And Now, Cap (and "The Avengers"!!!!)

To be honest, I had to surpress a giggle when I walked up to the box office and said, “One for Captain America.” The giggle told me that I had been waiting to say that since I was at least eight.

The new film is borderline GREAT. (I think the chemistry between the male and female leads needed a little tweaking, but I’ll be happy to see it again and again until I ignore that and move it up past the border.) It is EASILY the best superhero movie of the summer. I LOVED seeing “The Howling Commandos” in this film! And the ending…..! And the post-credits scene/trailer! ๐Ÿ™‚

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This film almost put tears in my eyes because it was so much better than those awful 1970s television movies and that 1990 straight-to-DVD film.

I never thought of Captain America as a patriotic, white-supremacist figure; I liked him because he was colorful, kicked ass and had that great shield.

It’s a wonderful thing to have a goal. Mine: to see a GREAT “Avengers” movie on May 4, 2012!

Who's Batwing?

He’s an African answer to Batman.ย  Okay, cool (I guess). But can he beat the original African Bat-copycat? ๐Ÿ™‚ The first animated excerpt below, from the 1990s “Fantastic Four” animated series, is the adaptation of a 1966 (!) FF story that introduced the Black Panther. (He was the first Black (as in African) superhero in mainstream comics.)ย  The next two are from the recent “Black Panther” DVDย by Reginald Hudlin.