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How WandaVision Has Blazed a New Path for Women in the MCU

This article contains WandaVision spoilers. The Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t exactly have a great track record with female characters. There, I said it. Because despite the fact that these films feature some of Marvel Comics’ most recognizable women in Natasha Romanoff, Carol Danvers, Gamora, Janet Van Dyne, and Jane Foster, too many of these characters are often still stuck languishing on the sidelines, serving as love interests or plot devices, and sometimes both, if they’re lucky. The various Marvel television series have made much-needed progress in this area – thank you Netflix’s Defenders universe and ABC’s Agents of SHIELD –…
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How The Batman: Hush Movie Blazed a Trail for The Long Halloween

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Batman: The Long Halloween. With the announcement of an animated two part feature adapting Batman: The Long Halloween to movie format came no small amount of trepidation. You see, The Long Halloween, was based on a Jeph Loeb comic. And like the other Jeph Loeb comics converted to movies (Hush and two Batman/Superman stories), The Long Halloween is a bad comic. But the one glimmer of hope that shone through this announcement for me was that the most recent adaptation of his work – Batman: Hush – was a marked improvement on its source…
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