Marvel’s Runaways: “Tsunami” Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

If there was ever any doubt that the Pride on Runaways had slyly and stealthily stolen the spotlight from the teens, “Tsunami” was here to set the detractors straight. Laced with an assortment of gallows humor antics, this chapter saw the parents scramble to get their collective s*** in order following last week’s shooting of Victor.

By the end, freakin’ Robert Minoru was standing in his underwear, wearing the Fistigon, professing his love for Tina in Japanese while she held aloft the Staff of One. It was a tender moment of remorse and reconciliation blended with really goofy “context is absolutely necessary” imagery and…that kind of sums up this episode, for the most part. I won’t dive into everything that went on here, but all the parents, more or less, treated Jonah like he was their scary overlord. The inner-dynamic of Pride not only revealed itself more, but we also learned how the parents all, respectively, feel about their “boss.” We saw, among them, who felt the most important, who was treated as the most important, and who was deemed least valuable.

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Remembering Star Trek: Phase II

Captain James T. Kirk announces at the head of every episode of the original Star Trek that the Enterprise is on a five-year mission. After three years, however, the show was canceled. We did get an additional two years in 1973 with the airing of Star Trek: The Animated Series, but only the most hardcore of Trekkies consider that show to be fully canonical (even the franchise’s handlers consider it to be “semi-canon”). It wasn’t until the late 1970s, when Star Trek was being run in endless syndication, that the show really began to sink its hooks into the pop culture fabric. Fans began assembling in hotel ballrooms as early as January 1972 to celebrate Star Trek, a practice that was, essentially, the invention of pop-culture conventions as we know them.

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Now’s the Perfect Time for Fantastic 4 to Join the MCU

Comic books are complicated. Superhero movie aren’t much better. They’re an intertwining mess of moving plotlines, changing contracts, and shifting alliances, and that’s just talking about the business dealings behind the scenes. On camera, worlds can end in one film and five-second stingers can blow out into entire universes. Trying to work in a new host of characters and concepts can be a headache.

Lucky for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the cosmos is in sync and the stars are aligning. Disney has purchased Fox, bringing a ton of assets along for the ride. That includes Marvel’s First Family, the Fantastic Four. And there couldn’t be a better time for it to happen. It’s sure to bust up some plans, result in a couple of cancelled flicks that started life under Fox, but the moment is right for this merger to begin.

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The Best Marvel Cosplay Of 2017

Marvel cosplay had a strong presence this year at events across the world as fans dressed up as their favorite characters from various Marvel properties. Check out some of the best cosplayers we saw in 2017!

For more Marvel cosplay, check out the outfits we saw at Comic-Con 2017 and SVCC 2017.

Brazil Game Show 2017

Brazil Game Show 2017

C2E2 2017

D23 2017

D23 2017

MCM London 2017

NYCC 2017

NYCC 2017

NYCC 2017

PAX Australia 2017

PAX West 2017

PAX West 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

SDCC 2017

San Francisco Comic Con 2017

San Francisco Comic Con 2017

SVCC 2017

SVCC 2017

SVCC 2017

SVCC 2017

SVCC 2017

SVCC 2017

Wizard World Chicago 2017

Wizard World Chicago 2017

WonderCon 2017

WonderCon 2017

WonderCon 2017

WonderCon 2017

WonderCon 2017

WonderCon 2017

WonderCon 2017

WonderCon 2017

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