Thor 2 Trailer

The new poster landed last week and now the trailer's out there:

I watched it with a big grin on my face which got bigger as they showed Asgard and I actually thought "Wow," just a moment before Padme . . . oops, I mean Jane Foster appeared on screen and said the very same word.

There's quite a bit of Loki, some gorgeous scenery and a final clip that, honestly, I think could have done with being cut shot of the punch line - you know, leave something for the film.

That said, this looks great.

They Might Have A Point

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Warner Bros are one of the biggest studios in the world and they own DC Comics who own some of the most recognisable superheroes ever but with the exception of Superman and Batman, nothing seems to be happening on the film front.

How many people outside of comics had heard of Iron Man, Thor or Nick Fury until a few years ago when Marvel started producing (mostly) damn fine films?

The New 52 - whether you like the titles or not - reinvigorated DC's comics line and, by extension, affected Marvel and the other publishers as well, getting more and more people talking about comics and the heroes that DC publish. Yet Warners failed to capitalise on that.

Sooner or later, the superhero film bubble's going to burst and DC/Warners need to do something before that happens.

Look Not So Much Alikes

One of the books I had for Christmas was Volume Two of Showcase Presents: The Phantom Stranger collecting a whole bunch of stuff from the adventures of DC's mysterious man. The Showcase volumes are great value, reprinting old and hard to find issues in relatively cheap formats, the costs kept down in part by eschewing colour, showing everything in black and white.

One of the issues that was reprinted in Volume Two was Justice League of America #103, where the Stranger meets up with the Justice League at the Rutland Halloween festival. Having read the issue before (and blogged about it ages ago) I really only skimmed through it, eager to get to stories that I didn't know.

As I flipped through it, though, something about a handful of the panels caught my eye. In the story, the League battle Rutlandites under the control of Felix Faust. They come up against people in fancy dress some of whom wear costumes of heroes that were published by DC's marvellous rivals, making it the first (if unofficial) crossover between DC and Marvel.

Red Skull!

I am stupidly, stupidly busy with work right now so apologies for the brief posts lately.

I know you've probably seen this by now, but how fricking cool does Hugo Weaving look as the Red Skull?

Is it wrong for me, as a life-long DC fan, to be more interested in the Captain America and Thor movies than the upcoming Green Lantern flick?

In The Flesh

Never really seen the appeal of the whole cos-play thing - maybe I'm just too uptight and British for it.

Over at Newsarama, though, there's a gallery of folks dressed up as comic/film characters from New York Comic Con. Of note are a rather good Zatanna (#14), a moody looking Thor (#17) and is the girl in the middle of #26 wearing a dress that#s meant to be a Dalek?!

All of which pale into insignificance against this guy:

Ambush Bug lives!