Dominic Mah is a writer, director, rock musical aficionado, and ex-professional gambler. You can check out his film/video stuff here and his disparate thoughts on pop culture, Robotech, and Los Angeles here. He also tweets nerdcore film critiques at @ThorHulkCritic.
The Avengers movie is coming out this week, which is the greatest thing that has ever happened for a small segment of the population, and will likely cause some confusion to the majority of the world (And by “majority of the world,” I mean a) women and b) those not raised within the isolating sphere of comic books) In the coming month, a lot of people are going to get dragged to this movie on a date, but perhaps lack a reference point for WTF is going on with all these superheroes, and have no way of comprehending the massive warm geek-fuzzy that will be experienced by folks like me. So, in the interest of promoting healthy and robust post-movie conversations everywhere, here is a quickie viewers’ guide to the members of the Avengers.


















