For our first non-English feature in a minute, we take a trip to Heilongjiang Province to dissect Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan’s grim 2014 neo-noir.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s youth is about to go wild (like Skid Row) in an upcoming Disney+ series. The Young Avengers (or possibly Champions) kicked off with a cute post-credit scene featuring Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) trying to recruit Hawkeye (Kate Bishop). Surprisingly, more hints about the team’s possibilities were dropped in a recent episode of Daredevil: Born Again.
RPadTV host Raymond Padilla is joined by fellow comics nerd Paul Semel to discuss theories on MCU’s Young Avengers (or maybe Champions). They’ll kick things off with a brief primer on Young Avengers and Champions for MCU fans that didn’t read the comics. Then they’ll talk about probable team members, possible team members, possible mentors, Paul’s wish to mix not-so-young people into the team, and characters they don’t want to see.
What has eight tentacles and the combined body parts of John Kreese and Terry Silver? Octo-Silver – the Cobra Kai spin-off you never knew you needed.
Brian Skiba's Gunslingers borrows too much and offers too little.