Month: April 2012

The Avengers Secret Weapons

Marvel's The Avengers courtesy Marvel

  A God. A Super Soldier. A Genius in a High-Tech Suit of Armor. But Earth’s Mightiest Heroes need more than just the big guns to get it done. When the Avengers need stealth and razor-sharp focus – they can count on Black Widow and Hawkeye.

  Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson play the Avengers born without super powers but are still power players on a mission. The two stars are featured in a new interview on Marvel.com

“We are humans with high skill sets,” Renner said. “[Hawkeye and Black Widow] fight well together…and they complement each other.”

“Both of us fight hand-to-hand…but we’re fighting in a different way than everybody else. We do a lot of fighting on the ground,” added Johansson.

For the entire story here’s the Marvel.com link.

In the comics, Hawkeye and Black Widow are currently starring in Rick Remender’s Secret Avengers. Hawkeye leads the covert team. Both characters will appear in Avengers Vs. X-Men and AvX: Vs.

Concrete Martians Update

  I have a big update on the author of Concrete Martians. Mitch Cook was inspired by true events to create his comic book based on true events: when the folks of Concrete, Washington thought they were being invaded.

  At Emerald City Comicon Mitch got to pitch his story to an editor and he was featured on KOMO NEWS Radio. Mitch was interviewed by Charlie Harger and Jane Shannon. You can learn more about Mitch’s inspiration, creation and the moment every hopeful unpublished writer wants!

Concrete Martians on KOMO Newsradio

X-Men First Class Sequel Shoot Date

The Cast of X-Men: First Class courtesy Marvel.com

  Two big studios. Two big franchises. One hot star. There appears to be a compromise that keeps fans of the X-Men and The Hunger Games happy!

  The X-Men First Class sequel will start shooting in January. That means Lionsgate can shoot Catching Fire in August/September without a conflict for Jennifer Lawrence according to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision. The in-demand actress plays Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, and Raven/Mystique in X-Men: First Class.

  The next step for Catching Fire is lining up a director. The Hunger Games director and co-writer Gary Ross does not have a deal for the sequel.

For the entire story’s the Heat Vision link.

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Michael Fassbender: The Theme of “Prometheus”

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

  The countdown to Prometheus is escalating. Michael Fassbender tells The Sci Fi Show in a new interview how the cast including Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba and Charlize Theron became part of Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction.

 “There’s always politics within, and that’s why, I think, this cast got together. The tempo, the pace, the intelligence of the script; each person has got their own agenda on that ship and it’s each a very individual agenda. Some people are there for the pay. Other people are there to get answers. Other people are there to hopefully attain some sort of secret. Others are there in somewhat of a spite journey. You’ve got all these collective relationships, individuals and motivations and that’s what makes quite intriguing even before the shit hits the fan.”

  I wanted to share this quote from Fassbender on the theme of the epic.

  “It’s basically about trying to find out if there was intervention in the birth of civilisation on planet Earth by other beings, which we come to know as Engineers, and whether they had a master plan in mind for us.”

  Thanks to Dark Horizons.

Beast Unleashed!

 

Wolverine and the X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel

  Logan is trying to teach young mutants at the Jean Grey School. In Wolverine and the X-Men #8 the Hellfire Club King gets a crash course in killing courtesy of Professor Sabretooth. The killer’s tutelage of Kade Kilgore is brutal, bloody and leads to a frightening kidnapping. Odd that all this guts, blood and terror still seems fun in a creepy way thanks to Jason Aaron’s script.

  It’s pretty bold of Aaron to sideline Logan and let the other cast shine. Beast vs Sabretooth was satisfying and inspires Kilgore to hatch his next scheme to destroy the Jean Grey School and get his revenge on Logan.

  Chris Bachalo returns on art and knocks us out especially when Genesis unleashes his power. The Hank/Victor action is stylized and pops out of the page.

  Wolverine and the X-Men continues to be my favorite X book because it’s the most fun even when you feel a little disturbed by this issue dark, twisted, violent manipulations and countermoves.

Captain America Sequel Sets 2014 Date

Chris Evans in Marvel's the Avengers courtesy Marvel

Disney and Marvel announce the Captain America sequel will hit April 4, 2014.

Cap’s second solo adventure will “pick-up where the highly anticipated Marvel’s The Avengers (May 4, 2012) leaves off, as Steve Rogers continues his affiliation with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., and struggles to embrace his role in the modern world.”

Chris Evans will reprise his role as Steve Rogers.
For the entire press release here’s the Marvel.com link.

A Geek’s Hope: I really hope Marvel/Disney will use Ed Brubaker’s The Winter Soldier epic as the inspiration for the modern-day set sequel. This would mean Sebastian Stan returning as a very different Bucky Barnes. Plus the introduction of the Red Skull’s daughter Sin and her lover/enforcer Crossbones.

Marvel recently revealed they’ve narrowed down their list of directors.

New “Prometheus” Starmap Photos

  The starmap is just one the many geek freakout inducing images coming from Prometheus, the Ridley Scott directed return to the Alien universe. Now an awesome collection of images from the film can be found on a facebook app with an interactive starmap. Thanks to Dark Horizons for capturing.

Charlize Theron in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

  Charlize Theron plays a Weyland corporate officer named Meredith Vickers.

courtesy 20th Century Fox

The Prometheus crew explore the alien vessel from Alien?

Idris Elba in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

                                  Idris Elba as the Captain (?) of Prometheus

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

                 Michael Fassbenderder as the android David of Prometheus.

Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

                                 The Prometheus landing on the alien planet

Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

                    Michael Fassbender explores the alien ship in Prometheus.

Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

The Fearless Climax

Fear Itself The Fearless #2 courtesy Marvel

  Fear Itself: The Fearless comes to an exciting, emotional climax. Valkyrie defied the Avengers on a mission for Odin. The warrior’s race against Sin to find the mystical hammers left by the Serpent in Fear Itself has been gripping and fun. Valkyrie faces an emotional sacrifice in her final showdown with Sin issue 12 out now.

  Even if you loved, loathed or didn’t read Fear Itself – I highly recommend this thrilling tour of the Marvel universe packed with exciting battles, bloody fights, and shocking betrayals. We learn of Valkyrie’s haunted past and hope for love in the afterlife. She invades Atlantis, Utopia and every corner of the Marvel world with the Avengers on her trail.

  Valkyrie is definitely the star of this series but it’s packed with awesome moments: Wolverine vs. Crossbones, Doctor Strange and the Avengers vs. an army right of out Inferno plus the Valkyrie Storm fight is worth the dang series!

Fear Itself The Fearless #9 courtesy Marvel

Cullen Bunn, Matt Fraction and Chris Yost created this exciting quest for one of my favorite heroines. Mark Bagley and Paul Pelletier tag team on art with Art Adams on covers. This will likely be collected in a trade – get it!