DJ's Comics Blog

THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!! This was hands-down the best Spider-Man movie I have seen. Sure, Spider-Man 1 and 2 in the Raimi trilogy were great, and The Amazing Spider-Man had its good moments, bu this WAS Spider-Man done completely right. Tom Holland was both a brilliant Peter Parker and an amazing (pun intended) Spider-Man. The action scenes were well choreographed, the comedy was excellent, and the easter-eggs were nice. I was probably the only person who noticed the building with 'Bagley' on the side. This was of course a reference to Mark Bagley, who was the artist for the main Spider-Man title for many years, and was also the original artist for 'Ultimate Spider-Man'.  The reveal at the end that Michelle's 'friends call her MJ' feels, to me, like it really should shut some people up, who said it was 'obvious that she was playing Mary-Jane Watson', but she isn't, she was playing 'Michelle Jones'. The post cre...

I've decided that Thursdays are going to be dedicated to comic book movies and TV Shows, and the posts will be slightly later in the day. Today's topic of discussion will be the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and my opinion of which movies are the best released so far. Starting with my favourite to date, I will have to say that it is Captain America: Civil War. Not only was a great adaptation of the comic event from 2006, but it also featured the MCU debut of Spider-Man. Marvel did a great job of making changes to the narrative, so that they utilised the characters that they have the film rights to, and Tom Holland was just the best Spider-Man/Peter Parker we have been given thus far. Then, it has to be the first Iron Man film, the one that kicked this whole universe off in the first place. Robert Downey Jr. was the perfect casting for Tony Stark, and I just thought it was a good film overall. (I would also like you all to remember that The Incredible Hulk movie from th...