How To Deal With Change

So this past week, in getting a fever pitch created for Comic-Con, Marvel announced BIG changes to the Avengers empire. Also, this week our church had to deal with a BIG change which also has personal ramifications for me. Change can be disarming for anyone, and BIG changes can be downright nauseating. How one deals with change in a transitional phase of life can be determine much, but what does the Bible say about how to deal with the change?

You many know most of the Avengers in this pic, but introducing the new Superior Iron Man, Female Thor, and Sam Wilson (ex-Falcon), the new Captain America.

Jesus Loves Noobs: Marvel Movie Character Rights

Although, Spiderman looks like a natural for the Avengers in comic book land, all is not well in movie land :(

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! While we certainly shouldn't need a holiday to remember to be thankful to He who created everything and who provides everything and to be thankful to one another, it certainly can't hurt right? One of the things (of many, many things) I am thankful for this year is the awesome year that Marvel has had! They have released some quality comics, blown up the movie theaters with blockbusters, and most importantly this year, they've launched their first TV show on ABC called Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.!

You can catch it on ABC every…I don't know what night it's on. I catch it on Hulu Plus.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. follows the exploits of Agent Phil Coulson (yes he's alive!) and a special team of agents from the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division following the events of Chitauri invasion in New York from The Avengers movie. Now that Americans know that not only are there super humans and Asgardians, but there are also aliens from different galaxies that mean to do Earth harm, the team of misfits is tasked with making sure that no (potential) threats of the "supernatural" kind put America in harm's way. 

Thor: The Dark World

The other night, Mrs. Nerd and I went to watch Thor: The Dark World with some friends at the Irvine Spectrum in IMAX 3D. It was 52x72 feet worth of Asgardian gods kicking major butt. I really enjoyed this flick despite some naysayers out there regarding the weakness of the villain which I will address.

This time, Thor and company, are up against a returning army of dark elves who are looking for their WMD, which was locked away by Odin's dad after the dark elves lost in the last war against the Asgardians, in order to plunge the nine realms back into darkness.

The production value was clearly stepped this time around and just the look and feel of the movie felt not campy, but as real as comic book world with nine realms with one of them being a realm of Norse-ish gods could be. I guess the first Thor didn't have much to work with in settings since the scenes on earth were in New Mexico, but the scenes in Asgard looked sooooo cartoony. Having more settings to shoot in like different planets and realms as well as the backdrop of gloomy London really helped out BIG TIME.