Thumbs up, Soldier!

CHUD.com did an interview with Kevin Fiege, head of Marvel Studios. They talked about various things, but the most interesting had to be the confirmation that Captain America will be a period piece in World War 2. Thor has also been confirmed to take place “mostly” in Asgard.

Read their interview here.

Recently I saw an article somewhere, I can’t remember where, that compared Marvel’s movies to DC’s movies. While it had merit, I still felt it was the typical Marvel vs DC fanboy comparisons. One point brought up was that back in the 60s, Marvel hit it big because all of the superheroes lived in a shared universe, thus heroes appearing in other hero’s books. Of course, this is starting to be realized in the new batch of Marvel produced movies. (That article tried to make it seem like this is what Marvel had been doing all along, which of course is wrong. Marvel wasn’t in charge of producing its own movies, so of course, Spiderman couldn’t appear in X-men, etc.)

Anyway, this is something that Marvel is doing right. There is big internet buzz over cameos. Assuming Hulk doesn’t suck donkey dick and kill the Iron Man and upcoming Marvel movie buzz, I have to believe that they are just going to destroy box offices with each movie.

The Dark Knight looks amazing, but DC (WB more specifically) can’t get their shit together on these other movie productions. Hell, half the time DC can’t get their shit together with their own flagship books. Is it any wonder, no pun intended, that Wonder Woman’s title was a clusterfuck for over a year because of the lateness and constant changing of creative teams?

Seems like that translated right over to movie production because they can’t find anyone to do that movie. JLA has been on again and off again. Seriously, you’ve managed to revive your biggest franchise in Batman. Superman turned out to be a turd, but why not pull a Hulk and pull a redo? Start putting these guys in each others movies and ramp it up for a superstar JLA movie. Nobody wants to see someone else in the batsuit in JLA, they want to see Christian Bale. Hell, it could be a Superfriends movie for all I care, but take a page from Marvel and get on the ball DC!

One final Marvel movie note, Runaways confirmed by the Hollywood Reporter for the big screen with Brian K. Vaughan writing. BKV is one of the creators of the Runaways and a fantastic comic writer who managed to make the jump to tv with Lost. Runaways were created in 2002 by BKV and Adrian Alphona.

-Mike

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Apparently this is an Austrian ad for Sony Playstation 3. You can click the thumbnail for the real deal, but I’m warning you, you don’t want to see it. Thumbnail…LOL. The man has a thumb for a penis, a very small thumb. At any rate, playing the Playstation 3 apparently makes you a Playboy Forever or shrinks your dick into a thumb. I think I’ll stick with my Xbox 360, which Microsoft was flexing its e-peen by bragging about 10 million units sold.

-Mike

Ah, Mother’s Day weekend. What better way to spend Mother’s Day than to spend it at the comic convention? Yeah, sorry Mom. I have to wait in lines for my Ethan Van Sciver sketch…

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Another JSA member down in my sketchbook by Steve Sadowski

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-Mike

Where to start? It was November that I made my last post here. A lot of things have happened professionally and personally. Things have been pretty rough for me over the last few months, but today was different. I finally landed a solid full time job working in a community college bookstore (state benefits yo). At the same time, some things have happened recently that left my One Nexus cohort, Tom, and myself feeling fired up and ready to rock when it comes to our business, One Nexus Studios. Creatively, I’ve got that burn to do things again, both in writing and graphic design.

Having some security and stability in my life finally gives me the hope that I can actually get the other things that we’ve been talking about for a while now done. That also means I’ll be hitting my piece of the internet up more again.

Speaking of ONS. Its time for us to refocus and reinvent ourselves and that’s exactly what we plan on doing. The website will be a primary focus for us and then we can get to the other things, like talking about books. We know what we can do and its high time we showcase that to everyone else.

My plans for this site are the same. To put some junk up that hopefully you’ll enjoy and keep coming back to read. Thanks for visiting and stay tuned for my Emerald City Comic Con ‘08 update.

-Mike