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Zack Snyder has confirmed that he has changed the ending for the movie version of Watchmen, which he’s directed.

So we will not be getting to see the “alien squid” after all…

In the past few weeks I’ve found myself wondering what the “squid” might possibly look like translated to screen. And that led me to think that perhaps Guillermo del Toro would have been the “go-to” guy for giving it the appropriate gruesomeness. Now it turns out that the climactic moment of most widely-acclaimed graphic novel has been… altered?!

Snyder did read Watchmen, right? I mean, he knows what the ultimate purpose of the “squid” is, yes?

I am now officially skeptical about how this is going to work. No wonder Alan Moore – the creator of Watchmen – harbors such legendary frustration about film adaptations of his efforts....

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It’s been awhile since I picked up an issue of an ongoing comic book, apart from the odd Star Wars-related one-shot every now and then. But yesterday Lisa and I were in the Borders in Greensboro and the cover of Wolverine #66 intrigued me enough to purchase a copy. Written by Mark Millar (recently known for the Civil War arc that raged across most of the Marvel line), it’s the first chapter of the “Old Man Logan” saga.

And based on what I enjoyed reading last night, “Old Man Logan” might become the best story involving Marvel’s most popular mutant since the groundbreaking Origin over six years ago.

The “Old Man Logan” arc takes place fifty years after “the night the heroes fell” and the bad guys finally conquered America. The land is now carved-up into a series of territories and whatever it was that happened, it completely broke Wolverine’s ...

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WRAL is reporting that Cary-based Epic Games and DC Comics have announced plans to publish a Gears of War comic book/graphic novel this fall, in the lead-up to the release of Gears of War 2. The story is to be set after the conclusion of Epic’s 2006 mega-selling video game, which saw main character Marcus Fenix giving humanity a dire-needed victory over the Locust Horde.

A few days ago I wrote that I’d finished playing the game and how much I enjoyed it but that some more back-story would have been nice. I’m guessing this new comic is going to “flesh-out” the Gears of War saga greatly. Oh yeah, I started playing it again last night on Hardcore mode. So far so good… but I still doubt that I’ll ever try it on Insane 🙂...

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Geoff made this comment on the post about Captain America getting killed in the Marvel Comics…

“Marvel is a crazy universe. I can’t believe the did this.”

Me neither, Geoff. But it does lend some validity to something I’ve been thinking for awhile, about the Marvel Comics universe…

It’s this “moving time” principle by which Marvel establishes that all of its comics are canon, even though most of them now contradict real-world stuff. I mean, it’s like Tony Stark was originally wounded in Vietnam and that’s what led him to become Iron Man. The thing of it is it’s 2007 and Stark would now have to be, what in his sixties-seventies by now, if he started then? The Fantastic Four’s fateful spacelaunch happened because America had to beat “the commies” – as Susan Storm put it – into space. See where the problem there is?

Well, the thing of it ...

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Breaking on news outlets everywhere now. Cap had just surrendered after the events of Marvel Comics’ Civil War #7 and was being taken into a courthouse when he was shot and killed by an unidentified assailant.

I say: if he’s dead, let him stay dead. Let his death have meaning. ‘Course this being Marvel Comics, it’s probably only a matter of time before Doctor Strange does some mystical hoodoo and not only resurrects Cap, but mind-wipes everyone on the planet into forgetting that Civil War took place, that Spider-Man unmasked himself, will make Mar-Vell dead again too etc…...

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Jeri Rowe’s article a few days ago at the News & Record was the first time I’d heard from Marvel Comic’s Civil War storyline in some time. I did a little follow-up reading and knowing what I know now – yes even considering the DUMBEST thing that Marvel Comics has EVER done – I must say that it sounds like I’ve missed quite a show, just going by how this ended…

In case you haven’t heard, in Civil War #7 the whole thing about superhero registration – which Tony Stark aka Iron Man has led the charge for and which Captain America has led a resistance movement against – comes to a violent crescendo. And… Captain America surrenders! The Superhero Registration Act is now fully enforced. Cap is taken away in shackles and Stark is now the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. (if you know Marvel comics you know how big a ...

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