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Today on All Comics Considered we have a special guest - an old friend of Marty and Nick, Theresa Griffin of Industrial Athena Cosplay.  We’ll be chatting with her today a bit about her experiences as a cosplayer, and getting her fashion opinions on the Avenger’s Endgame costumes. Support Project Superkid here!  Win a SECRET PRIZE for naming our new Book Club! Theresa Interview When was your first cosplay? What was your favorite cosplay?  How long do you typically spend on a cosplay? What have your experiences been as a cosplayer of color, online and in person at cons? How long have you been in cosplay? How expensive is it usually? Who are your favorite cosplayers?  What’s a cosplay you’ve been dying to do but haven’t yet? Avengers: End Game trailer Costume Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcMBFSGVi1c

Today on All Comics Considered we talk about how to prepare for an ending, and then a little bit about our current and upcoming work, Project Superkid and the ACC Book Club! Project Superkid!   Bookclub Why? Expectations Contest! Give our Bookclub a better name! How do we prepare for The End?

This week, Marty and Hannah are your conductors on the hype train to talk about Endgame, House of X and Power of X (ten).  House of X, Powers of X Notes from the Marvel Panels at C2E2 X-men: Asgardian Wars  Part 1 – X-Men & Alpha Flight (1st series) #1 Part 2 – X-Men & Alpha Flight (1st series) #2 Part 3 – New Mutants Special Edition #1 Part 4 – Uncanny X-Men Annual #9 Images from the series: Check out Pepe Larraz's art!   Endgame https://twitter.com/Ethan_Anderton/status/1110592345567883269

And Today on All Comics Considered we’ll talk about superheroes as a medium, and do a short Pullbox.  Let’s turn the page! Superheroes as a Medium - What’s your favorite genre that’s also a superhero movie? Nick - Buddy comedy “Captain Marvel” Marty - Logan “Western-Horror” Tim - Coming of Age, “Into the Spider-Verse” and probably “Shazam”. Pull Box Nick -Umbrella Academy Tim - MODOK: Marvel Adventures the Avengers Marty - Thor: God of Thunder Jason Aaron  Esad Ribic (et al), Russel Daughterman,  Matt Wilson  Dean White

This week, Marti -- that's the fun nickname for Marty and Tim -- discuss the latest addition to the MCU, Captain Marvel. Beware, here there be spoilers! We break down what we liked, what could have been done better, how this relates to Carol in 616, and what the future may hold for Carol, Monica, and the Avengers.

C2E2 Preview   Surviving Cons in general General feelings about C2E2 Panel recommendations/activities Thursday: Adler After Dark Friday 11 am: Sorting Fair Play Through the Universe (Doctor Who & Inclusion) 12:30: Real life justice league 1:30: This week in Marvel: Spider-man, The Hunted TKO Live! Podcaster Meetup War of the realms: 230 Lion Forge 4pm Super Heroes of DC 5:30 Costume Design (hosted by Oliver) Saturday 11: From Sulu to Rose Tico: Celebrating & Fighting for Asian-Americans in Geek Culture 11:15 Comics Code at 65 Nerd Boss 12:15 Batman turns 80 12:45 Miss Spoken @ CAH 1:30 Business of Comics/Budgeting Eve Ewing Chats Ironheart Afrofuturism 2:30 Iron Circus Comics Marvel: Next Big Thing 14 years of supernatural Marvel Fanfare with CB Cebulski Ming na wen and Clark Gregg talk SHIELD 5:30 Comic Colorists (hosted by Oliver) Sunday Dark Fantasy Panel (zenescope) True Believers Panel Life stage: Wakanda Discussion Cosplaying while Black Women of Marvel Representation in the Spider-verse and why it matters George Perez and Marv Wolfman in conversation

Today on All Comics Considered we’re going to do a Pullbox consisting of works by black creators!   PullBox Marty - Naomi and Bitter Root and LaGuardia Nick - Some thoughts on ethno-futurism - Spec-lit that imagines worlds that exist by different cultural values - what we think of as science-fiction is really just western-futurism - it celebrates and promotes western ideas, and often western(white) people Roots - Archetypes, Story Archetype modes Iconography - Representation, different symbol set Pallette - cultural expressions of color Hannah - “Power & Magic - The Queer Witch Comics Anthology”

Hey their ACC-tion heroes! Today, in addition to some house keeping about episodes and teasing future projects, I go give a Kirby Rating™ and a recommendation for Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetoo,Sunny Gho, and Clayton Cowles'DDrun which began in February of this year. Kirby Rating: .85-.9 Recommendation: Buy it Bonus: Marco's going to be at C2E2 WHAT?

Today on All Comics Considered we’ll do a Project Runway grading of superhero costumes. Let’s make it work!  Project Runway: ACC Style (Costumes Hot or Not) Marty: Kris Anka Hot: McKelvie Captain Marvel Not: every other captain marvel costume ever https://www.instagram.com/p/BqavvD7hedK/ 37813 Hot: God Doom Unpopular opinion… red 3 piece suit with vest and whatnot. Actually, super inappropriate costume because no one wears suits like that on the West Coast. -- Tim Literally from a west coast tailor -- Marty Hannah McKelvie Interview  Nick Good - Beard Captain America, WW2 Captain America, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Man Noir, Kamala Khan Dated - weird chainmail wings on the head Captain America Bad - Namor gets a loincloth, Azrael Batman, Black Widow’s poor spine, Power Girl, (redesign didn’t take) c’mon guys... Adam Warlock Tim Bad - Spider-People: Scarlet Spider’s spandex cum torn sweatshirt. Iron Spider, and Armored Spider-Man. Good - Secret Wars Black Spidey suit, Miles’s, and Spider-Gwen’s sweet hoodie costume.   Good - Adam Warlock’s current incarnation, I’m a sucker for a thunderbolt motif. Bad - Basically every She-Hulk costume, in all reality.  The purple and white number was the best, but even that was jjust a one-piece bathing suit.

Today on All Comics Considered, to kick of Black History Month, Marty and Tim discuss the state of the late great Dwayne McDuffie’s Milestone/EarthM and the Shuri Series! Let’s turn the page! Milestone and EarthM What was Milestone Static Shock Currently Milestone Media Variety Article ResetEra Timeline It’s been over 3 years since the Milestone relaunch was first announced and at this point we don’t have any idea if it’s happening or not. Timeline by Lojo January 2015: Reggie Hudlin, Denys Cowan, and Derek Dingle announce the return of Milestone under the name Milestone Media 2.0. July 2015: DC announces partnership with Milestone 2.0, relaunching the Dakotaverse under the name Earth M. 2015-2017: We hear nothing about the relaunch, but an occasional it’s still happening. May-June 2017: Michael Davis, an original co-founder of Milestone, writes two articles about how he was left out of the reboot and why he thinks Milestone 2.0 is going to fail. August2017: We learn the reason that the relaunch hasn’t happened is a lawsuit between the Dwayne Mcduffie estate and Milestone 2.0. The lawsuit claims Milestone 2.0 hadn’t included McDuffie’s shares in the new company and that his estate had been excluded from all plans for the relaunch. October 2017: DC and Milestone announce that Earth M will launch in Spring 2018. 2018: Earth M does not launch in Spring. We later hear that it was moved to October and again nothing happens with little information given. The last we heard Bendis wanted to use Static in Young Justice, but was denied permission from Milestone. Shuri! Writer: Nnendi Okorafor TED Talk:  https://youtu.be/Mt0PiXLvYlU Artist: Leonardo Romero Colorist:Jordie Bellaire