Archives by Topic: Marvel Comics
Worth Your Consideration 016 - A GF5 Linkdump
- I’ve had the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles sitting unplayed on my Apple TV since about a week after its premiere (it was a free download on iTunes way back when), but this Newsarama piece on the show’s second season has piqued my interest, and I may have to finally sit down and devote an hour to the show now.
- Earlier this year, when Marvel Comics retconned Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson’s marriage with their back-to-back “One More Day” and “Brand New Day” events, they introduced a new red-headed super-heroine by the name of Jackpot. She looks like Mary Jane, talks like Mary Jane, and has named herself after one of MJ’s most famous catchphrases, but her secret identity has yet to be revealed. Newsarama reports that the mystery will end in an upcoming Amazing Spider-Man annual, but me, I already know who it is: the resurrected Gwen Stacy. Yep, you heard it here first. And the masked villain Menace? That’s the long-dead Uncle Ben, come back to life. If the fanboys hated Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada before, I guarantee death threats this time around.
- Jason Kottke describes the anatomical drawings on this site as “part medical and part American Apparel advertisement” and he’s pretty much dead-on.
- And, lastly, Apple is giving me one more reason to enjoy trips up north to see my in-laws: an Apple Store in the Maine Mall. Stephanie may even be able to convince me to move up there now… Nah, probably not.
Topics: Apple, Marvel Comics, Geekforce Reserves
“All over this like Go-Go boots on Gwen Stacy” - Spider-Man and X-Men Team Up
It may have something to do with the fact that one of the major ways in which I was introduced to the Marvel Comics pantheon was through Saturday morning cartoons where these guys seemed to team up a bunch, but I am super excited to read that Spider-Man and the X-Men are teaming up for a four-issue mini-series. Newsarama has the scoop, and according to the piece the series will “[take] place in a different era in Marvel history, [with] the final one occurring in the present day.”
The image I’ve embedded above is from the second issue and features both black-suit Spider-Man and the 1970s-era X-Men (Dazzler among them). This is just awesome, awesome, awesome in my opinion. I hope that they ratchet up the nostalgia factor to level ten and really do this team-up justice. There’s such a strong connection between the X-Men and Spidey in the Ultimate Marvel Universe, and I think it’s about time that we saw these guys teaming up more in the mainstream Earth 616 universe too (I’m sure Marvel’s sales guys agree with me, given the popularity of both franchises).
What say you, dear readers?
Worth Your Consideration 015 - A GF5 Linkdump
- Kevin Rose has the scoop on a linewide iPod refresh in September. Apparently, we’ll be seeing widescreen iPod Nanos, a cosmetic refresh to the iPod Touch, and a price drop across the line to differentiate between iPod and iPhone (which is now priced at $199 with a new two-year contract). Thanks to Mac Rumors for linking up Kevin’s post.
- Marvel Comics is ramping up for something big in 2009 featuring one of my favorite X-Men characters of all time, the won’t-stay-dead redhead herself: Ms. Jean Grey (a.k.a. Phoenix). Check out Newsarama’s article on the “teaser trifecta” that Marvel has released for a glimpse at some absolutely killer noirish images.
- Lastly, some Lost news. According to a scooper at DarkUFO’s spoilers blog, the Powers That Be are shooting a scene with Hurley and Sayid that takes place just after Sayid rescues Hurley from the mental institution at the end of season four. It sounds like next season is starting off as fast and furious as last season did. Awesome, says I.
Open Source Comics at SXSW 2009
My friend and New Hampshire Media Makers cohort Bryan White (Cinema-Suicide.com) has been working together with another NHMM regular, Nick Plante (zerosum dirt(nap)), on an idea involving “open source comics,” and he wants to do a panel on that topic at next year’s South By Southwest Interactive Conference. Bryan explains:
My idea for a panel is actuallly about comics. Open source comics, to be exact. Myself and Nick Plante of Zerosum have been talking this out over the last week or so. A social network aimed at artists and writers to create a line of their own comics in a single mythology, similar to the Marvel Universe or the DC Universe. It is to be completely non-commercial with a very rigid and limited set of editorial constraints. Everyone is free to be a part of it. The foundation of the panel is to suggest one alternative direction for social networks so that the web doesn’t become a series of tribes of Myspace of Facebook folks but to actually give social networks some purpose.
I think this is an amazing idea. As someone who’s had a comic book idea kicking around in the back of his brain for the past ten years or so, I can’t wait to see how this develops. And I definitely think it’s a great idea for a panel at SXSW. If you think so too, vote for Bryan’s idea here.
Wolverine Comic-Con Footage Leaked (Video)
The San Diego Comic-Con footage of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which I mentioned on Friday has now leaked onto the Internet. The angle here is shitty, but the quality of the video isn’t bad. And, most importantly, the content of the video is pretty bad-ass. I like the casting all-around and I am pumped to see both favorites and more obscure characters popping up here. Deadpool? Check! Gambit? Check! The Blob? Really, the Blob? Check!
Do yourself a favor and check this out while you have the chance. There’s no telling how long it’ll be before Marvel’s lawyers file an injunction and take it offline. If you can’t see the videos I’ve embedded above, check out part one and part two over at Trailer Addict.
