Captain Marvel: The Paradigm Shift
Marvel’s Captain Marvel represents a paradigm shift in popular entertainment. Much like Disney’s Moana, this is a film that’s more noteworthy for what’s not there; there’s no romantic subplot, no …
Category: Superheroes
Odds and Ends from the Collection
Recently I used up money from the Google Rewards program to buy a Comic Collection app, so I ventured forth to catalogue all the titles that majestically nest on my …
And your writers shall see visions: writing superheroes in the DC Multiverse
When Flash #123 established Jay Garrick was as real as Barry Allen it changed the direction of the DC universe. It also established that at least some comic-book writers in …
Harley Quinn and “Definitive” Characters
Harley Quinn turns 26 this year. That’s why rebooting characters back to their “definitive” version is usually a bad idea. As probably everyone reading Atomic Junk Shop knows, comics make …
Into the Endgame: ‘Infinity War’ Analysis
When constructing a story, especially a visual or acted out story or simply when “breaking story” on a script, you identify the moments you need to hit. “Need” is subjective. But you identify the things you can do in a given moment that would be hard to do later. In this case, the moment you can do with god powers in play is to have Thanos win…
Ideal Images
Like most of you, I have a platonic ideal of certain characters that I carry around in my head. And a lot of times, it has to do with who I saw play a particular part when I was at an impressionable age. I’ve had a few of them bouncing around in my head this week, so I thought I’d share.
In praise of Panini Pocketbooks
UK publisher Panini churned out a bunch of modern digest-sized reprint books that collect a wonderful quantity and variety of Marvel comics, mainly from the 1960s through the 1980s.