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Latin and Latinx heroes share their powers and culture on Marvel Comunidades covers and stories

Latin and Latinx heroes share their powers and culture on Marvel Comunidades covers and stories #comics #comicbooks

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"Marvel Comunidades" Bonus Stories Announced

Marvel Comunidades celebrates Latin and Latinx super heroes and creators with variant covers and bonus adventures in the pages of Avengers #6, X-Men Red #16, Incredible Hulk #5, and Scarlet Witch #9. Marvel Comunidades variant covers for the issues are by Ernanda Souza.

Kalinda Vasquez and Alba Glez' bonus adventure for Avengers #6, on sale on October 11, 2023, follows Firebird. Firebird, Captain Marvel, and Captain America are called upon by the Avengers to investigate a mystery in the desert. Their quest leads them to a new character with secrets to reveal about Roswell, New Mexico.

Raphael Draccon, Carolina Munhóz, and Marcelo Costa's bonus adventure for X-Men Red #16, on sale on October 11, 2023, follows Shark-Girl and Sunspot on their first-ever team-up together. The two mutants return to Brazil to investigate the disappearances of local fishmen. Their investigation leads them to "Ilha da Queimada Grande" and a showdown with King Cobra.

Vita Ayala and Alitha Martinez' bonus adventure for Incredible Hulk #5, on sale on October 18, 2023, follows Victor Alvarez / Power Man. While chasing down a threat, Power Man winds up in a brawl with the Incredible Hulk.

Juan Ponce and Ig Guara's bonus adventure for Scarlet Witch #9, on sale on October 18, 2023, follows Strange Academy's Eva Quintero. When Eva "borrows" a book from Scarlet Witch's private collection, she finds herself ducked into the demonic realm where. With the help of Wanda Maximoff, Eva will have to escape before she is trapped in the book forever.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Ernanda Souza's Comunidades variant cover for X-Men Red #16)

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-- What If…? Galactus --

What If…? Galactus Transformed Hulk? #1 | via

🖊️: Matthew Groom ✏️: lan Medina 🎨: Ron Lim

What If…? Galactus Transformed Gambit? #1 | via

🖊️: Josh Trujillo ✏️: Manuel Garcia 🎨: Ron Lim

What If…? Galactus Transformed Moon Knight? #1 | via

🖊️: Alex Segura ✏️: Scot Eaton & Cam Smith 🎨: Ron Lim

What If…? Galactus Transformed Rogue? #1 | via

🖊️: Annie Nocenti ✏️: Stephen Byrne 🎨: Ron Lim

What If…? Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen? #1 | via

🖊️: Kalinda Vasquez ✏️: Daniel Picci 🎨: Ron Lim

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Marvel Releases Sneak Peek At 'America Chavez: Made In The USA' #4

Marvel Releases Sneak Peek At ‘America Chavez: Made In The USA’ #4

Marvel Comics has released a sneak peek at the penultimate chapter of America Chavez: Made in the USA, on sale July 7, 2021. Fans are getting to know America Chavez like never before in her latest series, America Chavez: Made in the USA. Written by Kalinda Vasquez with art by Carlos Gómez, each issue of the limited series has been packed with exciting revelations about the breakout hero’s…

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Paramount taps Kalinda Vasquez for Original 'Star Trek' Film

Paramount taps Kalinda Vasquez for Original ‘Star Trek’ Film

Paramount is looking to move the long running Star Trek franchise into a new part of the galaxy. According to an exclusive in Deadline, Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams Bad Robot have tapped writer Kalinda Vasquez to pen a new adventure set in the Star Trek universe. Abrams directed the first two recent Star Trek films which reimagined the universe created by Gene Roddenberry and told new…

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Everytime I see you making comic recs I add like five new things to my to read list 😂 what're some of your fav comics, and which comics do you think are underated???? 💖

I've been re-reading a lot of non-batfam comics lately, specifically with other Titans and Young Justice members.

I think Bart Allen's Flash run (Fastest Man Alive) is underrated in a couple aspects. First, we get to see Bart as something other than Young Justice's hyperactive teenager—here he's a young adult who's a little more jaded but still has heart. Second, I think it gives Bart the spotlight in death as well as in life (even though he comes back later because comics). One thing I never was a fan of in both Young Justice canon and fanon is how Bart's death is completely brushed aside in favor of focusing on Kon. I think that's a consequence of decades of him being relegated to Tim and Kon's tagalong. I highly suggest Fastest Man Alive and the 90s Impulse run because Bart is a fascinating character and an underrated member of the Flash Family.

This isn't DC, but I've also been revisiting America Chavez and Kamala Khan's comics with the new movie/show. I think G. Willow Wilson's origin of Ms. Marvel and Kalinda Vasquez's Made In The USA are great ways to introduce yourself to the characters if you're meeting them for the first time through the MCU. Both comics are fun and highlight the core of Kamala and America's personalities. I especially love the artwork in Ms. Marvel because it's not your typical hard outlines and bold colors—there's a softness to it even in intense scenes that lends well to Kamala and the world she is living in. And in Made In The USA, you get the highlights of America's relationship with Kate Bishop through the turns of dialogue and subtle actions.

I also recently reorganized my copies of The Walking Dead on a new shelf. Feel free to ask me about that anytime too.

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Big list of cancelled AOS/Kelvin Universe Star Trek movies

Did you know that for the 3 Star Trek movies we got, five went unmade?  Here's what they were about:

Star Trek Into Oblivion

Cancelled in favour of what became Star Trek Beyond, this was to be Roberto Orci's directorial debut.  Written by Orci, alongside JD Payne and Patrick McKay.  Vulcans, humans and a new alien race called the Annunaki vie for an artifact with the power to save Vulcan, Spock's mother Amanda and reset the timeline.  Enil, the Annunaki villain believed the Kelvin universe an abomination and wanted to use the device to reform the universe in his own image.  It got as far as location scouting, casting (Bryan Cranston was to play Enil, McCoy's ex-wife and a female Federation president would have featured too) and concept art (the baddie ship is controlled from comfy looking sun loungers).  William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were to cameo, but sources conflict on whether they were their Primeverse selves or playing older versions of Pine and Quinto's characters.

(More Star Trek Into Oblivion concept art here)

Doomsday Machine

Written by Ashley Miller and Roberto Orci, and again was pitched prior to Star Trek Beyond.  Rogue Romulans get hold of a Doomsday Machine and cause chaos.  The Enterprise crew team up with goodie Romulans to stop it. Carol Marcus is pregnant and Kirk is doubting his future in Starfleet.  Shock ending where Klingons storm and take over Starfleet HQ, and their leader removes his helmet to reveal... Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan Noonien Singh!

Star Trek 4

Co-written by Patrick McKay and JD Payne and to be directed by SJ Clarkson, this is the one JJ Abrams announced prior to the release of Star Trek Beyond.  Something sci-fi happens and James T. Kirk gets to meet his father George Kirk, and they go on an adventure together.  Some speculate this is the Into Oblivion story, but rewritten to have George Kirk in place of William Shatner's Kirk.  Negotiations to bring back Pine and Hemsworth fell apart when Paramount tried to renegotiate lower fees after Beyond underperformed at the box office.

Pulp Fiction Trek

The Tarantino one.  Written by Mark L. Smith, with Quinten Tarantino producing. Chris Pine's Kirk, William Shatner's Kirk and Patrick Stewart's Picard in Pulp Fiction-style intertwining stories possibly involving Sigma Iotia II (the gangster planet from TOS).  Went quiet and vanished for reasons unknown.

Space Pandemic

Noah Hawley's Star Trek movie would have featured a new cast (although tied into or spun off of Kelvinverse characters or events in some way) battling a pandemic ravaging the galaxy.  Real life got in the way and pandemics suddenly stopped being entertaining fantasy material putting this script into indefinite stasis.

Fingers crossed Kalinda Vasquez's Star Trek movie script gets made!

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On America Chavez and the needless destruction of prior works

Just finished Made In The USA. I'm furious, and to be honest I'm mostly furious on behalf of Rivera, Quinones, and everyone else who worked on America (2017). I don't know if any of these folks would share my feelings of frustration, so I don't necessarily want to speak for them, but I do want to get this off my chest.

I know that audiences had mixed opinions on Rivera's book, but I think that it was imaginative, original, fun, and full to the brim with love for Black and brown LGBT folks. In creating America Chavez's backstory, Rivera expressed a heartfelt and deeply-meditated thesis on heritage and identity-- one which was at once fresh and also clearly rooted in generations of Latin American and Afro-Latine narratives.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the fantasies and futures that exist in art, and the people, places, and realities which are allowed to exist within those fictional worlds. This is at the core every version of the futurist principle-- "there are Black people in the future," per Alisha Wormsley. America is a the sort of fantasy where LGBT Black and Latine people take center stage, and Blackness, Latinidad, and gay identity are simultaneously the foundation and the fabric of the fantastical, utopian worlds that those characters occupy. Those worlds, and the story which unfolds across them, are truly unique, and in my mind, beautiful, and that is why I believe that Rivera's America is a work of great value to the canon of Western comics. I must stress, as well, that it was perhaps the first of its kind-- Rivera claims to be the first Latina to write for Marvel, and is also, to my knowledge, among only a few open lesbians to ever do so.

In five cramped, bleak little issues, Made In The USA has obliterated everything that Rivera and her collaborators built in America (2017). The retcon implemented by Kalinda Vasquez renders Rivera's story, and Gillen's earlier work in Young Avengers, totally moot. Little effort was made to reconcile with those texts-- Made In The USA simply buries them, along with America's pre-existing history, her motives, and several of her relationships-- under the cheap, tired excuse that "it was a dream all along."

I'm in no place to pass judgement on Vasquez's identity and perspective, and I would be remiss if I did not mention that her exploration of America's adoptive family was sweet, and in many scenes, beautifully executed. I must, however, say that the new backstory she has constructed lacks even an ounce of America (2017)'s heart, and that the entire premise is hackneyed and underdeveloped. She's not from outer space or a parallel world-- she was a traumatized child with a rare medical condition. We never really come to understand that what condition or its treatments actually are, and Vasquez fails to address America's connection to the Demiurge or the fact that Fuertona was demonstrated to be a real place-- nor the fact America's own grandmother, Madrimar, was a living person.

Overall, the undermining and destruction of continuity simply are not earned. It seems almost fitting that the series concluded with the abrupt disappearance, and possible death, of America's newly-discovered sister-- a grim and pointless death that needlessly punishes the title character, much as her fans are needlessly punished for their love and investment in such a unique and historically important superhero.

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books of 2021

All-New Wolverine Volume 1

Alphonse Mucha: Masterworks by Rosalid Ormiston

America Chavez: Made in the USA by Kalinda Vasquez

Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

Harleen by Stjepan Sejic

Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Volume 1

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix

Jessica Jones: The Pulse by Brian Michael Bendis

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

Lovesickness by Junji Ito

My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame

One Life to Lose by Kris Ripper

Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger, Sara Kipin

Restart After Coming Back Home by Cocomi

She-Hulk Volume 1

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Lisa Sterle

Suggestivism: Resonance by Nathan Spoor, Ken Harman Hashimoto

The Avant-Guards by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes

The End of Summer by Tillie Walden

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected on Water by Zen Cho

The Summer of You by Nagisa Furuya

The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes

The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono

Unspoken Vow by Eden Finley

Venus in the Blind Spot by Junji Ito

Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries

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My OUAT Rewatch -- S3E15 -- Quiet Minds

Link to Rewatch Review and Ranking archive

So . . . . this episode . . . . aside from a few good moments . . . 

Like that one . . . . . is mostly garbage.

There will be ranting and yelling and a TON of negativity under the cut and if you like Hook or Zelena you might as well get the fuck out NOW . . . . why are you on my blog anyway, have you MET me?

Actually I lied.  I’m not going to rant and scream for days on end, because what will that accomplish?  I’m going to lay out my issues point by point:

1.  The writers were complete and total MORONS to kill of Neal, the main catalyst of literally everything in the show.  I have nothing good to say about them.

2.  The writers deprived us of so many endless possibilities of storylines . . . . Henry developing a relationship with his dad, Neal developing a co-parenting relationship/friendship with Regina, Regina, Neal and Emma finding a way to raise Henry together, Belle and Neal bonding, Neal and Rumple actually getting to have a reunion.  So much lost opportunity.  And for what?

Yeah, that asshole.

3. Gonna be real -- I haven’t watched this episode since it originally aired.  And after this rewatch, unless forced, I will NEVER watch it again.  There were so many ways in which they were telling us that Neal approved of Hook so we should too -- just no.  And that fucking hospital scene -- which I’ve seen people -- some of whom I LIKE -- refer to as “sweet”.

Nope.  Fuck that noise.  If you think that, you are WRONG.  Hook was waxing poetic about little boy Baelfire that he “looked after.”  Dude, you did NOT, you sold him to a demon -- your words.  Go away you useless lamp.  

4.  Zelena is . . . . yeah.  Bitch needs to die.  I can’t even come up with words to describe how much I hate her.  Such a garbage character.  Worse than Hook, actually.  Yup, I said it.  

I hated this episode.  Hated it.  I mean, it had good Belle moments and Rumple running in the woods and Swanfire but . . . . . let’s be real.

THE ONLY REASON THEY KILLED OFF NEAL WAS TO PROP UP HOOK AND MAKE HIM THE STAR OF THE SHOW, AND THERE WAS NO WAY THEY COULD DO THAT IF EMMA HAD ANOTHER MAN FROM HER PAST AROUND.  

I’d make that in an even bigger and bolder font if I could.  

So this episode, in a nutshell .  . . . 

Oh, and the Outlaw Queen scenes were .. . . .. icky.  Another useless pairing to give a woman something with a penis no matter what.

Points tally:

40 points to start

7 points because this is KIND OF a Belle centric I guess?  I don’t even know.

10 points for Swanfire

10 points for Papafire

2 points for one tiny Swan Queen scene at the beginning

I usually give 5 points if Kalinda Vasquez write the episode but I just can’t for this one.  Not her fault -- she was given an outline and did what needed to be done.  But a shit outline produces a shit script no matter who writes it.

5 points deducted for Hook being there at all

10 points deducted for the Hook/Belle scene, GTFO, he tried to MURDER HER. You don’t wave that shit off.  Nope.

Sorry, but no bonus points and I’m deducting the full 25 from this one.  Killing Neal killed the show.  It was the stupidest thing they ever did.  

Total points: 29

Yeah, you thought this would be in the negatives, huh?  Nope.  I still say I know which episode will be the first to hit the negative digits.  We shall see.

Alright, so that one is over with.  Moving on . . . . . . 

Follow #celtichearted OUAT ranking tag for more to come!

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Paramount ha scelto Kalinda Vazquez per la scrittura del prossimo film di Star Trek

Paramount ha scelto Kalinda Vazquez per la scrittura del prossimo film di Star Trek

Paramount Pictures ha incaricato Kalinda Vasquez nello scrivere il prossimo film ambientato nell’universo di Star Trek. Il nuovo progetto, secondo quanto riportato da Deadline, sarebbe prodotto dalla Bad Robot di J.J. Abrams, di conseguenza possiamo aspettarci un sorta di continuità con i precedenti film ambientati nel KelvinVerse, anche se ancora non ci sono indiscrezioni a tal proposito. La…

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New Heralds Rise to Serve Galactus in new What If…? One-shots!

New Heralds Rise to Serve Galactus in new What If…? One-shots! #comics #comicbooks

One of the most feared beings in all existence is actively recruiting! This January, a new series of one-shots dares to ask the question: What if Galactus turned some of Marvel’s best and brightest heroes into his new cosmic heralds? See Hulk, Gambit, Moon Knight, Rogue, and Spider-Gwen transformed by the power cosmic and tormented by new purpose in stories delivered by a lineup of superstar…

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HBO & Games of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin are voltroning up with Kalinda Vazquez to develop an adaptation of Roger Zelazny’s 1979 sci-fi/fantasy novel Roadmarks

The man that made the world utter, “Winter’s Coming” will act as the series exec-producer. Kalinda Vazquez (Marvel’s Runaways, Once Upon A Time, Star Trek: Discovery) will take on the screenwriting duties.

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Zelazny's book focuses on "a highway that can travel through time, linking all timelines and places together for the very special people who discover it. Some might use it to explore the vast mysteries of the world, but for others, the road might be their only hope to survive, rewrite life-altering mistakes, and create a better future for themselves and the ones they love."

Martin had this to add “My career in television started in 1985 when I adapted Roger Zelazny’s Last Defender of Camelot for The Twilight Zone. Roger was a friend, a mentor, and one of the greatest science fiction writers who ever lived. It was an honor to be able to bring his work to television. That is why I am so thrilled to be a part of adapting Roger’s novel Roadmarks for HBO. We have a great book, a great screenwriter in Kalinda Vasquez, and the makings of a wonderful, original show. I look forward to a long and thrilling journey.”

via - Comicbookmovie

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Wow this is going be kinda weird, you got GRRM who’s so real, researched and unfiltered in everyway matching up with Vazquez who seems be hanging on the new forced Hollywood programming in media. Is this going to be a relief for KV so she can now get down to really honing her craft under Martin’s earned protection or is this going to be a battle that get’s marooned in development hell?

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Destiny, Marvel’s Runaways, 1.03

Nina Lopez-Corrado (D), Kalinda Vasquez (S), 21/11/17

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Roger Zelazny's 'Roadmarks' On Track To Become A HBO Series

Roger Zelazny’s ‘Roadmarks’ On Track To Become A HBO Series

George R.R. Martin is helping one of Roger Zelazny‘s books become a television series. Deadline reports he is involved in a HBO adaptation of Zelazny’s 1979 novel Roadmarks as an executive producer. The novel tells the tale of a literal highway of time linking different and timelines together. A very special few may use the highway, and while some take the Doctor Who example of exploring its…

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I loathe Jane Espenson. She used to love Rumbelle deeply - in fact, she rather swooned about them to a fan at a con some years back. Then, she stopped giving a damn. She loved writing Rumple with other women (hello Cora), and ultimately she found a new favorite in the toxic as hell, trashy, boring CS. Andrew Chambliss, Kalinda Vasquez, Adam/Eddy, Leah Fong, Dana ..... - all were far better writers for Rumbelle. They “got” Rumbelle.

I’ll be honest - I have no idea what the post you referred to said because I chose not to read it, but I don’t agree that Adam and Eddy resented Rumbelle. Belle was supposed to be one and done, never to be seen again. Instead, they loved Em and Bobby’s chemistry so much that they brought her back and made her a regular. They also gave Rumple an epic redemption story and Rumbelle an epic, timeless love story. I don’t even think they liked CS much - they put no effort into them at all.

My biggest problem with A/E was that they didn’t give a damn about Belle. They wasted Em, wasted her chemistry with Bobby. They erased Belle from Gideon’s story and fired her before S7. I’ll never forgive them for these transgressions, but I will also always be grateful for Rumbelle, the greatest love story ever.*

*It goes without saying that Bobby and Em are Rumbelle; there is no Rumbelle without them

Replying to this post by @gch1995. I wanted to make a separate post just in case the OP didn’t want to see my ranting.

Regarding Jane’s comments about Rumple from the DVD commentary, I actually think she was right on in saying that Rumple’s reaction to Belle coming back was out of character for him at that specific time. Back in the FTL days, Rumple was constantly hiding behind a front of the manic imp or stoic indifference. His true feelings were only shown in small glimpses and usually only to Belle. So for him to openly show his hope and excitement about Belle’s return (albeit only to the audience) was OOC to the role he was playing. This was the first time in a long time that he was allowing himself to actually be himself without any pretense. I think that’s what Jane means when she talks about him being OOC; that he’s willing to open himself up to love and show it, not that he’s unable to love.

However, as the series went on you can tell than Jane’s understanding of Rumple (and Rumbelle) waned. Actually, it was probably more that her interest waned and so just didn’t take the time to really think about the characters and fight for them when their story arcs veered off course.

I’ve watched several shows where Jane was on the writing team and she very obviously has a type when it comes to the characters/couples she favors: she likes bad boys and bad boy/good girl relationships. That’s probably why she was such a good fit to write Rumple/Rumbelle during the early seasons; it fit perfectly in her wheelhouse and it was something that held her interest. Then around S3, there was suddenly a new bad boy with a good girl love interest that she favored and Rumple/Rumbelle fell to the wayside.

It’s interesting that you mention the writers being resentful of Rumbelle because that’s the impression that I always had too. My irresponsible speculation is that A&E were a tad bitter that Rumbelle became a fan favorite completely by accident and eclipsed the popularity of their intended “power couple.”

In retrospect though, I don’t think that Rumbelle would have fared any better had they been A&E’s favorites. We saw what happened to their faves; while that couple wasn’t subjected to quite as much separation, recycled plotlines, and OOC behavior, their story certainly wasn’t well written or satisfying either.