DC Comics is Doing Something Fancy
In the Spring, DC Comics will be moving their corporate offices from New York to California for business reasons (business, business, business, numbers!). For reasons I don’t quite understand, this is going to disrupt comic book production for about two months. Rather than not publish anything, DC is putting together a special weekly event called Convergence, revealed today for the first official time by USA Today.
Convergence is going to be about a bunch of different alternate realities coming together to fight Brainiac and a new villain!
Behold the terror of Random Guy!
How this differs from Multiversity, I don’t know. Marvel is also doing a new Secret Wars event with all of their alternate realities at about the same time. But that’s comics for you.
The plot is that Brianiac has been bottling whole worlds instead of just cities, and in Convergence, he’s going to just smash ’em all together to see what happens. So various versions of a whole bunch of DC characters, from classic, to modern, to alternate, are going to fight…maybe. Or they’ll team up to fight Brainiac, probably.
They’re also going to have to contend with new villain, Telos, which is a pretty terrible name.
I believe there’s going to be a main Convergence mini-series, which will come out weekly, and then a bunch of 2-part tie-in comics to fill the months. Writer Jeff King will be making his comics debut on Convergence, with help from Dan Jurgens and Scott Lobdell, which doesn’t fill me with glee.
Basically, I have no idea what to really think about this event. I’ve been slowly abandoning DC Comics for awhile now, and this event just doesn’t sound very interesting. But I wish them all the luck in the world in pulling it off. Maybe they’ll have some fun and sell some comics!
Signs Remains My Favorite M. Night Shyamalan Movie
But let’s tear it apart anyway with Cinema Sins!
That was a good video, but honestly, is it really a sin when the movie is doing exactly what it’s meant to do? The whole point of the film is that all of these coincidences come together in the finale for victory, and foreshadowing these coincidences is what makes them work. Is it really a cinema sin to use foreshadowing in your film? Don’t we want things like foreshadowing in our movies?
Once upon a time, Signs was my favorite movie. I saw it in theaters with my brother and loved it! Though I haven’t watched it in probably a decade…
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 11/1/14
Happy Day-After-Halloween, henchies! Or better yet, Happy All Saints Day! I wonder if anybody in the world actually celebrates All Saints Day. I know I had to Google it to remember what November 1 was actually called. No worries if you don’t celebrate, but hopefully you have plenty of candy to tide you over.
This week was very light on new comics because it’s a Fifth Wednesday week. Comic publishers usually only plan for 4 Wednesdays a month, so when a fifth week comes along, they usually throw out some minor comics. DC put out a couple of annuals that I didn’t bother to read. But I did pick up All-New X-Men and Batman Eternal.
The week’s crowning jewel, however, is the final issue of Brian Azzarello’s Wonder Woman! He’s been telling one ongoing, epic saga since the start of the New 52, and it all comes to an end with this issue, the Comic Book of the Week!
Meanwhile, Marvel put out the first issue of their new Deathlok series. I wrote a pretty thorough review at Word of the Nerd that you can check out.
Comic Reviews: All-New X-Men #33, Batman Eternal #30 and Wonder Woman #35.
Channing Tatum is Officially Gambit, For Whatever That Will Accomplish
I’m still not entirely sure how or why this is happening, but actor Channing Tatum will officially play Gambit in a new X-Men spin-off film. The casting has been rumored for awhile now, but today, Deadline is confirming that Tatum is signed on to the role, with a film treatment penned by legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont. Robocop scribe Josh Zetumer has been hired to write the actual screenplay. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
But hey, Channing Tatum as Gambit, everybody!
I honestly don’t know what to think about this. I like Channing Tatum just fine. He’s good in the Jump Street movies. Is he right to play Gambit? I suppose he could be. I like Gambit too. As a child who grew up watching the 90s X-Men cartoon, I’ll always have a soft spot for Gambit. But I’m not a stickler who demands he be a suave, Cajun-accented pretty boy. Maybe Tatum will be fine as the character. Maybe the spin-off movie will be fine. I’m not sure why FOX thinks they can turn Gambit into a franchise the same way they have Wolverine, considering Gambit has only ever appeared in the worst of all the X-Men movies.
But hey, I’m not a Hollywood guy, so who knows what?
The Age of Ultron Trailer Gets Even Better!
Can you remember the last time a movie trailer had this much impact? It seems the whole country has rallied around the awesomeness of the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer! It’s a thing of beauty!
So why not indulge in some good-natured fun? Here’s How the Age of Ultron Trailer Should Have Ended!
And then some fine enterprising souls at Nerd Reactor decided to dub the trailer over the original Pinocchio cartoon. Good times indeed!
I cannot wait for this movie!
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