San Diego Comic-Con Digested

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Once a year the geeks, the nerds, and now Hollywood all meet up in a quaint town known as San Diego (insert ubiquitous Anchorman joke).  ”D and D” players get to meet the closest thing to actual ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ with ‘Game of Thrones’ holding a panel to pay tribute to the character who have died.  Let me get this out-of-the-way now.  I only started ‘Game of Thrones’ about 3 months ago, and if the me right now could hop into a time machine and go 88.4mph, I’d probably go back 3 years and warn myself to watch that damn show. It’s damn good.  But that’s not why I’m here right now. There’s plenty of gush pieces on the internet for ‘Game of Thrones’.  No I’m here to give my two cents on the big news that came out of Comic-Con.  And there definitely was some big news.

 

Batman vs. Superman (or whatever else they want to call it)

The initial reaction to this has been mixed.  I’m personally pumped.  But let me explain that a little better.  I’m pumped as a Batman fan.  Nolan’s Batman already dipped heavily into Batman: Year One for some inspiration (Along with some other great trade paperbacks that have come over the years), so to eventually have the cape crusader return again on some more Frank Miller inspirations doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me.  But again that’s all as a person who’s huge on Batman, and not necessarily a fan of Superman.  So I don’t see how this solves Warner Brother’s problem with getting people into Superman.  This if anything will just get people more into Batman and possibly rooting against Superman.  If this were the WWE you’d be forced to turn Superman heel with this.  In the end I’m very excited.  I know Christian Bale isn’t returning as Batman but I have faith in Nolan to find a fine replacement.  Plus this story line fits very well with the ending of the Dark Knight trilogy in my mind.

 

X-Men Days of Future Past

I’m torn on this.  On the one hand I really enjoyed the last installment of the X-men franchise, but on the other hand, I really just wish Marvel could regain control of this property.  I love this story in the comic books and hope they do it some justice, but what sucks is we’ll never see the full culmination of the Marvel universe as a whole.  I think this movie will probably be pretty good, and I will definitely see it in the theaters.  But something tells me Fox will use it as a spring-board to ruin yet another character under the umbrella of X-men with some really terrible origin story movie (see Wolverine for an example; how do special effects for claws get worse over time?).  And honestly Fox if you want my advice.  Make movies about these B level characters and get them elevated to A level, much in the way of Iron Man.  There’s one in particular I think that needs to get done, and that’s Gambit.  His origin story is just a good Hollywood, bad boy gone good story line, so make it happen.

 

Avengers 2: Age of Ultron

Little known fact, when I was a kid and just starting out with my comic card collection, I traded a Dr. Strange comic book for a 1998 Ultron card.  I would later end up with the whole 1998 set and improved my rather scarce comic book collection too.  Nevertheless the trade was a rip off, and I got hosed.  But the point being that, that 1998 card with Ultron on it was the baddest looking card in the set.  Its literally just the robot with flames and destruction around him.  So on the surface this seems very cool to me.  But as I break it down I begin to realize, Ultron alone as the villain can’t be enough.  I mean the Avengers defeated an alien god army last time around.  There’s very little details on this so I won’t judge too fast but I just hope Thanos has something to do with it.  Please don’t make that teaser all for nothing. If they can somehow tie those things together and have it lead to the third with Thanos, I’ll be surprised and happy.

Bonus Notes:  There needs to be a Dr. Strange movie soon.  Please. I’ve heard rumors but nothing solid.

 

Other things from Comic-con I’ll be looking forward to:

The SHIELD television show- I’m just not sure if I can trust this yet.  I was already burned by Heroes (which someone should just reboot).  But I’m definitely looking forward to seeing it.

The Amazing Spiderman 2 – Jamie Foxx does look awesome, but my only concern is that the first installment of the reboot seemingly fixed all the things I didn’t like about the first, but then basterdized the few things I did like.

Orphan Black – This is officially on my list of shows to catch up on.

 

Matt Cargile

About Matt Cargile

Matt Cargile is the Editor in Chief of rookerville.com. He also works in finance, but refuses to read any news printed on pink paper. He is a child at heart with adult means. His childhood dream was to either become a magician or the leader of the next great empire and somehow both these things make complete sense. He's contradictory in nature, but is always consistent.

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