An Arrow Casting and Recasting, But Not the Character We Actually Want
Arrow has been so busy casting new characters for the show that I’ve fallen behind in announcing all of them! Not that I’m required too. It’s not like Arrow is slipping me any money to be the geek blog that announces these castings. And it’s not like I have a secret source in Hollywood that gives me any scoops. Sometimes I just like talking about casting choices. For example, actor Matt Ward has been cast as Komodo, a brand new villain that I think first showed up in GA comics earlier this year. That’s pretty cool. And I think Manhunter, another superhero, was also cast a few weeks ago. It’s getting out of control!
Just announced today is Amy Gumenick cast as Cupid, a character introduced a few years ago, and created by Arrow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg.
Should be fun. I don’t know anything about either of them, but awesome nonetheless.
Also announced this week was the recasting of Katana. No longer will she be Devon Aoki from Sin City. Instead, Katana will be played by Rila Fukushima from The Wolverine.
That should also be pretty fun! I liked Rila in The Wolverine.
Unfortunately, despite this flurry of casting, the people at Arrow have yet to cast the one character we’re all dying to see. I’m speaking, of course, about the best new character introduced in the New 52 so far.
Drum roll, please.
Make it happen, Kreisberg!
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The Quieter Moments of Marvel
I mostly just love this video for the song – ‘Stay Alive’ by Jose Gonzalez. Someday I’ll have to share with you fine people how I mostly get my music from TV shows, movie trailers or commercials. There are so many songs on my playlist that came from the TV shows Scrubs and Chuck…At any rate, let’s give Gen Kim a hand for making this brilliant bit of fan love.
Review: Saga #22
This is gonna get good. Do you ever get that feeling reading a comic? Do you flip through the pages, read the dialogue, scan the pictures, and get that feeling in your gut that all of this is going somewhere and it’s gonna be awesome? I got that feeling reading Saga #22. The last few issues have been pretty low key, and I’ve rated them as such, but now writer Brian K. Vaughn is starting to move his chess pieces around the board. All the characters he’s introduced, all the plot lines he seeded, start swirling together in the new issue, and it’s rather exciting.
Saga #22
Don’t say I didn’t warn you, but I think this Saga comic is gonna be pretty good.
Comic Rating: 8/10 – Very Good.
Vaughn and artist Fiona Staples had a lot to introduce coming into this new volume. They did a time jump, so there was a lot they had to get readers up to speed on in the universe before they could restart the story proper. I get that. Nothing wrong with that. But it made for a few issues that were just setting up the scenery. And it was depressing scenery. Can you believe that Vaughn and Staples are doing to Marko and Alana?! Man, what a drag. But in the end, there’s no denying that it’s going to be a great story, because that’s what these to do: they make great comics!
Things start to heat up in a bad way between Marko and Alana in this issue. We knew it was coming, and Vaugh just slaps us in the face with it. But they’re just the beginning. Were you, like I, wondering where all this crazy janitor stuff was going? Oh yeah, it’s going there. It’s going right there, and Vaughn is going to destroy us with it.
Well I say bring it on!
Join me after the jump for a full synopsis and more review!
The 6 Best French Superheroes
Leave it to the craziness of the world to spur my imagination! There I was, dear readers, wondering what sort of List of Six I could write for you this week. I hadn’t even started as of Tuesday morning, but nothing was coming to mind. Maybe a list of bird superheroes? People like birds…But no! Lo and behold, the universe was ready for me! French President Francois Hollande dissolved the French government this week!
And what better way to note the occasion than with a list of the coolest French comic book characters?
Oo la la!
I didn’t even know you could do that to the French government. It’s France! You’d think they’d have their croissants all in a row. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those French-hating Americans. Those guys are idiots. France is a pretty cool place, and was my foreign language of choice all through grade school. And you better believe there are some pretty cool French superheroes and supervillains out there!
Join me after the jump to get a good look at them.
Animated Miles Morales!
The world announced today that Donald Glover, from Community, was going to voice Miles Morales in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon – which means that Ultimate Spider-Man finally gets to appear in Ultimate Spider-Man! That’s good news and all, but I’m even more excited for animated Miles Morales! He’ll probably never show up on the big screen, but this is cool nonetheless.
Glover is pretty awesome in the role. I kind of want to watch Ultimate Spider-Man now.
And for anybody keeping track, I totally owe you guys a review of the last issue of Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man. I’ll get to it, I’ll get to it.
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