I remember back when "What If... Punisher Killed the Marvel Universe?"
Not the beginning of a great new period in the history of that character as a character. sigh.
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• Marvel announced a new miniseries titled Classics Killustrated, starring Deadpool. It's a sequel to the Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe miniseries. Writer Cullen Bunn says:
In this universe, all the stories of classic literature are playing out. Deadpool believes that this is a kind of "foundation" universe that serves as an inspirational nexus for all the Marvel characters. He thinks that if he kills these classic characters, he will kill the very inspiration that led to the development of the Marvel Universe. For example... Captain Ahab from Moby Dick? Well, he could very well be the inspiration for "Thunderbolt" Ross. By killing one, Deadpool ensures that the other ceases to exist.
That's genuinely interesting to me. And god help me I giggle every single time I read the title. (Via Newsarama)
• Here are some more new super-expensive Jem dolls, if you're interested.
• Here's a picture of the Joker's new face, if you consider Joker stapling his old face back on after Dollmaker cut it off to be "new." for the record, I hate everything about this Bat-plot.
• Hasbro is making a new Omega Supreme for the Generations line. It's pretty.
• Japan's making a live-action Gatchaman movie, better known in the States as Battle of the Planets. Given that the original Gatchaman was about five teenage psychopaths who worked as ninja assassins while dressing like birds, I'm genuinely pretty excited by this. (Via Anime News Network)
• Remember that awesome Goon movie creator Eric Powell and producer David Fincher have been trying to make forever? They've finally said fuck Hollywood and started a Kickstarter for it. It has the very high goal of $400,000 but I'm betting they make it. Thanks to Greymattersplat and everyone else who sent in the tip
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Okay, about this whole Joker's face thing... I have here, right next to me, Batman: Faces Of Death volume 1. I've read it about twice (or read the first part and repeatedly skimmed the second and... I have no idea what's going on, especially since it seems to switch plots halfway through. I spent £16.99 on this thing.
i have no idea what i just hit to make my text italics. Okay, turns out it was shift+i. Nice.
Does anybody know if Omega Supreme is just for the Transformers Collectors Club ( I ask because of the name Transformers Platinum Collection ) or if it will be sold in stores?
somehow they need to combine moby dick with he-man. i got it - prince adam gets bored and decides to go to sea; along the way he meets a cannibal and they do mad wild FFF style sex then sign up in Skeletor's ship. Skeletor is obsessed with he-man's dick, which he affectionately named moby after his own one night stand - then sails the oceans for it, upset that it never called the day after. at the end adam realizes that he's he-man's dick and pounds skeletor into submission. there will be cannibalism too afterward.
About time Tatsunoko got sick of waiting for America to do anything else with BotP. A while back there was supposed to be a CGI movie along the lines of TMNT and Astro Boy but then...TMNT and Astro Boy came out and bombed hard.
Image did that line of pretty great comics (I actually got a thank you in the foreword of the trade for following it and promoting it pretty heavily when I was reviewing comics, so I'm biased). But then nothing for years.
Meanwhile Japan put out some pretty awesome live action commercials for it. And a fighting game. But no real story-based material.
as for gatchman aka battle of the planets the way i understood only joe the second in command and think the leader where the pychopaths . the others were sane .
the bat plot is suppose to be a new take on death in the family this time joker going after the whole bat family. and stapling his own face is something right up the characters ally. and glad to see the goon film refuse to stay dead. hope the kickstarter campaine suceeds . plus have to admit i like the omega supreme figure better then the original this time no tracks and proalby does not require batteries either
You shouldn't hate anything about this Bat-Plot, it is fantastic. Just fantastic. Plus Snyder is an amazing writer
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Paul Giamatti doing voice work is always so, so good. If anyone hasn't seen Screw-On Head, do it. DO IT NAAAU!
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I wasn't sure what to think about the whole "Joker's face" thing, but then I read Batgirl and Batman this week. Holy shit. Seriously folks, at least give it a shot.
Also, already pledged to the Goon Kickstarter! Can't wait to see this thing happen.
@mwickliff Agreed; holy crap, Joker is freaking creepy.
Those last two pages of the main story in "Batman".... That is the dead last thing I think ANYBODY expected Joker (or, that said, ANY villain) to pull.
