X-Men: Days of Future Past Tries Really Hard, One Last Time, to Get Us to Like Quicksilver
The final trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past landed on the Internet today, and it include an extended sequence of Quicksilver in action. From everything I’ve heard about his limited role in this film, I’m fairly certain FOX is just playing up Quicksilver as much as possible to get ahead of Avengers 2. From Day One, FOX has really tried to stick it to Marvel using Quicksilver.
See for yourself.
From what I’ve read online, Quicksilver is only going to be used to help break Magneto out of prison, as you can see in that trailer. They’re not even going to reference the fact that, in the comics, Quicksilver is Magneto’s son. His parentage not going to come up in the movie. He has this one scene and then I believe he’s out of the film.
But as you can see, he’s the focal point of the final trailer.
Though something tells me that Avengers: Age of Ultron is going to win out in the end.
Personally, I think Days of Future Past could be a lot of fun, but it also looks like a lot of…everything. There’s so much stuff going on in this trailer. Dozens of new mutants, complicated time travel, Sentinels, Iceman, the joining of the two X-franchises; part of me fears this is all just going to be a hot mess.
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6 Ways to Fix Teen Titans
Teen Titans the comic book is rubbish. The team itself is pretty awesome, starring DC Comics’ teen superheroes banding together to be radical and fight bad guys. They’ve been a fan favorite super group since their inception decades ago. The Teen Titans cartoon shows on Cartoon Network are some of the most popular superhero cartoons of all time. Fans and kids love the Teen Titans.
But for reasons that still boggle my mind, DC Comics produced a very crappy Teen Titans comic.
We should have known from Day One
When DC rebooted all of their properties in 2011, they had the chance to remake Teen Titans from scratch. They could have done whatever they wanted with the series. But what they did was give it to writer Scott Lobdell, a man whose work hadn’t been popular since the 90s, and let him turn the team into an ugly, directionless mess, stuffed with weak characterization, agonizingly stiff dialogue and more bad vibes than the Legion of Doom.
It’s no surprise that Lobdell’s Teen Titans has been cancelled, with DC starting over with a new #1 issue in July. Can new writer Will Pfeifer and artist Kenneth Rocafort save this series from the gutter? Or is DC still blind when it comes to producing a quality Teen Titans comic?
According to Janelle Asselin at Comic Book Resources, DC doesn’t seem to have any idea what they’re doing – and I kind of agree with her. But I’m more than willing to put my money where my mouth is; how would I do Teen Titans differently?
Join me after the jump to see my six suggestions for making the new Teen Titans relaunch into a better comic book.
How Frozen Should Have Ended
I always love a good Iceman joke.
Though personally, I would have ended Frozen way differently. I liked the movie, sure, but what really bugged me was the romance angle. Obviously, that rich duke guy was evil; we knew it from the very first moment he appeared on screen. But for a little while, I kind of hoped he was going to be legit. His evil turn kind of comes out of nowhere. I thought for sure that Anna would end up with the rich duke and that the lumpy lumberjack guy would end up with Elsa.
But the moment the lumpy lumberjack started racing back to town with Anna, determined to get her to her ‘one true love’, the rest of the film was pretty obvious and painfully predictable. Alas, poor Frozen.
Also, what was up with the trailers having no idea what the movie was about?
Nightwing Lives! Becomes Secret Agent!
Looks like we were right: Dick Grayson is going to survive Forever Evil! But it seems he’ll be giving up the superhero lifestyle to become a spy.
For some reason.
He’s OK with guns now
Revealed by USA Today, Dick will be the star of a new series called Grayson, because apparently somebody finds that more marketable than Nightwing? Maybe?
According to the interview, Batman knows Dick is alive, and orders Dick to become an undercover spy for the agency Spyral. The new writers hope it will be an international caper sort of book, with Dick dodging bullets and fighting bad guys. The writers are Tim Seeley and Tom King, himself a former CIA agent.
Of the new series, King says:
“He’s doing something that’s going to cause pain to his friends and family, but he believes in the cause. That tension between having to do something good but having the cost of it being pain to his family, it drives him a little crazy.”
The new series will start in July.
I’m not sure what to think about it. Definitely an interesting direction to send Dick Grayson, but then DC gave Dick half a dozen new directions in his short-lived New 52 series. Remember when his moving to Chicago was supposed to be a big deal? Dick Grayson definitely needs a solid, permanent status quo. He needs some grounded storytelling. Is this the answer? I have no idea. It’s kind of insane, really. Dick Grayson as a random super spy? I mean…I guess. It’s really all going to come down to the quality of the work itself. There’s almost no predicting how this series will be at this point. Either Seeley and King write a good comic or they don’t.
I’m sure Dick will be back to being Nightwing before too long.
Training Dragons is Still All the Rage
I liked the first one, and I’m definitely looking forward to How to Train Your Dragon 2. It’s a fun little franchise. Though I’m always a little annoyed when seemingly ordinary protagonists are retconned to having been the chosen one all along. Hiccup’s mom just happened to already be an experienced dragon rider? So Hiccup’s discovery of tamable dragons, and becoming the first dragon rider of his village, is no longer much of an accomplishment.
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