only some of them with less apparent relevance between the component characters.<br />
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The Captain Marvel-related character here was "<a href="https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_Jr_(Earth-616)">Captain America, Jr</a>," (appearing in <i>Unlimited Access</i> #4) whose alter ego, Freddy Rogers, could transform into his hero by shouting "Uncle Sam!" His powers appeared to be based on characteristics of United States presidents, including the strategy of Eisenhower and the trickery of Nixon. He only appeared in this one issue.</div>
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Since this, fans have created a myriad of mashups of superheroes, including several involving one or another or several Captain Marvels. Marvel itself, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextwave"><i>NextWave: Agents of H.A.T.E.</i> </a>created a <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/08/genis-phyla-and-monica-marvels-in-new.html">mashup of Monica Rambeau and Mar-Vell</a> that was brilliant in its execution.<br />
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But I feel that the Amalgam missed an opportunity here. The original Captain Marvel is one of the all-time great superheroes. He managed to capture an audience at just the right time that wanted to see a hero exactly like him and outsold Superman. His paradigm, the mortal, particularly a child, who could transform by magic into a hero, was the template for many other superheroes, both seriously within the industry and as a trope in everything from advertising to satire.<br />
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Furthermore, Marvel's first Captain Marvel was a hero with depth and dimension. He had an uneasy history of persecution and struggle. He even died! Combining this backstory with the sunny, optimistic, eternally-young Billy Batson-Captain Marvel would have been a fascinating challenge.<br />
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Amalgamating Billy Batson and Rick Jones would have been interesting. Billy Batson was a radio and TV reporter, Rick Jones a musician. Billy had a youthful fan club, Rick had his "Teen Brigade." Rick Jones was the sidekick of several superheroes over the years. I might have been interesting to have that his backstory be of a young journalism student with musical talent who winds up sickicking for several superheroes before meeting the old wizard Perhaps the boy's experience as a sidekick, his journalistic integrity, and his musical soul would have been a factor the wizard considered in selecting him to be his new champion. And now, as a superhero, it is that experience which informs him in how to use his powers to fight crime, evil and injustice.<br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">Here is where the contest comes in, folks! Design and draw the above mashup of Billy Batson with rick Jones and Captain Marvel with Captain Mar-Vell and post it in the comments below. We will then have a contest where readers an vote on their favorites. The winner will receive a free copy of my three-pamphlet series "Captain Marvel Culture."! :)</span></i><br />
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On top of all this, there was the cosmic power thing. Mar-Vell gained "cosmic awareness" from the entity Eon, granting him the ability to be universally omniscient. He was aware of all things in the universe. The wizard Shazam resided in the Rock of Eternity, at the nexus of all universes, and from there knew all things. Perhaps some bizarre partnership or mashup-of these two mentor-like figures who granted powers to their heroic proteges could have been explored in this series!<br />
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And finally, the big red elephant in the room: Both companies had Captain Marvels, but the original one could not have his name in the title, even though three other companies had plastered that name all over their covers! It would have been a fine and fitting tribute to the legacy of Parker, Beck, Binder, Schaffenberger, Lee, Colan, Thomas, Kane, Starlin, Gruenwald, Milgrom, Broderick, et al, a symbol of camaraderie between the two companies, and simply, ridiculously appropriate for Amalgam Comics to publish a <i>Captain Marvel</i> comic book.<br />
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And with regards to Monica Rambeau, perhaps she could have amalgamated with the light-based DC superhero <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_(Ray_Terrill)">The Ray</a> to become "Lightray" or something...<br />
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<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/08/captain-amalgam-part-16-of-blog-history.html">Part 16: CAPTAIN AMALGAM!</a></i><br />
<a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/08/genis-phyla-and-monica-marvels-in-new.html"><i>Part 15: GENIS, PHYLA, AND MONICA: Marvels for the New Century!</i></a><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/power-of-shazam-and-how-it-fits-into.html">Part 14: Power of SHAZAM!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-legacy-of-mar-vell-part-13-of-blog.html">Part 13: The Legacy of Mar-Vell!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-new-beginning-for-shazam-part-12-of.html">Part 12: The New Beginning for SHAZAM!</a><br /><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/shazams-worlds-finest-crisis-history-of.html">Part 11: SHAZAM's World's Finest Crisis!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-06-02T08:19:00-07:00&max-results=7">Part 10: The Marvelous Miracleman!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/01/miracleman-marvelous-revival-of-british.html">Part 9: Miracleman! The Marvelous Revival of the British Captain Marvel Rip-Off!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/12/marvelman-its-miracle-british-captain.html">Part 8: Marvelman!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-true-story-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Part 7: Death and Energy!</a><br /><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-true-history-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Part 6: Whatever Happened to Carol Danvers?</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Part 5: The DC Revival!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Part 4: Marvel's first Marvel!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-true-history-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Part 3. I Gotta SPLIT! XAM!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Part 2. The Silver Influence</a></i><br />
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<br />Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-28716714261390990252019-08-01T05:37:00.001-07:002019-08-24T02:06:54.941-07:00GENIS, PHYLA, AND MONICA: Marvels in the New Century (Part 15 of the blog history of ALL Captain Marvels)As the first decade of the New Century ground forward, <a href="https://www.marvel.com/">Marvel Comics</a> found itself with several Captain Marvels and a seeming lack of ability to make any of them "stick."<br />
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The most game, and outrageous, attempt, was Peter David's version of Genis-Vell. To catch us up on his status at the time, here is the "splash page" from an issue of that era...<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genis-Vell">Genis-Vell</a>, as written by <a href="https://www.peterdavid.net/">Peter David</a>, had gone mad from his constant "cosmic awareness." He also had omnipotent power. This made him a self-described "mad god." He killed himself to end it all, but it didn't stick. He wound up convincing Entropy, (one of the Cosmic Entities of the Universe), to kill his brother Eternity, thus ending the universe. The only survivors were Entropy, Epiphany, Genis-Vell, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Jones_(comics)">Rick Jones</a>. The resultant nothingness was boring, so Rick and Genis convinced Entropy to remake the universe exactly as he knew it, and Entropy became the new Eternity.<br />
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This was actually the origin of Marvel's next Captain Marvel. Try to stay with me on this...<br />
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In this new universe, things were ever so slightly different. Genis-Vell was not quite as insane as he was in the original universe. However, the Genis that had existed in the past of this new universe that was just created (complete with a past and everything, so the experience for Genis and Rick Jones was rather like picking up a familiar book and opening it in the middle) was replaced by the Genis that had existed in the original universe (the titular character in this eponymous comic book).<br />
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Also in this new universe, Genis-Vell's mother <a href="https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Elysius_(Earth-616)">Elysius</a>, who had died in the original universe, was alive here, was aware of the Universal Recreation, and did not like the new Genis-Vell. So she cloned Mar-Vell again, this time into a female named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyla-Vell">Phyla-Vell</a>, artificially aged her (as she had Genis-Vell), gave her nega-bands, and made sure she had her father's cosmic awareness. She was to replace Genis-Vell as "The New Captain Marvel."<br />
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The obligatory conflict ensued, and when the dust settled, Genis-Vell claimed that he was no longer insane and would work to improve himself and make the universe a better place. Was this the truth, or was he now just going to hold his insanity closer to the vest? Only time would tell.<br />
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Or would it? Genis and Rick went on to have a few more adventures, one that proved to make him the most tragic superhero ever. It was a time-travel story that led to him deciding to kill his baby son in his crib to prevent him from growing up to be a super-powered evil galactic emperor. This story confirmed that he would marry and have at least one child with the reformed super-villain, Songbird.<br />
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The series was cancelled with the following issue, in a finale that revealed that Rick Jones actually knew that he was in a comic book. In that final issue, it was also revealed that Phyla was a lesbian and she hooked up with the psychic superhero <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondragon">Moondragon</a>, daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_the_Destroyer">Drax the Destroyer</a>.<br />
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<i>Expediency, one of the "Friendless," personifications of aspects of the universe, informs Genis-Vell of the end of his series.</i><br />
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<i>Matthew Younker wrote a great little <a href="https://www.popoptiq.com/captain-marvel-with-great-power-comes-great-insanity/">article about Genis-Vell's insanity</a> for <a href="https://www.popoptiq.com/">PopOptique</a>.</i><br />
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Genis-Vell then joined the team of reformed super-villains known at the New Thunderbolts (in their self-titled series), of which Songbird was a member. He was killed by the team's giant, Atlas, in a manipulated rage over a her, then came back to life with a new power set and took on a new name, "Photon."<br />
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This last part pissed off <a href="https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-unfortunate-and-obscure-history-of-monica-rambeau-1726108988">Monica Rambeau</a> (again), but in a discussion over beers, she decided to call herself "Pulsar."<br />
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Genis eventually proved to be an unstable element in the space-time continuum and was torn into pieces and sent to the far corners of space and time by Baron Zemo. He has not been seen since, despite not yet having married Songbird.<br />
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Phyla, meanwhile, spent a brief time as a Captain Marvel, but then gained the quantum bands of Quasar, Defender (not "protector") of the Universe, and took on that mantle. She served with the Guardians of the Galaxy and went through more drama (at one point, Moondragon actually became a real, space-faring dragon, and the two became the hottest cross-species lesbian superhero couple in comics). She was involved in several company-wide crossover events with the Guardians. Eventually she changed her name to "Martyr," and ultimately got killed. Twice.<br />
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<i>Phyla-Vell getting killed by Magus, the future, evil version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Warlock">Adam Warlock</a>.</i><br />
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Meanwhile, in 2006-7 Monica reappeared as the leader of a new, satirical superhero team, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextwave">NextWave, Agents of H.A.T.E.</a></i>, in their eponymous, possibly-not-in-canon 12-issue limited series.<br />
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In 2009, she appeared in a mini-series titled <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Divas">Marvel Divas</a></i>, a sort of <i><a href="https://www.hbo.com/sex-and-the-city">Sex and the City</a></i> take on the friendship between several female superheroes in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City">New York City</a>.<br />
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Then, in 2013-2014 she became the field leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Avengers">Mighty Avengers</a>, a new version of Marvel's premiere superhero team, this time led by Luke Cage, Power Man, and notable for having not one member who was not female or a person of color for a time.<br />
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More about Monica Rambeau, and how she teamed up with Carol Danvers, to come!<br />
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There is a nice <a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-pull-list-for-monica-rambeau">"pull list" of Monica Rambeau at the ScyFy Wire</a>.<br />
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<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/08/captain-amalgam-part-16-of-blog-history.html">Part 16: CAPTAIN AMALGAM!</a></i><br />
<a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/08/genis-phyla-and-monica-marvels-in-new.html"><i>Part 15: GENIS, PHYLA, AND MONICA: Marvels for the New Century!</i></a><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/power-of-shazam-and-how-it-fits-into.html">Part 14: Power of SHAZAM!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-legacy-of-mar-vell-part-13-of-blog.html">Part 13: The Legacy of Mar-Vell! </a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-new-beginning-for-shazam-part-12-of.html">Part 12: The New Beginning for SHAZAM!</a><br /><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/shazams-worlds-finest-crisis-history-of.html">Part 11: SHAZAM's World's Finest Crisis!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-06-02T08:19:00-07:00&max-results=7">Part 10: The Marvelous Miracleman!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/01/miracleman-marvelous-revival-of-british.html">Part 9: Miracleman! The Marvelous Revival of the British Captain Marvel Rip-Off!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/12/marvelman-its-miracle-british-captain.html">Part 8: Marvelman!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-true-story-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Part 7: Death and Energy!</a><br /><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-true-history-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Part 6: Whatever Happened to Carol Danvers?</a></i><br />
<i><a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Part 5: The DC Revival!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Part 4: Marvel's first Marvel!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-true-history-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Part 3. I Gotta SPLIT! XAM!</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Part 2. The Silver Influence</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-original.html">Part 1. The First Marvel and the World's Mightiest Lawsuit</a></i><br />
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B0G9WsphJ69/?utm_source=ig_embed">The original Instagram post</a><br />
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Mr. Tawny falls strongly into the category of "beloved" among fans of the character. He was a genial everyman, created and written by Otto Binder to represent himself and his concerns and struggles (you can find out more about this in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20style=%22width:120px;height:240px;%22%20marginwidth=%220%22%20marginheight=%220%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20src=%22//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=1893905101&asins=1893905101&linkId=687ac6d5d5981bca881dc0bcfd87c4bc&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E">The Fawcett Companion</a> and Bill Schelly's biography of the writer, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20style=%22width:120px;height:240px;%22%20marginwidth=%220%22%20marginheight=%220%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20src=%22//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0964566990&asins=0964566990&linkId=cc7e1f1ff81c5c2c6dc75f82023db2d9&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E">Words of Wonder</a>). He was loyal and true to his friends, Billy Batson and Captain Marvel and excelled in his job as a tour guide in the local natural history museum.<br />
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Despite this, he would often seek something more, something new, something different in life. He would bemoan his boring, everyday life and fall for a get-rich-quick scheme, or try to recapture his lost youth, or gain everlasting fame or great popularity, or attempt to return to the free life of an animal in the wild.<br />
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In teh end of each of these comedic adventures, however, he would find that just being himself, a regular guy, was what was best in life and most satisfying for him.<br />
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These stories were sopme opf the best-written in the Fawcett run of Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family. the love for the character form the writer was clear, and artist C.C,. beck was at the top of his game. Gwuandanaland recently published a collection fo all of hi sstories, including the very best C<br />
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I made mention of Mr. Tawny references in the movie in my on-the-spot review. In case you missed it, here it is...<br />
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<a href="https://www.denofgeek.com/us">Den of Geek</a> has made mention of these disks and their tiger faces, also making the Mr. Tawny connection as part of a <a href="https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/shazam/278811/shazam-movie-costume-details-explained">pretty thorough rundown on the suit that was designed for the movie</a>.<br />
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And on page 2 of this <a href="https://screenrant.com/">ScreenRant</a> article, <a href="https://screenrant.com/shazam-movie-costume-explained/2/">the designer himself talks about the tiger imagery</a> on the suit.</div>
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Personally, I think that Mr. Tawny is going to turn out to be that homeless-looking bearded guy who was oddly prominent in two shots of the crowd during the "caught the bus" scene. This would be consistent with Jeff Smith's interpretation in "Monster Society" and the Superman & SHAZAM! vs. Black Adam animated short film.</div>
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In the early 1990's <a href="https://www.dccomics.com/">DC</a> wagged its tail to the speculator market no less than <a href="https://www.marvel.com/">Marvel</a>. Although they did not have an exodus of artists like Marvel, they still needed to do something to remain relevant. Thus came<i> The Death of Superman.</i><br />
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As we saw in <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-legacy-of-mar-vell-part-13-of-blog.html">the last chapter</a>, the 1993 <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Superman">Death of Superman</a></i> saga at DC was the high-water mark of the speculator's market and the comics industry serving it. As we also saw in <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/shazams-worlds-finest-crisis-history-of.html">Part 11 of this history</a>, DC had combined all of its multiple "universes" into one through the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i> in the 1980's. As the 1990's approached the midway point, both of these events were showing their downsides. The speculator's market bubble burst, leading to a precipitous decline in sales across the board, and inherent contradictions and unsettled character histories revealed weaknesses in the continuity of the new DC universe.<br />
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In an apparently unrelated move, the SHAZAM! franchise was revived.<br />
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DC's version of the original Captain Marvel, now (as of <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-new-beginning-for-shazam-part-12-of.html">Part 12 of this history</a>), the version created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Thomas">Roy Thomas</a> in <i>SHAZAM! The New Beginning</i>, had not been seen much since that 1986 mini-series. <a href="http://www.byrnerobotics.com/">John Byrne</a> proposed a version, wrote a story, and even drew a couple of pages, but that project never saw fruition. The Big Red Cheese did make big appearances; in 1991, as part of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Gods_(comics)">War of the Gods</a></i> miniseries, and in 1992, battling a Superman possessed by the villain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipso">Eclipso</a>.<br />
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But while all this was happening, in 1991 <a href="http://www.jerryordway.com/">Jerry Ordway</a> was asked (according to his introduction in the <a href="https://amzn.to/2lCf37E">most recent reprint volume of DC's initial revival of Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family</a>) to "relaunch the SHAZAM! characters." He researched the DC revival, the Fawcett comics, and even the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Pictures">Republic Pictures</a>' <a href="http://nightflight.com/adventures-of-captain-marvel-this-12-part-superhero-comic-serial-was-spoofed-on-night-flights-j-men-forever/"><i>Adventures of Captain Marvel</i> serial</a>. In 1994, his new graphic novel, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Shazam!">The Power of SHAZAM!</a></i> was released.<br />
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This gloriously drawn and painted, this new production was a loving tribute to the character and its history, but made certain drastic departures from the original stories.<br />
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In this story, Billy's parents, C.C. and Marilyn Beck, were archaeologists murdered during a dig in Egypt by Theo Adam, in the employ of Thaddeus Sivana, the wealthy industrialist who financed the mission. Billy wound up selling papers and living on the street when he was taken to the wizard <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(wizard)">Shazam</a> by a stranger through a subway tunnel. Once he got his powers, though, he hated them. They were confusing and he lacked the maturity and experience to use them properly.<br />
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(And yes, this was where the recent movie got the names of Billy's parents.)<br />
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The "McGuffin" of the story, a scarab necklace on an ancient mummy, gave Theo Adam the power to transform into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Adam">Black Adam</a>, and it turned out that he was really the ancient villain reincarnated. He quit Sivana's employ, Sivana's financial empire and plans and schemes crumbled, Billy adapted to being Captain Marvel and defeated Black Adam, and the stranger who had led Billy to the old wizard turned out to be the spirit of his dead father.<br />
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But this was a different Captain Marvel. Set in a more realistic world where a 10-year-old boy living on his own would be snatched up by civil authorities, Billy Batson had to figure out how to survive, and turned out to be a scrappy, self-reliant survivor.<br />
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Jerry Ordway established Fawcett City as the home of Billy Batson/Captain Marvel (after Roy Thomas had created it for a story in <i>All Star Squadron</i> about ten years earlier) and made the city one that retained the modernist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco">Art Deco</a> style of the 1930's. This and other elements were blatant tributes to the Fawcett stories and the work of the writers, artists, and editors of those days. Streets were named after Fawcett-era writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Binder">Otto Binder</a> and artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._C._Beck">C.C. Beck</a>, Billy's father was named after Beck, a scene of Captain Marvel throwing a car against a wall was an obvious tribute to the cover of <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-original.html">Whiz Comics #2</a>, and the subway tunnel, train car, and throne room of the old wizard were adapted very faithfully (with some detailization) from the original story.<br />
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The book was a big hit, critically and commercially, and led to a new series of the same title.<br />
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But before that new series began, in September 1994, DC began a new, company-wide, crossover epic miniseries, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour:_Crisis_in_Time!">Zero Hour</a></i>. It seems that the <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> series of 1986 had set up a bunch of contradictions and failed to resolve certain matters in the DC Universe, so <i>Zero Hour</i> was an attempt to fix it.<br />
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As a result, a new DC Universe was established, mostly similar to the previous one, but it was assumed by most who cared that this re-invention of Captain Marvel was to belong to this post-<i>Zero Hour</i> world.<br />
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And thus did the new <i>Power of SHAZAM!</i> ongoing series begin in 1995. Set a few years after the graphic novel, Billy had his job at WHIZ broadcasting and was attending school. The school janitor, Mr. Dudley, helped the boy out where he could. Billy's uncle, Ebenezer Batson, had thrown him out on the street. In his Captain Marvel form, Billy would sometimes disguise himself to act as his own uncle or get work on the side.<br />
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The wizard Shazam played a much more integral part in the stories than he had in the Fawcett and pre-<i>Crisis </i>DC stories. It was revealed that his throne room was in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Eternity">Rock of Eternity</a> which was reached through a dimensional barrier. The old wizard had cast a spell on Fawcett City to make time pass more slowly and protect it from certain dangers, thus ensuring it kept it's Art Deco look and 1930's-'40's styles and cars all the way to the end of the 20th century.<br />
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Theo Adam/Black Adam was a regular adversary of the Marvel Family through the series. Eventually the Theo Adam personality was completely subsumed by Black Adam, to the point where his alter ego was his ancient self - Teth Adam.<br />
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The series started with both Billy and the wizard looking for Billy's sister Mary, and found that she had been adopted by the wealthy Bromfields, Nick and Nora (obviously based on the comedy-detective duo from the 1930's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film)">Thin Man</a>" series of films).<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawky_Tawny">Mr. Tawny</a>, the talking tiger from the Fawcett/DC comics, turned up as a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%BAca">pooka</a>h," a Celtic shape-changing spirit who appeared to most everyone as a stuffed tiger doll, but to Billy and Mary was a full-size, anthropomorphic tiger. He guided Mary to say the magic word, granting her powers, but instead of calling herself "Mary Marvel," she called herself "Captain Marvel," so now there were two Captain Marvels.<br />
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Freddy Freeman was a recurring character as well, a star high school athlete and Big Man On Campus, but near-death injury resulting from Billy/CM's battle with Captain Nazi led to him being orphaned and granted the power to become Captain Marvel, Jr. by saying that "Captain Marvel." Because of the difficulty in introducing himself without transforming, he eventually chose to call himself "CM3."<br />
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CM3 at first had a crush on Mary, but it didn't go over well with Billy, so the third Marvel left town, joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Titans">Teen Titans</a>, and later the more edgy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsiders_(comics)">Outsiders</a>.<br />
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The wizard Shazam involved himself directly in the lives of the Marvel Family, breaking up arguments and guiding them to important tasks. At one point he left the Rock of Eternity to explore life on Earth again, often comparing life today with that of the 1930's and '40's, a period of which he was fond, hence the magic spell he had cast over Fawcett City.<br />
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One unique detail regarding the powers of the Marvel Family in this version was that they were limited. When two or more of them were in their "Marvel" identity, that limited power was shared. So each of them became less powerful, less invulnerable. Black Adam was even able to break Billy/CM's arm under such circumstances. This limitation, however, was eventually eliminated when Ibis upgraded their powers while covering the old Wizard's position at the Rock of Eternity.<br />
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The wizard Shazam was brought into DC's magical realms, including the afterlife, and a couple of supernatural Superman villains, <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/lady-blaze/4005-13675/">Blaze</a> and <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/lord-satanus/4005-24308/">Satanus</a>, were revealed to be his children. The old wizard even advanced to godhood before the series was over (in the polytheist, mythological, <i><a href="https://kirbymuseum.org/">Jack Kirby</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Gods">New Gods</a></i> style).<br />
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Mr. Tawny, it turned out, had been a stuffed animal all along, but given the opportunity to be "real" by Blaze, if he did her bidding. When Blaze was defeated, Ibis gave him the option of remaining a real, anthropomorphic, talking tiger. He jumped at the chance, and became a recurring character in the DC universe.<br />
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The series, like the graphic novel, had a lot of references to the Fawcett years. Street names, businesses, and characters were named after writers, artists and editors from Fawcett. Obscure characters like <a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Muscles_McGinnis_(New_Earth)">"Muscles" McGinnis</a> made appearances, as well as old Fawcett heroes like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis_the_Invincible">Ibis the Invincible</a> and his companion <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/taia/4005-40329/">Taia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletman_and_Bulletgirl">Bulletman and Bulletgirl</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Scarlet">Mr. Scarlet</a> (actually his old sidekick <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_the_Whiz_Kid">Pinky</a> bearing his former mentor's identity), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Smasher">Spy Smasher</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute-Man">Minute Man</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_O%27Casey">Lance O'Casey</a>.<br />
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Villains from the Fawcett stories that appeared included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibac">Ibac</a>, <a href="https://shazam.fandom.com/wiki/Mister_Mind">Mr. Mind</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Atom">Mr. Atom</a>, and the <a href="https://shazam.fandom.com/wiki/Arson_Fiend">Arson Fiend</a>.<br />
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The series lasted for 47 issues (with one extra "One Million" issue as part of a company-wide crossover event that some count as the 48th). In it Ordway was able to explore the awkwardnesses of Billy trying to get along in adult society as a superhero although he was a teenage boy. He eventually got adopted by the Bromfields and they were able to live together as a family.<br />
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Additional Shazam-powered characters, some named "Captain Marvel," some not, were created in this series: C.C. and Marilyn Batson were Captain Marvels in an alternate timeline created by Sivana (now refered to as "Dr. Sivana.")<br />
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In <a href="https://www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/2016/04/power-of-shazam-1000000-1998.html">Power of SHAZAM! One Million</a>, the hero was a young man on the planet Mercury named <a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Tanist_(DC_One_Million)">Tanist</a>, granted the power by an aged Billy Batson/Captain Marvel in the far future.<br />
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In the <a href="https://read-comic.com/the-power-of-shazam-annual-001-1996/">1996 Power of SHAZAM! Annual</a>, the hero was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_(CeCe_Beck)">Cecebeck</a>, who took the name "Thunder" when superpowered. She would later join the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes">Legion of Super-Heroes</a>.<br />
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DC had created a line of books under the imprint "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elseworlds">Elseworlds</a>," in which the heroes were put into alternate histories, contexts and situations. In <span style="background-color: #eff0ff; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Elseworld%27s_Finest:_Supergirl_%26_Batgirl_Vol_1_1" style="border: 0px; color: #006cb0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl Vol 1 1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl </span>#</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1</span></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">(September, 1998)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>there was a Captain Marvel in the Justice Society. This was the first <a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(Earth-1098)">black Captain Marvel</a> to see print in DC.<br />
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During this time, Captain Marvel made significant appearances in miniseries like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(comics)"><i>Kingdom Come</i></a> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_Unleashed">Underworld Unleashed</a></i>. When used to best effect, Billy Batson's humanity, youth, and purity of heart were deciding factors in the outcomes of the stories.<br />
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During this time the Big Red Cheese shared stories with many DC heroes, both as guests in their books and with them as guests in his, including Superman, Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, Starman, and even this old favorite...<br />
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The series was highly regarded critically and sold well, but not well enough to avoid being cancelled just shy of its 50th issue (which disappointed Ordway). The final issue had a cover that was directly inspired by the cover of the final issue of DC's first <i>SHAZAM!</i> series:<br />
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But though this series did not last out the decade, this Captain Marvel remained a major player in the DC universe...<br />
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Next for the DC Marvels: Society, Leagues, and crises, crises, crises!<br />
For the Marvel Marvels: Genis-Vell cracks up! and Marvels, Marvels everywhere!<br />
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<br />Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-21453544218134515342019-06-02T08:19:00.000-07:002019-07-10T07:30:16.926-07:00The Legacy of Mar-Vell! (Part 13 of the Blog History of ALL Captain Marvels!)When last we left the heroic name of Captain Marvel it was being used by <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-true-story-of-all-captain-marvels.html">Monica Rambeau in Marvel Comics</a> and <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-new-beginning-for-shazam-part-12-of.html">Roy Thomas' re-interpretation of the World's Mightiest Mortal in DC Comics</a>. But all things (good, bad, and indifferent) must change or die, and in the early 1990's, that's what happened.<br />
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Monica Rambeau, last we saw, had lost her powers and nearly died in an incident on the ocean. She lost her status as leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(comics)">Avengers</a> (mentally manipulated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Druid">Dr. Druid</a>), but recovered and with her recovery, developed a set of powers subtly different from what she'd had before.<br />
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However, she was no longer a regular member of the Avengers, so her fans did not have a regular place to see her. She was kept on the team's "reserve" roster, and often helped them on adventures cosmic in scope and scale. In such cases her ability to fly at light speed helped.<br />
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There were two eponymous "one-shot" issues at the beginning of the next decade in which she was featured. One of them was about racial prejudice, making it the first time that the fact the the hero was black was ever a plot point.<br />
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Then came the collector's boom and <a href="https://imagecomics.com/">Image Comics</a>.<br />
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The next thing you knew, new comic book companies were starting and comic book shops, trying to keep up with demand for anything new and "collectible," stocked their shelves with everything. In response, Marvel and <a href="https://www.dccomics.com/">DC</a> flooded the market with new titles and had big "events" to maintain their market share and relevance.<br />
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So here is the relevance of all this to Captain Marvel:<br />
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One of the big "events," was in the summer of 1993, when Marvel decided to introduce a brand new character in the "Annual" issue of every single non-reprint title they had. The only one of these characters that managed to have his own series for any length of time was Marvel's next Captain Marvel, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genis-Vell">Genis-Vell</a>. He was not called Captain Marvel at first. He was called "Legacy" and first appeared in <i>Silver Surfer Annual</i> #6.<br />
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He later appeared in another issue of <i>Silver Surfer</i>, and in 1994 was featured in the <i>Cosmic Powers</i> miniseries (in which he tried to kill <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_(comics)">Nitro</a>, the villain who killed his father).<br />
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He got his own series titled <i>Captain Marvel</i> in 1995, but it was cancelled after only six of a planned 12 issues, before the story in it was even finished. He still went by the name "Legacy," but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Jones_(comics)">Rick Jones</a> had him on his talk show and insisted in calling him "Captain Marvel," There was an implication that Monica Rambeau was not pleased by this, but they only showed her from behind, in shadow, and referred to her as a caller to the show named "M. Rambeau."<br />
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The cancellation of the series may have been a result of the collapse of the speculator's market after the 1993 <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Superman">Death of Superman</a> </i>saga at DC (of which more will be spoke in the next chapter) was literally the incident that had people buying comics like they were going out of style. The issue in which Superman died sold out completely on its first day, and there were reports of it being sold as high as $75 in on particular county in Pennsylvania. People continued to buy the following issues that introduced four new potential Supermen, and even when he returned, collectors still clamored for copies. But many of these people did not read the comics and cared not for the characters, stories, or art. In time, some of these collectors would try to sell the comics, only to find that everyone already had them, so no one wanted them.<br />
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Thus did the bottom fall out of the market. Titles were cancelled. Comic companies shut down. Marvel, who had gone public a few years before, declared bankruptcy. Many comic book shops closed. To hang on to what market was left, both Marvel and DC attempted to create company-wide "events" to drive sales.<br />
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It was during this period of collapse that in <i>Avengers Unplugged </i>#5, Monica and Genis had an adventure together, battling the Collector (who, of course, had fought Mar-Vell in years past). In the end, Monica declared that Genis was living up to his father's legacy and should take the mantle of Captain Marvel. She would then call herself "Photon!"<br />
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Genis appeared in a couple of other mini-series, most notably <i>Avengers Forever </i>(12 issues, Nov 1998- Nov 1999). In that story, it was a version of himself from the near future who appeared. He was married to the reformed super villain-turned-superhero Songbird. By then end of the story he also became attached to Rick Jones in the same atom-switching arrangement with the nega-bands that his father had had, swapping places between Earth and the Negative Zone (which was later revealed to really be the Microverse, the home of the Micronauts).<br />
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That series was also significant in Captain Marvel history for a sequence in which alternate-universe/history Avengers, both good and bad, fought each other, revealing several Captain Marvels and their variants.<br />
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In 1999, Genis got his own series again. Written mostly by Peter David the through-line was Rick and Genis having an uneasy relationship as Rick tried to teach him how to adapt to Earth culture and Genis trying to be a superhero. Genis' look had changed at the end of <i>Avengers Forever</i> into the new look he bore in this series.<br />
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The balance of this dynamic was altered when Genis realized that he was omnipotent, but unlike Mar-Vell, he could neither turn his "cosmic awareness" off, nor did he have the maturity to handle it.<br />
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The title carried on with very good stories and art, but was not a top-tier seller. In a big "event" move. Marvel released three new titles, and re-started this <i>Captain Marvel</i> with a new "First Issue." A challenge was made that the title with the best sales would continue and the others would be cancelled. Captain Marvel won handily. However, each issue would show both the number it was from the new "first issue," and the original "first issue."<br />
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Let us now take a break from this Captain Marvel and look at what was happening over at at DC (POWERFUL STUFF)...Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-89304102769821727522019-05-08T03:19:00.003-07:002019-05-08T03:49:35.469-07:00The New Beginning for SHAZAM! (Part 12 of the Blog history of ALL the Captain Marvels!)As we saw in our previous chapter, <i>DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths </i>combined all the heroes on all its alternate universes into one Earth. This enabled them to reboot the entire history of the DC Universe to incorporate the characters of different companies, like Quality and Charlton, that DC had acquired or, like Fawcett, licensed, into one great big world. This meant some interesting shoe-horning and establishing of relationships between characters who had never met before. It also meant that they had to create new versions of their great "trinity" of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Whereas in the previous Multiverse there were older and newer versions of these iconic heroes on different Earths, now all three were established as having first appeared in modern times, while all the other older superheroes were established as just that, older superheroes, and in many cases, inspirations for the new ones.<br />
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I could go on about the significance of this and the nuances and quirks that this created, but we are here to look at just one aspect of this: how it affected the original Captain Marvel.<br />
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Roy Thomas, a big fan of the World's Mightiest Mortal, had a clause in his contract that said that he would get first crack at any new Captain Marvel project. Now was his chance to do what he had always wanted!<br />
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When DC licensed the Big Red Cheese in 1972, it was decided to put him into his own universe, Earth-S, for reasons that included the fact that he was drawn and written so differently from DC's other comics. Now that he was rolled into the regular DC universe, his origin had to be told again. It was told in a four-issue mini-series titled SHAZAM! <i>The New Beginning</i> (April - July 1987)<br />
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In this version, written by (Thomas and drawn by Tom Mandrake), Billy lived in San Francisco; the story began with his (unnamed) parents being killed in an auto accident; Uncle Dudley and Dr. Sivana were both Billy's real uncles; Sivana used his kids, Magnificus and Beautea, to trick Billy into choosing him as his new guardian so he could access Billy's father's assets to help his research (he actually arranged the deaths of Billy's parents); and Sivana managed to summon Black Adam from some other dimension.<br />
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But of all the differences between this version of Billy Batson/Captain Marvel and the original, the most definitive was that when Billy said the magic word to transform, his mind stayed in the hero's body. His personality did not change to that of a grown man. It is this one change that has stuck with all versions of the character since then (with the exceptions of Jeff Smith's and Earth-5, but we will get to that). It has also become the default assumption of this hero's character to this day.<br />
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The effect of this constant personality meant that Billy's passions remained intact when he was a superhero, so his fascination with his new powers affected his initial use of them, and his reaction to meeting Black Adam was that of an enthusiastic juvenile, rather than a grown man with the wisdom of Solomon.<br />
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And of course, this being being a new era of "grim & gritty" comics, Captain Marvel's costume had a lot of dark shadows and his driving motivation was that of a dark avenger. This was a big change from the light-hearted, whimsical stories that had been the hallmark of the Big Red Cheese up until then.<br />
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Fan reaction was mixed. some liked the new look and feel, others did not. Sales numbers, however, were positive; enough, at least to warrant an ongoing series.<br />
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He was a featured hero in the mini-series <i>Legends</i>, written by John Ostrander and Len Wein and drawn by John Byrne, placing him in the forefront of the new lineup of leading superheroes for the new, post-<i>Crisis</i> DC world. He also was a member of the new Justice League team, where his juvenile personality was played for comedy, and the new, "dark avenger" personality was forgotten.<br />
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A new, four-part miniseries dealing with neo-Nazis appeared as a backup in <i>Adventure Comics</i>, with a tag at the end promoting a new <i>SHAZAM!</i> ongoing series.<br />
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There was a regular series planned and plotted by Roy Thomas. Several issues were scripted. Mary Marvel would be a punk chick older than billy and unrelated. Freddy Freeman would be a black teenage boy in a wheelchair.<br />
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The first issue was completely redrawn at least three times, each time by a different artist and each time not coming up to DC standards. Work was done on the next few issues as well, but somehow, DC dropped the ball on this. The project was never completed, and roy thomas' contract expired.<br />
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John Byrne proposed a new series, but it was not picked up. Then Jerry Ordway proposed a new one...<br />
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Coming soon: THE POWER of SHAZAM!<br />
Also: THE LEGACY of GENIS-VELL!<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Another short break from the ongoing saga of the many Captain Marvels to cover this rather important movie in superhero cinema history...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2c1gh-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />Frack you all, you anti-SJW push-backers, claiming that the two most recent Marvel movies would be feminist propaganda! Frack you, those complaining that Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel being the strongest hero in the Marvel Universe would turn her into a Mary Sue and disrespected the God of Thunder. Frack you all for making me have that in my mind as I was experiencing the awesomeness that is <i>Avengers: Endgame</i>!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9vpaf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Frack you all, also, who claim the the movie is just a big pile of contrived fan service. I did not go to the movies tonight to NOT see every hero in the MCU get a well-deserved moment on screen!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4p0-0-0"><span data-text="true">The message of the movie is what the Avengers movies have all been about: teamwork and sacrifice. It is about working together to succeed at an objective. It is about finding the right place for each member of a team according to their abilities. It is about being willing to sacrifice everything and fight to the end if you believe in the objective for which your team is fighting. That is the awesomeness that is <i>Avengers: Endgame</i>!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4p0-0-0"><span data-text="true">For months, now, folks at Marvel were saying that Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel was going to be the most powerful hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. "But what about Thor!?! You are disrespecting him!!!" was the plaintive cry of those who are "sick and tired of all this SJW nonsense in comic books." and claim that the push for "diversity" is killing comics; the "Carl Manvers" haters and Brie Larsen detractors who take offense at being told that a certain movie was not made for "40-year-old white dudes" and just can't get enough of that shot of Don Cheadle pulling away from Brie in that TV interview.<br /><br />Here is a wake up call and analysis of the MCU and this movie and how Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel fits into it:<br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07R21NC3J&asins=B07R21NC3J&linkId=0e009620b98990fc0e08956d7715999b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07QXMVMKC&asins=B07QXMVMKC&linkId=1c3f0649ab1d3eb177a651f71c335f5c&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07QV6VJTZ&asins=B07QV6VJTZ&linkId=883777c3ff9e12a80112963ba2959649&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07JMXW12M&asins=B07JMXW12M&linkId=2aac50af8e1b019564a7f98bd4af8d2d&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07PYMSVCC&asins=B07PYMSVCC&linkId=5824d54df9dfe3419f004f00ed8f1250&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br />The MCU needed a Superman. Thor is not a Superman, because he is too flawed. He had been a flawed character from the beginning, and his journey has been one of self-discovery. Growing up he was so strong and so mighty in a culture that valued being strong and mighty that he could do no wrong. But from his very first movie on, the way to make something a challenge for him was to get him to fall victim to his pride and doubt himself. By the time the story truly begins in <i>A:E</i>, he has truly lost all his mojo because he failed, big time. It was perfectly within his character for him to react that way, and that made him more human, more entertaining, and his recovery more heroic. His heroic story arc is about earning his power by learning humility and overcoming depression.<br /><br />Carol Danvers' story arc is about realizing her power in a culture that does not value women for being strong and mighty, and her independence in a culture that is subservient to the will of an authoritarian dictatorship. Her knock-downs are not blows to her pride, but rather challenges to her might. For dramatic satisfaction, the Superman that this movie needed needed had to be one that was a surprise to Thanos and a surprise to the audience. Who'da thunk that out of nowhere, from the far corner of the universe, would come a woman with the power of a star who can take a punch like no other superhero can?<br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07P76GTJR&asins=B07P76GTJR&linkId=fcc9926f292731608fea072cf2718e46&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07CLGV76S&asins=B07CLGV76S&linkId=3ac2670b70f05a46a5468b9d5c4f9a8b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=1787730131&asins=1787730131&linkId=55a4d42233d3d02a4af6baf74f243f3e&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07CKNQGLN&asins=B07CKNQGLN&linkId=a81a4fb6898c3a4ebd0fa124d90eac9f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07Q63KBD3&asins=B07Q63KBD3&linkId=d688a3b88575ee5e7ef9435e1c28896f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br />Now the universe is facing a threat even more challenging than Superman's Doomsday in the DC Universe. Thanos is not only big, strong, and nigh-invulnerable, he is also brilliant, determined and erudite. He also leads a huge army of alien monsters and demons and things. He also has a spaceship capable of raining fire onto the surface of a planet. Even putting every Avenger on the table, along with the combined might of Wakanda, Asgard, and the Masters of the Mystic Arts, is not going to stop that. So they need a game-changing, field-clearing superpower who is super-strong, can fly, and is invulnerable, and does not have the issues of pride and self-doubt that plague Thor whom Thanos has not yet faced and for which he is unprepared.<br /><br />Besides, we have seen plenty of movies in which Thor gets all thunder-godly and saves the day. It's good to mix it up once in a while. And just because there is a great and powerful female superhero in DC's cinematic universe does not mean that Marvel should not have one. And just because Wonder Woman manages to pull of elegance, style and glamour does not mean that having a butch, kick-ass chick with short hair who wears dress pants to a funeral is a bad thing. My girlfriend loves her, and is making a renaissance outfit styled after her costume. And as a blonde, I like having a superhero with hair like mine.<br /><br />Having a character with her power-set means that you can have people stranded in space being rescued by a superhero. You can have someone fly through a giant spacecraft to blow it up. You can have someone who Thanos cannot defeat simply by punching in the face.<br /><br />And she has had powers like that for a long time in the comics. Get over it.<br /><br />But won't such a character just make the fight too easy? Well, no. Because this character has been off helping the rest of the universe while Earth's Mightiest Heroes have been serving and protecting Earth. Therefore, she is not on the spot when such a character would have solved all their problems lickety-split (which is kind of a shame, because I wanted to see more of her in this movie). Also, Thanos is tough and smart enough to keep it from being too easy for her, even if he is initially taken by surprise.<br /><br />Furthermore, Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet are more than just a big, strong alien with a weapon, and she lacks certain attributes and abilities that turn out to be the final gag that saves the day and wraps up the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe Epic up in a perfect full-circle payoff.<br /><br />And just because there is a moment when all the female heroes in the battle assemble and step up to the plate to advance the task at hand does not make this "feminist propaganda," nor is it a "Mary Sue" moment. Every single one of those characters had been established to have abilities, went through heck to get there, and were indispensable for the task at hand.<br /><br />And is that moment, and every Carol Danvers moment, contrived fan service targeted at the feminist market? Well sure! And why the frack should that not be part of a movie in which every element of every Marvel movie up 'till now gets a moment to be noticed, recognized, and advance the story? There are fans of Marvel movies, of superheroes, of comic books, who like seeing females save the day. There are girls and women who want their heroes to have chromosomes like them, who want to see that women can also have superpowers, that they can play with the big boys if they really want to. Just about every other fan demographic was served in this movie, why not this one?</span></span></div>
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We are fans of these heroes, much like sports fans are of their favorite teams. We live and die with these heroes, and laugh and cry as they go through their ups and downs. It is fiction, of course, but when the projector is running, and the pages are turning, the "It's still real to me" pro wrestling dynamic.</div>
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I am a big sports fan, particularly of my NY Teams, the Yankees, Giants, Rangers, Knicks, and whatever is the NYC team of whatever short-lived alternate sports league happens to be open this week. In 1986, the NY Giants had a dramatic, near-perfect season that took them all the way to the Super Bowl, where they won their first NFL championship in over two decades.<br />
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That Super bowl was an almost perfect game for a Giants fan. It started out pretty even, going back and forth between them and their opponents, the Denver Broncos (with future Hall of Famer John Elway). But Phil Sims had the game of his life, and everyone on the team had a moment to pitch in and shine. Running backs Joe Morris, Maurice Carthon, Ottis Anderson, and Lee Rouson, tight ends Mark Bavaro and Zeke Mowatt, linebackers Lawrence Taylor and Carl Banks, defensive end Harry Carson, wide receiver/kick returner Phil McConkey, nose tackle Jim Burt, offensive lineman Brad Benson, even the punter Sean Landeta and kicker Raoul Allegre (one of three kickers they had that season) and late-season addition safety Tom Flynn got in on the action either in the Big Game or the playoffs. I got total fan service for all my favorite players that day!<br />
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Not to mention, of course, that I got the ultimate in fan service: A Super Bowl victory that paid off a decade and a half of disappointments as they went from hapless to hopeful and back again year after year.<br />
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This movie is the Super Bowl of superhero movies. It is the championship game, the big kahuna, an all-the-marbles, blow the works, shoot the moon, no-tomorrow, apocalyptic blowout in this ever-gun-brought-to-bear, every-trick-in-the-book-played, nothing-left-on-the-table-or-in-the-gas-tank, finale, and only after every possible option is explored and every opportunity taken, do we finally get to the one last, best, but only hope, and that could only be the most perfect conclusion that the past 12 years of movies have set us up for.<br />
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It would have been interesting to see more of how society was adapting to the sudden drop in population. The bar for how to do multi-character superhero battles in terms of clarity, drama, and pace was set in <i>Captain America: Civil War</i>, and for all the epic scope and fan service, it is not matched here, though it is still exciting and awesome and not to be missed. Some of the CGI is a little distracting, looking a little unreal, as if they needed to take another few passes with it to look real next to real-life actors. I do want to mention that it was great to see that Jim Starlin, who created Thanos, get a little cameo, that Stan Lee's cameo is awesome, and that it was interesting seeing which characters had their creators acknowledged and which did not in the credits.<br />
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So, in sum, frack the critics and haters, if you want to see the championship game of superhero movies, go see this!<br />
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Oh, and for those who are counting, here is a breakdown of screentime for most of the major characters from <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1119712/Avengers-4-Endgame-okoye-screentime-poster-danai-gurira-black-panther-2">https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1119712/Avengers-4-Endgame-okoye-screentime-poster-danai-gurira-black-panther-2</a>:<br />
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Iron Man: 1hr 2mins</div>
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Captain America: 1hr 6mins</div>
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Thor: 45mins</div>
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Hulk: 40mins</div>
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Black Widow: 33mins</div>
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Hawkeye: 37mins</div>
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War Machine: 35mins</div>
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Ant-Man 38mins</div>
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Nebula: 41mins</div>
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Rocket: 36mins</div>
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Captain Marvel: 15mins</div>
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Valkyrie: 8mins</div>
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Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-78444900018669681452019-05-01T04:12:00.005-07:002019-08-23T06:20:38.777-07:00SHAZAM's WORLD'S FINEST CRISIS! (History of ALL Captain Marvels Part 11)Back in <a href="https://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-true-history-of-shazam-and-all.html">Part 5</a> we saw how DC licensed the original Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family from the still-extant Fawcett Publications. When last we left our hero, his book had been cancelled right at the start of the "DC Implosion" and he had been relegated to the back of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Finest_Comics">World's Finest</a></i>, a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_Comics">DC Dollar</a>" anthology book.<br />
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In those pages <a href="http://donnewton.com/">Don Newton</a> did the art and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Nelson_Bridwell">E. Nelson Bridwell</a> wrote the stories under the editing of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_C._Harris">Jack C. Harris</a>. Many parts of Marvel Family canon were explored.<br />
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It was revealed that the wizard Shazam had been a superhero named "Champion" thousands of years ago, with his own fictional "proto-semitic" pantheon that gave him powers when he spoke the magic word "Vlarem!" (unscramble that to find out where World's Mightiest Mortal got his name). Together, he and Captain Marvel put the Rock of Eternity into its place.<br />
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Freddy Freeman found that he was actually the brother of Christopher "Kit" Freeman a.k.a. Kid Eternity, a young hero from Quality Comics who had been acquired by DC and rolled into the Marvel Family's universe. Interestingly, Kid Eternity had been created by Otto Binder, the prolific writer who had written more than half the stories of Marvel Family characters for Fawcett.<br />
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Mr. Tawny discovered that the serum that gave him the ability to speak had also slowly transformed him physiologically until he was so human-like, it was difficult to walk like a tiger.<br />
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The "power of Zeus," long undefined (except in that he was the one who delivered the transformational lightning), was revealed to be an augmentation of the powers of the all the elders (wisdom, strength, stamina, etc), thus enabling certain abilities that were not strictly the named powers, such as flight and invulnerability.<br />
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Even the brocade on the capes of the Marvel family was brought into play, as someone mentioned that "moley" (As in Billy Batson's frequently-used expression "holy moley") was a plant with "little yellow flowers."<br />
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Eventually, DC cancelled its DC Dollar Comics line. SHAZAM! stories continued as a backup feature in <i>Adventure Comics</i> for a while, then in April, 1985, DC began their <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i> "12-Issue Maxi-Series." The object of this was to "simplify" the DC Universe.<br />
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Here is a little backstory on the original DC Multiverse:<br />
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DC's original cast of superheroes had mostly ceased publication by the 1950's. As we have seen, in 1956 the Flash was re-invented with a new costume, a new alter ego, and a new "secret origin." He was such a hit that DC decided to reboot its entire superhero line. They would keep some characters largely the same (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman), alter the costumes, powers, origins, and alter egos of others (The Flash, Green Lantern, the Atom, Red Tornado), create some brand new heroes (Martian Manhunter, Adam Strange, Captain Comet). A couple of heroes who had already existed (Green Arrow and Aquaman) continued to exist largely unchanged with these new and newly-interpreted heroes. This world continued as the main superhero world of which stories were told in DC Comics.<br />
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But what happened to the original heroes, including the ones who were not re-booted or re-invented, like Dr. Fate, Hourman, Mr. Terrific, Wildcat, and Johnny Thunder? It turned out that they still existed, along with their pre-reboot comrades, but in an alternate universe existing on a different "vibratory plane." This was discovered by the new Flash (Barry Allen) when he traveled to the world of the original Flash (Jay Garrick). Because the new Flash had discovered the world of the old one, his world was called "Earth-1" and the one with the older heroes was called "Earth-2." This world appeared from time to time in special stories uniting the Justice Society of America (The original DC superhero team) and the Justice League of America (the new superhero team).<br />
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It was later revealed that there was an "Earth-3," whose versions of superheroes were really super-villains, Supeman being called "Ultraman," Wonder Woman "Superwoman," and Batman "Owlman," for instance.<br />
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When DC acquired the superhero characters of Quality Comics (Uncle Sam, Black Condor, the Ray, Doll Man, Phantom Lady, Human Bomb, etc) they placed them on "Earth-X," a world where the Nazis won World War II.<br />
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So when DC revived Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, they put them on their own world Earth-S (for SHAZAM!).<br />
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Our world (in which the writers and artists of DC Comics created all these stories) was even a part of this "multiverse," known as "Earth Prime."<br />
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By 1985, the folks at DC decided that having all all these worlds was confusing to the readers, hence <i>Crisis</i>. The story was a massive, sprawling epic that crossed over into almost every DC comic book. By the time it was all done, all the worlds in the multiverse (including a brand new one on which the recently acquired superheroes from Charlton Comics, Blue Beetle, The Question, Peacemaker, Judo Master, Captain Atom, etc, resided) were merged into one. The fictional history of these characters was re-written. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and most of the characters of Earths 1, X, and S, and the Charlton heroes, began their careers contemporaneously in the present day. The original superheroes of Earth 2 began their careers in the 1930's and '40's, corresponding with their original creations. DC's "Trinity," however (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) began their careers in the modern day, and were retconned to not have existed in the early days, and their origins were re-written with a few tweaks here and there.<br />
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So, with this new, combined universe, the Big Red Cheese was given an all-new origin story...<br />
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NEXT: The New Beginning!<br />
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<br />Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-89659096098553064632019-04-17T07:26:00.004-07:002019-04-17T13:15:17.577-07:00About the amnesia in Marvel's "Captain Marvel" (Carol Danvers) movie (Part 3 of 4 about the movie)Having covered the plot of the film and many of its references, symbolisms, and messages, it's time to address just a some specific issues in and about the film.<br />
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<b>The Amnesia Thing</b><br />
From the very beginning of this movie, Vers/Carol Danvers has a memory problem. She cannot remember anything before she was rescued by the Kree from a crash site a few years ago. Overcoming that amnesia was a key plot point, and a motivating factor in her actions the closer she got to her past.<br />
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In the comics, Carol Danvers actually had quite a bit of experience with memory failure, so making amnesia a key characteristic of her character in the movie is not completely out of...character.<br />
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<i>The Carol/Ms. Marvel Split Personality</i><br />
The first time she had memory issues was right when Ms. Marvel first appeared in 1977 (<i>Ms. Marvel</i> #1). Here came this new superhero, beating up bank robbers and throwing cars around, but she had no memory of her past or who she was. Then Carol Danvers showed up at the offices of the Daily bugle to start work as the new Editor-in-Chief of <i>Woman</i> magazine. But then at some point she would pass out, and the next thing you knew, Ms. Marvel was beating up the Scorpion or some other super villain was throwing her around by her scarf while she was having existential discussions with that villain about her identity.<br />
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It turned out that Carol Danvers had developed a split personality. This was supposed to represent the dichotomy of the female/feminist experience, ad the Modern woman tried to reconcile the desire for equality with the female identity.<br />
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But having a super-powerful, schizophrenic, feminist superhero did not go over too well. The letters pages showed a lot of sentiment against this concept. So writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Conway">Gerry Conway</a>, despite crediting his wife with a lot of assistance, was replaced by <a href="http://www.chrisclaremont.com/">Chris Claremont</a>, who guided the stories to a reconciliation and unification of the two personalities before even the belly cut-out on her costume was patched over (I mean, a feminist icon with her belly button showing? Really?)<br />
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There is, then a parallel (if tenuous) between Carol Danvers getting super powers and losing her memory. When she was a Kree hero, "Vers" had no memory of a past life as an Earthling, just like how Ms. Marvel, a product of Kree science and DNA, had no memory of her Earthling self. I wonder if that is where the writers got the idea? I have to track them down and find out.<br />
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<i>Rogue</i><br />
The second time she lost her memory was was when she ran into the mutant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_%28comics%29">Rogue</a>. This was before the character became an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men">X-Man</a> and the action originally happened off-camera (it was later drawn up and seen in a quarterly anthology book and the Ms. Marvel Essential Edition and Mrvel Masterworks Ms. Marvel #2).<br />
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Rogue's mutant ability was to absorb people's memories and super powers by physical contact. The trouble is, if she holds the contact too long, the transfer becomes permanent. That's what happened here. This is why in the comics, Rogue can fly, is super-strong, invulnerable, etc.<br />
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But this left Carol in a powerless, infantile state. She was rescued by Spider-Woman, who then took her to Professor X (founder of the X-Men) who helped her rebuild her memories. She stayed with the X-Men for a time, joining them in an adventure in outer space, in the course of which, new powers literally exploded out of her.<br />
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These powers were drawn from the energy of a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole">white hole</a>," (a theoretical but thus far undiscovered cosmic thing that is in some way the opposite of a black hole) giving here the ability to use and focus the energy of a star, including space flight and photon blasts. This was much like what we see from Carol Danvers at the climactic space-battle scene in this movie.<br />
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These powers were released as a result of experiments done on her by an alien race called <a href="https://www.writeups.org/brood-marvel-comics-x-men-sleazoids/">the Brood</a>, followed by a moment of extreme physical stress, and thus there is a connection to the movie. We don't know how much was actually done to Carol Danvers when she was picked up by the Kree, but she does have an inhibitor device on her neck and she is told to keep things under control. It is when she gets rid of the inhibitor and is plummeting to the Earth that her full power potential is finally awakened.<br />
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<i>The <a href="http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/psychemagnitron.htm">Psyche-Magnitron</a> Tumor</i><br />
As we should all know by now, the original source of Carol's super powers was Kree DNA m passed from Mar-Vell to her when he tried to protect her from the radiation of an exploding Kree machine known as a psyche-magnitron (this origin story has been retcon-tweaked to add the fact that her mother was Kree, but that was not published until the eve of the movie's release, sand is irrelevant to this point).<br />
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Before production started for the movie, there was a storyline in the <i>Captain Marvel</i> comic book in which it was discovered that there was a fragment of the machine in her brain, creating a tumor that grew as she used her powers. Unfortunately, villains from her past kept popping up, forcing her to use her powers more often. It turned out that this was a plot by Yon-Rogg, Mar-Vell's old rival in the Kree military, who had been disgraced and defeated by Mar-Vel in the incident that led to the aforementioned explosion.<br />
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In the climax of the story, Captain Marvel saved the day by flying up to stop a Kree city from landing on New York. The effort she expended caused the tumor to rupture, damaging the memory centers of her brain. This gave her complete amnesia again.<br />
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By this time, Carol Danvers had gained the friendship of Kit Renner, the daughter of her neighbor, who had the nickname of "Lieutenant Trouble." She helped her gain back her memories by sharing with her the story of her life, which she had written and drawn into a book herself.<br />
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In the <i>Captain Marvel</i> movie, "Lieutenant Trouble" was Monica Rambeau, the young daughter of Maria "Photon" Rambeau, Carol Danver's best friend and fellow fighter pilot. She had been very close with Carol before the event in which she lost her memory and was taken in by the Kree, and helped her in accomplishing the mission she set for herself to climax the movie. this is consistent with the relationship between Carol and "Lt. Trouble" in the comics.<br />
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<i>Coming soon:</i><br />
<i>Thoughts on the character of MAr-Vell in the Comics and the movie, and about the female and feminist issues.</i><br />
<i>ALSO: we will resume our Blog History of the many Captain Marvels with </i>SHAZAM! The New Beginning!Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-60338280336860642502019-04-05T13:38:00.000-07:002019-04-05T13:38:25.413-07:00SHAZAM! MOVIE REVIEW VIDEO! (extempore, no spoilers)Here is my on-the-spot review of the movie <i>SHAZAM!</i> I will probably write something more thorough with spoilers later.<br />
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We will finish up our <i>Captain Marvel</i> (Carol Danvers) movie review first.Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-33522614741178338962019-04-04T11:45:00.000-07:002019-04-08T23:35:37.386-07:00The Marvelous Miracleman! Part 10 of the Blog history of the many Captain Marvels!<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=189390511X&asins=189390511X&linkId=a3829ee2ab81a6d9ebece03d87c362c1&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; text-align: center; width: 120px;"></iframe><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=1916493904&asins=1916493904&linkId=21dca6bea778dfd2450c899b5ac01789&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; text-align: center; width: 120px;"></iframe><span style="text-align: center;"> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0785154620&asins=0785154620&linkId=6bf95214ff8a4c2dd55e344987816d6a&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0785154647&asins=0785154647&linkId=172b7baa2bed083a14b610fdc8a3d1bf&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0785154663&asins=0785154663&linkId=7ba1d7e86a9b05156ba977e32c6d1a7f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">When last we left our Hero, Marvelman,<br /><br />Skinn shopped around his package of characters to various US comic book companies, but the name "Marvelman" and the letters from Marvel's attorneys kept getting in the way of closing a deal. It was decided to change the hero's name, and Alan Moore came up with "Miracleman," a name he had used before. Under this name, the property was sold to Eclipse Comics in September 1984, and the first issue of <i>Miracleman</i> appeared with a cover date of August 1985.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;">The series began by reprinting all that had appeared in <i>Warrior</i>, through issue #7, and (after complicated contractual dealings) Alan Moore picked up the story with #8. However, a flood destroyed the all-new art for that issue, so it became a fill-in issue with reprints of old L. Miller and Son-era stories. #9 began the all-new material, featuring a graphic, anatomically accurate telling of the birthing of the child of Miracleman by Mike Moran's wife.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;">This was highly controversial, as were future issues that wrapped up the Kid Marvelman conflict in issue #15. In that issue t</span><span style="text-align: center;">he entire city of London was razed to the ground in the climactic battle between hero and villain, with the inevitable and terrible deaths of thousands of civilians. A horrifying two-page spread by artist John Totleben showed the results of unfettered superpowers in battle in a realistic world.<br /><br />Alan Moore finished his story arc and left the title on issue #16, which finally came out in 1989. replaced by Neil Gaiman (who got some share of the character rights in the deal). The stories continued into a series of stories world run by Marvelman as a benevolent super-powered dictator called the "Age of Miracles" (ironic, seeing as how this was a play on the "replacement" name for the hero). Eventually, however, the book was cancelled and for different reasons, Eclipse Comics went under.</span><br />
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Comics writer/artist Todd McFarland, creator of "Spawn," bought all the rights and properties of Eclipse Comic at auction , and believed the rights to Miracleman were included. But the complicated rights-sharing agreement established between Dez Skinn and the various writers and artists of the character was apparently still in play. Lengthy wrangling between the players involved ensued, which can be tracked by their various statements in interviews over the years. <br />
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Somewhere in there L. Miller and Son dissolved itself, with no documentation assigning the rights to Marvelman to anyone.</div>
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Eventually, Marvel Comics came into the picture. To make a very long and complicated story short, they paid Mick Anglo, the creator of the original Marvelman, ostensibly for the rights to the character, came to some sort of agreement with any other parties that may have had rights claims to the revived version of him, and most all the interested parties now accept that Marvel Comics owns both versions of Marvelman/Miracleman.<br />
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Starting in 2010, Marvel Comics began reprinting the original L. Miller and Son Marvelman, Young Marvelman, and Marvelman family stories, but stopped after a few albums They have also completely reprinted all the "Miracleman" material available, including some unpublished material from the end of the run.<br />
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Much of the information in this post was drawn from the website and book <a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/poisoned-chalice-part-11-the-twilight-of-eclipse/">"The Poisoned Chalice"</a> by <a class="vcard author" href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/author/test/" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b23617; font-family: "Germania One"; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><span class="fn" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pádraig Ó Méalóid</span></span></a></div>
Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-85918399498956549442019-04-01T02:54:00.000-07:002019-04-08T23:45:13.041-07:00Marvel's "Captain Marvel" Carol Danvers movie review (Part 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let's see, where were we...Oh yes, talking about the gender-switch of Mar-Vell.<br />
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There is a very important message in the film that the gender-switch enables, but there was another, non-gender-specific change to the character. I will cover later these later, as they are important factors in evaluating the film as a whole.<br />
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Vers breaks free from her imprisonment and proves to be a kick-ass badass. Though her hands are encased in giant cuffs that are blocking her photon blasts, she used the cuffs themselves as weapons, punching and kicking her way through a platoon of Skrulls.<br />
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In the course of her escape she crashes to Earth, landing through the roof of a Blockbister video, and the 1990's nostalgia and Easter Eggs begin. The very name of the store, of course, evokes what this movie will be once it goes to video. In the store she happens to pick up a box for the movie <i>The Right Stuff</i> obviously evoking her space travelling personae, referencing her Air Force test pilot past, and suggesting that she has the...you know...to be a hero. But behind her right shoulder we see the movies <i>First Knight</i> (which must be a reference to her leading position in StarForce) and <i>Hook</i> (which might be a reference to her forgetting, and later remembering, who she was when she was younger).<br />
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The loudest symbolic metaphorical element of the scene, however, is her blasting the head off of Arnold Schwarzenegger in a <i>True Lies</i> standee display. As we find out by the end of the movie, there are several layers of deception going on, and Vers has to peel them back, one by one, to find out who she is.<br />
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Once outside the store, Vers meets with a local security guard, where we find out she has a "universal translator" and that she does not yet know that Earth (referred to by an alpha-numeric code designation) does not know that the Kree or the Skrulls exist. Moments later, we find out that she can use items found in a Radio Shack to turn a pay phone into an interstellar communications device, just like the extra-terrestrial in <i>E.T. </i>(which is technically a 1980's reference, but we still remembered it in the '90's).<br />
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Enter Samuel L. Fury.<br />
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Many reviews call this a "buddy cop" movie. There are actually quite a few "buddy" teams in this movie, each with a slightly different dynamic. It is almost as if this entire movie is about "buddies." These two-fers include:<br />
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Vers/Yon-Rogg<br />
Carol Danvers/Wendy Lawson<br />
Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau<br />
Carol Danvers/Monica Rambeau<br />
Nick Fury/Goose the Flerkin<br />
Talos/"Science Guy"<br />
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But the characters that spend the most "buddy" time together are Vers and Fury. They seem to have a sort of professional connection, being as they both have military experience and are employed in a combination military/law-enforcement capacity. This has to go a long way in explaining why they stick together for the rest of the film, otherwise, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that they do.<br />
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But then, there are a few bunches of things that don't quite make sense in this movie. Or do they? In the course of the film, Vers rides a motorcycle, finds an internet cafe and uses Alta Vista to search for something, reads road maps and secret government reports, looks up files, and does other things that you would not expect someone who needs a "universal translator" to be able to do on Earth. But then, we haven't gotten to the big reveal yet, have we?<br />
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Vers, having landed on Earth in her Kree Battlesuit, swaps it out for a leather jacket/jeans/Nine Inch Nails T-shirt ensemble (I am sure someone more familiar with that band can share the symbolic significance of that shirt). She and Fury hit the road, have a bunch of exposition in which we learn a whole lot of backstory (that we might not have expected unless Wonder Woman had her lasso of truth around him) and wind up sneaking around an underground S.H.I.E.L.D. base finding secret reports that show that "Dr. Wendy Lawson" was working on a special space-plane and died in a crash. They also find that Maria Rambeau, whom Vers had been seeing in her dreams, was involved in the project, and that Vers herself had been there, too.<br />
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This gives us the plot turn that gets us to the biggest "fan service" that is unique to Marvel's Captain marvel in their cinematic universe: Monica Rambeau.<br />
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In the comics, Mar-Vell dies of cancer in a graphic novel published in 1982 some years after exposure to a toxic gas. This meant that the "Captain Marvel" trademark now had no character to hold it.<br />
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By this time in America, if any group of five or so portrayed in the media did not include least one woman and one black person it was extremely behind the times. Marvel did not have many female superheros and even fewer black ones, and only one who was both, and she wasn't even American. So it was decided to make the new Captain Marvel an American black female.<br />
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This is Monica Rambeau's place in the Captain Marvel history. The fourth superhero of the name, the second one in the third company to publish a Captain Marvel. She was a strong, smart, beautiful black woman whom even Captain America trusted enough to make leader of the Avengers. She kind of got screwed over later, being replaced as leader of the Avengers and essentially forgotten as the name passed to another character and she changed her superhero name to "Photon."<br />
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Lashana Lynch's connection to Monica Rambeau had been made apparent from promotional photos showing her in the cockpit of a jet fighter displaying the name and callsign Maria "Photon." Rambeau. The assumption that she was Monica's mother was quickly and correctly made by the fan community, and speculation arose as to where Monica would fit in.<br />
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After a fun chase-and-fight scene that revealed that Fury's boss (Ben Mendelsohn) is really a shape-shifting Skrull, and that Vers can fly a "quad-jet" (presumably a precursor to the Avengers' Quinjet), Fury and Vers make their way to the home of Maria Rambeau and her daughter, Monica. It is in this act of the movie that Vers gets to deal emotionally with the issue of having been Carol Danvers and having had a life on Earth. Maria was a very close friend, and Carol even used to call her daughter "Lieutenant trouble," (a not to a character in the recent Captain Marvel comics written by Kelly Sue Deconnick in which there as a young girl given that nickname by Carol).<br />
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It is also in this act in which we get to know the Skrulls as surprisingly human and vulnerable people. Talos and his "Science Guy" show themselves as a flawed team of semi-competents and that there is a boatload of Skrull refugees hiding out somewhere, trying to get to a safe planet.<br />
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Oh, and BTW, Fury met a cat named "Goose" at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base who tags along with them, and the Skrulls call it a "Flerken," a thing of danger.<br />
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After a little bit of 90's nostalgia of waiting for a CD-ROM file to load, Carol finds out that Mar-Vell's research was in part to help those Skrull refugees and overall to make a new lightspeed engine out of the power of the teseract that could end the war between the Kree and the Skrulls. Vers has the necessary flashbacks to remember her life before she was a test pilot, that an explosion of Mar-Vell's experimental engine had bathed her in radiation that gave her super powers, and that Mar-Vell was shot by Yon-Rogg.<br />
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This reveal both pays tribute and turns on its head the comic book origins of Marvel's Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers as a superhero. It also finally gives Yon-Rogg what he always wanted but never achieved in the comics.<br />
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Yon-Rogg's jealousy of Mar-Vell was the guiding motivation in all his actions while Mar-Vell was under his command as a spy on Earth. He tried to kill him, either directly or by proxy, on a regular basis. It was practically the plot device of default for the first year of the character's existence. But he never succeeded, eventually sabotaging his own career. In an issue of Marvel's <i>What If...? </i>Yon-Rogg not only threw away his career, but his life as well trying to do away with his rival for Medic Una's attention and and honor and recognition from the Supreme Intelligence. But in this movie he managed to get the upper hand on Mar-Vell, both by killing her and by stealing her friend/protege and making that person a Kree soldier/weapon.<br />
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The explosion in question, in the comics, was of a Kree device activated by Yon-Rogg called a "psyce-magnitron." Mar-Vell rescued her from that explosion, protecting her with his body, a move that was later retroactively explained as allowing Kree DNA to be absorbed into her body (This is called "retroactive continuity" or a "retcon" in comic book fan/historian parlance). It was a secret device, retconned into having the power to enable people to realize their desires. In the movie the explosion was of a cosmic power source harnessed into an engine by Mar-Vell, activated by Carol Danvers shooting it to prevent Yon-Rogg from getting his hands on it t Mar-Vell's urging.<br />
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This places the event that gave Carol her powers the result of her own action and an act for which only she can take responsibility. It was not an accidental incident. Though she had no way of knowing what would happen, she could have chosen not to pull the trigger on her gun. She could have run and tried to not get killed or captured by the approaching alien (Yon-Rogg, whom she had not yet met). She could have chosen not to take Mar-Vell (whom she only knew as Wendy Lawson at the time) up on the irregular, unauthorized test flight. She could have chosen to give up the Air Force Academy when it looked like she couldn't take the training. She could have chosen not to join the academy, not get up when brushed back by that pitch in Little League, not driven the kiddie go-kart so fast. But that is not her. She gets up, she fights back.<br />
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This is consistent with her character in the comics. The reason she still exists as a superhero, and what makes her important and a good choice for a character to lead the surviving Avengers in the battle against Thanos, why she is (finally) a good female role model, is that no matter how bleak things have looked for her (and things have been pretty darn bleak, believe me), she somehow, eventually, came back took responsibility, and did something about it.<br />
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I don't have time to go point-by-point on the many setbacks of her life and career, but believe me, you would be hard pressed to find someone who has taken the type of risks and come back from as many and as deep personal low points as Carol Danvers. So maverick-ly helping a ground-breaking scientist and blowing up a secret energy source are not the toughest things she has ever done.<br />
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But it does take Mar-Vell out of the equation as a direct source of her powers. She is an indirect source, as Carol would not have been in that predicament without her, but she does not protect her from the explosion, rather drives her to the act that causes it. Yon-Rogg gives her more than that, directly. A transfusion of his blood was given that may have saved her life (hence the blue blood she bleeds through the movie). The Kree soldier becomes the mentor/trainer/superior officer to the young female amnesiac he "rescues" from that explosion, in the process becoming a big, fat, liar. He used her to try to find what Mar-Vell was hiding, what she was doing on Earth. It was definitely a long-term game (taking 6 years of Earth time) but in the end, in the movie, as in the comics, his plot backfired. "Vers" (the name given to her because that part of her name was all that was visible on the fragment of her Air Force dog tag that the Yon-Rogg found) became a super-powered, highly trained warrior who decided to defend the Earth and help the Skrull refugees.<br />
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The rest of the movie is a series of reveals, including the location of the Skrull refugees (in a hideout that had a remarkably, ironically, symbolically metaphorical collection of American pass-time devices, from pinball machines to jukeboxes to super-soakers) collection, the plots and plans of Yon-Rogg and Ronan the Accuser, The truth behind the Flerken, how Nick Fury lost his eye, the origin of the Avengers Initiative, the fact that the device on Carol's neck was an inhibitor, not an enabler, and the full extent of Carol's powers.<br />
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The emotional payoffs to all the setups is worth it. Maria and Monica and Carol have an emotional reunion of sorts when Carol's memory returns, Maria gets to go into battle with her old, returned friend. Monica gets to help Carol decide on the colors for her Kree Battlesuit (paying fan service to other Captain Marvel costumes in the process), and Yon-Rogg gets his comeuppance from the final final defiance of him by Carol.<br />
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A few final thoughts about this movie will come in the next post...<br />
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For those of you who want to see a whole bunch of Easter Eggs and references in once convenient, fast-paced video, check this out...<br />
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Apparently, many of these people have been saying that the movie would bomb, then that the great opening weekend was rigged, then that the downturn on Monday, and then the following weekend, proved that the movie and its message was not popular.<br />
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ScreenJunkies (who did not give the movie a stellar review) decided to do the research and figure out if there was any truth to these report of Disney doing things like buying out theaters and scheduling the release to maximize ticket sales to make it look like a successful movie when it would not be, among other things.<br />
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Without further ado, let's hear what he has to say...<br />
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...and on a note relevant to this blog, this is just one more piece of evidence that there is a Captain Marvel connected to EVERYTHING!Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-21088674270934652282019-03-24T15:00:00.001-07:002019-03-24T15:35:35.931-07:00Marvel's "Captain Marvel" Carol Danvers movie review (Part 1)<iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07P68CT1Q&asins=B07P68CT1Q&linkId=d8056bdac74d249d5351bb77c8ff3e1c&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=watchthissp0b-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B07DFLZRW5&asins=B07DFLZRW5&linkId=db462f2d609e176b21c867d579e447e7&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; 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After all the fuss and sturm und drang regarding this movie, let me say: This movie was not what you feared. It is a good, exciting, superhero movie/'90's nostalgia film that you can enjoy without even having read any of the comics or seeing any of the other Marvel movies.<br />
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That being said let's get into this. SPOILER ALERT! This is going to be a full-service review/analysis, so if you are one of those "Don't tell me! The introductory paragraph to this post was too much already!" people, stop now and read my "Spoiler Free" review at <a href="http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/03/spoiler-free-marvels-captain-marvel.html">http://captainmarvelculture.blogspot.com/2019/03/spoiler-free-marvels-captain-marvel.html</a><br />
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<i>Captain Marvel</i> follows the story of an alien Kree warrior named Vers (pronounced "veers") as she discovers her true origin and power when she spends time on Earth.<br />
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If you knew nothing about the character, and that this movie was part of the Great Marvel Cinematic Universe, that would actually make for a pretty good movie. A few little things could have been left out, but they were mostly amusing in context.<br />
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But such is the way with Marvel superhero movies, and part of the fun of them is to see them in context and get all those little references. But even so, even with those little things, there should be a good movie behind it, and this is a good movie. It is even a good superhero movie, and it has an important, if not unfamiliar message. But this message has not been spelled out quite this obviously and relateably as in other superhero movies yet.<br />
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But aside from being a superhero movie, the other big, important characteristic of this movie is that it is a 1990's nostalgia piece. As such there are many 1990's references made, but to the movie's credit, those references (for the most part) enhance the themes, plot, mood, and characters of the movie. There are a few throw-away jokes as well, but at least they fit within the scope and parameters of the film-making.<br />
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The story begins with us getting to know Vers (Brie Larsen). She is a warrior with a strike team of the Kree intergalactic empire who has mysterious dreams that are probably about her past, which she can't remember. The Kree have a thing called "The Supreme Intelligence," which seems to be the consciousness of the ruling faction of the empire. It might be some sort of psychic artificial intelligence, because one communes with it by being connected to blue organic wires that tap into your body, and you speak to an avatar that is supposed to be someone you feel you can trust, or something.<br />
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She is being trained and led by an officer named Yon-Rogg (Jude Law. The character's name is not mentioned until well past the halfway mark of the movie). He keeps on telling her to control her emotions in many different ways as it seems she has some kind of superpower of "photon blasts" she can shoot with her fists. They appear to be enabled by a gadget stuck to the back of her neck.<br />
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In the course of a military extraction operation gone bad against their mortal enemies, the shape-shifting Skrulls, she gets captured and her memories are tapped, revealing a life growing up on Earth, constantly being told that she cannot do things, from kiddie go-kart races to obstacle courses in Air Force training. But these dreams also reveal who Mar-Vell (Marvel Comics' first Captain Marvel) is: a Dr. Wendy Lawson (Annette Benning), a Kree in disguise on Earth as a jet plane researcher/designer for the US Air Force and/or S.H.I.E.L.D.<br />
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At this point it is important to start pointing out the differences between the movie and the comics.<br />
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Movie adaptations of comic books and comic book superheroes always have to make changes because the media won't tell the same story to the same effect. Some such movies are direct adaptations of specific book (like <i>Watchmen</i>, <i>400</i>, and <i>Sin City</i>), and others are stories of characters that have had a long history in the comics (Superman, Batman, the X-Men, Etc). This is one in the former group. In such stories, their origins have probably been told multiple times in the comics by different writers and artists and with different focii, emphasis, dialogue, and sometimes even with details being changed. They have had years of adventures, battling against a variety of adversaries, with an ever-changing and evolving cast of background characters. Even their costumes/uniforms have doubtless changed over time.<br />
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This means the the producer/director/writer team has to decide what the essence of the character is, how best to portray that on the screen, and how to make the hero relevant for today to draw an audience of both the loyal fans and those in the mainstream who are unfamiliar. This may mean changing elements of the origin story, combining, changing, or replacing certain background characters, changing the superpowers, even adjusting the costume.<br />
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Sometimes these changes work, even brilliantly. Making Rogue be the introductory character of the first X-Men movie, for instance, gave the audience a hero whose very power (the uncontrollable ability to absorb someone's memories and superpowers, if they have any) drove her away from her loved ones, a perfect metaphorical parallel for the experience of homosexuals and other outcasts for which the X-men served as identifiable characters.<br />
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Sometimes these changes don't work, or are simply irrelevant, like making Red Skull Italian in the 1989 <i>Captain America</i> movie. I mean, come on, the greatest foe of Captain America in WWII, <i>Italian</i>?<br />
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In the comics, Mar-Vell was male, and Yon-Rogg was his superior officer. Yon-Rogg sent him to Earth to spy on humans to determine if they should be wiped out. While it may yet be revealed in a future movie that this was the true reason Mar-Vell was on Earth, there was another aspect to his character that making her female completely swept away: Romance.<br />
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Captain Mar-Vell's girlfriend on the Kree ship orbiting Earth was Medic Una, and Colonel Yon-Rogg had eyes for Una. He was also jealous of Mar-Vell for his popularity and success. Thus he wanted to get rid of him. And when Mar-Vell was on Earth, he won the heart of Carol Danvers for rescuing her from various monstrous threats. They made out numerous times, and each time Yon-Rogg would make sure Medic Una saw it, in the hopes that she would forsake him.<br />
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Much as I can only imagine someone in the world might want to see Annette Benning as a lesbian cougar getting it on with Brie Larsen, and Jude Law as some sort of jerk who gets turned on by lesbians, or perhaps that the Kree are not so hung up on gender preference as us humans, making Mar-Vell female and eliminating Una in a Marvel superhero movie totally eliminates any romantic angle in the relationship between these three characters. On the other hand, it does serve a certain message of this movie that I will get to later.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED...<br />
<br />Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527931415111597401.post-2101167134980113532019-03-24T11:17:00.001-07:002019-03-24T15:02:21.819-07:00SPOILER FREE Marvel's "Captain Marvel" movie review (Carol Danvers)I enjoyed it.Captain Zorikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04168069119665482226noreply@blogger.com0