Marvel Comics Never Learn, The Consequences of No Consequences, Loki Season 2 Update and More
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Marvel Comics never learn from their mistakes. Their trailer for Daniel Kibblesmith’s New Warriors miniseries became one of the most mocked and downvoted videos in YouTube history. He’s been rewarded with a Blade one-shot. Only in comic books. (00:00:00) We are living in a new era of comic books that is filed by a singular issue: there are no consequences. No matter your job performance or unprofessional behavior, if you are part of the right click you will always get a new opportunity or promotion in comic books. (00:10:32) Bleeding Cool’ Rich Johnston is tying himself in knots trying not to address the real criticism people have about Marvel’s United States of Captain America. (00:29:33) James Tynion IV opened up about not wanting to work on DC’s planned 5G event. Turns out it was for good reason. The scrapped event was planning on destroying a loved hero. (00:41:43) Valiant Comics named Rob Levin new executive editor this week. Until they acknowledge their issues, readers won’t return. (00:57:31) Mark Pellegrini noticed a lot of Mirage and Archie era TMNT comics have went from the dollar bin to high-price status lately. (01:16:24) Loki Executive Producer and Director Kate Herron won’t return for the second season on Disney+. (01:35:02) Wes and Dok roast Chris Cantwell’s latest comic Iron Man #10 (01:46:01). Finally, Wes reviews the debuts of Moon Knight (02:05:21) and Superman and the Authority. (02:23:25)   Support Thinking Critical at Ko-fi. Monthly subscriptions receive bonus content and early access to some channel content. Ko-fi.com/thinkingcritical Thank you for supporting the channel!
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