Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Contributor for @DCOfficial @PopverseSays @TheDCUniverse @StreamOnMax @Skybound and @BatmanUniverse and others. Press for @Amowensby. Opinions are my own.
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thepopverse.com | Joshua Lapin-Bertone
During the 1970s Marvel almost relaunched the X-Men as realistic heroes with no costumesToday, it’s hard to walk into a comic book shop without seeing countless X-Men titles, but during the early 1970s, things were different. Marvel had cancelled the original X-Men title due to low sales.
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thepopverse.com | Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Have you ever noticed that Wolverine’s cowl looks similar to Batman? It turns out this is intentional. When you look at Wolverine’s introduction in The Incredible Hulk #180-181 (1974), you’ll notice that his cowl had whiskers and the black ears were noticeably shorter. However, when the character returned for Giant-Size X-Men #1 the whiskers were gone, and his ears have tripled in size. We can thank Gil Kane for that.
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thepopverse.com | Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Family means no one gets left behind. But after watching live-action Lilo & Stitch, I believe some at Disney didn't get the message. I’m not the type of person who gets upset at Disney’s live-action remakes. Sometimes they’re enjoyable, but if not, I still have the original animated classics to go back to. However, the live-action Lilo & Stitch movie made me angry.
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dc.com | Joshua Lapin-Bertone
In 1991, the Flash and his former enemy Pied Piper had a rooftop conversation, and the short scene wound up being one of the most important comic book moments of the year. The Flash #53, written by William Messner-Loebs and penciled by Greg LaRocque,begins with Wally West (who was the Flash at the time) and Hartley Rathaway looking down on Central City from atop one of its high-rises.
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thepopverse.com | Joshua Lapin-Bertone
In 1985 Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel described a dystopian future where the United States had become a country ruled by religious fascism and women had lost most of their rights. For years Atwood had said there would be no sequel, preferring to let the novel speak for itself. However, in 2019 Atwood wrote a sequel called The Testaments. What changed? In a word, the country. “In the 1980s, Handmaid’s Tale appears.
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