Superman/Batman Movie Delayed to 2016

Doug:  Sheesh, this is becoming "Current Events Central" around here!  I may as well be considered "semi-retired" rather than on vacation!  Anyway, in case you didn't get the news a few hours ago, DC/Warner Bros. has decided to delay the release of Superman vs. Batman, Man of Steel II, or whatever the heck they're going to call it until 2016.  It had originally been in the works for a July 2015 release.  You can read CNN.com's report here.  Thoughts?

Thor and More!

Karen: For this Saturday, just a collection of odds and ends:

My husband stumbled across a collection of videos on YouTube from a group called Bat in the Sun titled Super-Power Beat Down. I think there are eight cross-company match-ups so far, but the most spectacular was this one featuring Superman vs. Thor:

Karen: We could debate the result all day (and I thought Thor was out of character) but it's amazingly well done for a non-professional effort.

Karen: How about the latest trailer for the real Thor film, Thor: The Dark World? What do you think?

Doug:  And just yesterday, I saw a series of stills from the new Thor film.  You can check them out over at MarvelousNews.com.

Karen: Speaking of Marvel movies, here's a new picture from X-Men: Days of Future Past, with some very 70s versions of Wolverine, Prof. X, and Hank McCoy. Love those lapels!

Karen: Tom Scioli at Comics Alliance recently posted an interesting article about Barry Smith and his influence on comics artists. Particularly fascinating to me was the section comparing coloring in the original Conan comics to the Dark Horse reprints. You can find the article at:   http://comicsalliance.com/whatever-happened-to-barry-windsor-smith-in-the-comics-conversation/

Karen: Late-breaking news; Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! Ben Affleck to play Batman in the Batman-Superman movie! http://variety.com/2013/film/news/ben-affleck-is-the-new-batman-1200586881/ Holy lame casting!