Nerd Alert: Marvel Edition

Boot up your fan blogs, because the experts are here to over-analyze every single frame of every single Avengers: Endgame trailer. Today, we’ll talk character highlights, speculate about plot points, and, of course, devolve into a panic about all our faves dying. You ready? Because we’re not.

Nothing is more inconvenient for a hero than a living parent. First we talked about bad dads, now let's talk about the dead moms that made the MCU and our favorite characters what they are today.

What’s our standard for a decent dad in the Marvel movies? Don’t try to kill your kid. Today, we seek to discover the non-fratricidal father figures in the MCU who manage to rise above this incredibly high bar. 

In today’s book review, we get inside the mind of the Mad Titan in Barry Lyga’s prequel novel leading to The Snap. No doubt Thanos is brutal in his logic, but this book asks us fascinating questions about the nature of love, isolation, sacrifice, and, ultimately, “salvation.”

We begin the fangirl podcast madness with none other than Captain Marvel - the debut of Marvel's first standalone female superhero title and also the last time we can be excited about a new Marvel movie before Avengers: Endgame destroys us all. This is gonna be fun.