Super Tuesday Recap - Comic Book & TV Show Reviews

It's hard to believe but it's that time again: The Return of the Fall Comic Book TV Shows. It's hard to imagine but 6 years ago all we had was Arrow. Now there's almost too many shows to count (or review).  But before we get into the preview of the fall season, we're going to give you a taste of our MailBag discussions that we will be having with the super Tuesday Recap. Today we're starting off with Dpalm gushing over the latest issue of Detective Comics, Kriss talks Marvel Legacy #1 and then a preview of our "Fixing the DCEU" series starting wtih why Matt Reeve's Batman film needs to have Robin. Then we get into the shows: * The Flash * How does Season 4 rebound from a really terrible 3rd season? * Does this have the strongest new set of cast members out of all the CW shows? * Are we going to FINALLY get the Rogues done right? * Arrow * Is there any way for Season 6 to live up to what Season 5 accomplished?  * Adding William can make this all go really bad, really fast * Legends of Tomorrow * Will this be the sleeper hit out of all the CW shows? Season 2 doesn't get enough credit for how consistent and good it was * Grodd is back and why is Darhk seemingly found a better place on Legends than on Arrow? * Inhumans * Is there anyway to save this show after the barrage of poor word of mouth and bad early critic reviews? * Is Kevin Feige just waiting for this to fail so he can give James Gunn a crack at the Inhumans in MCU Cosmic? * Agents of Shield * Is this the last season and are we all okay with that? We're going to have a LOT of content coming out this fall so if you don't want to miss anything, make sure you subscribe to the Super Tuesday Recap feed in iTunes/Google/Stitcher. In addition to our regularly scheduled programming (The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Inhumans and Agents of Shield), we'll also be adding Star Trek Discovery, Black Lightning, The Punisher and possibly The Gifted (might review it like Discovery, a few episodes at a time). So make sure you subscribe. And if you really want to support us and our growth, sign up on our Patreon page. %CODE_STR2017PREVIEW%   Become a Patron! Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 , @TheMTRNetwork

It's hard to believe but it's that time again: The Return of the Fall Comic Book TV Shows. It's hard to imagine but 6 years ago all we had was Arrow. Now there's almost too many shows to count (or review).  But before we get into the preview of the fall season, we're going to give you a taste of our MailBag discussions that we will be having with the super Tuesday Recap. Today we're starting off with Dpalm gushing over the latest issue of Detective Comics, Kriss talks Marvel Legacy #1 and then a preview of our "Fixing the DCEU" series starting wtih why Matt Reeve's Batman film needs to have Robin. Then we get into the shows: * The Flash * How does Season 4 rebound from a really terrible 3rd season? * Does this have the strongest new set of cast members out of all the CW shows? * Are we going to FINALLY get the Rogues done right? * Arrow * Is there any way for Season 6 to live up to what Season 5 accomplished?  * Adding William can make this all go really bad, really fast * Legends of Tomorrow * Will this be the sleeper hit out of all the CW shows? Season 2 doesn't get enough credit for how consistent and good it was * Grodd is back and why is Darhk seemingly found a better place on Legends than on Arrow? * Inhumans * Is there anyway to save this show after the barrage of poor word of mouth and bad early critic reviews? * Is Kevin Feige just waiting for this to fail so he can give James Gunn a crack at the Inhumans in MCU Cosmic? * Agents of Shield * Is this the last season and are we all okay with that? We're going to have a LOT of content coming out this fall so if you don't want to miss anything, make sure you subscribe to the Super Tuesday Recap feed in iTunes/Google/Stitcher. In addition to our regularly scheduled programming (The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Inhumans and Agents of Shield), we'll also be adding Star Trek Discovery, Black Lightning, The Punisher and possibly The Gifted (might review it like Discovery, a few episodes at a time). So make sure you subscribe. And if you really want to support us and our growth, sign up on our Patreon page. %CODE_STR2017PREVIEW%   Become a Patron! Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 , @TheMTRNetwork

We’ve definitely hit our Super Tuesday Recap groove cause we’re back already with a new episode. This time we bring in Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips to also share his thoughts on Secret Empire. We also wanted to do a follow up to our last episode on Secret Empire now that the wrap-up issue, Secret Empire: Omega, has come out.  In our last episode we speculated about what would be in Omega and it turns out, it was even better than we thought. Secret Empire: Omega really lays out the moral issue at the heart of the event: How much different was Hydra Steve from the previous government and people in place? Hydra Steve's methods were direct and easy to call fascist but he was only able to get as far as he did because the moral compass of America was already in decay.

We’ve definitely hit our Super Tuesday Recap groove cause we’re back already with a new episode. This time we bring in Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips to also share his thoughts on Secret Empire. We also wanted to do a follow up to our last episode on Secret Empire now that the wrap-up issue, Secret Empire: Omega, has come out.  In our last episode we speculated about what would be in Omega and it turns out, it was even better than we thought. Secret Empire: Omega really lays out the moral issue at the heart of the event: How much different was Hydra Steve from the previous government and people in place? Hydra Steve's methods were direct and easy to call fascist but he was only able to get as far as he did because the moral compass of America was already in decay.

%CODE_SE10% It’s the Super Tuesday Recap you’ve been asking us for. Kriss, Dpalm and Justin are back to discuss Nick Spencer’s Secret Empire. If we sound a bit animated during the show it’s because there has been an incredible amount of poorly written takes on this event. Now of course, not everyone is going to like or even agree with everything that happens in this event. That’s perfectly okay. What’s not okay though is when entire articles are written or discussions are had and basic facts are misconstrued or worse, ignored. Here are some of basics we talk about in breaking down this event: This is as much Sam’s Story as it is Steve’s One of the instant ways I can tell if an article or discussion on Secret Empire is worth my attention is if there’s any mention of Sam Wilson. This Io9 article mentions him twice but only in passing, not as central to the story. To be fair that’s 2 more times than most other articles trashing Secret Empire. This IGN article that’s been passed around a lot, Why Secret Empire Failed, mentions Sam Wilson zero times. You cannot have a real discussion about Secret Empire without Sam Wilson. He’s at least half (if not more) of the story. Everyone’s been so focused on Steve but Nick Spencer’s run on both Captain America books and Secret Empire has been about making Sam Wilson the hero and Captain America the Marvel Universe needs even when they didn’t know it. Yes, Sam gives up being Captain America for a bit but it’s understandable why. It wasn’t just Steve working against him but also the country (or at least the folks Sam was listening to). But Sam is a hero. So even when he gave up Captain America he was still helping people. He was still bitter though, even saying that maybe the people didn’t deserve Captain America. But it takes Misty Knight and a young Patriot to tell Sam that his problem was he was too busy worrying about the opinions of the wrong people and not those who really needed him and supported him. And that’s when Sam Wilson reemerges. Right when the rest of the heroes think they’ve been defeated Sam picks the shield up and leads them to victory. Make no mistake: Sam is the hero who saves the day here, not good Steve. By the time the other Steve Rogers shows up, the fight is over. Kobik is rescued and the fight is over. The end panels of Secret Empire prove this: Steve gives the shield back to Sam (“This doesn’t belong to me”), the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes shot has Sam not Steve and most telling, at the end the kids are fighting over a Captain America doll that is revealed to be…Sam. It’s a Discussion on America The panel of good Steve knocking out Hydra Steve with Mjolnir spread around social media fueling the idea that bringing back the “good” Steve was the end game for Secret Empire. The problem is, the panels before and after the Steves fight offer a lot of missing context. As I mentioned above, by the time the Steves square off, the war is over. Kobik has been freed and Hydra Steve no longer has any power. But Sam stops Bucky from intervening because Sam knows that Steve basically needs to face himself. It’s a metaphor for white people in America confronting their own white privilege. See, fighting fascism and bigotry isn’t just about confronting the low hanging fruit (Hydra or Nazis or Neo-Nazis or Alt-Right). It’s also about confronting the evil bigotry inside which is what the fight between the Steves is. And in that fight, Steve uses the tools of a black person (The Shield) and a woman (Thor’s Mjolnir) to defeat the evil reflection in himself. But the most important part comes after the fight: He hands the shield back to Sam and Mjolnir back to Thor (Jane Fos...

%CODE_SE10% It’s the Super Tuesday Recap you’ve been asking us for. Kriss, Dpalm and Justin are back to discuss Nick Spencer’s Secret Empire. If we sound a bit animated during the show it’s because there has been an incredible amount of poorly written takes on this event. Now of course, not everyone is going to like or even agree with everything that happens in this event. That’s perfectly okay. What’s not okay though is when entire articles are written or discussions are had and basic facts are misconstrued or worse, ignored. Here are some of basics we talk about in breaking down this event: This is as much Sam’s Story as it is Steve’s One of the instant ways I can tell if an article or discussion on Secret Empire is worth my attention is if there’s any mention of Sam Wilson. This Io9 article mentions him twice but only in passing, not as central to the story. To be fair that’s 2 more times than most other articles trashing Secret Empire. This IGN article that’s been passed around a lot, Why Secret Empire Failed, mentions Sam Wilson zero times. You cannot have a real discussion about Secret Empire without Sam Wilson. He’s at least half (if not more) of the story. Everyone’s been so focused on Steve but Nick Spencer’s run on both Captain America books and Secret Empire has been about making Sam Wilson the hero and Captain America the Marvel Universe needs even when they didn’t know it. Yes, Sam gives up being Captain America for a bit but it’s understandable why. It wasn’t just Steve working against him but also the country (or at least the folks Sam was listening to). But Sam is a hero. So even when he gave up Captain America he was still helping people. He was still bitter though, even saying that maybe the people didn’t deserve Captain America. But it takes Misty Knight and a young Patriot to tell Sam that his problem was he was too busy worrying about the opinions of the wrong people and not those who really needed him and supported him. And that’s when Sam Wilson reemerges. Right when the rest of the heroes think they’ve been defeated Sam picks the shield up and leads them to victory. Make no mistake: Sam is the hero who saves the day here, not good Steve. By the time the other Steve Rogers shows up, the fight is over. Kobik is rescued and the fight is over. The end panels of Secret Empire prove this: Steve gives the shield back to Sam (“This doesn’t belong to me”), the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes shot has Sam not Steve and most telling, at the end the kids are fighting over a Captain America doll that is revealed to be…Sam. It’s a Discussion on America The panel of good Steve knocking out Hydra Steve with Mjolnir spread around social media fueling the idea that bringing back the “good” Steve was the end game for Secret Empire. The problem is, the panels before and after the Steves fight offer a lot of missing context. As I mentioned above, by the time the Steves square off, the war is over. Kobik has been freed and Hydra Steve no longer has any power. But Sam stops Bucky from intervening because Sam knows that Steve basically needs to face himself. It’s a metaphor for white people in America confronting their own white privilege. See, fighting fascism and bigotry isn’t just about confronting the low hanging fruit (Hydra or Nazis or Neo-Nazis or Alt-Right). It’s also about confronting the evil bigotry inside which is what the fight between the Steves is. And in that fight, Steve uses the tools of a black person (The Shield) and a woman (Thor’s Mjolnir) to defeat the evil reflection in himself. But the most important part comes after the fight: He hands the shield back to Sam and Mjolnir back to Thor (Jane Fos...

*We start this episode with a special message about how to donate directly to black women affected by Harvey. Here are the links you need (they're case sensitive): * Donate List: Bit.Ly/SupportBlackWomenHOU * Recipiant Application: Bit.Ly/SupportBWHOU Let's start with an apology up front: Kriss was definitely out of control this episode. But again, this is why we don't get the whole Super Tuesday crew together for reviews. Anyway, we wrap up our Defender review with episodes 7 & 8. We talk about where we see the characters going in their respective solo shows, who Maggie is at the end and sprinkled throughout are various words of wisdom like why you should always fight and old person. Yeah its that kind of show. And we end it all with a discussion on The Punisher and why it might not be the show everyone thinks they want. Check out the full review and make sure you subscribe to Super Tuesday Recap on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Music.  %CODE_DEFENDERS3% Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 , @TheDrIsIn2015, @ShittyBonMots @TheMTRNetwork

*We start this episode with a special message about how to donate directly to black women affected by Harvey. Here are the links you need (they're case sensitive): * Donate List: Bit.Ly/SupportBlackWomenHOU * Recipiant Application: Bit.Ly/SupportBWHOU Let's start with an apology up front: Kriss was definitely out of control this episode. But again, this is why we don't get the whole Super Tuesday crew together for reviews. Anyway, we wrap up our Defender review with episodes 7 & 8. We talk about where we see the characters going in their respective solo shows, who Maggie is at the end and sprinkled throughout are various words of wisdom like why you should always fight and old person. Yeah its that kind of show. And we end it all with a discussion on The Punisher and why it might not be the show everyone thinks they want. Check out the full review and make sure you subscribe to Super Tuesday Recap on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Music.  %CODE_DEFENDERS3% Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 , @TheDrIsIn2015, @ShittyBonMots @TheMTRNetwork

We're back with another Super Tuesday Recap. This time we have the whole crew with us and it becomes very obviously, very quickly why we're all not allowed to do Super Tuesday Recaps together. We're reviewing episodes 4 (Royal Dragon), 5 (Take Shelter) and 6 (Ashes, Ashes) of Marvel's The Defenders on Netflix.  You're not going to want to miss this episode. There's plenty of corny jokes (mainly from Kriss), lusting over eye candy, Karen Page hot takes & defenses and more.  Check out the full review and make sure you subscribe to Super Tuesday Recap on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Music.  %CODE_DEFENDERS2% Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 , @TheDrIsIn2015, @ShittyBonMots @TheMTRNetwork

We're back with another Super Tuesday Recap. This time we have the whole crew with us and it becomes very obviously, very quickly why we're all not allowed to do Super Tuesday Recaps together. We're reviewing episodes 4 (Royal Dragon), 5 (Take Shelter) and 6 (Ashes, Ashes) of Marvel's The Defenders on Netflix.  You're not going to want to miss this episode. There's plenty of corny jokes (mainly from Kriss), lusting over eye candy, Karen Page hot takes & defenses and more.  Check out the full review and make sure you subscribe to Super Tuesday Recap on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Music.  %CODE_DEFENDERS2% Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 , @TheDrIsIn2015, @ShittyBonMots @TheMTRNetwork

We're back with a normal Super Tuesday Recap this week. We're reviewing the first three episodes of Marvel's The Defenders on Netflix. We're switching up our reviews for Netflix shows this time and we're breaking out our reviews of series into multiple episodes. This first review will cover the first three episodes (The H Word, Mean Right Hook & Worst Behavior).  Overall we enjoyed the first three episodes, particularly how they bring the heroes together and carry on from where each hero left off in their solo adventures. Charlie Cox and Krysten Ritter are clearly the heavy hitters here in terms of acting and carrying their scenes. But we do think that Fin Jones is much improved in this series and pairing him with Michael Colter's Cage is when both characters shine the most. We also talk about the messiness of the relationships on the show, a possible better order for the solo movies to fit into Defenders better and what feels off about Simone Missick's Misty Knight.  Check out the full review and make sure you subscribe to Super Tuesday Recap on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Music.  %CODE_DEFENDERS1% Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 , @TheDrIsIn2015,  @TheMTRNetwork

%CODE_JessicaJames% On this Super Tuesday Special, Shanna and The Doctor are joined by friend of the show, Ejiro from Project Fandom to discuss the new Netflix movie, The Incredible Jessica James starring Jessica Williams. We also talk about the Supergirl news coming out of San Diego Comic Con. Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MovieTrailerReviews.Net Twitter – @ShittyBonMots & @TheMTRNework

On this episode, Shanna, The Doctor and their special guest Mo from the TV Movie Mistress podcast discuss AwesomeCon, NegroCon and what comics we're reading that you might want to dive into. If you want to check out some of the books we discussed, follow the links: * Heathen - Nicole Alterici - Vault Comics * Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-man - Chip Zdarsky - Marvel Comics * Bitch Planet - Kelly Sue DeConnick - Image Comics * DC Bombshells - Marguerite Bennett -  DC Comics Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @ShittyBonMots, @TheDrisin2015& @TheMTRNetwork

In case you didn’t know, Tom King is currently writing the hell out of Batman over at DC. After turning in a stellar 12 issues on Vision of all characters over at Marvel, King got scooped up by DC to write Batman. He was taking over as writer for Scott Snyder who moved on to All-Star Batman. Snyder’s 52 issue run on Batman was an amazing run that set the bar high for King coming in (You can catch our Comic Book Book Clubs talking about Snyder’s run here, here, here and here). But King has knocked it out of the park. Kriss and Dpalm discuss Tom King's run on Batman then talk about the crossover with The Flash, The Button and what it means for the future of DC in the Rebirth era. Check out our sponsor TweakedAudio.com using the code ‘reviews’ to get 33% off & free shipping. Shop at our Amazon Store to support the site Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 & @TheMTRNetwork

Kriss & Dpalm put together a quick Super Tuesday Recap to talk about the Black Panther teaser trailer released by Marvel. The first black superhero of any major comic book publisher finally gets his own solo film and the first trailer looks amazing. We discuss the importance of this movie and why now is the perfect time for this movie to come out.  We also talk about the importance of black women being in this movie in a significant way. It's been a long wait but because of that, we're getting the movie we deserve. Give the episode a listen and let us know how excited you are for this movie. Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MTRNetwork.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport , @Dpalm66 & @TheMTRNetwork %CODESTBP_RES%