When I reviewed Captain Marvel, I was as mixed as most critics are, calling it “fun and breezy but also a tad familiar,” while noting that the movie “has a charming modesty without necessarily standing apart from other entries in the franchise.” But although it’s clearly just anecdotal, I get the sense from talking to friends and colleagues that there’s a general disappointment around Captain Marvel. The bad news is that Captain Marvel is not quite great enough to be a triumph for those progressive ambitions. The good news is that the film is an entertaining ride. But a movie like Captain Marvel is different than, say, Venom or Avengers: Infinity War, in that it doesn’t just have to hit a certain box-office number - the culture wants it to succeed on a harder-to-define metric.īecause it’s the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be a fully female-driven superhero story - last year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp relegated Evangeline Lilly’s Hope to a supporting role - a lot of viewers are rooting for it to help open the door for a more diverse, inclusive Hollywood. All Marvel movies - all comic-book films - are forced to live up to massive commercial projections. That’s all rather daunting, but her greatest challenge is something far more insidious: audience expectations.
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That’s the challenge, nice and simple: Make Up A New Superhero. Superheroes are fun, right? Everyone loves superheroes? Well they are the focus of this month’s COMICS CHALLENGE, where we’re all going to be having a go at making our own.