This month sees the Hardcover release of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, which takes a detailed look back at the company during the 1960’s, before all the movies, cartoons and other forms of franchising. Penned by Sean Howe, the book chronicles a key period in...
As many people around the real world become more and more accepting of same-sex marriage and the LGBT lifestyle as a whole, the world of comic books seems to be following suit.
Traditionally speaking, a major movie franchise that began almost eleven years ago and has currently re-emerged with an almost entirely different cast and production crew would be refereed to as a franchise reboot. The term, however, seems far from apt at describing X-Men First Class. The right expression, for the new addition to the film series originally adapted from the comic book of the same and similar names, might actually be franchise overhaul or perhaps even franchise coup d'etat. For director Matthew Vaughn’s (the British filmmaker behind last year’s captivating comic book parody Kick-Ass and gangster movies Layer Cake and Snatch) prequel to the previous films seems to out trump its predecessors in every manner, sense and frame.