What have we done?

Wolverine's opening weekend take was enough to immediately spawn TWO sequels, a second dose of Wolverine and a Deadpool spin-off. I have to admit that I am not exactly excited about this prospect. If we could somehow get Marvel to produce these movies instead of FOX, it would be much better for everyone. How much will Deadpool be screwed up this time around? Any Deadpool movie needs to be rated R and be a parody of itself, that is the essence of Deadpool, anything else would not work. DP played as a straight action movie with "jokes" is just plain wrong. Are you listening, FOX?
Perhaps the Wolverine sequel will be closer to my script idea for a movie based on everyone's favorite runty Canadian; one hour and 45 minutes of Wolvie fighting ninjas in Japan. We already have the set-up, let's see if we can follow through.
And that brings me to this: hilarious and awesome.

Hot Links - May

I saw Wolverine. It wasn't great by any means, especially in this post Iron Man and The Dark Knight world we currently live in. Mark Engblom over at Comic Coverage keeps it in perspective with his review. I tend to agree, let's not go off the deep end slamming this movie. I would add that the story does fall apart at the end, which does not work for me.

One of my biggest problems with the movie was the treatment they gave Deadpool. (Am I right, DP fans?) Check out the pic someone made of what could have been. Oh, how sweet it is!

What is this? My guess is someone asked Frank Frazetta to draw Starro, and he had only a passing idea of who Starro is...

What?...

First, Herc takes over Hulk's book, now this? Where does it end? Maybe with The Amazing, Incredible, Fantastic, Immortal Spider-Four-Thorcules Fist? It might be cool, and it is being written by Fred Van Lente AND Greg Pak, so it's got that going for it.

The new artist for Thunderbolts, starting with issue #133, is Miguel Sepulvida. Newsarama has a preview, and it looks super sweet so far.

Star Trek on Friday!

Free Comic Book Day!

This Saturday at your local comic book store, go get a free comic book or three! Did I mention they are free? It looks like there are some good selections this year; Avengers, a Blackest Night preview, and that's just from the Big Two. I'll be hanging out for most of the day at Charging Star Comics in Conklin, NY. If you are in the area, stop in, its like Christmas Part 2!


As you may know, X-men Origins: Wolverine opens this Friday. I am planning to see it, though I am not expecting much more than a big-budget, over-blown, Hollywood fight-fest. No doubt it will look and sound amazing, while the story will be a ridiculously contrived mangling of the Wolverine mythos in order to cram as many claw inspired fights into two hours as humanly (or mutantly?) possible.

In my experience, there are two types of X-men fans: the comic book reading fans who know the stories and don't like Gambit, and the fans who only saw the cartoon of the 90's and think Gambit is the greatest thing to come out of Louisiana since the Utah Jazz. Let's be clear, this movie is for the second set of fans. I only hope there are enough redeeming qualities for the fanboys to at least enjoy the movie and not be sick in their popcorn.

Newsrama has a concise retelling of Wolverine's origin story here, so print it out, take it to the movie with you, and then crumple it up about 3 seconds in when they screw everything up.
Actually, the Newsrama article has inspired me to further distill Wolverine into a haiku:

Dead wives, surrogate daughters,
No memory, claws,
Adamantium, SNIKT!, bub.


Comics I bought this week:

Batman: Battle for the Cowl - The Underground

Dark Avengers #4

Thunderbolts #131
This one is the conclusion of the 4 part crossover with Deadpool, and it was a hoot! If you missed out on it, watch for the trade. Deadpool is one of the most entertaining comics out there, though I'm still on the fence about the new 'Bolts team. The boost from DP certainly helped, I'm just afraid the current cast of nobodys will fail to hold my attention for very long. The old team (the current Dark Avengers) is much more interesting.