By Jayme Lozano With eight superhero films scheduled for release this year and over 30 Marvel and DC Comics movies planned through 2020, the heroic flick trend shows no sign of hanging up its cape anytime soon. Rob Weiner, a Texas Tech librarian specializing in popular culture and humanities, has studied comic books, but the superhero trend confuses him. “Whether they’re […]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
April 15, 2014 by
So far, we’ve had kind of a rough time with Marvel’s “Phase 2,” facing rehashed story elements in “Thor: The Dark World” and disappointing characterizations in “Iron Man 3.” It doesn’t help that “expanding the cinematic universe” has mostly meant just making sequels to movies featuring characters we’ve seen already, with typical self-contained stories that […]
