While I Get My Shit Back Together, Enjoy a Round Up of Comic Con Stuff We Are Moderately Interested In
Yeah, I know. I’m running out of excuses. Goal is to get my blog shit back together this week. The past three days, however, have been full of geekling-nerdy goodness so I’m going to make a list, throw in some videos, and go watch some Musketeers.
Compiled below are some Comic Con things ranging from moderately interesting to fuck, yeah, with a couple of *derp derp derps* thrown in for flavor. Luke may have some to add, some to discard, and some to debate, he’ll let you know when he has a sec, I’m sure.
The Good
Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon, won an Eisner for best single issue (#11). Luke and I both have Hawkeye on our pull lists. My #11 is sitting at my local because I haven’t had a chance to go get it.
Sex Criminals, which Luke mentioned as a GOOD THING on the pod, won the Eisner for Best New Series. Matt Fraction is just that awesome (he also wries the aforementioned Hawkeye). I am now subscribed on Comixology and have the back issues sitting on my lovely new Mini waiting to be read.
Constantine will be terrifying. And bitchin’. And terrifying.
Arrow‘s season three Big Bad? Ra’s al fucking Gul
Gullermo Del Torro’s new flick, Crimson Peak, promises to be wonderfully creepy and Gothic and damn, do I wish I was half as good at writing as Del Torro is at what he does. The casting (Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, and Jessica Chastain) can only enhance the genius.
While Marvel and DC make excuses and poke one another on the issue, someone with half a brain decided to make a Painkiller Jane flick. Directed by women. Look out, the planet may explode.
SCIENCE!
image via nerdist.com
The Eeeeeneresting
A rumor regarding Dr. Strange casting made the rounds, suggesting Joaquin Phoenix was in talks to play the titular man himself. There have been a lot of rumors. I’ve liked most of the other ones more. I’m not saying Phoenix is a bad choice, I’m just saying I’d rather it have been Benedict Cumerbatch or Santiago Cabrera.
The Age of Ultron Comic Con poster is pretty rad but why is the Vision hanging out in the background by himself when other newcomers, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, are front and center? One would think, considering the fan base, Marvel would want Paul Bettany gloriously obvious.
image via i09.com
Marvel announces Guardians of the Galaxy 2. The first one doesn’t even come out until Friday and while reception has been more than decent thus far, perhaps they should have considered setting their cart and their centaur in the proper order.
The *derp derp derps*
Megan Fox complained about her grrrrl power moments being left on the TMNT cutting room floor. Which is amusing considering the character of April O’Neil who, as Valerie June admitted while voicing said in a TMNT spoof sketch on the podcast Wits, “I am the worst. Reporter. Ever.”
This:
image via denofgeek.com
I explain why here.
The body commentary the above engendered. Comment on the costume. Do not make comments about Gal Godot’s body.
Gal Godot is under contract for three films, two of them being Batman v Superman, and Justice League. Where does this leave us re: a Wonder Woman solo movie? Still in limbo. There were some hints but no promises and Justice League has dibs, so… And, despite the recently announced Thor gender swap in the Marvel comic universe, we didn’t get anything exciting re: a lady led film from Kevin Feige either.
And that is the Comic Con 2014 stuff that caught my eye. I will hopefully be going next year (eeeeep!) which should make for more interesting reporting.
I leave you with a final image, which can only be captioned, “They’re real. And they’re fabulous.”
image via Stephen Amell’s face book page. You know you’d be posting if you looked like that, too.
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