Quick, explain Jean Greys powers! Stop, you just wasted 15 minutes of my life and yours. Even though companies spend millions on advertising, word of mouth still bolsters those efforts. It's difficult to convince a skeptical friend to spend a few hours in the theatre if you cant explain what they are going to see properly. By way of contrast, Carol Danvers' powers are perfect for the casual viewer or newcomer she can fly, shes basically bulletproof and shes super-strong. Somehow I think audiences can create a reasonable idea in their minds based on that description. Sure, there is more to it than that if you want to get all nerdy which I do with it, but the basics are easily relatable and also well within the scope of what we can expect from studios to accomplish. This goes far in terms of creating expectations that can be met without concern that the studio would lay up so to speak. Thats how you justify a strong budget and high expected returns, without having to rely on mystical artefacts, psychic locking or xenobiology. Outside the geek dollar, those things aren't going to put bums on seats.
Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)
