Ugh, Marvel quit giving ammo to the Fantastic Four/X-Men conspiracy theorists.
Apparenlty they took away the license for F4 and X-Men from statue manufacturer XM Studios, even while they had new statues in production. I don't think Marvel is trying to kill those franchises or anything, but MAN, something is up with their licensing.
maybe they're just doing that thing they did with Spider-Man merchandise rights previous to the whole MCU deal
where Fox gets all the profits from the movies but Disney/Marvel get full merchandise right
or whatever that deal was, if anyone remembers
Sony's Spider-Man merchandising deal only covered movie merchandising, not all Spider-Man merchandise, and I'd assume that all of Marvel's movie deals had essentially similar terms. I know Marvel staffers have said that Marvel gets little to no cut from X-Men movie merchandise, which is why there was only like one figurine ever produced for Days of Future Past and there's no merchandise slated for the new FF movie. If Marvel (or Disney) has decided to cut back on FF/X-Men merchandise, it's not because they don't have the rights to make it, it's because they don't want to promote what's effectively another film company's brand.
What I meant was that if they're re-negotiating some deals, that we don't know about, that could cause them to halt current production on some stuff
The point being that maybe they're not cutting back permanently, they're just stopping some old deals, which will be replaced with new similar deals
Apparently Sofia Boutella, Gazelle in Kingsman, is in the running for Elektra in Daredevil Season 2
Yeah
Yeah alright
Bonus points, she was born the same year as Charlie Cox. I always prefer it when actors match up with the characters they play.
A 33 year old woman is way too old to play the love interest of a 32 year old man
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She also appears to have some scars on her bicep. That has to help a little bit if you're jockeying for the tough ninja woman role.
So if they're auditioning for Elektra, and given that Steve DeKnight said (before he left) that Bullseye would be a priority for a second season... Does this mean we're going to get a famous Frank Millerism?
Or will they play with our expectations, both to avoid repeating a scene the Affleck movie already tackled and to avoid a notorious incident of fridging?
Apparently Sofia Boutella, Gazelle in Kingsman, is in the running for Elektra in Daredevil Season 2
Yeah
Yeah alright
Bonus points, she was born the same year as Charlie Cox. I always prefer it when actors match up with the characters they play.
A 33 year old woman is way too old to play the love interest of a 32 year old man
It is a turning point in one's life when you realize you are now older than most of the superheroes you grew up loving. And the actors playing them.
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Ugh, Marvel quit giving ammo to the Fantastic Four/X-Men conspiracy theorists.
Apparenlty they took away the license for F4 and X-Men from statue manufacturer XM Studios, even while they had new statues in production. I don't think Marvel is trying to kill those franchises or anything, but MAN, something is up with their licensing.
maybe they're just doing that thing they did with Spider-Man merchandise rights previous to the whole MCU deal
where Fox gets all the profits from the movies but Disney/Marvel get full merchandise right
or whatever that deal was, if anyone remembers
Sony's Spider-Man merchandising deal only covered movie merchandising, not all Spider-Man merchandise, and I'd assume that all of Marvel's movie deals had essentially similar terms. I know Marvel staffers have said that Marvel gets little to no cut from X-Men movie merchandise, which is why there was only like one figurine ever produced for Days of Future Past and there's no merchandise slated for the new FF movie. If Marvel (or Disney) has decided to cut back on FF/X-Men merchandise, it's not because they don't have the rights to make it, it's because they don't want to promote what's effectively another film company's brand.
Well, they can make it, but then they don't get the profits. The business equivalent of sticking your dick in a sausage maker.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Also their version of Reed Richards is played by Bill Hader, when he's not being played by Stephen Colbert
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I think he meant Daredevil the show. But I don't see them killing Electra anyway.
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Oh. Yeah. But then it gave me the most shocking thing ever when
Ben Urich met the kingpin and...it didn't end well.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
The 90s Johnny Quest had a startlingly high body count. I mean, that episode with the deep sea base and the piranha men alone.
Ahahahaha
Fuck that episode!
Do you also remember the haunted house episode?
I do not.
I think it was the last episode of the series. Dr. Quest and the kids join some paranormal investigators at a reputedly haunted Italian mansion on a small island. Turns out it really is haunted (of course) and the entity brutally murders the assorted investigators. I think one of them was crushed to death by moving walls.
Thing is, it wasn't the worst haunting to start with.
They brought in some equipment to scan the place, which gave it a huge power boost and basically turned the place into a slaughterhouse.
She also appears to have some scars on her bicep. That has to help a little bit if you're jockeying for the tough ninja woman role.
So if they're auditioning for Elektra, and given that Steve DeKnight said (before he left) that Bullseye would be a priority for a second season... Does this mean we're going to get a famous Frank Millerism?
Or will they play with our expectations, both to avoid repeating a scene the Affleck movie already tackled and to avoid a notorious incident of fridging?
My.
God.
The incredible badass who was killed by another incredible badass, who then came back to life and continues to murder fools, like... three decades later?
Yeah there are absolutely real superheroes/villains in the show
Yeah but the show seems to be very much a case of taking the classic supers genre with costumes villains and such and then looking at how fucked up that would actually be.
What I was talking about was a situation where that classic supers paradigm doesn't exist because it doesn't make realistic sense. Deconstructing pulp adventurers is different to just taking the pulp adventurers out of superheroes altogether and focusing on geopolitics, exploration of the human condition and such.
Okay
I mean I am not having a go
it does sound interesting, like I said
Just not in the same vein as what I was enthusing about in my earlier posts!
Its just
You often have EXTREMELY specific criteria for what you're looking for in superheroing
And this is the third or fourth time someone has suggested something to you that's pretty close and you go "no that's not what om talking about at all"
Its just a little frustrating
In my defence, it is actually very different
I mean, I just expressed a like for a certain sub-set of the genre
someone said "oh you'd like this then"
Which I actually probably would, it's just not the sub-set I was talking about
So continuing my binge of X-men and Avengers pre and post HoM I've got to say just about all the guys taking the reins kinda suck? Mutants become an endangered species and the first thing the US government does is plant MANNED SENTINALS on the X-men's doorstep and telling them they have to stay put?
There isn't a single part of that plan that isn't absolutely terrible.
Welp, Justice League United by Jeff Parker and Travel Foreman just became the most promising DC relaunch title.
With a core team of Stargirl, Alanna Strange, Equinox, and Animal Man, JLU is now a team dedicated to stopping the aftermath of Convergence: random dimensional tears that rip apart reality and spawn Lovecraftian horrors and are a threat to existence itself.
The other members of the team?
Literally every other character in the DC universe.
Outside of the core four, the addition members are called upon on a mission by mission basis to stop the tear and then go back to their lives.
For an example of how deep and crazy of a roster we're talking, these are the characters that accept their offer:
Atom
Swamp Thing
Etrigan
Batgirl
Zatanna
Beast Boy
Kid Flash
Robotman
Wonder Girl
Sinestro
Brainiac
Gorilla Grodd
Vandal Savage
Lex Luthor
Mera
Firestorm
Blue Beetle
Deadman
Deathstroke
Steel
Fire
Ice
Shazam
Mary Marvel
Wonder Woman
Apollo
Blue Devil
OMAC
Starfire
Captain Carrot
Catwoman
Martian Manhunter
Black Lightning
Katana
John Constantine
Guy Gardner
Phantom Stranger
Mogul
Vixen
Orion
Bizzaro
Lady Godiva
Hawk
Dove
Captain Atom
It is Jeff Parker doing Brave and the Bold with the DC Universe and I could not be more happy with it
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Wait, both comics companies doing an event called convergence? That opens portals to other realities?
What. The. Shit.
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Wait, both comics companies doing an event called convergence? That opens portals to other realities?
What. The. Shit.
Marvel is doing Secret Wars which destroyed the Marvel multiverse and created Battleworld from the broken remnants.
DC just finished Convergence which was largely inconsequential and had a knock-off Brainiac bottle up various realities and make them fight each other.
They are similar on a basic level but of wildly different quality
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Yeah, but before then there was the convergence where they were destroying Earths.
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From my brief understandings, Marvel (via Hickman) has been building towards this for a while.
While DC what, pulled it out of their asses'?
There were references to "convergences" as far back as like 3 years ago but the nature of the event as a band-aid to cover the editorial move across the country and having books titled after past greatest hits and crossing them together in a setting cobbled up of various universes seems uh
Man, all this talk about Jonny Quest and Venture Bros. made me sign up for Hulu just so I could watch the 3 seasons of Venture Bros. I haven't watched yet.
Blew through season 3 tonight and Oh my God what is this show
So much good stuff crammed in there but I think my favorite was the reappearance of Dr. Henry Killinger (and his Magical Murder Bag!) and his attempt to make Rusty a supervillain
Also, I need to find a supers game again so I can revive my Orpheus riff Dr. Merlin Hyperion.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
From my brief understandings, Marvel (via Hickman) has been building towards this for a while.
While DC what, pulled it out of their asses'?
It's definitely their Antz yeah
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I'd like to see a League movie that wasn't about that league. Don't try to put Alan Moore on film, just go with the basic premise of "If you have a problem... if no one else can help... and if you can find them... maybe you can bring together... The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and put together a different league.
Also, dude, hulk should punch so hard that fusion occurs and then everything for five square miles die.
What?
If the force of his punch is great enough, if he can punch through dimensions, I can assure you that he can punch hard enough to create fusion.
But what kind of dimension would a punch open up a gateway to?
The hyperbolic time chamber?
I dunno, I didn't read the comic where he punched through dimensions or punch an incorpeal being.
Hulk punched Onslaught so hard it caused a nuclear blast, cracked open his astral armor, opened a portal to another dimension and split Hulk and Banner into separate bodies.
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Yeah
Yeah alright
What I meant was that if they're re-negotiating some deals, that we don't know about, that could cause them to halt current production on some stuff
The point being that maybe they're not cutting back permanently, they're just stopping some old deals, which will be replaced with new similar deals
Bonus points, she was born the same year as Charlie Cox. I always prefer it when actors match up with the characters they play.
A 33 year old woman is way too old to play the love interest of a 32 year old man
So if they're auditioning for Elektra, and given that Steve DeKnight said (before he left) that Bullseye would be a priority for a second season... Does this mean we're going to get a famous Frank Millerism?
Or will they play with our expectations, both to avoid repeating a scene the Affleck movie already tackled and to avoid a notorious incident of fridging?
It is a turning point in one's life when you realize you are now older than most of the superheroes you grew up loving. And the actors playing them.
Well, they can make it, but then they don't get the profits. The business equivalent of sticking your dick in a sausage maker.
Aww, nuts
Dr. Orpheus singlehandedly sold me on Dr. Strange
Also their version of Reed Richards is played by Bill Hader, when he's not being played by Stephen Colbert
MCU refuses to do it, but has been tempted. He is apparently Super Catholic so he frets over his eternal soul much.
I think he meant the show has not strayed from killing off characters.
You are exactly where need to be. You are where your choices have lead you.
Typical. Of all the good guys, the black guy gets killed off. :P
Oh my God
I vaguely remember this.
Thing is, it wasn't the worst haunting to start with.
They brought in some equipment to scan the place, which gave it a huge power boost and basically turned the place into a slaughterhouse.
We might be getting another League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie
I'm okay without...
the 2003 one seemed like it had a few too many actors who were just in it for the payday, though
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
My.
God.
The incredible badass who was killed by another incredible badass, who then came back to life and continues to murder fools, like... three decades later?
Failure. The show is about failure. Everyone in the show is a failure at some aspect of their life, and the show is about exploring what that means.
I'd be okay with a movie adaptation done properly, instead of the Rubbish we got in '03.
In my defence, it is actually very different
I mean, I just expressed a like for a certain sub-set of the genre
someone said "oh you'd like this then"
Which I actually probably would, it's just not the sub-set I was talking about
not exactly sure what I've done wrong here
The 2003 one made one of the most famous, well paid, and ubiquitous actors in Hollywood quit the business.
There isn't a single part of that plan that isn't absolutely terrible.
With a core team of Stargirl, Alanna Strange, Equinox, and Animal Man, JLU is now a team dedicated to stopping the aftermath of Convergence: random dimensional tears that rip apart reality and spawn Lovecraftian horrors and are a threat to existence itself.
The other members of the team?
Literally every other character in the DC universe.
Outside of the core four, the addition members are called upon on a mission by mission basis to stop the tear and then go back to their lives.
For an example of how deep and crazy of a roster we're talking, these are the characters that accept their offer:
Atom
Swamp Thing
Etrigan
Batgirl
Zatanna
Beast Boy
Kid Flash
Robotman
Wonder Girl
Sinestro
Brainiac
Gorilla Grodd
Vandal Savage
Lex Luthor
Mera
Firestorm
Blue Beetle
Deadman
Deathstroke
Steel
Fire
Ice
Shazam
Mary Marvel
Wonder Woman
Apollo
Blue Devil
OMAC
Starfire
Captain Carrot
Catwoman
Martian Manhunter
Black Lightning
Katana
John Constantine
Guy Gardner
Phantom Stranger
Mogul
Vixen
Orion
Bizzaro
Lady Godiva
Hawk
Dove
Captain Atom
It is Jeff Parker doing Brave and the Bold with the DC Universe and I could not be more happy with it
What. The. Shit.
DC just finished Convergence which was largely inconsequential and had a knock-off Brainiac bottle up various realities and make them fight each other.
They are similar on a basic level but of wildly different quality
While DC what, pulled it out of their asses'?
Pretty suspect
Blew through season 3 tonight and Oh my God what is this show
Also, I need to find a supers game again so I can revive my Orpheus riff Dr. Merlin Hyperion.
It's definitely their Antz yeah
Hulk punched Onslaught so hard it caused a nuclear blast, cracked open his astral armor, opened a portal to another dimension and split Hulk and Banner into separate bodies.