BY DYLYN PETERSON
Staff Writer, UAS Whalesong

Luke Cage is the best Marvel show, on Netflix or otherwise. It’s got enough of the classic elements to satisfy comics fans, quality writing and production to bring in and hold new viewers, and, most notably, the best soundtrack a superhero, well, anything, has had since the Tim Burton Batman movies (although, I suppose, an argument can be made for Guardians of the Galaxy, but Luke Cage has superior original music). This isn’t to say that the show is flawless, though. It is just much better than its flaws.

The premise of the show is that the titular Luke Cage, formerly Carl Lucas, was wrongfully convicted of a felony a few years back and, thanks to illegal scientific experimentation, escaped from prison with superstrength and (nigh-)unbreakable skin. After the events we see in Jessica Jones, he finds himself in conflict with Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes, a nightclub owner/criminal mastermind half as scary as Daredevil’s Kingpin, but twice as lovable. Both of them are antagonized by Misty Knight, a police officer who dips perhaps too often into the visual language of Sherlock. Continue reading “Luke Cage: Not Quite Bulletproof”