This seems like a good excuse to renew my call for a Hostess ad trade paperback collection: Check out “Crisis on Earth-Twinkie!”
Soon to be followed by “Cat Week” and “Matt Week”: The fine folks at Living Between Wednesdays follow last week’s zany Fat Week with Hat Week. First up? A recounting of that one time that Ben Grimm wore a shape-shifting alien as a top hat all night, and a look at some of the terrible hats that a superhero fan can buy and wear to prove that they like a particular superhero and that they have no taste.
“We’ve been pouring through the library of 7,000 Marvel characters looking for the next ‘Spider-Man’”: That’s Gary Marsh, entertainment president and chief creative officer of Disney Channels Worldwide, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter in this story about upcoming Disney Channel projects. You’ve gotta admire Marsh’s enthusiasm, but I’m pretty sure Marvel’s been pouring through that same catalog looking for the next Spider-Man themselves for about 30 years now, and haven’t found him yet. (Also, shouldn’t that be “poring” instead of “pouring?”)
So, the old New Avengers are the new New Avengers?: Marvel keeps dribbling out Avengers line-up news, and so far the New Avengers team looks like it consists of Wolverine, Spider-Man, shirtless, nipple-less Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. All of whom have been in New Avengers for…ever?
No, no there is not: “Is there gold in Golden Age comic books?”
The Flash…?: “What Will The Flash Movie Be About?”
Is the Marvel Universe the Jewish Narnia?: Spencer Ackerman says it is.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Yes, it should be “poring”… Pisses me off that people who don’t know the difference can get great jobs like that. Anyhow, I’d love to see Marvel back up that claim of 7000 characters with an actual list.
Wait, maybe not… It’s got to be populated with minor, insignificant characters that showed up one time only. What exactly is the criteria? Then again, I suppose there’s at least 5000 mutants alone in Marvel’s universe. LOL…
Anyhow, even if there are 7000 characters, there’s probably only about 50 characters tops, covering both heroes and villains, that anyone actually cares about. Maybe not even that many. Like DC, there’s really only a handful of characters keeping the company afloat.
March 5th, 2010 at 9:50 am
I liked the article about a possible (is it definitely happening now?) Flash movie. I think WB/DC needs to take its time and not rush things to the screen (like they nearly did in that aborted attempt at making a halfassed JLA flick). We know that Nolan’s Batman 3 is coming, I’m excited that Nolan will be involved in rebooting Superman, and hopefully Green Lantern will be as good as it has the potential to be. That’s a good slate for right now, so I don’t think Flash needs to be (no pun intended) rushed.
Professor Zoom would probably the most obvious choice for a villian, and I like the possibilities of time-travel being opened up for such a movie. Would it be too much for mainstream audiences? Maybe, but Lost seems to be doing a great job of entertaining the masses with brain-melting time travel, so I think it could work.
Mostly, I’d love to see a big Gorilla City epic at some point… Probably not for the first movie, but if taken seriously I think it could seriously rock. The producers of the old TV show apparently wanted to do a Gorilla City episode had they made it to a second season, but I don’t know how it could’ve been done back then. On a TV budget no less. Now, on the big screen, it’s got great potential.
March 5th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I’d say Luke Cage/Iron Fist/Heroes for Hire has some of the best potential for Marvel Movie Magic and a franchise. (and get the dang FF back from Sony (or is it Fox?)) Making a spectacular FF movie really doesn’t seem like it’d be hard to do in a post LOTR/Iron Man world…
and on the ‘New Avengers’ fairly unsurprisingly being ‘the New Avengers’, weren’t the ‘old Avengers’teases all pretty much ‘the Old Avengers’? (except Spider-Woman)
March 5th, 2010 at 10:08 am
@Shaun, it’s not clear to me that the spelling error was Gary Marsh’s fault. If the quote is a transcription from a spoken interview, then the journalists who put the article together are to blame.
This list from Kurt Busiek a few months back may provide some perspective on the “7,000 characters” business. (I hope that link worked. If not, search busiek.com for a page titled “A Cast of Thousands…”)
March 5th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
o come on..a true New Mutants cartoon with the Hellions would totally work…not another shrunken X-Men one…
Um Disney Channel? Runaways? come on..that would be a great counter to TeenNick….
Going offbeat…how about a Howard The Duck meets Darkwing Duck animated offering….?