Commentary Archives : The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/category/retchron/commentary/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:26:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Captain Marvel crushes completely ridiculous success metric https://www.theshareduniverse.com/captain-marvel-crushes-completely-ridiculous-success-metric/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:13:27 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=2760 Captain Marvel has become the seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to break $1 billion. It’s an incredibly significant metric for multiple reasons but perhaps most importantly because achieving $1 billion was a made-up measure of success by people looking for reasons to call the film a failure. It wasn’t until after Captain Marvel‘s […]

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]]> Endgame Plus Dark Phoenix Equals A Secret Wars Film https://www.theshareduniverse.com/endgame-plus-dark-phoenix-equals-a-secret-wars-film/ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/endgame-plus-dark-phoenix-equals-a-secret-wars-film/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:18:09 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=2110 We can preserve the X-Men and Avengers Universes while still bringing all of the heroes together. The stingers for Avengers: Endgame and X-Men: Dark Phoenix should start setting up a Secret Wars film. Here’s how… Disney has acquired Fox and with it comes the Marvel’s X-Men and all of the related properties. We don’t know when we’ll start seeing mutants […]

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]]> https://www.theshareduniverse.com/endgame-plus-dark-phoenix-equals-a-secret-wars-film/feed/ 1 DC Universe Subscription: First Impressions https://www.theshareduniverse.com/dc-universe-subscription-first-impressions/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:34 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1712 DC Universe is the new digital portal putting the many media iterations of DC, from comics to shows to movies, literally at your fingertips. Is the DC Universe subscription worth the introductory cost of $74.99 per year or $7.99 per month? I signed up for a year and here are my first impressions. This isn’t […]

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]]> Sorry, Cracked, but superhero movies haven’t ruined comic books https://www.theshareduniverse.com/sorry-cracked-but-superhero-movies-havent-ruined-comic-books/ Sun, 22 May 2016 17:26:41 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1108 This post is in response to Jason Iannone’s Cracked article “6 Specific Reasons Why Superhero Movies Ruined Comics.” In his post, Iannone builds a starting point for the greater discussion of how the mainstreaming of popular superheroes through film is impacting the medium where they were first created. He makes some interesting observations but ties […]

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]]> Rebirth: Rachel Rising https://www.theshareduniverse.com/rebirth-rachel-rising/ Sun, 15 May 2016 17:50:58 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1082 In August of 2011, DC comics was preparing to take a massive gamble by relaunching the publication’s superhero universe with the New 52 initiative. The plan was a new continuity for all of the heroes and a hard reset of titles to number one. The first title released was Justice League #1 on August 31. The month […]

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]]> Justice League vs. the Color Stealing Man https://www.theshareduniverse.com/justice-league-vs-the-color-stealing-man/ Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:14:58 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=883 Who sucked all of the color out of the DC Universe? Everything is so drab. I’m really hoping the Justice League film will be Justice League vs. Instagram Color Filter Man. In this context Wonder Woman looks more bad ass than Bats and Supes. Batman looks like a stuffed sausage who fights crime by bear […]

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]]> The case against a shared Spideyverse / X-Men / MCU Universe, part two https://www.theshareduniverse.com/case-shared-spider-manx-menmcu-universe-part-two/ Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:02:51 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=685 Contrary to the possible misrepresentation of Sony Co-Chair Amy Pascal’s comments, an expanding Universe based solely around Spider-Man has a great deal of potential. Yes, there is a risk of Spideyverse exhaustion (although the reboot being so successful in spite of it being less than five years after the Raimi trilogy suggests otherwise), but I […]

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]]> The case against a shared Spider-Man / X-Men / MCU Universe, part one https://www.theshareduniverse.com/case-shared-spider-manx-menmcu-universe-part-one/ Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:00:04 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=682 My life’s been better since I learned to stop worrying and accept the Marvel films rights status quo. If all of the heroes were under the Disney/Marvel roof it’d be unlikely we’d see as many Marvel heroes on the big screen in a single year as we do now. Theoretically, if Disney/Marvel had X-Men, Fantastic […]

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]]> Requiem for an Engine: The Warren Ellis comic board’s legacy https://www.theshareduniverse.com/requiem-engine-comic-boards-legacy/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:48:20 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=699 It was a strange and fruitful blip in the online comic community. Writer Warren Ellis’s comic book message board The Engine ran from early September 2005 to Aug. 31, 2007, birthing in its short life new comic books, ongoing collaborative superteams, Eisner and Harvey Award-winning projects, and at least one marriage. My affectionate memories are […]

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]]> Thought Bubble: Rumored Fantastic Four casting doesn’t go far enough https://www.theshareduniverse.com/thought-bubble-rumored-fantastic-four-casting-doesnt-go-far-enough/ Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:05:56 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=597 The insider sourced casting rumors regarding the Fantastic Four film reboot has the Internet all atwitter. In a declarative headline TheWrap reports the cast has been found while going on to write with less certainty “Hollywood was buzzing Wednesday with news that Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell are nearing deals […]

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