First Look at DC’s ‘The Ravagers’
Remember the announcement that DC Comics would launch 6 new titles in May, and that one of them would be called The Ravagers, about a team of teenage heroes on the run from bad guys? Of course you do. And if you don’t, I’m here to remind you! Because DC Comics has posted the first team image of the Ravagers…and they’re a bunch of nobodies!
Hot redheads can sell anything
To be fair, the buff redhead at the front of the pack is a somebody. She’s Caitlin Fairchild, former leader of Gen 13 from Wildstorm Comics. They were fairly popular in the 90s (I think they had a cartoon show!). She’s one of several Wildstorm characters to make the jump to the DC Universe proper with the new 52 reboot. Up until this series, Fairchild has been a supporting character in the Superboy comic, a brainy scientist who has been trying to help Superboy. Well it looks like DC is going to pull the trigger and make Caitlin into her more well-known and muscular superhero identity, putting her at the head of a new group of teenager superheroes.
Or a new group of nobodies, if you ask me. Who the heck are those losers?
There wasn’t any text to accompany this image, but I get the feeling that DC is inventing 5 new characters to join Fairchild on this team. That is a ridiculous idea! DC rebooted their entire comics line in September, and they weren’t afraid to give characters completely new origins. Superboy, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash of the Teen Titans all have brand new origins. So in this situation, I would think that DC would have been better served to open their vast catalogue of teenage characters and reinvent some well-known and already popular heroes. At least then there would be a built-in audience (of sorts). Instead, DC is going to bank this title on sheer interest in superheroes alone, I guess.
Because the name ‘Ravagers’ is just stupid. That name is so generic, they might as well be called ‘The Wild Cats’.
If you’re going to reboot your comics, which DC clearly did, then have some fun with it. New characters have their place, but with a reboot, half the fun is in re-inventing and re-imagining your longtime characters. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of teenage DC characters who have yet to appear in this reboot that would probably be perfect for this new series.
Can I get some love for the Wonder Twins?
Trial is Over! Normal Posting Will Resume Soon
So whew, that big murder trial I’ve been covering for the past two weeks is finally over! Guilty on all counts in the shooting of a local Sheriff’s deputy. Pretty intense stuff at times, but it was also a pretty open and shut case. I think I might write a full entry about it. But for my regular readers, the few fan I’m collecting, this means I’ll be back to normal posting as early as this weekend!
For anyone interested in the trial, here’s a story that ran in my newspaper today that kind of sums it up.
The Art of Community
With the TV show Community still off the air, the people of the Internet have risen up to fight for its return. Beyond simple complaining, this has taken the form of drawing the Community characters as if they were characters from some other property. I’m pretty sure that somebody did the first one, and now it’s simply snowballed. Either way, it’s fun! So I thought I’d share for the sheer kicks and giggles of it.
The latest one I’ve found online is Street Fighter!
I should mention that if you don’t already know who the Community characters are – let alone the characters they are drawn as – I can’t help you. This post is for fans and geeks, and the rest of you are just out of luck. Besides, if you aren’t watching Community in the first place then you’re part of the problem!
Here we have Community as the X-Men:
If you don't get that the Dean is a perfect Emma Frost, then I'm sorry for you
These are two of the earliest ones, Community as Batman heroes and villains!
All fans of Community know that Abed makes a badass Batman
Again, the ideas for the Dean are just brilliant!
So enjoy these images, fellow Community fans! I sense some potential desktop wallpapers here!
New ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer!
Not to be outdone by the wonderful Avengers trailer released during the Super Bowl, Columbia Pictures has put out a new trailer to The Amazing Spider-Man, which is due in theaters on July 3. This trailer is filled with action, with plenty of Spider-Man and our first official looks at the Lizard. So enjoy!
Personally though, I’m still not feeling it. The trailer is pretty cool, and we get to see a lot, but it’s definitely still too dark and moody to be all that appealing. There’s one wise crack in that entire trailer, and the rest is just darkness. I’m not saying Spider-Man has to be all bright and colorful, like the original trilogy. I’m just saying that Spider-Man should not be The Dark Knight, which I’m sure is what this movie wants to be.
But at the same time, I doubted that X-Men: First Class would be anything special and it was the best superhero movie of 2012. So I’m definitely going to give this Spidey reboot the benefit of the doubt.
Here’s the movie description:
The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr Curt Connors (Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
OKGO Again Brings the Magic
Those gloriously clever and almost magically unique performers at OKGO have released a new music video in their spectacular style. You may remember them as the guys who made that nifty ‘Here It Goes Again’ video with the treadmills. Well now they’ve apparently laid down several yards of music instruments in a desert, and have fitted a car with various arms and attachments to play those instruments while driving by. It’s pretty zany.
There are true Internet Masters at work here, people.
