Ladies, please.
It’s a great time to be a Hawkeye fan. He’s slated to appear in a big bucks blockbuster that promises to sell so big it will make up for John Carter of Mars. But not only that: he’s a main character in a Saturday morning Avengers cartoon, he’s a member of four Avengers squads and counting, he’s the leader and focus of a revised Secret Avengers squad, the current co-star of a book temporarily called Captain America and Hawkeye, and to top that all off, he’s getting a new ongoing title helmed by an Architect™. As Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso has explained in multiple interviews, they wanted to give Clint a push. It’s a great time to be a Hawkeye fan, a great time to wear purple sunglasses at night.
I’ve been posting a bunch of MCU content the past few weeks. Now, I like the movies fine, but when I started this blog I wasn’t planning on talking about them at all. I’m one of those annoying purist fans who shoots for the No-Prize. But there’s so much movie content coming out right now— posters, perfume, cans of Dr. Pepper, interviews and featurettes galore! In the comics? Not so much.
Our Princess is in Another Refrigerator
The topic of this first women write about comics blogamafest is Women in in Refrigerators, 13 years later. (Subtitle: the freezerburn.) I tackled a lot of what I think about WiR previously, so today I’m going to talk more about what other people think. And then I’m going to tell you what I think again, because I don’t shut up.
In August of 2009, Natasha was appearing in three books: Captain America, Invincible Iron Man, and Thunderbolts. In August of 2009, Natasha was captured in each one of them by the same Norman Osborn. And in August of 2009, quite a few people cried refrigerator.
Accent on De Accent
One of the most frequent critiques I see of Scarlett Johannson’s performance in Iron Man 2 is: but she didn’t do the accent. I’m not sure what the accent is, exactly, but my mind travels to Rocky and Bullwinkle-esque dimensions and I wonder, is that what people think Natasha sounds like? Take it away, Adam Hughes.
That is what (some) people think Natasha sounds like.
