Wandavision's Randall Park on Jimmy Woo and who he'd be in the Agents Of Atlas
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For the first three episodes of Wandavision, viewers got a deep, questioning look into Westview, the dubious town that Wanda and Vision had chosen to plop down in. With episode four, though, things were cracked wide open as FBI agent Jimmy Woo arrived to investigate an agent who had gone missing inside, thus leading to the disappearance of S.W.O.R.D.’s Monica Rambeau and, ultimately, the arrival of a whole damn task force designed to figure out what the hell is going on in this little town.
Woo is played by the inimitable Randall Park and was first introduced in Ant-Man And The Wasp, where the agent displayed an interest in the art of close up magic. That’s only further developed in WandaVision, as Park notes in the interview above. We also talk Jimmy Woo’s comic book trajectory into the Agents Of Atlas, mall food court cuisine, and Park’s recent discovery that, after participating in a study last year, he’s already been vaccinated against COVID-19.
New episodes of Wandavision premiere Fridays on Disney Plus.
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For those who don’t know, Agents of Atlas was a superhero team made of characters created in the 1950’s when Marvel was called Atlas Comics.
I don’t know much about Marvel, but this panel is giving me Grant Morrison Doom Patrol vibes. Is that right? I will definitely buy some in my next book order if that is the case.
Not guide as a surreal as Morrison’s Doom Patrol, but definitely a team of oddball heroes with weird and/or tragic backstories who have bonded due to their outsider status. Pretty good, especially the first run. The current version has more of an Avengers or Titans vibe with an all Asian team. Good idea,but I found the execution generic.
Teen Titans – depending on the run – and Doom Patrol can be some of my favorite comics around (give or take a Calvin and Hobbes, but that’s apples and oranges). So I’m sold.
Randall hasn’t read the comics (which is not a crime) or he’d know that Jimmy is the brains and leader of Atlas. I would love to see Randall Park having a conversation with Fin Fang Foom, a gigantic talking dragon.
I just want to see Woo get progressively better at magic until he accidentally becomes a sorcerer.