#October2014
Go figure: WB looking for female director for ‘Wonder Woman’ flick
Go figure. Go nuts! Go bananas! Go whatever you want. Just celebrate this neat bit of news. It almost makes too much sense: a female director could be helming the female-led Wonder Woman movie.
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DC Comics ‘Teen Titans’ TV series may hit TNT
I think Teen Titans is probably the DC franchise I know the least about. Outside of that Adam Warren jam from a few years ago. So I’m pretty agnostic about the news that DC may be bringing the franchise to TNT. At the very least it’ll apparently start my Batman, Dick Grayson.
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THE ROCK tweets about “BIG” DC RELATED MEETING. Don’t tease me, brah.
The Rock is going to enter the DC cinematic universe? Don’t tease me, brolo! Don’t do that. I mean, if there is anything that can save the Universe that Snyder and Goyer are Sinking it’s The Rock. Obviously? Now the big question is who would he play? For my money I’d have him play the big three. That’s right. Superman. Plastic Man. Zatanna.
DC wins the FINAL APPEAL in the case of SUPERMAN RIGHTS
It appears that DC is inching closer (if they haven’t closed the case already) towards completely subsuming the Superman rights into their bulging corpus. Latest in a long line of appeals and whatever stuff has ruled in favor of The Man.
DC APOLOGIZES for asking aspiring artists to draw NAKED, SUICIDAL HARLEY QUINN. Ridiculous.
The craziest part of this story is that none of it is from the rotting membranes of my filth-dome. DC comics really is this fucking stupid. Especially since this nonsense occurred the same week that they essentially jettisoned one of their more prominent auteur creators over stagnant, company-wide policies that allow for little growth or complexity. New 52! LOL.
‘CHRONICLE’ WRITER is pitching a ‘WONDER WOMAN’ flick.
Max Landis. Wrote Chronicle. Seems to really, really, really enjoy himself. Enjoys hearing himself speak, eat, spank, take a dump (I can relate). The dude who took the world by force with his fiercely mediocre first effort is now pitching a Wonder Woman movie.
FROWN: DC’S DAN DIDIO says Heroes Shouldn’t Have Happy Lives.
Blegh. If Dan DiDio wasn’t already coming off poorly due to the whole Batwoman fiasco last week, now he’s pretty much nailed it. You see, according to DiDio, heroes shouldn’t have happy personal lives. None of them.
‘BATWOMAN’ CREATIVE TEAM LEAVES over DC’S CONTINUAL EDITORIAL F**KERY.
The hot topic in the comic book world today. The Batwoman creative team of J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman have exited the title, citing continual DC fuckery regarding the trajectory of their story lines. The most prominent complaint of theirs is that DC refused to allow Kate Kane to marry her fiancee Maggie Sawyer.
Buy These Flippin Comics!!! (8/28/13) Drrrrrrty Pop!
Hey, kids! So it’s Wednesday, and I assume we’ve all calmed down after flipping our collective shits from the pop-culture orgy/last-train-to-nowhere that is the VMAs. I’m old, and pop music gets me all kinds of jaded, but the VMAs still managed to teach me a lesson: America THRIVES on nostalgia, even nostalgia that isn’t even 20 years old (see the above pic). I, myself, am currently gushing over an “event” book that, when boiled down to its essentials, is nothing more than a comic scientifically engineered to tickle my 12-year-old pickle. Thanos is my Justin Timberlake. N’Sync are my Infinity Gems. Comic books, particularly superhero ones, are every bit as nostalgic and regressive as the boy-bands and teen vixens of pop music. So while I scoff at the proles going batshit over 10 year old hooks sang by grown men with receding hair lines trying their damndest to recreate moves no thirtysomething should have to attempt (looking at you Fat One), I massage my own nostalgia-boner to pretty pictures of ageless Avengers saddling up for one last ride into the aether in a story not quite called Infinity Gauntlet 2: The Soich For More Money, but may as well be.
Say my name! “Hypocrite.” You’re goddamned right.
So hit the jump and let’s get nostalgic, shall we?
BUY THESE FLIPPIN COMICS!! (8/7/2013) – SCI-FI RENAISSANCE
Hey, folks! Johnny here, back again for another week of slingin’ philosophical about my favorite pastime! Looking at this week’s releases, I was amazed at just how much great non-superhero fare there is to be read currently. Not in a long time have I felt that the variety of books is SO great and SO varied, that it is the perfect time to introduce comics to friends and loved ones who might like comics, but maybe just don’t dig capes. Here’s what I’d like to grab this week, and hit us up in the comments and tell us what you’re looking out for!
