#capeshit

[elsannej]

[artbyblastweave]

"Iron-Age" has never really caught on as a descriptive period for superhero fiction the same way that Golden-age, silver-age and Bronze age have all caught on. But golly is it fun to say

[87dvhnk]

[meatmanuel]

"THE 30-YEAR DECLINE OF THE EXPERTS OF LIBERTY"

hey. here is a little bit i wrote about some characters i have been working on. enjoy it okay.

[mindless-cinematic-trash]

[pollackpatrol]

[ID: A fake screenshot of a news show, showing a picture of J. Jonah Jameson. Text reads, "J Jonah Jameson reports," and, "'This isn't because you're trans, Spider-Man' Daily Bugle editor shouts." End ID.]

[experimentego]

Captain America: Brave New World (dir. by Julius Onah, 2025)

I saw Captain America: Brave New World. It’s not good enough to be worth recommending, and it’s not terrible enough to make for a laugh watch. That's unfortunate for a movie with two armored birdmen and an angry red guy who tears up some of Washington D.C.'s most treasured scenery.

Brave New World desperately wants the reverence accorded to 2014’s Captain America: Winter Soldier by MCU die hards. There’s an abandoned military shed filled with evil stuff, an old friend turned brainwashed assassin. But it devolves into oddly paced busywork for its heroes.

The best stuff comes, unsurprisingly, from Harrison Ford, who plays Thaddeus Ross. The late William Hurt originated the character as a kind of ornery political tugboat, but in Brave New World he's a sweaty, mercurial mess – desperate to prove he can be a force for change and unity.

I’ve long warmed up to the idea that spoilers aren’t such a bad thing, but Brave New World’s problem is that the best spoiled reveals aren’t made better by the telling. There’s no texture or nuance to the Red Hulk, returning characters don’t complicate or twist its intended themes. Already there’s buzz among nerds about how this is effectively a sequel to 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, sans an actual appearance from THE Hulk. And while it’s great to finally see some dormant plot threads resurface, Brave New World doesn’t do anything with them. They’re just pretext.

Regarding Ruth Bat Seraph, the Israeli character who, in the comics, is an agent of the Mossad: She’s paper thin, an inconsequential non-entity who exists so that Cap has someone to talk to other than Joaquin. Her background is retooled for Brave New World, but there’s no reason for viewers to care.

But the worst thing about Brave New World is it still does nothing to lock Sam Wilson for everyone to accept as the new Captain America. I’m not crazy about Anthony Mackie as an actor, but it’s not his fault that the MCU continuously fails to make a compelling argument for him. 2021’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sat on its hands over the same issue, one inflicted upon the character by the disprivilege of being Black in a mostly white milieu and fighting an uphill battle against the worst elements of pop culture fandom.

But Brave New World refuses to properly thread the needle when it comes to the legacy of the Captain’s mantle and Sam’s own impostor syndrome, by refusing to let those insecurities be fully explored or reckon with the full mythopoetic implications of a Black man wearing the stars and stripes.

The MCU is a bunch of cartoons featuring people who fly, punch and fire death beams while holding forth on global security and uncertainty in a multiversal cosmos. I eat that capeshit slop up, for sure, and never expect more. But that doesn’t mean Brave New World has to meet me at the basement.

[enthusiastofshit]

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

really wish my stupid standards considered Masks an indie game because it'd be like. the one time i get to nerd out about comics in this lololol

[orangeispice]

it's so hard explaining how i imagine the dynamics of luke cage, danny rand and jessica jones

a) it's important that at some point they've had some weirdass romance pentagon with matt murdock and peter parker and misty knight (who had something with colleen). ahem.

b) lukedannyjess is wholesome bc it's the world where all three of them are happy. usually the three of them raising dani cage

c) lukedanny is good because THIS is a real example of best friends to lovers.

d) lukejess is good because it's canon, and they make each other better people and i just love them so much

e) dannyjess gets overlooked a lot, part of which is because of the fact that danny really didn't like jess when luke first brought her around, but they're since cleared that up. but the narrative potential of luke being injured and falling in love with the partner of the man you're in love with has a lot of hgnnnngnggh good plot to it

f) dannymisty, where lukedannyjess does NOT happen. though in this timeline, danny definitely had feelings for luke at some point, can't convince me otherwise. but in this timeline, we get lucy rand, who CANONICALLY ends up marrying dani cage in a timeline where they both exist

guys im so normal aboout this i swear--

[reachartwork]

Chum 154: HYPEMAN

My stomach drops when I see the autoinjector. It's sleek and black, like an epipen but dangerous. Something manufactured. Moneyed.

"Don't," I say, but my voice is too quiet, too far away. He doesn't even hear me.

He presses the injector to his neck and clicks it.

Big Hands sees the injector and his smirk twists into something sharper. "Fuck 'em up, Bash," he says, his voice low but carrying like a gunshot.

"Bash," I mutter under my breath, locking the name away in the mental catalog. Yeah. He sure looks like a guy who named himself Bash.

The autoinjector clicks, and Bash doesn't move for a second. Then his body seems to shift, the weight of him settling deeper into the pavement, like the ground itself is straining to hold him up. He rolls his shoulders once, testing his movement, and when he steps forward, I swear the sidewalk cracks under his foot.

Carla doesn't notice at first. She's too busy pulling everything she can find into her orbit. A loose street sign wobbles and tears itself free with a screech, the metal twisting as it hurtles toward him. Bash doesn't even try to dodge. It smashes against his chest, crumpling like foil, and falls to the ground.

Carla freezes, her breathing ragged. Her powers stutter for a moment, the debris in her orbit faltering before snapping back into place. "What the fuck?" she spits, her voice shaking. Another piece of rebar whips toward him, faster this time, but the result's the same. It hits him dead-on, and he doesn't even blink.

"Sam, what's he on?" Maggie whispers. Her voice is tight, laced with panic.

"I don't know," I say, my teeth gritting. "That's not Fly."

[elsannej]

Save me movie Symbrock save me

(I am being very sincere - it's not lookin' good on the comic front)

[artbyblastweave]

What is this "Capeshit" term that I keep hering about. I stopped looking at superhero media on a constant basis some 10 years ago and now I'm just a casual fan.

semi-derogatory term for the perpetual extrusions of Big-two comics and MCU properties, which has morphed into a semi-legible catch-all term for all superhero fiction, used by individuals who want to discuss their enjoyment thereof, or seething hatred thereof, from behind a protective aegis of detached irony. Like all punchy, detachedly ironic terms I'm 90 percent sure it originated on 4Chan and eventually filtered into general parlance because there was a niche in the lexicon for it to fill. Certainly I've never heard anyone speak the term out loud

[87dvhnk]

please i am sick of them. everywhere you look they are hanging off of each other. i can't screenshot them all, but if they are on the page together even bug small in the corner half hidden behind a pillar where's waldo style they are entwined like twizzlers.

[cheeseburgers-for-america]

[mindless-cinematic-trash]

Iron Man 2 (2010) Dir. Jon Favreau