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The Fifth Color | Everyone is Spider-Man
Now that we’ve all giddily watched the latest trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, we can all agree it needed more Spider-Man. Now that Marvel Studios is free to use the web-head in its...
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The Fifth Color | The sum of Wolverine’s parts
Wolverines is such a cheesy book. The idea that fans would clamor for a book chock-full of weird Wolverine lore and characters who are effectively talking to each other about Wolverine and going...
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Forward Into the Past! ‘Secret Wars’ and Marvel in June 2015
I haven’t done one of these in a while, because if you look too long into the solicitations, they start to stare back. With all the access we have to spoilers, reviews, previews and other online...
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The Fifth Color | Magneto, John Cena and an air of righteousness
Happy Wrestlemania weekend, everybody! Sports entertainment and comic books are like cookies and milk these days, what with pro wrestlers stepping into the writers’ chair from time to time to the...
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The Fifth Color | What makes the Punisher punish?
I think I finally realized why we’re here. The penultimate issue of Nathan Edmondson’s run on The Punisher, Issue 17, arrived this week and contained more of a solid understanding of the Frank Castle...
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The Fifth Color | The cornucopia of story that is Daredevil
I’ll admit it: I fell asleep at midnight last night. I got really close to the debut of Netflix’s Daredevil series, and stayed up as late as my poor brain could take, but then the next thing you know...
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The Fifth Color | There is no exit from ‘Secret Wars’
Well, here we go. Three years in the making, two of Marvel’s most prestigious titles dedicated entirely to its development, a complex mythology created practically out of whole cloth by Jonathan...
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The Fifth Color | A-Force and ‘Your Universe,’ an owner’s manual
Sorry for the absence, but I’ve been doing a lot of traveling, in and out of the country this month, which has taught me a valuable lesson: the English language makes no sense. English is complicated,...
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The Fifth Color | A return love letter to Kaare Andrews
Dear Mr. Andrews, Forgive the Victorian formality of this letter as, while we have never met in person, I have been a great admirer of your work for a few years now. Your wonderful covers for the...
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The Fifth Color | Reboots and the elasticity of memory
Sometimes big marketing announcements can take the wind out of the sails of the comic event you’re reading. Let me explain: Late Wednesday, Marvel began rolling out promo images for the “All-New,...
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ is Punisher’s perfect home
Frank Castle's ideal role may be in serving as the dark reflection of Matt Murdock.
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | Peter Parker, the eternal child
Why does Spider-Man have to be a perpetual child?
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | How new and different is Marvel in October?
From "A-Force" to "Karnak" to "Vision," we parse Marvel's avalanche of all-new, all-different titles.
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | A fresh start for Ant-Man’s old legacy
Marvel's "Ant-Man" isn't a perfect film, but it manages to make Hank Pym and Scott Lang relatable.
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | Mythology, Marvel and what makes a superhero
Following the announcement of a new "Hercules" series, ROBOT 6's Carla Hoffman considers whether the Greek demigod really was the "first superhero."
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | Plato’s perfect Fantastic Four
With the new "Fantastic Four" movie whisked away to the Negative Zone, we look at why the essential elements of Marvel's First Family are so tough to unlock.
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | A Loki at the end of the universe
Loki has reinvented himself time and again, but what will the god of lies be when he emerges on the other end of "Secret Wars"?
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | The Inhuman-mutant divide
Setting aside those nagging Inhumans rumors, there's actually a pretty good argument for rethinking the X-Men's place within the Marvel Universe.
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | Ms. Marvel, family and the American Dream
A seemingly simple gesture in this week's issue of "Ms. Marvel" makes an enormous impact.
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | The Final Word
After nearly a decade, ROBOT 6's Carla Hoffman bids farewell to "The Fifth Color."
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