Official word from DC is that it's not rebooting their entire universe. It's a simple retooling of certain elements.
Costumes are minor, sure they change all the time. Origins too, taking new technology into account so Batman never drove a 1950's convertible and Lois Lane never had to run to a phone booth to place a call.Friday 10 June 2011
DC - Reboot Or Not?
Sunday 22 May 2011
Power Rangers Samurai
I know this isn't comics-related, but way back when, the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had a comicbook. So, there.
- The morphers are really crappy mobile phones.
- The 'plot' is explained pre-titles and the scenes that flash past are never even referred to on-camera.
- Their swords turn into other weapons (a bow & arrows, a war fan, a bigger sword...).
- The Zords have as much articulation as the toys for the Mighty Morphin' Zords, and as much appearance value as a minicon from the Transformers Armada toy line.
- Their swords turn into joysticks.
- The joysticks are supposed to control each individual Zord, as well as each limb of the Megazord?
- One of the Zords is a flying turtle.
- The Pink Ranger's Zord Is A Flying Turtle.
- A flying turtle is a Zord.
- Lion, dragon, bear, ape - TURTLE.
- We don't find out what the Nighlocks want until the second episode when it's mentioned that they want to flood the Sanzu River.
- In the second episode, the Yellow Ranger is said to obviously love and miss her sister very much - we didn't even know whether anyone had siblings - and we don't know why they aren't living at their own houses!
- Kanji is magic.
- The Nighlocks don't have functioning mouths - something that was possible even in 1995.
- The Rangers murder the Monster Of The Week in the second episode for (in their own words) "lying to that kid" - he did nothing except hint that his soldier dad would return from a foreign country if the kid gave up baseball. He even told the kid he would need to be patient!
Monday 16 May 2011
Marvel Film Post-credits Scenes
At the end of all Marvel films, there is a scene after the credits. Each one sets up the next film, or at least an aspect of it.
IRON MAN sets up THE AVENGERS.
THE INCREDIBLE HULK sets up, also, THE AVENGERS but as well as the bit in IM2 where he receives the telling off from Fury. Or possibly IRON MAN 3 as Stark didn't know about the Avenger Initiative at the start of IM2.
THOR sets up, not to give too much away, THE AVENGERS and quite possibly CAPTAIN AMERICA.
So maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps they are all there to set up THE AVENGERS. If so, I think it's a good way to stir interest. Though, as a nerd, I was already looking forwards to a Marvel film directed by Joss Whedon.
Saturday 26 March 2011
Why The Human Torch Didn't Matter
By now, everyone and their ancient ancestor knows about the death of Johnny Storm, the member of the Fantastic Four known as The Human Torch. If not, you obviously have not read an online comicbook article since late last year. And if that's the case, boy did you pick the wrong blog to choose for your first read.
Sunday 23 January 2011
Cartoons
It may just be my imagination, but cartoons are not like the ones that were around when I was growing up.