If you like what you’ve read so far (c’mon, how can you not?) totally check out more super cute comics at:www.sosuperduper.com!

Dark Horse has sent out its second BPRD “Classified” e-mail in as many weeks, with this to say:

Dear B.P.R.D. member, Thank you for joining this elite team of dedicated men and women. Your service is a valuable asset to our organization, and we are proud to have you aboard. Membership, however, is merely the first step. There will be times when we will call on you to perform certain duties to enlarge the scope of the B.P.R.D., but know that your efforts will not go unrewarded. Service in the B.P.R.D. has its benefits. Within a week, you will be sent an invitation to become friends with our founder, Trevor Bruttenholm, on Facebook. Trevor Bruttenholm’s Facebook profile is a private profile for B.P.R.D. members only. We will release exclusive news, interviews, sketches, preview pages, and more via the social network. We ask that, unless explicitly stated, you keep all information and assets secret. We will be contacting you with more information. Look for your friend request from Trevor Bruttenholm soon. Your first assignment: Send a letter to the editors of Hellboy and B.P.R.D. by e-mailing hellmail@darkhorse.com. Questions, comments, concerns — any letter is valid. If we receive word that fifty letters have been sent by March 29, 2010, at noon PST, then we will release sketches only available in the pages of Hellboy: The Wild Hunt to members everywhere via Trevor Bruttenholm’s Facebook page. This is only the beginning. –The B.P.R.D. Team

Some quick notes on things I’ve noticed in the last few days…

First of all, it was called to my attention after I wrote up JMS’ new-to-video release Ninja Assassin yesterday that Straczynski’s bestselling and wildly controversial Spider-Man: One More Day is available for only $6.97 in hardcover in the bargain section of Barnes & Noble bookstores all over the country. Seems like a great chance for continuity junkies who didn’t like the story, but feel like they ought to own something so important, to get it cheap.

There are only 60 days remaining to make yourself part of the upcoming Reading With Pictures Anthology, which is being funded through Kickstarter. It’s 45% funded, with $4,500 of its final $10,000 already pledged. The book involves a bunch of really cool creators working together for a good cause, so I’d say to at least check it out. If somebody else doesn’t contribute in the next month, I’m going to have to raise the level of my contribution. And I’m a cheap bastard, so don’t make me do that!

Speaking of worthy causes on Kickstarter, Ted Rall’s sequel to his great To Afghanistan & Back is still up in the air, with only about half of the total cost donated and a little under two weeks before he’s got to report back to the publisher. Rall’s one of the most fearless and funny graphic novelists in the market right now, so I’d suggest everyone check his work out and think about helping him get funded.

Third and final fundraising shill (for now): Zach Roberts, who masterminded the Greg Palast/Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. comic book Steal Back Your Vote (of which I was an editor–full disclosure here), has a forthcoming documentary about Sarah Palin called Rogue Candidate; it can be found here, and he’s been discussing some very interesting and comics-related promotion avenues for the film, so keep your eyes and ears open; it may be the first documentary film ever to have a comics adaptation.

Starz is not only taking some stories from England, but a style of televising them, too; the network has greenlit a Camelot miniseries that will run for ten episodes and be written by Chris Chibnall of Torchwood fame. Removing “Starz” from this sentence, when I first heard that this was happening, I assumed that it was a BBC or BBC America series being reported. It will, however, go nicely with their Spartacus: Blood and Sand series.

Last week at South by Southwest, Warner Brothers announced that they planned on using DC superheroes as tentpole films starting in 2012 or so to replace the departing Harry Potter franchise. There’ll be some overlap, of course, with the last two Harry Potter movies not yet released and Green Lantern already shooting, but it’s a sound business idea on paper, I think, and setting them up as tentpoles unto themselves means that people will have to start thinking of them as viable commercial franchises instead of just talking about how there are all these random superhero movies being made and when will they go out of style. Should be interesting and really fun for comics fans…provided that Warner can make it work.

In a week that saw Supergirl as fantastic as it’s ever been (apologies to the Peter David enthusiasts out there), a curious piece was found by way of The Hollywood Reporter this week.

According to the press release…

[Warner Bros. Consumer Products] has partnered with five-time Olympic medalist Nastia Liukin to create Supergirl by Nastia, the first-ever lifestyle merchandise line of its kind for girls available at a major retailer. Supergirl by Nastia will feature trend-right, affordable apparel that encourages a message of empowerment, creativity, strength, intelligence and independence – the symbolic attributes of the iconic Supergirl S-Shield. The collection, created for today’s 8-12-year-old girls, will be available exclusively at JCPenney – in stores and on jcp.com – beginning July 20, just in time for the back-to-school season.

“The Supergirl S-Shield is embraced the world over as a symbol of girl power,” said Brad Globe, president, Warner Bros. Consumer Products. “From ‘fashionistas’ to ‘actionistas,’ a Supergirl is today’s girl and we are proud to be partnering with Nastia Liukin and JCPenney to bring the Supergirl by Nastia line, and its message of empowerment, to life at retail for all girls and their parents.

Prior to reading this, I was not aware that WB had been using Supergirl as a brand in this manner anywhere (or the “Supergirl Jam” mentioned further in the press release). Far be it for me to play fashionista, especially for young girls’ clothing, but while I like that there are some tasteful designs here (and we really only get a sampling), it seems more like the El family crest is merely getting incorporated into some graphic designs and not so much Kara Zor-El herself. Just another symbol like the peace sign. Maybe there are some items with Supergirl’s likeness on them in development, I can’t tell. But, hey, whatever works! Not a parent myself, and lord knows it’s been a kajillion years since I stepped inside a JCPenney.

This is one of those items that doesn’t precisely synch up with the comics world, but it’s too much fun not to share. And, of course, Al has always managed to work in plenty of genre references across the spectra of his various albums. That said, enjoy, via Funny or Die . . .

With the full solicitations up on the mothership, DC unveiled the latest assortment of DC Direct figures. It’s not a great surprise to see the successful “Blackest Night” sub-group moving forward. This sixth assortment features Hal Jordan (in his first appearance in the subline), Wonder Woman as a Star Sapphire, The Flash (Barry Allen) as a Blue Lantern, and Black Lantern Hawkgirl. Other items of note are the 1:6 scale Jonah Hex figure based on the film and a statue recreating the cover to the classic 1978 Superman vs. Muhammad Ali special.

The continuing Blackest Night strategy is probably a good one for DC Direct. It would be nice to see them squeeze in a regular, classic Mera before doing a Red Lantern version of the character. As it is, Mera’s never gotten the modern action figure treatment, and it would be a bit of a drag for fans that have wanted to see one for years to have the first DC Direct version be the Red. So, what say you, collectors? Enjoying the continual Blackest Night presence, or do you want DC Direct to shake it up a little more?

The latest release in Drawn and Quarterly’s John Stanley Library line is closer to Melvin Monster than Nancy in that it collects a short-lived original series, rather than a popular series based on a preexisting character.

It’s unlike either in that it pulls back from the world of children a bit to focus on teenagers. Given the age of those teenagers—it’s right there in the title—that may not be a huge difference, but Stanley is tackling slightly more mature subject matter than in his better known Little Lulu and Nancy work: Romance, crushes, status awareness, fitting in and so forth.

It also means Stanley here has older, more adult characters to draw, and it’s a pleasure to see his quick, confident, concisely-placed strokes applied to the longer, lither forms of the teenagers. Thinking back on all the Little Lulu comics I’ve read, I’m having trouble thinking of any tall or skinny characters, as everyone in Lulu’s world—the older kids, the majority of the adults—have a soft roundness about him.

Here many of the characters are gangly and long-limbed, perfect figures for much of the running around and explosive histrionics they engage in.

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The fabulous blog for all things Hayao Miyazki, the Ghibli Blog, has found a new treasure: a rare 1989 manga by  director Miyazaki called The Age of the Flying Boat.

This short manga served as the inspiration and precursor for the film Porco Rosso, and was only made available once in English — until now.

Read the full manga over at Ghibli Blog. link

Castlerain Entertainment has been Canada’s premiere indy company that spotlights dark horror and fantasy. Blog@ had the chance to talk to  writer Michael Angelos, who has worked at Castlerain since he helped re-establish the company a decade ago, about his creator-owned title Jack The Lantern, and it’s new upcoming story Jack The Lantern: War of the Soul!

Blog@: Can you sum up the story without giving away any twists or anything like that? This is the 3rd arc in the series, correct? If you could speed up the readers on what’s been going on…

Michael Angelos: It begins with Jack Corby–a conflicted man with a troublesome past who is offered a mysterious treatment to eradicate all his inner pain via his psychiatrist, Frank Casper. After cautiously accepting the treatment, Jack is transformed (painfully) into a host for a demon-spirit named: Argotakar. Bestowed with extraordinary power, Jack soon learns that he has been catapulted into an 800-year old secret war that will pit him against a nefarious cult of humans and otherworldly demons that are bent on creating a dark Eden out of world. But as that arduous journey begins, Jack’s treatment forces him into a psychological war against his own inner demons for the salvation of his soul.

Blog@: What were some inspirations behind some of the imagery here?

Angelos: I wanted to do a tale that would resonate with the themes of Halloween. There’s such a rich and diverse folklore within the season that I’ve always had an affinity for it, and that played a major role in the essence and definition of the characters. Along with certain novels, a lot of classic horror films, especially from the 60’ and 70’s, helped nurture some of the ethereal tone of the series.

Blog@: For the readers not familiar with your work, can you give us some examples on where we might have seen you before?

Angelos: Aside from Jack the Lantern, I created and wrote a sci-fi/ fantasy mini-series for Castle Rain called JESTERCROW. It featured artwork by Stephen Sadowski (JSA, Avengers), Scott Lee (22-Brides), and Janine Johnston (Star Wars).

Blog@: When can fans expect this new Jack the Lantern story hit shelves?

Angelos: Jack the Lantern: War of the soul will be out in late April/ early May. It’ll be 72-pages square bound and will retail for only $5.95!

Blog@: Who are the artists you’re working with this time around? Looks like you’ve got some great names here.

Angelos: I’ve been blessed to have some amazing talent grace this series. On the prior JACK books, I worked with Tim Vigil (FAUST) Scott Lee, Jerry Beck, and Stephen Sadowski. There all seasoned veterans with their own diverse style, and each one of them brought a unique vibe to the series. When you’re working in black and white, you’re challenging the artist to think differently, and outside the realm of a color, so you really see the textures and detail in the line work.

For JACK THE LANTERN: WAR OF THE SOUL, I was fortunate to work with another talented artist: Mark Kidwell (Dark Kingdom, BUMP). Mark work from beginning to end, Mark was consistent and kept the legacy of the intensity and detail that the series was known for. In my opinion this was Mark’s finest artistic work to date, and I think a lot of people are going to be blown away when they gaze upon his work on this book.

Over at TVTropes, probably my favorite website in the world, they have a page dedicated to entertainment that’s about just exactly what you expect it to be about when you hear the title. Writer J.Michael Straczynski’s Ninja Assassin, released on DVD and Blu-Ray combo pack last week from Warner Home Video, is a great example. Light on plot, featuring barely-human dialogue and heavy on the stylized, preposterous, impressive and fun action sequences, the film has rated some rave reviews on Amazon and Rotten Tomatoes from martial arts film fanatics and some pretty terrible write-ups from, well, everyone else.

Ninja Assassin revolves around a ninja assassin who turns his back on the organization that employs him and ends up having to face off against them because, like any good mafioso knows, you don’t get to choose when you leave the family.

The movie, which stars Rain (of Speed Racer fame) and is produced by the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer) is the kind of story that’s held together only by the loosest approximation of a plot; the first twenty minutes or so jump to give a little insight to the titular assassin, while intercutting the story of a pair of EUROPOL investigators, one of whom is convinced that a league of ninjas is performing high-priced, high-profile assassinations all over the world and the other admitting that he’s only humoring her because she’s hot (admittedly, Naomie Harris looks a lot better here than she did in 28 Days Later or Pirates of the Carribbean). But good looks, and even good performances, can’t overcome a script that’s positively awful. And while Harris herself has the physical presence of an actor, including body language and facial expressions that are on the money, her line reads are pretty monotonous, robbing her character of what little depth could have been read into her.

James McTeigue, whose V for Vendetta was one of the most cinematically and visually-interesting comic book movies of the last several years, seems to have given all that up here in the interest of blood, blood and more blood. The movie’s awash in it, not just in the battle and assassination scenes, but also in the training flashbacks. It’s also got plenty of dime-store philosophy, from that of the ninja to the over-the-top idealism of just about every female in the film.

For a mad, bloody ninja rampage, check this movie out. For anything–and I mean anything–else? Pass.

That title about says it all, doesn’t it?

[Via Entertainment Weekly]

The Hollywood Reporter has said that Warner Bros. is wrangling the film rights to the manga BLEACH.

Peter Segal — whose previous credits include 50 First Dates and the recent remake of Get Smart — is in negotiations to produce the film through Viz Media. WB isn’t just limiting this to their foray into the manga pool — they’re already hard at work adapting Akira for the big screen.

Bleach deals with a boy who can see the dead — and what happens when absorbs the power of a female Soul Reaper, a mystic warrior meant to battle soulless “hollows” and escort the dead to the afterlife. Not only has this property been a weekly manga series since 2001, but many others have seen the cartoon version of the series on Cartoon Network.

Move over, Incredible Hercules — I think we can crown a new winner for Best Recap Ever.

I’ve always dug the songs that Euge from Adam WarRock and War Rocket Ajax has mixed on his web site, but he’s outdone himself this time with a rap recap for the first five Scott Pilgrim books.

If you’re excited for the sixth book, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour — due out in July– you owe it to yourself to check this thing out.

[Hat tip to Bryan Lee O'Malley for the heads-up]

[Via Press Release]

March has marked the month (aww, yeah alliteration) that Viper Comics has joined the webcomic scene with Sanford Park by Daniel Barcroft and RiverSide by Rhys McDonald.

Sanford Park is a comic strip about life in the multicultural melting pot of American suburbia, of course coming from the park’s animals perspective. It updates every Monday and Thursday.

RiverSide centers around the life of a girl named Lily. Nothing out of the ordinary happens to Lily, until she’s dragged into a world where she learns things out of the ordinary do actually happen. Updates every Tuesday.

Viper delivers some quality stuff, so check them out, readers.

Archie Loves Betty! Archie Loves Veronica! It’s been a debate years in the making, one that threatened to erupt into a million-year war for the fate of red-headed mankind.

But no longer.

Archie Comics has announced that Archie truly can have it all with The Married Life: Archie Loves Betty and The Married Life: Archie Loves Veronica! These two series tie into the recent “imaginary stories” where Riverdale’s favorite playa got hitched in two separate stories to the down-to-earth blonde Betty and the brunette heiress Veronica.

With each of these series splitting into their own separate universes of blissfully married life, it’s only a matter of time before these comics attract the Anti-Monitor’s attention. There’s no word currently as to when the series will come out, but there’s only one thing I can say — Betty, Veronica, for God’s sake, get a pre-nup. You don’t know where Archie’s been.

“Chris Evans set to don Captain America’s cape”: Either that’s a poor choice of headline on this article, or the Captain America movie is going to be taking some pretty dramatic liberties with Cap’s costume.

“I called it a novel in cartoons. Graphic novels are called graphic novels because people are ashamed of the term ‘cartoon,’ which is idiotic”: That’s legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer talking to The Atlantic about his pre-graphic novel graphic novel Tantrum. One nice side benefit of Feiffer’s new memoir Backing Into Forward being published is all of the great interviews with him popping up here and there. And speaking of Feiffer’s memoir, here’s a review from The New York Times.

“I always felt like it would be fantastic to have a New Zealand edition because when the first edition came out it was really hard to get here”: That’s New Zealand’s Dylan Horrocks in this profile piece on the cartoonist, occasioned by Drawn and Quarterly’s recent release of his 1998 graphic novel Hicksville. Which you should really read, if you haven’t already at some point in the last 12 years.

“Newspapers get knocked for having no edge and being out of touch…So it’s a good thing to put fresh air into the comics, and that’s Dustin”: That’s artist Jeff Parker hyping his comic strip Dustin, about an unemployed 23-year-old living in his parents’ garage. It’s from one of those fairly common introduction-to-tne-new-strip-on-our-comics-page newspaper features. This one’s a little more interesting in that the strip’s subject matter sort of fortuitously coincided with the economy going south, making it far more relevant than its creators could have intended. Well, fortuitously for them and their strip, if not the economy in general.

If Kick-Ass the movie is less homophobic and racist than the comic, we’ll have her to thank: The Guardian profiles screenwriter Jane Goldman.

Is that you Robot Man?: Check out Derek Van Gieson’s rejected New Yorker cartoon featuring a robot, who looks an awful lot like a world wearier version of DC’s two robot men named Robot Man.

With the recent release of New Moon and the success of the television series True Blood, vampires are in the hearts and minds – and throats – of the public-at-large. But in comics there’s a new kind of blood-sucker – the bovine kind.

Comics writer and former Blog@Newsarama contributor Michael May has assembled three friends and artists to help him create an anthology focused on a vampire cow named – aptly enough – Cownt. First appearing in an anthology organized by comics writer Steve Niles’ forum, this bloodsucking bovine became a cult favorite for readers. And in a case of “ask and she shall receive”, May is bringing back the Cownt in this new self-published anthology titled Cownt Tales.

We spoke with May about this book, and his other projects underway.

Newsarama: Cownt – a vampire cow; how the hell did you come up with that?

Michael May: I’m a little afraid that people will assume it’s a rip-off of Hell Cow from Howard the Duck, but the truth is that I didn’t know about Hell Cow until long after the Cownt was born. Turns out, the characters have nothing in common anyway other than the overall concept.

My brother-in-law and I created him one night during a role-playing game we were playing with some pals. It was kind of a slow campaign, so we started making up characters for a pretend comic book about a group of inept super-villains. Neither of us remembers who first said “vampire cow” or came up with the name, but he was our favorite of the bunch right away.
Nrama: Tell us about that first story in the Steve Niles fan anthology, and the response you must’ve got to continue the character here.
May: I’d met artist Gavin Spence on Steve’s forum and we’d started talking about making this “pretend” super-villain comic a reality. We weren’t too far into it when some of the other forum members – independently of our project – said, “Let’s make an anthology!” Gav and I wanted to participate, so we quickly scrapped our plan for a super-hero parody (thank God!) and decided to submit a story with our one horror-related character, who still happened to be my favorite and had also become Gav’s.

Thanks partly to the concept itself and partly because of Gav’s hilarious character design, the Cownt quickly became EVERYONE’s favorite. People seem to respond to how seriously the Cownt takes himself while looking so completely ridiculous. The challenge has been to create stories that live up to that visual.
Nrama: You’ve got a great line-up of artists here – how’d you do it?
May: Gav was an obvious choice. Since he was the first real artist to draw the character, I knew he had to be the one to tell the origin story.

Jessica Hickman and I also met on the Steve Niles anthology and she’s been one of the Cownt’s biggest supporters ever since. In fact, this book getting done at all is due entirely to her constantly emailing me with the single word, “Moo’bleh!” When I was distracted by other stuff and not entirely sure what tone the Cownt’s stories needed to have, Jess encouraged me and helped me focus. She was another natural choice. Her story’s about the Cownt’s first vampire hunter, a lactose intolerant farmgirl named Penny.

The third artist in the book is Paul Taylor, who does an amazing webcomic called Wapsi Square. Paul’s a friend of mine, but he’s busy enough with Wapsi that franky I had no hope that he’d be able to do this too. Even now, with the comic completed and in the hands of fans, I’m still having a hard time believing he said yes. Paul touches on the theme of body-image in Wapsi Square.
Nrama: How’d you come to self-publishing this book?
May: We started making plans for the book at last year’s FallCon, but hadn’t made a ton of headway on it by spring when the Twin Cities area has another, smaller convention. We were passing out Cownt stickers and postcards there and fans kept asking me, “When’s the book coming out?” And they were really excited about it. One fan had picked up a print at FallCon and was literally jumping with excitement when I told her there was a comic coming. She has her print hanging in her apartment and when people come to visit and ask her who that is, she says, “That’s the Cownt!”

So, thinking quickly – or not at all – I blurted out, “FallCon!” as my answer. And did this several times before realizing that that left us no time to find a publisher, much less solicit through Diamond. So in this case, self-publishing was a necessity to make good on that ill-considered promise. Hopefully people will like it enough to warrant a second issue that we can pitch to real publishers.

Nrama: And for people who didn’t go to FallCon can get it, where else can they get the book

May: I’m getting it set up right now on IndyPlanet, so it should show up there soon. Or folks can email me at michaelmay@michaelmay.us. I’ll also be updating the site with news and links to IndyPlanet once that’s ready to go.

Nrama: What else are you working on, Michael?

May: Comics-wise, Jason Copland (Empty Chamber, Perhapanauts) and I are working on a giant monster/giant robot comic. We’re still pitching that around. It’s a post-apocalyptic deal where giant monsters have all but wiped out human civilization. Most of what’s left of humanity is just trying to survive, but there’s a military group in Africa that’s developed a small team of giant mechs to fight back. The question the series asks is: since technology abused nature to create the giant monsters, can technology really be the answer to defeating them? Not everyone agrees on that answer and the consequences are rather disastrous. There’s a segment of humanity that deeply believes that we’ve brought this on ourselves and should just take our medicine.

I’ve also written a one-shot with Alex Ness called Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly. A really cool artist named Greg Jolly is illustrating it. It’s not done yet, but when it is it’ll be sort of a What If? tale where Jesse survives Bob Ford’s assassination attempt and escapes to a Kansas ghost town where he retires and reconnects with his faith. The problem is that Jesse’s still a dark-hearted bastard and by the time he’s an old man he’s got a version of religion that’s deeply tainted by selfishness and prejudice. Enter a very young Machine Gun Kelly and his gang who are hoping to set up a still in the town. One of the gangsters is black and seeing him treated as an equal by the rest of the gang pretty much sends Jesse over the edge. It’s Jesse’s meanness and six-guns versus Kelly’s inexperience and Thompson. And when I called Jesse’s new home a “ghost town,” that wasn’t necessarily metaphorical.

Once we get those closer to publication, Jess Hickman and I have an idea that’ll combine our mutual love of pirates, jungle girls, and shark-people, but that’s a little ways down the road.

Sand & Fury: A ScreamQueen Adventure
Written & Illustrated by Ho Che Anderson
Published by Fantagraphics

After two ambitious, but not-quite-realized projects in King and Pop Life, Ho Che Anderson is taking another tack with his latest book, Sand & Fury: A ScreamQueen Adventure.  On the back cover blurb, Howard Chaykin describes the effect of Anderson’s book being “the illegitimate child of Faulkner and Lovecraft.”  The Lovecraft is readily apparent, though the book’s sexually charged, terse narrative reminds more of Jim Thompson than ole’ Billy Faulkner.

Of course, those literary comparisons connect most strongly to the book’s tone and subject matter; they’re not necessarily reflective of its quality as a narrative.

A confused and terrifying young woman, with little recollection of her past, serves as a Bien Sidhe, a folklore Banshee, howling over the recently deceased (sometimes causing those deaths with her scream).  As she wanders from encounter to encounter, a parallel story of a young, sexually aggressive business executive unfolds.  Anderson moves the two stories toward one another, until their connection becomes apparent and a violent climax comes due.

Problem is, the pacing and delivery of the story is choppy and difficult, often compensating for any real clarity or character with titillation and bondage sex scenes (nothing too hardcore, but more than you’ll see in an R film).  Rather than follow through on scenes setting up the characters’ relationships, Anderson switches to a sex club scene that fails to give any insight into the connections.  The Scream Queen never develops deeply enough to make her sympathetic.  The scratchy illustration doesn’t enable the reader to easily recognize the book’s fairly frequent time-shifts, so the timeline is muddled and indecisive.

In the end, the revelation of the connection between the queen and the exec is at once predictable and fitting, suited to the pulp-fiction tenor of the book.  The plot’s twisted darkness has a certain appeal, but Anderson’s script and art only confuse the matter.  Sand & Fury: A Scream Queen Adventure just doesn’t measure up to its influences.

Blog@ friend and phenomenal cartoonist in his own right Stuart Immonen has turned me on to a fascinating little video game — or as the creator calls, it “visual novel game”.

Available for play on both the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms (!), Air Pressure is a little mini-game that has alot of heart. I won’t spoil it for you, so play it yourself. link

According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Chris Evans has been offered the role of Captain America. Evans is best known for playing Johnny Storm, The Human Torch, in the two recent “Fantastic Four” films. A number of young actors were said to been seen about the part, but the offer did apparently go to Evans. No further comments were available, and it’s yet to be seen if Evans accepts.

From the fan perspective, my guess is that there’s going to be some discontent over the same actor playing two prominent figures from the Marvel Universe. Granted, the fact that FF and the Avengers line are parked at different studios at present makes their meeting all but impossible for the time being. However, it will be a bit weird to set aside that previously established image of Evans for Cap.