Category Archives: comics

It’s A Superhero World, Vol. 1

Posted on by toddpanther

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Okay, all of us fanboys knew this was coming, but WOW! So soon!

(I thought it amusing that Robert Downey Jr. was allovertheplace discussing his future with Marvel.)

I will definitely take “Civil War” over “Iron Man 4.” (Particularly since Marvel made it clear it was going that way.) And Downey knows he has plenty of time to do the other things on his agenda once he finishes counting his Marvel money. 😉

It’s it all about Item 6 of this article, or is it that Marvel is just determined to go for broke creatively–and politically?

Theories abound as to how this adaptation will be handled. (I like this one and this one and this one.)

This is a wonderful age to live in, to see Marvel this serious about translating its characters’ conflicts into entertaining films.

Some Justice, Finally, For Jack Kirby!

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This is really good. I never forgot reading a history of American superhero comics that told the story of a tearful Jack Kirby taking his young kids to the toy store in the 1970s to get action figures of superheroes he created–in boxes with his art on it!–and would have to deal with the knowledge that he would never get a dime from any of it. Similarly, it must have been hard for Kirby’s family to go to the movies for the past 14 years, watching characters Kirby either created or co-created make millions, if not billions, of dollars.

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