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Quantum of Solace would be better on valium, James Bond seriously needs some gadgets, the Bond girls are boring, All I Want is pathetic but it has typewriters, even T-Pain’s top hat can’t ruin the Ludacris video “One More Drink,” the new Star Trek trailer makes Neal excited, and he wraps up his half with a review of a WSJ review of Slumdog Millionaire.
Then Nick takes over to discuss Uncanny X-Men #165-#175, the “From the Ashes” run by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith. Nick dissects their work, identifying the artistic nuances that make Smith’s pencils so incredible while noting how Claremont introduced so many classic X-Men elements in such a short space of time.
9. Nighthawk - There’s a reason this list starts with Kyle Richmond: he’s stepped up (during and) since Civil War, but not enough to be a rising star. Simply put, Nighthawk is more important in the Marvel Universe now than he was previous to Civil War. Not by a lot, mind you. Just more than before. I thought that his starring role in Last Defenders was a trippy superhero hoot, and I hope that writers continue to push his story further in the direction that Joe Casey kindly put him on.
8. Iron Man - I would be remiss to not include the Iron Avenger in my countdown. Plain and simple, Tony Stark has become the new Wolverine. Now that he has a breakout Hollywood blockbuster under his belt, his street cred is only going up. For readers of Marvel Comics since Civil War, Tony’s star status is a no-brainer. In fact, he’s bordering on overexposure lately, and that’s why he’s so low on this list. The fact remains that Iron Man is more integral to the Marvel Universe now than ever, and it’s safe to say that things will be staying like that for quite some time to come.
7. Hercules - The Lion of Olympus is now the proud owner of his own critically acclaimed solo series (shamelessly stolen from Hulk), and from the looks of things, he’s going to be in Mighty Avengers after Secret Invasion. After smashing the shit out of Clor in the final issue of Civil War, Herc has been on the fast-track to fandom. He’s been the star of some of the best event tie-in stories of the past few years, and if things keep going the way they are right now, Hercules will be one of Marvel’s biggest stars in the upcoming decade.
6. Luke Cage - Carl Lucas was the breakout star of New Avengers following Avengers Disassembled. But following Civil War, Luke took leadership of the team and became this top selling title’s lead character. Luke is now a bonafide staple of the Marvel Universe after languishing on the sidelines for decades. Need proof? Cage gets name-checked by Q-Tip in his new album Renaissance on the track “Dance On Glass,” where Q-Tip calls himself the “Luke Cage of the loose leaf page.”
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Joe Johnson is the director of The First Avenger: Captain America, Austin Powers rips off Cap’s story, RocknRolla is evidence that Guy Ritchie hates old people, redbox teaches Nick that Secrets of the Furious Five sucks, Djimon Hounsou will be the voice of the Black Panther, Beyonce wants to play Wonder Woman, President Obama, NealShyam.com, Internet Explorer sucks at displaying .png files, Terra #1 is awesome, Neal knows more about the Teen Titans than Nick, and Vixen: Return of the Lion is all about going to Africa to hunt down Lindsay Lohan (who is now officially bisexual).
On Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter announced Joe Johnson as the director of 2011’s The First Avenger: Captain America. On the good side, this movie looks like it’s actually going to happen. On the bad side — as it is with any superhero adaptation announcement — there were a number of oddities with The Hollywood Reporter’s article.
1. The title. “First Avenger”? The original Avengers are the ones who un-froze Cap from his Arctic cryogenic stasis in the first place! How the hell is he the “first Avenger”?! I know that this title has been out there for some time now, but I thought I’d mention this as it is endlessly perplexing.
2. The time the article was posted. When I went to look at the official date of announcement, I was surprised to find that this story dropped at 10:00 PM on a Sunday. I know it has to be ready for the Monday papers, but that’s still a strange time to go and publish it online.
3. Joe Johnson is directing Captain America instead of Ant-Man. You would think that Johnson, with his notable experience as the director of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, would have been tapped for the Ant-Man movie. Nope. They gave him a WWII Captain America period piece instead. This guy obviously knows how to do small stuff on a big scale, yet he’s been hired to take over the superhero that requires the least amount of fantasy special effects.
4. The picture accompanying the article. The Hollywood Reporter went out of their way to give a brief history of Steve Rogers, even going so far as to mention the horrid 90s Captain America film. But they ran a picture of the wrong Captain America!!!
Instead of showing Steve Rogers in costume, they have Bucky wearing the new Captain America outfit. WTF?! It could be Marvel’s fault or it could be THR’s fault. Either way, it’s both funny and sad at the same time. You can even see the knife hanging on Bucky’s belt in the image (not to mention those goofy stars on his shoulders).
All-in-all, I’m glad that this is going to get made. I would much rather see a Captain America movie set in the 70s with Steve and The Falcon fighting side-by-side, but any good Cap movie is better than no Cap movie.
Most of all, I’m excited at the prospect of this film hitting theaters a month or so before The Avengers movie. That means Cap will end up in the Arctic at the end of this film and then he’ll get de-thawed in The Avengers just mere weeks later. That’s awesome!!! I can’t even think of another example of tight movie continuity like that. I’m about to piss myself just imagining how sweet that will be.
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