itt: consternation and wailing about Zach Snyder's upcoming SUPERMAN/BATMAN film/sequel to MAN OF STEEL -- official title: BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

no, these movies aren't allowed to be funny remember

terrorists don't come from Kansas

further high praise from from jeremy irons:

I mean, it's very important that if I am to bring money to small independent films, when they're trying to raise money, that I'm as widely known as possible. And audiences have short memories. So I do one of those pictures, if there's a really good script and an interesting director. And Zach Snyder is an interesting director. I think it'll be a big movie, and do me no harm, and help me when I want to do smaller films, which are maybe more interesting for me.

i hope that applies to Campbell Scott for his pointless role in the recent Spider-Man films

well jeremy was right about eragon, dungeons & dragons and the pink panther 2, wasn't he

also about gay marriage leading to fathers marrying their sons for tax purposes

So I do one of those pictures, if there's a really good script and an interesting director, and they don't get fucking alan rickman or somebody instead.

xp whaaatt for real?

oh to be jeremy's cpa

The 64-year-old said he “doesn’t have a strong feeling either way” on gay marriage but suggested it could be manipulated to allow fathers to pass on their estates to their sons without being taxed.

He said: “Could a father not marry his son?"

When reminded about laws which prohibit sexual relationships between family members, he responded: “It's not incest between men", adding: “Incest is there to protect us from inbreeding, but men don't breed."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9972011/Jeremy-Irons-claims-gay-marriage-laws-could-lead-to-a-father-marrying-his-son.html

sadly, there's also some other quote where he makes clear he's not excited about the tax loophole possibilities. also he has more than one son.

Rumors of a teaser trailer with Jupiter Ascending.

'attn movie fans: come see a trailer for a shitty movie before this other shitty movie starts'

Jupiter Ascending almost guaranteed to be a better shitty movie than BvS tho - smart placement.

Good lord JA looks stupid.

Yeah! It's like a Fifth Element remix for the 2010s. As a huge comic fan and someone who only thinks The Matrix is okay, I'm way more interested in JA's stupidity.

ahahahaha

http://io9.com/is-there-any-way-to-do-justice-to-the-legion-of-superhe-1683920249

shia lebeef is matter eater lad as you've never imagined him

I'm holding out hope for Bats vs Supes to be B&R level comedy bad as things stand.

would love a decent legion movie, ie a thing that will never happen

marvel - building franchises within franchises is like a well played game of chess...

dc - THROW IT AT THE WALL. ALL OF IT.

IT DIDN'T STICK? THROW IT AGAIN

"hey the flash is sticking!" "THROW IT AGAIN!" "but it's already..." "THROW IT AGAIN!"

I'd go for a Legion movie if they went full-on Keith Giffen with it

On a related note, DC is finally doing a correct kind of catch-up to Marvel, and announcing a buncha updates to their characters that aren't as obviously terrible as New52 shit was. I dig the new Black Canary:

http://i.newsarama.com/images/i/000/142/886/original/BC-Promo.jpg?1423229706

More here

lol @ “In this new era of storytelling, story will trump continuity as we continue to empower creators to tell the best stories in the industry,” DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio

love how this can be read either as a blithe admission of failure (since the New52 sucked and was a mess) or cynical gloating at having suckered fans out of their hard-earned cash with an ill-conceived gimmick yet again

altho kinda stoked at a Batmite comic, my daughter loves that shit

i have a dumb love for Batmite myself

Starfire cover looks more like the positive vibes from the TT cartoon

http://i.imgur.com/3f4kaQk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3f4kaQk.jpg

i'm a moron today
http://i.imgur.com/3f4kaQk.jpg

and big ups to Gene Yuen Lang for getting the Superman job with Romita, wow!

I think the event stuff must be exhausting for the creators so I wouldn't be surprised if they just wanted a temporary break. I fully expect them to go back to events.

I bet there's at least some geeks who are furious about this. "Nooooooooo! I don't want stories, I want more continuity! More continuity!"

I didn't hear about GYL, that's huge! Curious what he'll do.

anybody remotely interested in the X-Men GOTG crossover Black Vortex?

Who's writing it?

bendis & humphries

somehow bendis' schtick hasn't worn entirely thin yet. I'm as stoked for the new Powers as I've ever been.

also there is like a whole board for discussion of actual comix. itt we lol @ WB iirc

haha yeah i just realized after posting i wasn't actually in comix thread

oh hey look guys it's aquaman

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-RAWTjCcAAF81b.jpg

snyder doesn't receive enough credit for getting as far as he has despite being cripplingly colourblind

what the hell

Awesome. I can't wait for more grim & gritty, "Wonder Dog kills Marvin and paralyzes Wendy"-style fun from DC!

http://www.avclub.com/article/meet-zack-snyders-new-aquaman-lord-super-serious-s-215554

'His hair flows in massive dreadlocks, held together by saltwater and seriousness. He’s so tough he requires only one shoulder pad on his trident arm, plus a cool wristguard, like Judas Priest’s Rob Halford. '

"he's like the rob halford of judas priest!"

more like 300's Gerard Butler

i'm more cheesed by the

BIG

FUTURA

LETTERING

OVER

EVERYTHING

style. way past sell by date.

clearly tridents aren't exxxtreme-to-the-maxxx enough for zack so they've given aquaman an a five-pronged spear instead. the gillette fusion of the seas!

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/25/jesse-eisenberg-lex-luthor-batman-v-superman-dawn-justice

“He’s not any of the Lexes that you’ve seen, that’s for sure,” says Snyder, “other than him being a captain of industry and one person to the world and another person to himself. And bald, of course.”

http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/styles/tout_image_612x380/public/i/2015/03/25/lex-luthor_612x380.jpg?itok=tsEwR1Y8

he's not any of the lexes you've seen apart from these several elements you'll definitely be familar with