"Mickey Mouse now owns your favorite comic publisher..."
"everyone's favorite superhero couple, Hawkeye and Mockingbird"
Dude, both those phrases are rather presumptuous. Especially when you consider that Hawkeye and Mockingbird are essentially a ripoff of Green Arrow and Black Canary.
what, no love for Nextwave? that has action-comedy written all over it. semi-dysfunctional superheroes-with-issues rebel against the Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort that employs them and actually start saving people and stuff! it has Machine Man for the trippy scifi bits, getting drunk. It has The Captain for the Captain Marvel style action bits, Elsa Bloodstone for the fantasy, Forbush Man for the comedy, and the secret agenda of H.A.T.E for the thriller elements (with MODOK!)
@DoktorH: NextWave is comedy for comic-book fans. If you're NOT a comic-book fan, it's really too self-referential and in-jokey to be amusing.
Seriously, stuff like Irving Forbush or a bunch of two-page splash panels (with no story) are only funny to comics fans (and wouldn't translate at all to the movies). Likewise, half the characters would need explanation; a movie audience isn't going to know who Bloodstone is (hell, most comic readers didn't know) and isn't going to be happy with finding out one of the members is his daughter...and won't be happy with the two lines of exposition about it in the comic that passes for her back-story.
@WizarDru: False. The elements that you describe are no different than those in Mystery Men--inside jokes for comic book fans, characters with obscure origins--and that was a great movie.
My Marvel pulls are down to Invincible Iron man, Mighty Avengers (soon to be dropped, I think) and Thunderbolts. Savage She-Hulk sounds fun though. But, speaking as a former loyal Marvel Zombie, I just don't care all that much what happens in the Marvel Universe these days.
@Ed Grabianowski: For me , Dark Avengers, Spider Man, maybe the Punisher. I think the Dark Reign storyline is going to get tedious in the long run. The villians win is a great storyline but if it goes on for over a year ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
@ChibaCityCowboy: It just seems like Marvel has been careening from one "epic cross-over" to another for like five years now. I guess you could say the same for DC, but DC just seems to have executed it better.
Part of the problem is that the Marvel crossovers keep infiltrating every book they put out, so all the writers end up slaves to the grand design. No one ever gets to spend time fleshing out their own corner of the universe (Moon Knight was a nice exception for a little while). To borrow from Charlie Jane's post last week, Marvel has been all plot, no story for way too long now.
Oh Moff how you do make me chuckle, but seriously it's unsettling how close this conversation is to my house, minus all that talk about you probably wanting to be a girl. I had almost the exact same conversation this holiday week BUT I was trying to convince my Mother to kill my sister by driving the car into a gas station with me protected in the back. Think of the possible headlines! She got mad and totally didn't understand. Parents they NEVER understand. As always thanks for the great Sunday read.
09/01/09
"everyone's favorite superhero couple, Hawkeye and Mockingbird"
Dude, both those phrases are rather presumptuous. Especially when you consider that Hawkeye and Mockingbird are essentially a ripoff of Green Arrow and Black Canary.
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Now Jamie Madrox, that's a character I'd like to see done right on film.
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Cloak, not Clock, argh, typo.
06/15/09
Typo aside, Power Pack is a great idea for a summer blockbuster. Kids would love seeing someone like themselves with superpowers.
Cloak and Dagger, though...it's a little too dark. And it feels dated to me.
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Seriously, stuff like Irving Forbush or a bunch of two-page splash panels (with no story) are only funny to comics fans (and wouldn't translate at all to the movies). Likewise, half the characters would need explanation; a movie audience isn't going to know who Bloodstone is (hell, most comic readers didn't know) and isn't going to be happy with finding out one of the members is his daughter...and won't be happy with the two lines of exposition about it in the comic that passes for her back-story.
Nextwave would make a TERRIBLE movie.
06/15/09
It just couldn't rely on those elements.
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Alas, after ELEKTRA, Marvel might think twice about going that route . . .
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It is full of Kung Fu and good times.
(It does NOT feature SHARK EYES, though I'm seriously considering that for the rewrites.)
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It is full of Kung Fu and good times.
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Part of the problem is that the Marvel crossovers keep infiltrating every book they put out, so all the writers end up slaves to the grand design. No one ever gets to spend time fleshing out their own corner of the universe (Moon Knight was a nice exception for a little while). To borrow from Charlie Jane's post last week, Marvel has been all plot, no story for way too long now.
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