#kalinda vazquez

[evilhorse]

Can we hit pause on the nerd history lesson for a second?

(Avengers #6)

[joezy27]

HAWKEYE - Kate Bishop, Private Eye of Asgard

Avengers Unlimited - Infinity Comic (2023) #58 by Kalinda Vazquez, Alba Glez & Walda Wong

[geekcavepodcast]

"What If...?" Series Has Galactus Handing Out the Power Cosmic

Marvel Comics has announced a series of What If...? comic one-shots that explores what happens if Galactus turns various heroes into his cosmic heralds. The "lucky" recipients of the Power Cosmic are Hulk, Gambit, Moon Knight, Rogue, and Spider-Gwen. The heros' new cosmic looks are designed by Ron Lim, who also provides the comic book covers.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Hulk #1 hails from Mat Groom and Lan Medina. The Hulk has been conscripted into Galactus' service, but what is more dangerous, the Hulk's fury or Bruce Banner's brain?

What If...? Galactus Transformed Hulk #1 goes on sale on January 1, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Gambit #1 hails from Josh Trujillo and Manuel Garcia. Gambit's charm and unmatched thieving abilities have caught Galactus' eye. With the Power Cosmic can Gambit "steal the unstealable?"

What If...? Galactus Transformed Gambit #1 goes on sale on January 8, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Moon Knight #1 hails from Alex Segura, Scot Eaton, and Cam Smith. Galactus clashes with Khonshu and Moon Knight is caught in the middle. To keep the peace, Moon Knight becomes a herald of Galactus, but the Power Cosmic is manifesting in new ways due to his alters. Can Moon Knight conquer these powers and some former heralds in time to save the Earth?

What If...? Galactus Transformed Moon Knight #1 goes on sale on January 15, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Rogue #1 hails from Ann Nocenti and Stephen Byrne. Young Rogue has absorbed Silver Surfer's Power Cosmic, blessing her with incredible power, but also cursing her to be Galactus' new herald.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Rogue #1 goes on sale on January 22, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen #1 hails from Kalinda Vazquez and Daniel Picciotto. Spider-Gwen comes to the aid of a wounded herald, causing her to be enlisted into Galactus' service. During her new role of surveying the galaxy, Gwen encounters a world that reminds her of home. Can she ally with it's residents to battle against cosmic forces?

What If...? Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen #1 goes on sale on January 29, 2025.

(Images via Marvel Comics - Ron Lim's Covers of What If...? Galactus Transformed Hulk #1, What If...? Galactus Transformed Gambit #1, What If...? Galactus Transformed Moon Knight #1, What If...? Galactus Transformed Rogue #1, and What If...? Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen #1)

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SDCC 2023: New Marvel Unlimited Infinity Comics revealed!

SDCC 2023: New Marvel Unlimited Infinity Comics revealed! #marvel #marvelunlimited #digitalcomics #sdcc #sdcc2023 #sdcc23 #comiccon #comiccon2023

This weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Unlimited announced an exciting line-up of new Infinity Comics coming to the app! MARVEL MEOW #13 Writer, Artist, and Colorist: Nao FujiWeekly Series Returns for a 6-issue Arc on July 28 The Marvel Universe’s most fearsome foes finally meet their match… cute cats! Black Cat’s cats foil Doctor Octopus’ plans. LOVE UNLIMITED: GAMBIT & ROGUE…

[keycomicbooks]

America Chavez Made in the USA #1 (2021) Variant Junggeun Yoon Cover & Carlos E. Gomez Pencils, Kalinda Vazquez Story, 1st Cameo Appearance of Catalina Chavez, 1st Appearance of The Santanas (the family who found America when she entered the mainstream reality of Marvel 616), & The Origin of America Chavez

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[why-i-love-comics]

Avengers Unlimited: Infinity Comic #54 - "Asgard Condifential" (2023)

written by Kalinda Vazquez art by Alba Glez, Walden Wong, & Erick Arciniega

[katebishopeveryday]

Avengers Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #58 Kalinda Vazquez & Alba Glez

[dotthings]

Robbie Thompson as ep on a horror show!!! Yesss!!! And ep Kalinda Vazquez wrote America Chavez comics for Marvel.

Also it's being produced by Amblin Entertainment TV, Steven Spielberg's company, and Spielberg was a producer/story developer/co-writer of the og film. Poltergeist is one of my favorite horror movies (the sequels are not terrible, but not nearly as good as the first one) and it'll be interesting to see how directly connected this is to the Freeling family and the events of the og film. (Y'all. Robbie's working for Steven Spielberg--well, his company. That's great for Robbie).

[flyingfish1]

Robbie Thompson:

I think representation is invaluable. […] [I]f I’m gonna be personal about it, it’s also just important to me. My wife [Kalinda Vazquez] is a person of color, my mom is biracial, my grandfather immigrated from Mexico to here. And I don’t see them on the screen. I don’t see them. And when I do, they’re a horrible stereotype. And that’s horrible. No individual person should be made to feel that way. It’s just bad storytelling to me, because it’s not the world we live in. You walk down these halls and you’re going to see every single type of person, every single type of representation, to not have that in your story to me, is just bad storytelling. But also it’s just a shitty thing to do. […]

A movie like Moonlight is epic to me. It’s like a fucking Lawrence of Arabia scale in terms of, you’ve never seen that depicted before and done by people who really understand what that experience is. It’s an authentic representation. That’s why that movie connected with people, because people are finally getting to see either themselves, or, “Wow, I’ve never seen that story from that point of view.” […] If you can change one person’s point of view, or just as importantly if you can show someone, hey, you haven’t been deleted by culture, here’s you, here’s a version of you, it’s worth it. And it doesn’t always have to be a positive kind of version of it, it can be a complex depiction. […]

We had a Native American consult on one of the comic books for Marvel, it was a great experience. But people from diverse backgrounds should be writing these stories as well. They also shouldn’t be relegated to writing just the story about that perspective. People will say all the time, “I’d like to see more women writing female characters,” like I wrote Silk and people said, “Oh, I think a woman should write that.” Yeah, you’re right. But a woman should write Spider-Man. A woman should write Superman. A woman should write Batman. […]

Diversity is important, inclusion is more important. And making people realize like we can all tell these stories. It’s a bee in my bonnet, it’s a personal issue to me, but I think ultimately if you want to be good at your job as a writer, part of your job is to reflect the world we live in. And if the world you live in is completely homogenized, you gotta get out of your bubble if you really want to tell a story that’s gonna connect with more people.

-Nerds and Beyond interview, 2018

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I’ve been rereading some older Robbie Thompson interviews – as you do, lol – and I came across this quote on diversity and representation and inclusion in media. It’s great: I’ve abridged it for tumblr but I recommend going through to the article and reading the whole answer (I'll include the link in a reblog), because he goes into more depth about diversity in the comics industry, about the impact characters can have on marginalized audiences, about writing complex female characters, and about building empathy through fiction.

What a mission statement, right?

The interview’s from 2018, so it’s well before he became the showrunner of The Winchesters of course, but my mind went to that show and to all the diverse characters who've been cast in it. I’m especially thinking about the character of Carlos, a Latino character written by a writer/showrunner who's of Mexican descent himself.

I’m glad he’s making this happen! I’m glad that – out of all the people who could theoretically have become the showrunner of this thing – it was him. I’m glad he’s a showrunner now, period. I bet he'll do good things.

[mediamixs]

Poltergeist TV Series: what to expect

Amazon and MGM Studios are currently developing a new TV series based on the iconic horror film Poltergeist. The series is still in early stages, with no writer or release date confirmed yet.

Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Television, which produced the original 1982 film, will also produce the show. Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will serve as executive producers.

The Poltergeist TV series will be set in the same world as the original film, but no plot details have been revealed so far. It's possible that cast members from the movie like Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams could reprise their roles as Steve and Diane Freeling.

In a recent update, writers Kalinda Vazquez (Star Trek: Discovery) and Robbie Thompson (Supernatural) have been tapped as showrunners for the series. This marks the latest attempt by Amazon to adapt well-known MGM properties since acquiring the studio.

The original Poltergeist film, co-written by Spielberg, was a major success upon its release in 1982. It spawned two sequels in the 1980s and a reboot in 2015. There was also a TV series called Poltergeist: The Legacy that aired in the late 1990s.

While the Amazon MGM Studios project is still in early development, the popularity of the Poltergeist franchise suggests the TV series will likely come to fruition in the near future. Fans of the original film will have to stay tuned for more updates on the show's progress and casting.

[evilhorse]

We’re thinking maybe it’s a tribulation event.

(Avengers #6)

[scarlet--wiccan]

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.

[joezy27]

HAWKEYE - Kate Bishop & America Chavez

America Chavez : Made in the USA (2021) #5 By Kalinda Vazquez & Carlos Gómez Variant cover by Natacha Bustos

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America Chavez: Made in the USA #4 by Kalinda Vazquez and Carlos Gómez. Cover by Sara Pichelli. Out in July.

“AMERICA CHAVEZ knows the face of her enemy. She knows what's at stake if she fails. But she doesn't know the truth of her past…yet. She's about to find out.”