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Jessica Jones and the Punisher also cancelled
In a move that will surprise no one who has been watching Disney consolidate its properties, the last MCU Nextflix dramas have been cancelled, though Jessica Jones will receive one more season.
The shows could reappear on Disney’s own service or even in the MCU, but (by legal agreement with Netflix) not until 2020.
Rumblings in the Marvel TV/Cinematic Universe
Luke Cage. Iron Fist and Daredevil have been cancelled, despite the huge success of the most recent DD season. Jessica Jones and The Punisher likely have one more go-round, if only because they’re already in production.
However, Daredevil (and the others?) “will live on in future projects for Marvel,” according to a spokesperson.
Disney’s own streaming service will be continuing Marvel-Television, with its Scarlet Witch and Vision series, and a Loki series, both announced back in September.
Will Disney’s move mean greater interplay between Marvel’s movie and TV characters?
What do we want to see? What will we see?
Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning 21th October 2018
We are entering a golden age of comics on TV, maybe not due to quality, but definitely due to quantity. Supergirl gets a new villain of the week, Arrow continues his Heroes in Prison story, Constantine joins the Legends (Yeah!!), The Flash threatens to kill a favorite character, Black Lightning lets his daughters do the heroing, and Titans gives us some backstory. The Gifted took the week off (presumably because they’re behind on watching Daredevil, too,) and Riverdale trends towards more Halloween horror in order to make its sister show, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, feel welcome when it drops on the 26th.
[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]
Comic Book Review: Action #1000
Back in 1938, Action Comics #1 turned up at the newsstands and drugstores of America. The cover featured a man in a blue and red suit and a cape running while holding up a green late model automobile.
The comic-book cost ten cents.
In 2014, one of the few remaining copies sold for over three million dollars.
In 2018, DC Comics published issue #1000. It’s an 80-PAGE GIANT, making it about the length of its famous predecessor. Whereas that Depression-era funnybook only devoted its first story to the Man of Steel, 2018’s is all about the Superman.
Comic Book Physics: Final Episode – Superman’s Powers, Part 3
The final episode of “Comic Book Physics” is now available here.
Disney acquires Fox
In a long-negotiated deal, Disney will acquire Twenty-first Century Fox. This means a few things: Disney now controls even more of the media landscape, and the X-Men and Fantastic Four now belong to Marvel Studios.
Comic Book Physics 49: Superman’s Powers, Part 2
Our look at Superman’s complete set of powers continues here.
Comic Review: Harley and Ivy meet Betty and Veronica
Back in ’94 Marvel and Archie raised eyebrows across the comix community by pairing comicdom’s favorite red-haired teenager with its most deranged vigilante. Back then, of course, Archie was a fading brand sold at grocery store checkouts to nine-year-old girls, and the Punisher, the darkest dude in comic books.
A lot has changed since then.
In 2017, Archie’s mainstream line may be the most relevant and entertaining comics available, and the company has opened up to entirely new markets. In addition to the good ol’ kiddie digests, still available in grocery stores and pharmacies everywhere, other Archie alt-realities include a retro-sixties Sabrina whose witchcraft draws from actual demonic sources, a zombie apocalypse Archie, and the predictably “edgy” and wildly CWesque iconoclastic and wildly popular Riverdale TV series. So when Archie and DC combine to bring several of Gotham City’s sirens to comic-book small-town America, it feels a lot less groundbreaking. It’s just the world we live in.
The question remains: does the team-up work? Is it worth reading?
Comic Book Physics 48: Superman’s Powers (Part 1)
We are seeing the first part of a three part finale, as I discuss the first 8 of Superman’s 51 documented powers. You can listen here.