Captain America is a symbol, and Steve Rogers is an ideal. The former is the manifestation of the best that the United States of America can be, and the latter … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s It’s All Connected – Just a Kid from Brooklyn: Captain America, American Memories of World War II, and the MCU, Part I
Ten years ago, we didn’t have cinematic universes. We had franchises, and every studio dreamt of them, even though what they dreamt of would usually peter out after a trilogy. … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s It’s All Connected: Cinematic Universes All The Way Down
There’s gold in them thar hills. Nuggets the size of your bulbous head. Great seams of it riven in the rock, opening up gleaming veins for the sun to bedazzle. … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s It’s All Connected: The Gold Rush – The Marvel Cinematic Universe Hits the Motherlode
The Avengers are back together again, the threats of Ultron and Thanos have been vanquished, for the moment, so what better time to add a new member? The first new … Continue reading Avengers Assemble S02 E19: The New Guy
Here we have another episode title referencing something very specific from the comics, like the Secret Avengers series, yet giving it a new spin on the “Avengers Assemble” animated series. … Continue reading Avengers Assemble S02 E18: Secret Avengers
Everyone loves a superhero. And that’ s never been truer than today, in our pop-culture obsessed twenty-first century. The main purveyors of superhero stories are, of course, the comic book … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s It’s All Connected: Golden Glitter & An Underlying Darkness-The Legacy of Tony Stark In The MCU (Part 1)
So Captain America is out, and Spider-Man is in. That doesn’t seem like a happy replacement at all for me. But then again the title of this week’s episode of … Continue reading Avengers Assemble S02 E15: Avengers Disassembled
Time has passed since the last time the Avengers Assembled, and things have changed. They’ve traded adversaries – Thanos for Ultron, just in time for the upcoming movie. And Iron … Continue reading Avengers Assemble S02 E14: Crack in the System
Marvel Comics released an original graphic novel this week, Avengers: Rage of Ultron, written by Rick Remender and illustrated by Jerome Opena, with Pepe Larraz, and additional inks by Mark … Continue reading The Outrage of Ultron
Finally it’s here, the moment we have all been dreading and waiting for with anxious anticipation all this second season of “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble” – Thanos is on Earth with … Continue reading Avengers Assemble S02 E13: Thanos Triumphant
Biff Bam Pop! presents The GAR! Podcast, the Glenn Walker and Ray Cornwall weekly podcast where they talk unrehearsed about whatever happens to come to mind. It’s an audio-zine for … Continue reading The GAR! Podcast: No Streaming in Darkest Africa
Here we are at the last episode of “Marvel’s Agent Carter.” I hesitate to say this is the season finale and no decision has been made yet for more, but … Continue reading Marvel’s Agent Carter S01 E08: Valediction
