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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spiderman In 2 Minutes Or Less
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
If I Can Read Emma Stone's Body Language Right, She's Telling A Fib About The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
If I Can Read Emma Stone's Body Language Right, She's Telling A Fib About The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
Everybody knows that old thing about how we try to hide lies by covering our mouths, and how the slightly more subtle version of this is the nose rub, right?
And we can all recognise nervous laughter?
Watch this video of Emma Stone telling Hit Fix‘s Drew McWeeny that the script for the next Spider-Man movie is “so great.”
Everybody knows that old thing about how we try to hide lies by covering our mouths, and how the slightly more subtle version of this is the nose rub, right?
And we can all recognise nervous laughter?
Watch this video of Emma Stone telling Hit Fix‘s Drew McWeeny that the script for the next Spider-Man movie is “so great.”
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2013-01-09T01:31:00-08:00
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
INFINITE IMPROBABILITY: Superior Spider-Man, worse storyline - The Weekender
INFINITE IMPROBABILITY: Superior Spider-Man, worse storyline - The Weekender
When you’re writing a film, there’re only a few endings you can give your character. One of those possible conclusions is killing them off.
When you’re writing a continuing comic book series, however, that’s usually not an option, particularly when it’s your title character. Marvel Comics, yet again, is scoffing at that notion, for better or worse. Actually, it’s just for the worse.
After 50 years, and just before co-creator Stan Lee’s 90th birthday, “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic series is ending with issue No. 700.
This is a big deal, but almost all major comic characters have had their comics restarted at No. 1 over the years, mainly to sell more books (first issues are usually very collectible) and to give new readers a good jumping on point if they hadn’t been following along and didn’t know where to start. This is probably not a good time for any jumping, other than up and down angrily.
You see, the long-running story of Peter Parker is ending with his death in this issue, and it doesn’t happen in that “heroic sacrifice” kind of way that you would assume it would. You know, giving the character some sort of justice after all this time. Instead, his mind is stuck in the body of his dying his arch nemesis, Dr. Octopus, and Otto randomly decides once he inherits Peter’s memories that he’s going to stop being a bad guy after a lifetime of crime and devotes himself to being a better Spider-Man, re-launching the series as “The Superior Spider-Man” in January.
Yeah, I actually read comics and it doesn’t really make any sense to me either.
I realize that Marvel was bought out by Disney a few years back, but is this take-off of “Freaky Friday” really the best way to end this beloved series?
It’s interesting as a “What If…?” story, but for writer Dan Slott to actually end the life of one of the greatest superheroes ever just to experiment with this idea seems a bit excessive, particularly since Marvel contends that this is a “permanent change.”
History says differently.
No. 700 brings about yet another death in the Marvel Universe.
When you’re writing a film, there’re only a few endings you can give your character. One of those possible conclusions is killing them off.
When you’re writing a continuing comic book series, however, that’s usually not an option, particularly when it’s your title character. Marvel Comics, yet again, is scoffing at that notion, for better or worse. Actually, it’s just for the worse.
After 50 years, and just before co-creator Stan Lee’s 90th birthday, “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic series is ending with issue No. 700.
This is a big deal, but almost all major comic characters have had their comics restarted at No. 1 over the years, mainly to sell more books (first issues are usually very collectible) and to give new readers a good jumping on point if they hadn’t been following along and didn’t know where to start. This is probably not a good time for any jumping, other than up and down angrily.
You see, the long-running story of Peter Parker is ending with his death in this issue, and it doesn’t happen in that “heroic sacrifice” kind of way that you would assume it would. You know, giving the character some sort of justice after all this time. Instead, his mind is stuck in the body of his dying his arch nemesis, Dr. Octopus, and Otto randomly decides once he inherits Peter’s memories that he’s going to stop being a bad guy after a lifetime of crime and devotes himself to being a better Spider-Man, re-launching the series as “The Superior Spider-Man” in January.
Yeah, I actually read comics and it doesn’t really make any sense to me either.
I realize that Marvel was bought out by Disney a few years back, but is this take-off of “Freaky Friday” really the best way to end this beloved series?
It’s interesting as a “What If…?” story, but for writer Dan Slott to actually end the life of one of the greatest superheroes ever just to experiment with this idea seems a bit excessive, particularly since Marvel contends that this is a “permanent change.”
History says differently.
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2013-01-02T14:03:00-08:00
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Superior Spider-Man remains as Doc Octopus in Spider-Man's body. Other than as wish fulfillment for the current morbidly obese writers of this shit, what is the fucking point? X-men Supreme: Amazing Spider-Man #700 and UN-Amazing Spoilers
X-men Supreme: Amazing Spider-Man #700 and UN-Amazing Spoilers
Amazing Spider-Man #700 and UN-Amazing Spoilers
I did it once and I pissed a few people off in the process. So I'm doing it again because I'm a drunk and I stop giving a shit after a certain number of shots! I'm going to spoil another landmark issue of Amazing Spider-Man that has Marvel has been billing as the biggest Spider-Man milestone since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's last simultaneous fart together. Amazing Spider-Man #700 isn't just billed as this huge milestone for a comic. It's supposed to set the stage for a big relaunch called Superior Spider-Man. I'm not sure how he's supposed to be superior. Early indications seem to imply that he's meaner, tougher, and more of an overall asshole. Shit, if that's superior, then my high school gym teacher was practically a god. But it's still speculation at this point.
For now, we know that Doctor Octopus swapped minds with Peter Parker. So for a while now Doc Ock has been parading around in Peter's body, playing the part of a hero, and boning all his women. It's basically the ultimate "fuck you" from a villain. Peter, now stuck in Doc Ock's body, is trying to fight back by getting his body back before Doc Ock fucks his reputation, ruins his relationships, or gets him one too many STDs. Amazing Spider-Man #700 is supposed to show how it all ends. Well until now, we could only speculate. Then the fine folks at 4chan leaked images online and since I'm such a generous guy, I'm going to share them here on this blog! First off, a clear warning. If you scroll down further, you will see some very spoilerific images!
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I know the image quality is pretty shitty. It's the best I can do. But if it helps, here are a few more images that break down the final pages.
Hint, that's not Doc Ock that's lying dead in the street...not entirely anyways.
This confirms one rumor, namely about Spider-Man being more of an asshole. It's like giving my old gym teacher super-powers. No good can come of it.
Just some casual boasting to end it all. It's the kind of boasting that is not the mark of a hero or anyone who preaches shit like power and responsibility, but I guess Marvel just thinks that shit isn't cool.
So there you have it. This is the new Superior Spider-Man. I'm not going to go too deep into my opinions while I'm this drunk, but I will make one important note to those hardcore Spider-Man fans that I know will be outraged. This is EXACTLY what Marvel wants. They figured out back during One More Day, Ultimatum, Avengers vs. X-men, Disassembled, and the Clone Saga that no matter how outraged fans get, they still buy their shit. I'm not sure they understand it. I don't think they give three tenths of a shit anyways. But for some reason, outraged fans still buy their shit. Marvel doesn't fear pissing off their fans anymore. They only fear their fans getting apathetic. That's the biggest weapon against comics. Apathy. The day fans become apathetic is the day Marvel knows they made a huge mistake. And because of outrage, this book will sell and they won't care how pissed off the people buying it are. So from one fanboy to many others, we've no one to blame but ourselves for this shit. It's not Marvel. It's us. We're terrible. I'm an adult. I know how to deal with it. And when I can't, I drink. It's a perfect solution! Nuff said.
Amazing Spider-Man #700 and UN-Amazing Spoilers
I did it once and I pissed a few people off in the process. So I'm doing it again because I'm a drunk and I stop giving a shit after a certain number of shots! I'm going to spoil another landmark issue of Amazing Spider-Man that has Marvel has been billing as the biggest Spider-Man milestone since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's last simultaneous fart together. Amazing Spider-Man #700 isn't just billed as this huge milestone for a comic. It's supposed to set the stage for a big relaunch called Superior Spider-Man. I'm not sure how he's supposed to be superior. Early indications seem to imply that he's meaner, tougher, and more of an overall asshole. Shit, if that's superior, then my high school gym teacher was practically a god. But it's still speculation at this point.
For now, we know that Doctor Octopus swapped minds with Peter Parker. So for a while now Doc Ock has been parading around in Peter's body, playing the part of a hero, and boning all his women. It's basically the ultimate "fuck you" from a villain. Peter, now stuck in Doc Ock's body, is trying to fight back by getting his body back before Doc Ock fucks his reputation, ruins his relationships, or gets him one too many STDs. Amazing Spider-Man #700 is supposed to show how it all ends. Well until now, we could only speculate. Then the fine folks at 4chan leaked images online and since I'm such a generous guy, I'm going to share them here on this blog! First off, a clear warning. If you scroll down further, you will see some very spoilerific images!
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YOUR
LAST
WARNING
HERE
YOU
GO!
I know the image quality is pretty shitty. It's the best I can do. But if it helps, here are a few more images that break down the final pages.
Hint, that's not Doc Ock that's lying dead in the street...not entirely anyways.
This confirms one rumor, namely about Spider-Man being more of an asshole. It's like giving my old gym teacher super-powers. No good can come of it.
Just some casual boasting to end it all. It's the kind of boasting that is not the mark of a hero or anyone who preaches shit like power and responsibility, but I guess Marvel just thinks that shit isn't cool.
So there you have it. This is the new Superior Spider-Man. I'm not going to go too deep into my opinions while I'm this drunk, but I will make one important note to those hardcore Spider-Man fans that I know will be outraged. This is EXACTLY what Marvel wants. They figured out back during One More Day, Ultimatum, Avengers vs. X-men, Disassembled, and the Clone Saga that no matter how outraged fans get, they still buy their shit. I'm not sure they understand it. I don't think they give three tenths of a shit anyways. But for some reason, outraged fans still buy their shit. Marvel doesn't fear pissing off their fans anymore. They only fear their fans getting apathetic. That's the biggest weapon against comics. Apathy. The day fans become apathetic is the day Marvel knows they made a huge mistake. And because of outrage, this book will sell and they won't care how pissed off the people buying it are. So from one fanboy to many others, we've no one to blame but ourselves for this shit. It's not Marvel. It's us. We're terrible. I'm an adult. I know how to deal with it. And when I can't, I drink. It's a perfect solution! Nuff said.
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Superior Spider-Man remains as Doc Octopus in Spider-Man's body. Other than as wish fulfillment for the current morbidly obese writers of this shit, what is the fucking point? X-men Supreme: Amazing Spider-Man #700 and UN-Amazing Spoilers
2012-12-23T23:03:00-08:00
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Spider-Man: gritty superhero reboot
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Avengers movie clip: Tony Stark tries to reason with Loki...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Living Tribunal speaks! And speaks wisdom imo.
I think Marvel needs to face the hard truth that decompression and
the overall darkness prevailing in its titles across the board ran
their course years ago. Decompression doesn’t work in a monthly format
anymore, because the stories are not interesting enough. The
decompressed format has allowed writers to become lazy (either
intentionally or through inadvertence), because it is easier to pad out
one story over 4 to 6 issues than it is to come up with new plots every
2 or three months or so.
For example, did we really need 3 or 4 issues of drunk Tony with his foul mouthed Troll (or dwarf whatever) friends tooling around in that workshop in the Fear Itself Iron Man issues. The answer is NO. IT WAS BORING. This could have been done in one, yes one, issue without any lose to the story. As a result there was NO real story and NO plot progression. Another example of BORING was Bendis’ past-through-present TV style Avenger’s interviews in “Avengers.” It was infuriating to have to pay hard earned money for this kind of useless junk. It was uninspired and completely uninteresting.
Another related problem is the $3.99 price point. This is directly tied into the decompression problem because we fans have to spend a lot more money to get a complete story. The problem existed at $2.99, but now is worse. Your casual fan is not going to want to shell out $24.00 to buy a six issue story arc on one or more titles on any consistent basis. As a result there is little to no loyalty to a particular title anymore, unless Marvel reboots, renumbers or otherwise revamps the title. While I find Invincible Iron Man, Avengers, and Mighty Thor to be dull reads for the most part I am a completist, and thus suffer along until the better writers are assigned.
In my humble opinion, Marvel needs to significantly curtail decompression, move the likes of Mr. Bendis and Mr. Fraction the core superhero titles, and hire competent writers who can write in the classic superhero style.
-Living Tribunal, 11/11/11
For example, did we really need 3 or 4 issues of drunk Tony with his foul mouthed Troll (or dwarf whatever) friends tooling around in that workshop in the Fear Itself Iron Man issues. The answer is NO. IT WAS BORING. This could have been done in one, yes one, issue without any lose to the story. As a result there was NO real story and NO plot progression. Another example of BORING was Bendis’ past-through-present TV style Avenger’s interviews in “Avengers.” It was infuriating to have to pay hard earned money for this kind of useless junk. It was uninspired and completely uninteresting.
Another related problem is the $3.99 price point. This is directly tied into the decompression problem because we fans have to spend a lot more money to get a complete story. The problem existed at $2.99, but now is worse. Your casual fan is not going to want to shell out $24.00 to buy a six issue story arc on one or more titles on any consistent basis. As a result there is little to no loyalty to a particular title anymore, unless Marvel reboots, renumbers or otherwise revamps the title. While I find Invincible Iron Man, Avengers, and Mighty Thor to be dull reads for the most part I am a completist, and thus suffer along until the better writers are assigned.
In my humble opinion, Marvel needs to significantly curtail decompression, move the likes of Mr. Bendis and Mr. Fraction the core superhero titles, and hire competent writers who can write in the classic superhero style.
-Living Tribunal, 11/11/11
Miles Morales: Cannot catch a break.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Spider-Man is EVERYWHERE! Overexposure redux. :)
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Jamie Alexander Teases ‘Thor 2′ Romance, Possible ‘Avengers’ Appearance
Jamie Alexander Teases ‘Thor 2′ Romance, Possible ‘Avengers’ Appearance
"I'm a comic book nerd at heart, so I'd like to see the relationship between Thor and Sif progress," she said during the press junket for "Loosies," her new movie opposite "Twilight" star Peter Facinelli. "Whether or not they do that, we're not sure yet. We'll see. I think that element will be in there, but I don’t know how much."
As a self-proclaimed "comic book nerd," Alexander must be pretty excited about the upcoming "Avengers" movie that gathers Thor, Captain America and Iron Man together on screen for the very first time. "Captain America" female lead Hayley Atwell recently admitted that she won't be in the movie, but Alexander wasn't so quick to dismiss her own involvement.
"I can't tell you," she teased when asked if she had an "Avengers" appearance in the cards. "Sometimes you never know. It'll be funny—they'll call you and they'll do a post-credits scene and you go, 'Oh, so everything I said in interviews is completely wrong.' So you never know!"
The jury is still out on a Sif appearance in "Avengers," but the Asgardian warrior is much likelier to have a prominent role in "Thor 2." Whether she's officially in it or not, Alexander is already very excited about the director who was just hired for the film.
"We just got Alan Taylor from 'Game of Thrones' to direct, so I'm very excited. I'm excited to see what he brings," she said. "['Game of Thrones'] is great. The style and the lighting and the tone of it, everything about it is so unlike anything you see on TV these days."
"He's got a great history of directing comedic bits and action bits, and that's something our movie definitely has," she added.
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"Thor 2" doesn't strike theaters until September 2013, but actors are already lining up for a return trip to Asgard. Jamie Alexander, who played the fierce warrior Sif in the first film, spoke with MTV News recently and said that while she's not officially signed on, she's had "a few discussions" about returning for a sequel, and she already has ideas for where her character should go next."I'm a comic book nerd at heart, so I'd like to see the relationship between Thor and Sif progress," she said during the press junket for "Loosies," her new movie opposite "Twilight" star Peter Facinelli. "Whether or not they do that, we're not sure yet. We'll see. I think that element will be in there, but I don’t know how much."
As a self-proclaimed "comic book nerd," Alexander must be pretty excited about the upcoming "Avengers" movie that gathers Thor, Captain America and Iron Man together on screen for the very first time. "Captain America" female lead Hayley Atwell recently admitted that she won't be in the movie, but Alexander wasn't so quick to dismiss her own involvement.
"I can't tell you," she teased when asked if she had an "Avengers" appearance in the cards. "Sometimes you never know. It'll be funny—they'll call you and they'll do a post-credits scene and you go, 'Oh, so everything I said in interviews is completely wrong.' So you never know!"
The jury is still out on a Sif appearance in "Avengers," but the Asgardian warrior is much likelier to have a prominent role in "Thor 2." Whether she's officially in it or not, Alexander is already very excited about the director who was just hired for the film.
"We just got Alan Taylor from 'Game of Thrones' to direct, so I'm very excited. I'm excited to see what he brings," she said. "['Game of Thrones'] is great. The style and the lighting and the tone of it, everything about it is so unlike anything you see on TV these days."
"He's got a great history of directing comedic bits and action bits, and that's something our movie definitely has," she added.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ TV Series Debuts In April
Friday, January 6, 2012
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Monday, December 12, 2011
When Everyone, Indeed ANYONE, Does Your Character Better Than You... Quit.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Conspirator Brock's Conspiracy Blog: Fear Itself #7 is a Steaming Pile of Shit
Conspirator Brock's Conspiracy Blog: Fear Itself #7 is a Steaming Pile of Shit
Today Fear Itself #7 came out and I read through it and it was a gigantic let down of epic proportions. There were 54 actual pages of comic in this $4.99 title and all of the epilogue stuff was 20 pages of preview material for titles coming out of this shitty event from Marvel. So, you really only got 34 pages from Fear Itself #7 and those pages where not worth the paper they were printed on. So, to recap the garbage that has come from Fear Itself I have complied a list of some of the things I found disappointing, dumb, or just in general bad with this Fear Itself event:
1) Bucky dies and we don't care. I definitely didn't and I had really come to like the Ed Brubaker take on who Bucky Barnes had become.
2) Fear Itself didn't actually have a solid story. It always seemed like each issue was just a solicitation for the Fear Itself cross over titles and mini-series, and it didn't have any solid content on its own, or if it did I didn't see it. I read one review that said Fear Itself was like a big giant puzzle where you didn't have the actual picture to see where to put the pieces. I would agree with that.
3) Captain America's shield is broken and then repaired, but it has a crack in it that Steve Rogers doesn't want covered up or buffed out, because he says it adds character to the shield. Cool except for the fact that Steve has been running around in the recently relaunched Captain America series, which happens after Fear Itself and he doesn't have a cracked shield. This is a huge inconsistency! So, huge that I find myself thinking, "I haven't really enjoyed this new relaunch of Captain America and I think this inconsistency just made this title ready for the chopping block!"
4) I hated the fact that I could sum up an issue with a few words that even when said out loud sounded as dumb as the content in Fear Itself. here are some examples:
Issue #1 - Asgardians are leaving and shit is falling from the sky.
Issue #2 - That shit that fell from the sky where hammers which when picked up turn the wielder into a Tron looking bad guy.
Issue #7 - Thor dies, Captain America's shield is fixed and the Asgardians left (well some of them)
5) Franklin Richards has a mega super power and doesn't use it because he promised his father he wouldn't. What?! If your kid can make a difference and stop the bad guys from destroying the world you let him do it! Smartest Man in the Marvel Universe my ass. Of course he was really busy trying to find a cure for those infected on Spider Island and couldn't be there to guide his son in using his powers to fix things.
6) Didn't Juggernaut lose his hammer or powers in the Uncanny X-Men: Fear Itself issues? I read them, but you can tell: 1) I didn't care enough to remember and 2) I'm not going to research this because I honestly don't care. But feel free to fill me in on why Juggernaut is in Fear Itself #7 when I thought he was beaten before.
7) The words "fear itself" are very powerful and invoke in people the old quotation from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address:
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
This excerpt sounds like what Marvel was attempting to do in Fear Itself, but failed miserably.
Overall, I think Fear Itself was way to choppy, a solicitation book for cross over titles instead of a story in itself and a complete waste of time.
Where did Marvel go wrong? I think Marvel has been the top dog in the comics industry for so long that they have lost sight of releasing a quality product that will stand the test of time, keep old fans engaged and excited while being creative enough to entice new readers, and to make reading a Marvel comic something enjoyable again. But as of now this is not the case it seems over at Marvel.
In the last five years or more it seems the only thing driving the bus at Marvel is the brand recognition of their characters and the idea that more titles means more sales. Marvel needs to take a moment and get back to being a comic publisher. That means having writer's that write good stories and artists that draw amazing panels that catch your eye. These are two of the basic components that I feel are the corner stone great comics. Marvel needs get back to this by wanting to release a great product that can market itself and not be what they are today; a marketing scheme aimed at pumping out garbage just to try and make a buck.
Fear Itself #7 is a Steaming Pile of Shit
Spoiler AlertToday Fear Itself #7 came out and I read through it and it was a gigantic let down of epic proportions. There were 54 actual pages of comic in this $4.99 title and all of the epilogue stuff was 20 pages of preview material for titles coming out of this shitty event from Marvel. So, you really only got 34 pages from Fear Itself #7 and those pages where not worth the paper they were printed on. So, to recap the garbage that has come from Fear Itself I have complied a list of some of the things I found disappointing, dumb, or just in general bad with this Fear Itself event:
1) Bucky dies and we don't care. I definitely didn't and I had really come to like the Ed Brubaker take on who Bucky Barnes had become.
2) Fear Itself didn't actually have a solid story. It always seemed like each issue was just a solicitation for the Fear Itself cross over titles and mini-series, and it didn't have any solid content on its own, or if it did I didn't see it. I read one review that said Fear Itself was like a big giant puzzle where you didn't have the actual picture to see where to put the pieces. I would agree with that.
3) Captain America's shield is broken and then repaired, but it has a crack in it that Steve Rogers doesn't want covered up or buffed out, because he says it adds character to the shield. Cool except for the fact that Steve has been running around in the recently relaunched Captain America series, which happens after Fear Itself and he doesn't have a cracked shield. This is a huge inconsistency! So, huge that I find myself thinking, "I haven't really enjoyed this new relaunch of Captain America and I think this inconsistency just made this title ready for the chopping block!"
4) I hated the fact that I could sum up an issue with a few words that even when said out loud sounded as dumb as the content in Fear Itself. here are some examples:
Issue #1 - Asgardians are leaving and shit is falling from the sky.
Issue #2 - That shit that fell from the sky where hammers which when picked up turn the wielder into a Tron looking bad guy.
Issue #7 - Thor dies, Captain America's shield is fixed and the Asgardians left (well some of them)
5) Franklin Richards has a mega super power and doesn't use it because he promised his father he wouldn't. What?! If your kid can make a difference and stop the bad guys from destroying the world you let him do it! Smartest Man in the Marvel Universe my ass. Of course he was really busy trying to find a cure for those infected on Spider Island and couldn't be there to guide his son in using his powers to fix things.
6) Didn't Juggernaut lose his hammer or powers in the Uncanny X-Men: Fear Itself issues? I read them, but you can tell: 1) I didn't care enough to remember and 2) I'm not going to research this because I honestly don't care. But feel free to fill me in on why Juggernaut is in Fear Itself #7 when I thought he was beaten before.
7) The words "fear itself" are very powerful and invoke in people the old quotation from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address:
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
This excerpt sounds like what Marvel was attempting to do in Fear Itself, but failed miserably.
Overall, I think Fear Itself was way to choppy, a solicitation book for cross over titles instead of a story in itself and a complete waste of time.
Where did Marvel go wrong? I think Marvel has been the top dog in the comics industry for so long that they have lost sight of releasing a quality product that will stand the test of time, keep old fans engaged and excited while being creative enough to entice new readers, and to make reading a Marvel comic something enjoyable again. But as of now this is not the case it seems over at Marvel.
In the last five years or more it seems the only thing driving the bus at Marvel is the brand recognition of their characters and the idea that more titles means more sales. Marvel needs to take a moment and get back to being a comic publisher. That means having writer's that write good stories and artists that draw amazing panels that catch your eye. These are two of the basic components that I feel are the corner stone great comics. Marvel needs get back to this by wanting to release a great product that can market itself and not be what they are today; a marketing scheme aimed at pumping out garbage just to try and make a buck.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
Sunday, November 13, 2011
SPIDER-MAN Reboot Costume Images
SPIDER-MAN Reboot Costume Images
The more I see of the new Spider-Man costume, the less I like it. Granted, I need to see how it performs in action, but these new set photos don’t bode well for the final picture. The costume makes Spidey look like a cross between an extra-terrestrial and venetian blinds. Of course it’s likely that some CG work will be done on it between now and release so I don’t want to be too harsh on the design. However, I’m baffled as to why Spider-Man’s junk looks like it’s rotting off.
We also have a good look at the spider emblem on Spidey’s back. Like the spider on the front of the costume, the designer clearly thought “Spiders’ legs are gigantic. Let’s do something with that.” Hit the jump to check out new images of the costume. Marc Webb’s untitled Spider-Man reboot stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Rhys Ifans. It’s due out in 3D on July 3, 2012.
We also have a good look at the spider emblem on Spidey’s back. Like the spider on the front of the costume, the designer clearly thought “Spiders’ legs are gigantic. Let’s do something with that.” Hit the jump to check out new images of the costume. Marc Webb’s untitled Spider-Man reboot stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Rhys Ifans. It’s due out in 3D on July 3, 2012.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
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Still looks lame city minus web shooters. God help us all.
These pictures, especially the third and fourth ones down are absolutely begging for captions, but I do have to agree, all of the set pictures wer’re seeing makes the suit look awful.
It’s no secret that I think this whole project is nothing more than a cynical excuse for Sony to hold onto the Spider-Man rights for a few more year, but I will admit that the casting seems to be pretty good, and the official first image of the new Spider Suit did look kinda cool, so I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt in terms of costuming and just assume that it’ll look a lot better in the final movie.
Why the third and fourth IOL?
That’s just wrong.
Movie Executive 1: The costume for Spider-Man in the first movie was almost perfect. How can we completely ruin it?
Movie Executive 2: I know. How about this design?
They wanted to ‘GAY IT UP’ a bit, look for a lot of gay innuendo in the new film.
THIS FRANCHISE IS HUNGRY FOR GREATNESS! This is the time to rebuild the franchise. They should utilise the villains in this new film series that weren’t included in the previous films such as Beetle (Abner Jenkins), Carnage, Chameleon, Electro, Enforcers, Hammerhead, Hobgoblin, Hydro-Man, Jackal, Kingpin, Kraven the Hunter, Lizard, Morbius, Mysterio, Rhino, Scorpion, Shocker, Silvermane, Spot, Tinkerer, Tombstone, Vulture.
Mary-Jane Watson has been a love interest in every Spider-Man film. That must change. They should include the following love interests and leave Mary-Jane Watson out of the films for at least a while:
Liz Allan, Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy, Debra Whitman, April Maye, Michele Gonzales, Jean DeWolff, Jessica Drew, Lisa Skye, Marcy Kane, Angelica Jones, Felicia Hardy, Sarah Rushman, Carlie Cooper, Norah Winters.
This is a second chance to get it right. This is an opportunity.
While I don’t necessarily disagree, your post would have been a lot less tl;dr without all that listing. We get it, the new films need different villains and another love interest, but you didn’t need to go all Wikipedia about it.
You can see why Spidey’s cod-piece is rotten….he’s getting his other
“web-shooter” waxed by the Man-in-Black!!!
I was going to say, “Not Gay Enough!” (Thanks Norm MacDonald) but then I saw the pic of him humping the PA’s face, I thought, “Now that’s the right amount of gay”.
In this instance the “PA” stands for “P&nis Assistant”!!
That Spider-Guy costume makes Peter “Emo” Parker from Spider-Man 3 look like a man…
“Sam, if you won’t do it our way, we’ll find someone who’s capable to gay this up a little”
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
looks like a porn movie and btw, spider man came from other planet?
Collider is 100% correct on this one, the costume looks like it was made for a B-movie with a sub-$1 million budget.
Anyway, there was nothing wrong with the costume on the previous Spider-man movies.
Why reboot anyway, as Spider-man 3 made $890,871,626 worldwide? Those numbers say that the viewing public want more of the same, not something completely different.
Actually, the only reasons why Spider-Man 3 did so well in the theatres was because it was living off the hype from the first two movies and it featured Venom.
Allot of Raimi fans like to forget that movie did poorly when it was released on DVD. Thus the reason why Sony dropped plans for releasing the extended cut of Spider-Man 3.
Uh. $900m is A LOT of f*cking money, by anyone’s standards. DVD sales, be damned. That’s still record-breaking BO, there. From the looks of it, this movie will be lucky to gross $90m.
Yep, that’s how I got my copy of Spider-Man 3; picked it out of the five dollar bin at Wal-Mart a week after it came out. Talk about a successful movie!
I bought The Dark Knight in a dollar bin, does that mean it wasn’t successful?!
Spider-Tween! What the hell?! He looks like he’s moaning in one photo and going to a rave in the next?! And, Jesus, I feel bad for the costume designer that had to rub black soot all over Spider-Tween’s crotch.
There is no greater Internet cliché than whinnying about costumes. It makes me feel embarrassed for the geek community. Shut. The fuck. Up. Wait till the movie comes out. Learn the fucking lesson that practically every superhero movie should have taught you by now. In-Production snaps/effects etc rarely reflect the final product. Stop bleating. And Matt, your snark is making you sound more and more like Devin. I’m almost positive you really, really don’t want to sound like Devin. Tone it down, campadre.
JAY: It maybe an ‘internet cliche’ to diss the costume but it does look terrible, even though these are production snaps I don’t think even ILM are that good to make the suit look deceit.
I would agree with you in that we should wait for an explanation but I can’t see a solid reason for this filth, to be honest if they went really old skool with the suit made it less fancy (away from the FANTASTIC skillz of James Echeson’s version for the Raimi films) I’d prefer that to what Marc Webb gave the OK.
I CANNOT understand why reboot the series, great critical acclaim (apart from the last one), great box-office. WHY!!!
I’m excited for the movie for the casting and director, but I agree that that costume is horrible.
I really have no clue who or why they would have approved this current garbage. Spider-Man has one of the best costumes in all of hero-dom, why even attempt to reinvent it? I really hope the film has a good explanation for the suit.
If Nick Fury just hands it to him, I can understand, but the only other explanation seems to be that he stole it from a German techno club during Space-Rave night.
Loathe as I am to defend this completely pointless film, I expect even Bale’s batsuit looks rubbish when it isn’t lit and photographed properly. These are flat, amateurish spy photos. When we’ve seen some graded official footage of this and it still looks awful, then we can complain a bit more.
I must say that although a lot of comics fanboys like to lay into poor old Sam Raimi – in need of a scapegoat and completely oblivious the realities of working on a committee-led studio movie – even they must surely realise he did a good job with the suit on his films?
Of course allot of comic book fanboys are going to blame “…poor old Sam Raimi…” it would be stupid to think otherwise. After all, he was the director and he was the man calling (most) of the shots…
You’re an idiot! Sam Raimi single-handedly revived the ‘comic-book’ movie and sheperded the critically and commercially successful Spider-Man films to a boxoffice gross of over $3.5 BILLION!! Not to mention he made Evil Dead and Darkman! You need to shut the f*ck up with your no-accomplishment ass and show The Raimi some f*cking respect.
Yikes, somebody need to chill pill. TedDiBiassi, you just completely missunderstood the poster’s comment.
What he or she ment was that people are going to point fingers at the director, since they are the ones in charge of making a good movie. So when a film turns out to be a piece of crap, it’s not the studio’s fault nor is it the cast or crew, the fault lies in the hands of the director’s.
If you reread the post, The poster said nothing that could be deemed disrespectful towards Raimi.
“The more I see of the new Spider-Man costume, the less I like it.”
Couldn’t agree more.
if i was on fire and that guy came to save me, i’ll say keep walking dude i am fine!
They definitely used that design study Alex Ross made for the original raimi trilogy. It has that dark shiny lens and that over-all toned down look.
hmm… my feelings for this one is a mixed bag. Have to see at least a decent trailer for this to get judged fairly:P
I pity you Spiderman fans, get ready to be emasculated.
U-B-E-R C-R-A-P ….this remake gonna bombed for sure…only good think: the web shooters….
*Sees all the pictures* WTF IS THIS S***?!
WHY THE FUCK IS IT EMPHASIZING THE CROCH WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THEM ITS FUCKING RETARDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This Suit does look naff but I guaranty it will be enhanced in the movie! I dig the suit design but the eyes just spoil if for me! I guess there is a reason, they wanted to keep it simple because Peter Parker makes his own suit and I very much doubt that he is able to manufacture Oakley lenses like in the other movies, the suit is good in the last 3 movies but over complicated for someone with no experience in sewing and making clothes!!!!!
Who agrees??????
You know what the funny thing is? With all the hate this re-boot is receiving, I bet it’ll receive twice the views of all the previous Spider-Man movies. Don’t get me wrong, the way the suit looks in these pictures sucks, but everybody that thinks this movie is gonna blow will go see it the day it comes out. I mean think about it, the more haters this movie gets, the more people will go to see it just to see how bad it really is.
For those who are saying “wait until the movie comes out..” and “these are just ‘set pics’…” So what….. It doesnt change the fact that the design of the costume sucks bigtime. He looks like hes wearing a spiderman themed motocross suit. No belt line? Just a huge crotch area….and why is the crotch blackened?? Not even Panavision movie film can save this Captain Homo suit.
This looks terrible. Compared to the original Spider-Man movie, this looks like absolute shit.
Wanna hang with total losers?! Go to an internet message board! You won’t be let down!
what in the hell,… im sorry,… i’ll try to put this in a nicer way,… what in the…..hell, wow,… really just wow would u change the costume, i mean come on really that,… ok at least have him wearing the true costume and then make a second movie were he wears that terrible costume in the end, but really that just looks, i don’t have a word, and whats with spiderman trying to put his **** in that guys mouth really
I don’t what to say but this costume looks wrong. This costume is not original to the comic
They really need to keep the old one in the first 3 movies with Tobey. I’m extremely ticked off but laughing my *** off right now
I wants to know who was the idiot artist who made the Spider-Man Reboot suit; it’s crappy and doesn’t look anything like the comics. Don’t hang the art, if anything you should hang the artist . . .
Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man kicks ass!
Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man sucks ass!
Amazing how changing one word makes it good or bad (kicks ass = it rocks, sucks ass = it sucks)
What’s even worse is that the suit is gray around “his junk”. Seriously, no one wants to see that.
President Garfield didn’t stay more than a year in office . . . Maybe Spider-Garfield won’t get enough good reviews to get past the first movie.
I’ve always felt there’s something vaguely homoerotic about Spiderman. Many of the poses you find him in are just so… suggestive. So the above photos seem entirely in character.
I think i’m gonna throw up! No one can replace Tobey he is truth.garfield should go eat his lasange(fat ass)
Reminds me of the Nicholas Hammond costume from the camp 70′s TV show. Maybe that one was better than this as at least the crotch was clean!
Seriously? WTF is with that costume? And no Tobey Maguire? Wow Sony, you are in deep deep trouble here. Quit while you’re still raking in the bucks from the last 3…..wont go see the next crapola you have in store to rip off the public with. Signed,
Disappointed
It’s his 90s Ben Reilly costume + Kick-Ass influence!!
This is awful!!!!
Personally, I don’t the suit is that bad. True its not perfect, and don’t compare to the Toby Maguire costume used in the other three films but that was the point. They didn’t want to follow in Raimi’s footsteps so the made the costum more traditional to the comic universe. As for the blackening crotch, the material could just be see through and we are just seeing his underwear. I don’t know, just a guess. Either way it doesn’t make the suit look the best but I don’t doubt that it will look a lot better when the film finally comes out.
Absolute crap. Hate it. Hate the lead actor, will not watch this. Somewhere Sam Ramii is laughing his ass off.Or crying.
About the suit
The closest analogy I can come up with is an Alien/Human autopsy. There’s something so sickening about the chunks of red here that it looks like skin has been torn away from muscle — or maybe Spidy as burn victim? The darkened crotch just adds to the gross-out factor.
Reboot
I think Rami did an excellent job on the first two Spidy adventures, and they will stand the test of time. Suit sucks – strike one. Casting is not as strong – strike 2. Story is starting at beginning again – strike 3. This one will crash and burn, Mav.