Just as Warner Bros. did with their (kinda crappy) Dark Knight Rises teaser, and just as Disney’s been doing with their (pretty cool) Avengers teaser, I have little doubt Sony will soon yank this from the internet, because good god, WHY WOULD YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO LET PEOPLE WATCH AN AD FOR YOUR PRODUCT. But […]
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Comic Justice! (The Wife Beater Edition)
Apparently this was how wife beaters were dealt with back in the 1940s. Umm. OUCH. And they lived happily ever after!via
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Here’s That The Avengers Teaser You Ordered!
It’s a shitty bootleg, but here’s the teaser for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers that’ll play (A) after Captain America‘s end credits, (B) at Comic-Con later this week, or (C) at both of those things, the latter ad nauseum. I’m guessing a better version will hit the web when the official version comes out, but until […]
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Tintin: Now 300% Creepier!
Here’s a trailer for that Tintin movie that’s been creeping me out for months now: Motion capture technology just doesn’t work. Jackson and Spielberg had an opportunity to bring Hergé’s delicate lines to life—maybe hand-drawn animation, or possibly just computer animation made to look like hand-drawn animation—and they blew it; this plastic-looking crap is just […]
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You Need a New Catchphrase…
…and here to help you out is no other than the catchphrase king ROBIN THE BOY WONDER who has nicely offered to share any of the following 10,231 variations of his famous exclamation, “Holy ___________.” (I’ve got dibs on “Holy Strange Odors!”)
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Captain America’s Still Captain America (Mostly)
Via (No, Matthew McConaughey isn’t Captain America. I just love that image and kind of want it on a t-shirt. Moving on.) SETTLE DOWN, TEA BAGGERS. Despite some early rumblings to the contrary, Captain America: The First Avenger is going to keep the “Captain America” in its title when it plays overseas. There was some […]
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DC Comics Aborts Superman Comic Introducing a Muslim Superhero
Another month, another Superman controversy. This week, DC Comics was supposed to publish an issue of Superman in which he met a west coast-based superhero named Sharif. The story was supposed to revolve around the fact that some citizens don’t trust Sharif because he’s Muslim. When the issue hit the stands, comics fans realized that […]
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Nisour Square Massacre, Comics-Style
Comics journalism site Cartoon Movement just published a pretty incredible piece about Blackwater’s 2007 massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians. Dan Archer’s interactive comic strip superimposes various perspectives—Blackwater employees, Iraqi civilians, police—over a map and 15-minute timeline of that afternoon, allowing the reader to toggle through viewpoints minute-by-minute. It’s pretty startling how much more impactful a […]
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Why Is Green Lantern Screening After Press Deadlines?
What penis? So in this week’s paper version of the Mercury, we won’t have a review of Warner Bros.’ Green Lantern, one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters. Sorry, nerds! While it’s not uncommon for movies to be kept from the press (even if for some goddamn reason we had wanted to, critics weren’t allowed to […]
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Blu-ray Review: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
EMERALD KNIGHTS Pictured above: Peggy from Mad Men, Mal from Firefly, a bunch of goofy aliens. Saturday morning! Time for cartoons! Neatly tying into next week’s Green Lantern flick—the movie which Warner Bros. hopes will help them pull a Marvel and finally set up a multi-superhero movie franchise, but hey, no pressure or anything—the animated, […]
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Things I Liked Looking at Today: James Stokoe’s Spider-Nam, a Struzan-Style Poster for Super 8
FIRST. A while back I reviewed Orc Stain, James Stokoe’s hallucinogenic fantasy comic. Now, in addition to posting some Orc Stain #7 preview pages, Stokoe’s blogged about his Spider-Man fan comic—in which he sends the webslinger to ‘Nam. More here. (Via io9.) Via SECOND. With very few exceptions, movie posters kind of suck these days, […]
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DC Comics Goes Digital: “It’s Not the End of the World. It’s Just What’s Next.”
The members of Minnesota’s Justice League Adventurers Super-Society were disappointed to learn that in the new and improved DCU, their services will no longer be welcome. Or even tolerated, really. Reports indicate that the new Aquaman “doesn’t care” for “their kind.” Following Tuesday’s unexpected-but-inevitable news that DC Comics is rebooting everything and going day-and-date with […]