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Comic-Con Kicks Off with Transformers One, Joker 2 Trailers
Comic-Con is in full swing and that means we’re going to get all sorts of new trailers and info and tidbits and reveals and whatnot. I’m going to start things off on this Friday with sharing two new movie trailers that came out this week: Transformers One and Joker: Folie a Deux.
This is the second Transformers One trailer and let’s see if you can spot the difference from the first one.
This trailer is much, much lighter on the Keegan-Michael Key comedy bits and far, far heavier on the Transformers lore stuff. Interesting choice! I bet that was a pretty blatant course correction. This trailer looks much better, I think. Turning the Transformers into a silly, kiddie buddy comedy was a choice, and the movie is probably still that. But now we can see it’s also about the birth of the Decepticons and Megatron’s descent into evil. That’s probably a stronger selling point for the Comic-Con crowd. Also, the humor in the first trailer was trying desperately to be Mutant Mayhem and failing spectacularly, so best to just put that behind them.
Transformers One comes to theaters on Sept. 20.
Then we’ve got Joker 2, which looks good, but I don’t know if I’m looking forward to it.
I didn’t really care for the first Joker movie. It was dark and misanthropic, which was the point, but wasn’t my kind of movie. You also can’t convince me it wasn’t purposefully made for the edgelords out there, to some degree. But these sequel trailers have looked pretty darn cool. They’re very well made trailers, so at least the sequel has that going for it.
Joker: Folie a Deux comes to theaters on Oct. 4.
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Kite Man: Hell Yeah! Is Gonna Be a Fun Show!
I’ll admit that I was rather disappointed in the latest and fourth season of Harley Quinn. It had lost some of the snap of the first couple of seasons. And that’s probably because the showrunners in the beginning spun off to make Kite Man: Hell Yeah! so I am now very excited to see what they’ve produced!
The trailer looks like a hoot! Funny, wacky, and with some solid, enjoyable characters. We already know that Kite Man is awesome. Now we’ve got Golden Glider to add to the fun. And Bane is back, so that’s awesome. I expect great things from this show! And I hope the fifth season of Harley Quinn is also good!
Kite Man: Hell Yeah! comes to Max on July 18!
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 6/29/24
I’m back with more reviews this week! Some of my favorite comics came out and I decided to write about them on this here blog thing. Comics like Power Rangers and Superman!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Void Rivals #10 for some reveals that were legitimately surprising and interesting, tying this series to the Energon Universe at long last.
Meanwhile, I keep buying graphic novels and then just adding them to my pile of GNs to read. I really need to read some of them and talk about them in this space. I should be making recommendations of random graphic novels I enjoy! That would definitely be a better use of my time.
Comic Reviews: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #121, Superman #15 and Void Rivals #10.
Read the rest of this entryBatman: Caped Crusader Looks Pretty Sweet!
There’s a new Batman cartoon coming! We haven’t had one of those in a few years, and this one looks to be pretty spiffy! Batman: Caped Crusader is going to focus on Batman in a 1920s/30s/40s aesthetic, I don’t know which decade this looks to be exactly. It’s all tommy guns and gangsters in full suits. I love the look and feel of the show, based on this first trailer.
As always, I hope we get Robin eventually. But even without the Boy Wonder, this looks very awesome to me. I love the look, I love the feel, I love the focus this trailer puts on detective work. I love the sense of Batman being this lone crusader working from the shadows, instead of already being an omnipresent superhero of might. This trailer looks great!
Batman: Caped Crusader is coming to Amazon Prime starting Aug. 1!
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6 of My Preferred Superman Status Quos
I started watching My Adventures With Superman recently and it’s pretty fun! We’ve also got that new Superman movie coming out next year or so. And that live action Superman & Lois show is coming upon it’s last season. So everything is coming up Superman these days! I figured that meant I should do a Superman list.
This list is about my personally preferred Superman status quos. Is that the right way to say it? I wasn’t sure of the word choice. Basically, there are a bunch of factoids about Superman’s basic set up and origin, and they tend to change from one adaptation or comic to the next. It’ll make more sense what I’m talking about once I get to the actual list. I’m not entirely sure where these opinions came from, probably stuff I was introduced to about the character when I was a kid. And now all of that has been weathered by age and seeing various takes on the Man of Steel. Well, these are my favorite takes!
Join me after the jump for my personal choices when it comes to crafting Superman’s status quo! And feel free to share your own versions in the comments below!
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