Warning: Mild spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame” and Full-Blown Spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War” During the current social media culture wars, it’s impossible to go into a movie completely blind. Even after the tragic and brutal ending of last year’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” in which we saw a huge chunk of our favorite heroes get turned […]
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The Inside Kids Ep. #1
Angela Moore and Jared Rasic bring you a new arts and culture podcast from Bend, Oregon and The Source Weekly. Episode One of The Inside Kids: In which we talk about Game of Thrones, comic books, The Walking Dead and overall just nerd out over how delightfully nerdy everything is.
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Marvel Swings For The Fences
“Captain America: Civil War” is an ideological trip to the MCU
Captain America debuted in Marvel Comics in March of 1941, based on the character of Steve Rogers, a young man whose parents have died, who grew up during the Great Depression. Trying to enlist for World War II to fight the Nazis, he fails to pass the physical requirements, but is invited to take part […]
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Free Comic Book Day is Coming 5/7
Comics for the Masses: The best books to grab on Free Comic Book Day This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, an annual event where comic shops around the country share the joy of comics by offering special issues for free. Though this may sound like one of those too-good-to-be-true situations, it’s not. It is too good, and it […]
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PEW, PEW, PEW!
Comic book movies are supposed to be fun, remember?
After the thump-grimace-exposition-repeat pattern that turned Captain America: The Winter Soldier into such a self-serious snooze (that everyone nonetheless seemed to love), I worried I might be done with the Marvel universe. In fact, between all of Cap 2‘s winking references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (GRR, BRAND SYNERGY!) and Edgar Wright being forced out of […]
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What in the World?—Today’s News
Friday Nov. 8Our first in an ongoing blog series, What in the World? where we link you to all the morning’s most important and most ridiculous national and global news. Internationally…SUPER TYPHOON Haiyan has hit the Philippines in full force with winds up to 235 MPH and is being called the strongest storm ever. Obama’s […]