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I must be honest, that I’m not completely jazzed about Avengers: Doomsday.  Not like what happened the last time the Russo brothers made Marvel movies (Infinity War and Endgame).  Maybe I’m just tired of comic book movies?  Others seem to be feeling the same.  This and Dune Part Three are coming out on the same day and I know which I would get a ticket for.

What about you?  Does a new Marvel movie stoke you?

Well anyhoo, here is the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday.

I do confess that Robert Downey Jr. playing Doctor Doom piques my curiosity.  So we’ll see.

And yes, I am aware that there is a new trailer for Dune Part Three.  But I haven’t watched it.  The first two movies were such a delight (though there was some deviation from the novel) that I want to go into this ...

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Sometimes you come across something on the Internet that is so overwhelmingly kewl just on the basis of the obvious amount of passion and intelligence poured into it, that you can’t wait to praise the effort and share it with others.

That’s what I felt after finding Lockjaw, The World’s Greatest Superhero. It’s a very detailed site that, with great affection and eloquence, argues why Lockjaw of the Inhumans from the Marvel Universe is the best comic book character around. In terms of innocence, nobility, and utter power, this Terrigen Mist-altered bulldog lives a life of romp, play, and the occasional rescuing of the universe on his own terms. Not even Galactus comes close to matching Lockjaw’s unrestrained abilities, the author insists.

Gotta give the props to whoever made this site. And hopefully Lockjaw will be a playable character in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, instead of just getting ...

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…then you really owe it to yourself to go find the back issues, or if you’re patient enough then to wait for the trade paperback and buy that as soon as it comes out. ‘Cuz this seriously might be the greatest story about Wolverine that Marvel Comics has ever published.

I first wrote about the “Old Man Logan” arc back in August when Wolverine #66 hit the stands. The story begins fifty years in the future, long after Logan wandered away and threw himself into self pity following the night that the bad guys finally conquered the country (and maybe the world). In all that time, Logan hasn’t “popped his claws” even once, having relegated himself to the role of a pacifistic farmer, husband and father. During the long odyssey that he and the now-blind Hawkeye have taken across the ruined plains of America, there have been heavy hints that ...

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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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Good friend of this blog Crystal is the first to pass along word that Marvel Comics has already declared that Iron Man 2 will hit theaters in April 2010. No doubt that a $100-plus opening weekend helped expedite the matter 🙂

In addition to the further on-screen adventures of Tony Stark, Marvel has also announced Thor for July 2010 (I was wondering the other day if they’d make a Thor movie and if so how could this possibly translate into a big-budget feature), and The First Avenger: Captain America and The Avengers – which has no relation to that strange 1998 movie of the same name – for 2011. Cinematical is hinting that Samuel L. Jackson’s appearance as Nick Fury in the post-credits scene from Iron Man was far more than a mere cameo and with this slate of upcoming films it does indeed look like Marvel is going ...

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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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