As I say to start off my stand up set “I’m single in my forties so as you might expect…I’ve got some strong opinions about superhero movies. And while that’s absolutely true, I’ve seen quite a few less than you’d think. Despite the glut of superhero movies released, to the point where it’s fair to say they dominate the last decade of cinema, I’m not a fan.
Maybe it’s because I was never an Avengers fan and Captain America had exactly one good run for about 50 issues under Mark Gruenwald. This also gave me a love for Batroc the Leaper, who has a cameo in one of the MCU movies, sans colorful purple costume. And if you’re not going to have that costume…what’s the point of anything really?
I thought the first Thor had a really good ninety minutes in a movie that sadly ran 2 hours. My point is that I’m critical of my superhero movies, even when I want to love them. And sometimes when I want to love them more than anything, like Marvel’s New Mutants, they turn Lockheed into a hand puppet for no adequately explained reason.
But I digress.
So when I actually like something I want to write about it. I didn’t have a Medium account at the time, so I haven’t…
