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Marvel News Roundup

Marvels Spider-Man

MARVEL’s Ultimate Spider-Man will be ending its run this in January 2017 and then a brand new Spider-Man cartoon will be swinging into its place in later 2017. This very much seems to coincide with the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming movie. There will be a “back to basics approach” to the character.

Hulk Animated Movie – There will be an all-new feature length movie, Marvel’s Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell, featuring The Hulk and Doctor Strange which is being shown at the Javitis Center during the New York Comic-Con Sunday. This movie will be available for digital download on October 21st.

Marvel’s Avengers will delve into Secret Wars soon and with it the return of Marvel’s Agent Carter, at least in animated form. Haley Atwell will reprise her role and provide the voice for Agent Peggy Carter.

Funko is getting into the action and will produce three animated shorts using their distinct style. There will be shorts they will be Deadpool vs. Venom, Rocket and Groot, and Iron Man and Spider-man versus Loki.

Netflix debuted the first look at the Iron Fist Trailer.

And then they dropped a bomb with the announcement of Sigourney Weaver Weaver as the villain in Marvel’s The Defenders which will also be on Netflix.

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My Thoughts on Luke Cage on Netflix #StreamTeam

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I am a Netflix #StreamTeam and as such receive compensation from Netflix. I feel that I must disclose this when I talk about Netflix shows and what I think about them. Opinions are 100% my own.

This isn’t even a particular #StreamTeam post that I have to do as part of the team, I just really enjoyed Marvel’s Luke Cage. Luke Cage is the latest in the various Marvel shows on Netflix. Each show is 13 episodes packed with so much action, drama and Marvel Easter Eggs.

Luke Cage came out on September 30th with all 13 episodes. I dove right in and binged all of season 1. I have been reading many Marvel titles on the Marvel Unlimited app. Reading though all the Marvel Civil War and then New Avengers and so many other titles I’ve gotten to know the story of Luke Cage and the character from the comic books. This show was so well done and I couldn’t put all of my thoughts into that one minute vlog. I cannot believe that I said Donald Faison when I meant Frankie Faison. I thought that one of the breakout stars of the show was Simone Missick as Misty Knight. She had such character. I just loved her scenes. There was s much to enjoy about this series. Mike Colter made an excellent Luke Cage. He just got that character down. I loved the Easter eggs like the Tiara and the yellow blouse. That was great! Now I have to wait to see the next series which would be Iron Fist and then The Defenders unless there is another Daredevil or Jessica Jones before that.

There are plenty of action scenes in this show but it is the moments where the characters speak to each other that are the most compelling. The relationship between Luke Cage and Misty Knight has depth and complexity. They play off each other very well. Later another character shows up and she and Luke come together in a different way. Their relationship is also complex but through it we learn even more. I need to watch the last 10 minutes of episode 13 again because of all the little things that are teased for the future. I cannot wait for it, I think I’ll have to watch all the shows again, this time with Allison. Here’s what I said in my vlog today.

I also teased a few things that I’ll be featuring on the vlog this coming week.