Perhaps I'm biased - after all, I have a drawer full of sonic screwdrivers and lipsticks, and can name a superhero or two for every letter of the alphabet. In my almost non-existent off-time, my husband and I have debates about the more obtuse points of the comic world (who would win in a fight? Hulk or She-Hulk?). And yet, despite my status as a proud geek chick, it can be hard to feel like a proud, hot geek chick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But guys love us geeky women, and here's why:

 

1. When you talk about issues--politics, the environment, and the like--our eyes don’t glaze over.
2. We can tell you the chemical composition of caffeine, and teach you how to extract it with a beaker, a filter, and a hefty dose of chloroform.
3. We carry our own chloroform.
4. The taking-our-glasses-off-hair-down-librarian effect never gets old. 
5. You don’t have to fix our computers--sometimes, we might even fix yours.
6. We know the difference between a gnome, a dwarf, an elf, and an orc.
7. We’re well-read, and not afraid to show it.
8. We know that birds twitter, and people tweet.
9. We hate chick flicks - and chick lit - as much as you do.You don’t need to defend our honor - we’re more than capable of kicking ass all by ourselves.
10. You can share an Xbox Live family account with us.
11. We understand the jokes in XKCD.
12. We can combine our video game/book/RPG collections into a world-shaking uber-collection.

 

By the way, the Hulk would win in a Hulk/She-Hulk throw down. Greater intelligence is tops in most situations, but even that can't beat out an infinite anger, infinite power generator.

 

 

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Apparently there was some kind of convention in San Diego recently.  Does anyone know anything about this?

 

No, just kidding.  I and 125,999 of my closest friends hit the ol' Sandy Eggo for some fun far away from the sun.

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It has leaked at last!

 

 Spinoff has a great post with screen caps taken from the trailer here.

 

And it's being taken down from websites almost as fast as it goes up, but this link might work (New still working link New New Still Working Link Portuguese website with working video!) to watch the trailer itself. Watch it while you can!

 

  Fellow Thor Lovers, I have to admit that I am floored. I did not expect this movie to look as good as it does right now.  This trailer is long (five minutes), but it is full of goodness-- Go watch it, and then come back and let us hear your thoughts! Love it or Hate it? Why or why not?

 

 My thoughts are below the cut, as always.

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Folks, we have a lot of new images being put out pre-Comic Con, and it is only going to get better on Saturday, from what I can tell. The ramp up for Thor is hard core. We have HIGH RES stills, including our first view of Loki WITH his horned helmet and a very golden throne room in Asgard. We have two of the warriors three. We have Comic-Con movie concept-art posters for Cap AND Thor. AND. AND we have Thor standing in the rain flexing every muscle on his body. Follow the links for the Better quality images at their sources!

 

Let me begin with the poster art released by Marvel. It'll be available at the Marvel booth at the con!

 

 

I dare you to look at that poster and tell me that this movie looks lame.

 

Higher resolution image of the Hall of Asgard, a la LA Times, which came through for us again. The original release was print only, but they threw up the digital not long after. Incidentally, Russ Fischer at Slashfilm.com did a great job pulling out the details for us on this image for a close up of Loki, Frigga, Hogun and Fandral while Thor kneels before Zod Odin. Slashfilm.com also includes the original bootleg EW image of Thor and Odin in high res in that article, which can also be found on Marvel's site. I'll post a lower res of the Hall of Asgard image here, as a preview but definitely go get the full effect! (EDIT: YES WE HAVE HELMETS THANK YOU COMIC CON!)

 

 

 

 The Money Shot and my thoughts below the cut!

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My friends, we have some new imagery from Thor! Brought to us by Marvel and the LA Times (The LA Times article is well worth the read), we have some news too. It has been officially announced that both Thor and Captain America will be finished in 3D.

 

Perhaps in an attempt to stop us from wondering if this is a good thing or a bad thing, they've also released a shot of Odin, Thor, and Loki!

 

 

 

 My thoughts below the cut, as usual!

 edit: There's another image from this week's EW article here!

 

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Was it just last year that I was whinging about lack of female geek content at Comic-Con?  I'll have to find something else to complain about, because THIS year we girls are rocking out with our X chromosomes out.

 

 

Thursday!

 

• Panel: Geek Girls Exist 5:30-6:30 PM, Room 8
• Geek girls' meetup/tweetup at Jolt'n'Joes, 8-11PM

Friday!

 

• Panel: Where are the action chicks?  2:00PM - 3:30PM, Room 26AB
• Panel: Girls Who Kick Ass 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Ballroom 20
• Panel: Girls Gone Genre 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Room 24ABC

 

Saturday!

 

• Panel: Her Universe: Shining the Spotlight on Female Fans 6:30 - 7:30 PM, Room 24ABC

 

Sunday!

 

• Panel: The Women of Marvel 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Room 7AB 

BE THERE!

 

For those of you late to this party, Comic-Con is an enormous convention that is theoretically devoted to American comics, but that over the past ten-ish years has become the de facto Big Genre Convention.  Geek idol Joss Whedon is a confirmed devotee.  Cool stuff gets announced there.  Cool stuff gets premiered there.  And you can be around to watch!  It is more fun than several barrels of monkeys.

 

Now.  All this may be academic to those of you who haven't already bought tickets, because the entire con is now sold out. But, for those of you who've taken the plunge and are all abrim with nervous excitement... read on!

 

 

First things first: with apologies to Douglas Adams, it is big.  Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way from one end of World Con to the other, but that's just peanuts to Comic-Con. It is a solid quarter mile from one end of the dealer's room to the opposite end. Something like 125,000 people attended last year, and that's with only some memberships being sold out in advance.  This year they're all gone already, so I think we can reasonably expect a full house.

 

Generic convention survival tips

 

• Water. Bring a water bottle.  Drink before you're thirsty.  Remember our motto: pee clear.
• Food. It is ancient con tradition that con food be both expensive and awful.  Comic-Con is a proud adherent to tradition.  My usual food strategy for cons is constant grazing.  I tuck into a good breakfast at the hotel, munch on trail mix throughout the day, and then dinner.  The idea with the snacking is to eat before you notice you're hungry: at the beginning or end of a panel, cram down a handful or two of trail mix and a nice big swig of water.  Keep this up, and you'll spend the day in a happy state of non-hunger, and the siren song of the $8 hot dog will become much less enticing.
• Shoes.  You live and die by your shoes at cons, especially at the cosmically huge Comic-Con.  Now is not the time for new shoes.  Nor is it the time for stiletto heels, no matter how sexy they make you look.  Save them for parties or the masquerade.  Your comfy, beat-up tennies that fit you like a second skin: those are the ones to wear.  Also, once you've put them on in the morning, don't take them off until you get back to the hotel at night: your feet will swell and you won't be able to put them back on again.
• Other body care.  A day's supply of your prescription meds.  A couple tablets of your favorite painkiller.  A wet-wipe-in-a-pouch.  A band-aid. A safety pin.  A tampon. A couple of cough drops or hard candies, either for your own use or to press on the person hacking up a lung in the row behind you. One of those little packets of Kleenex.
• Costumes.  Costumes are for fun.  Cosplay is for fun.  Don't worry about it being "good enough" or about people making snide comments about your costume; cosplayers are a supportive bunch and consider bashing other people's costumes (to their faces, anyway) unacceptable behavior.  Even very simple costumes can be awesome: one of my favorites ever was a teenaged girl who wore a fitted red Superman tee, a blue miniskirt, and red tights.  Instant Supergirl!
• Do NOT plan on seeing the whole thing.  Let go of this idea RIGHT NOW.  If you were capable of duplicating yourself, like Multiple Santa in The Tick, you still could not see all of Comic-Con.  It is not necessary to schedule an activity for each block of time in the interests of "getting your money's worth" or some such; in fact, it's a bad idea.  If you've identified three-four panels a day that you want to make, you've already got yourself a busy day.
• Bring your own Sharpies.  What sucks more than running into (say) Alison Bechdel, and asking for an autograph, only to find that neither of you has a writing implement?  Nothing, that's what.  I suggest a silver Sharpie for maximum contrasting ability.
• Bathe. Truth be told, there are not remotely as many gross con-goers as lazy media stereotypes would have you believe. But there's always a few who seem to think that their own personal body has no odor, and one or two who practically emit cartoon-style wavy smell rays.  I suppose it bears repeating, though, so: Daily bathing of your person is required.  Complete change of clothing into clean clothing at least once every 24 hours is required.  If someone tells you you smell, believe them.
  
• Check out the art show.  It costs nothing to look, is very rarely crowded, and you'd be surprised how affordable some of it is.  Especially considering how much of it is awesomesauce.
• Twitter.  Twitter, IMHO, may well be the killer app for conventions.  Keep an eye on the relevant twitterstream to find out what's going on.  Or follow some of your favorite celebs--some (Neil Gaiman, @neilhimself, springs to mind) are very good about tweeting their forthcoming appearances and/or retweeting cool things they hear about.

Comic-Con specific tips

 

• Plan ahead.  They post the programming schedule a couple of weeks before the con opens. Decide ahead of time whose autographs you MUST have, which panels you MUST attend, etc., etc.  They employ a ticket system for the most popular guests: you show up in the Sails Pavilion at a given time to get a ticket, and only ticketed people are allowed into the autograph queue.
• Don't automatically rule out things just because there's a long line.  Give it a shot, especially if it's in one of the big halls--they're bigger than you may think; and, even if a panel's at capacity, the Door Guardians will let new people in if enough people leave the panel.
• Make peace with disappointment.  What with all the waiting around and not being everywhere at once, you will miss cool stuff.  Also, sometimes you won't make it into a panel that you were dying to get into, even after waiting three hours in line.  Try to take this in stride.  Life at Comic-Con is like that sometimes.  Last year I was within the first five people after the cutoff for the Russell T. Davies autograph session, and I felt like throwing things.  Take a deep breath.  Put it in perspective.  I find that the universe usually makes it up to me somehow, with some kind of awesome unexpected treat.
• Scout out the dealer's room early in the weekend. Companies often host their own special events, right there at their booth.  Also, the coolest stuff goes fast.
• Consider parking the kids somewhere. I don't have kids, so perhaps I'm biased, but it's hard to visualize Comic-Con as the sort of thing small or medium-sized kids would like.  It's big and crowded and noisy and full of grownups, and you spend a lot of time waiting in line.  For those of you who insist on bringing the next generation along that they may be trained up wisely in the ways of geekdom, though, there's child care on-site.  They're open only when the con is (i.e. not when you show up at 6 AM to get a spot in the line for the Panel That Everyone Wants To Attend, and not when you decide to stay 'til 10 PM to attend the Buffy singalong.) and they take kids through age 12.
• Come early.  No, earlier than that.  No, even earlier.  There's a line for Registration, lines for autographs, and lines for the panels.  Your best bet is to befriend someone like my friend Pete, who has the uncanny--nay, supernatural--ability to be at the head of any given line.  (It's his personal superpower.  I have another friend who can always find a parking spot. Alas, neither of them is coming.)  Failing that, plan on showing up an hour or two before the con opens if there's a line you really really want to join.
• No roller bags and/or briefcases-on-wheels.  Yeah, I know--I wanted to bring one, too.  They're banned from the dealer's room floor; and for good reason, as I realized after a moment's sober reflection: imagine if everyone brought one.  You'd be tripping over them all the time, and THAT doesn't sound fun, does it?  Bring a backpack instead.
• Donate blood, if at all possible.  Not only will you do your Good Deed For The Day, the freebies are insane.  I'm a long-time blood donor--nearly three gallons--and usually the most you can hope for is free cookies.  Last time I donated at Comic-Con, I got a stack o' comics, a T-shirt, AND a super-rare, limited-edition Buffy the Vampire Slayer figure, plus they enter you in a raffle for MORE treats.  If you've been rejected for low iron, or if you're surfing the Crimson Tide, take a supplement for a couple of weeks beforehand.   There's a sign-up sheet in the Sails Pavilion.  Sign up for a time, and present yourself at the appointed time. I allow an hour for the whole donation process, from walking in to walking out.  Repeat blood donors: San Diego Blood Bank is a separate outfit from the Red Cross, so you'll have to sign up all over again. Sorry.
• Bring a book.  Comic-Con is tremendous fun, but the fun tends to arrive as punctuation to long stretches of tedium.  Rooms are not cleared between panels, which means that the best way of getting a seat in a panel you're dying to attend is often to attend the panel before it.  Or the two panels before it.  (Answer to obvious question: Once you have a seat, you can get a bathroom pass from the Door Guardians.)  For the really popular panels, expect a stupidly long line starting ridiculously early.  So: book.  But don't bother bringing an iPod.  It's too damn loud.
• Shop wisely.  Remember that you're carrying all your cool finds around on your back, and that lockers are scarce and expensive.  Try to do your major shopping in one go.  Bargain hunters, try waiting until Sunday afternoon--vendors want to move stuff, and may be inclined to cut you a "we don't want to ship it home" deal.
  • Christmas shop wisely.  I'm a big believer in doing my Christmas shopping throughout the year, and cons are prime shopping grounds for your geeky friends.  Is there someone in your life who'd squee over a personally dedicated copy of the latest Girl Genius trade paperback?  Of course there is.
  • Bring cash.  Lots of the smaller publishers will only take cash.  Women wearing busty costumes without room for pockets sometimes keep their cash tucked into their cleavage, where it's easily accessible and reasonably secure.  Come to think of it, superhero costumes seem to be light on pockets, so I bet this is how real superheroines keep their cab fare handy if they can't teleport or fly.  Me, I keep the main wad o' greenbacks in a little pouch around my neck (under my shirt), and a bit of walking-around money in my wallet, replenished as necessary from the pouch.
  • Bring one of those rigid cardboard tubes people use to ship posters. Beats buying one at the con.
• Dress wisely.  San Diego * summer * 100K people = a bad time to wear a foam-padded bodysuit.  But don't dress for the surface of Mercury, either--they keep the rooms fairly cool.  Dress for a summer day, but bring a light jacket.

 

Autographs

Planning ahead is the key here.  You won't be able to plan for everyone or everything, but do your best.

• Prepare your materials.   Peruse the schedule to get an idea of who's attending.  Now, identify what you'd like your target autographers to sign: Books? Comics? Liner notes from DVD sets?  (You can be optimistic here.  Failure to secure an autograph costs you only a sticky note.)  A couple days before the con, assemble them all in a pile on your table.  Now get yourself some sticky notes.  Write down the name of the target autographer on the note, and stick it to whatever you want him or her to sign: for an author, the title page of the book; for an actor, a page of the liner notes; etc.  Repeat until you've got everything flagged with a sticky note.  Put the stuff that's susceptible to creasing in a rigid folder.  When your target autograph is acquired, remove the sticky note and throw it away.
• It is not necessary to reassure someone that you're not one of those fans.  Famous people already know that they have 99 perfectly lovely fans for every psycho, and they will assume that you're one of the good fans unless you give them reason to believe otherwise.  If you're stuck for something to say, repeat after me: "Hello. I love your work."
• If you think you're going to have to spell something out for them, write it down instead.  If your name is Aeryqah, write it out on an index card beforehand and hand it to them.  Same thing goes if you're getting something signed for your friend Alyssenne: write it out for them.
• Be very very sparing with requests for custom inscriptions.  There are 85 billion people in line behind you.  Most autographers will write something like "To so-and-so, signature".  A request that they write "To so-and-so, Happy birthday! signature" is probably OK; anything much longer or more complex is pushing the boundaries of being a dick.  You have a little more leeway here if you're paying for the autograph, or if you're the only person in line, but do be considerate of the artist's time and energy.  How would you feel if you had 85 billion autographs to sign and someone wanted you to write out what amounted to a postcard's worth of text?
• Make it as easy for them as possible.  Do not get to the front of the line and then make everyone wait while you fumble around for your pen, as if you couldn't have done that in the hour and a half you were waiting.  This goes double if you're planning on discreetly ambushing someone right after a panel (usually this only works at small or medium panels, but you never know): approach your target with your book already flipped open to the right page and your Sharpie already uncapped.

 

Handy tips for men (or, How To Not Be One Of THOSE Guys)

 

• Do not assume she's being dragged along under duress.  See Goddess of All's post last year on what this feels like.
• Do not assume that she's new to geekdom.  Maybe she is, but then again maybe she's been at it longer than you.
• Female geeks are under no obligation to date you.  They're there for their own reasons, and they are emphatically not there so that the straight male geeks can fish from a stocked pond.
• Refrain from classifying other attendees as trufen or posers.  Here I am thinking specifically of Twilight fans, the pariahs of last year's Comic-Con. Twifans aren't interlopers in your convention; it's their convention too. Besides--remember when you were an awkward teenager who'd discovered something you thought was wonderful but that everyone else viewed with contempt?
• Do not assume that she's only interested in paranormal romance / Twilight / manga / kawaii / other stereotypically girly things.  She's a geek, just like you.

 

See you at the con!

 

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Geekdom isn't congenital--geek plus geek does not automatically equal geek. There are, however, many ways to encourage the kids to follow in your pencil-chignon Dalek loving shoes, starting with this ready-to-go superhero alphabet. Just don't be surprised if, in a year or two, you're met with an angry glare and some freaky adamantium action as your kidlet realizes you've created an unholy, unsanctioned alliance between the DC & Marvel universes...

 

 

Aquaman, Astro Boy, Ark Angel

Batman, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Black Panther

 

Catwoman, Colossus, Captain America, Cyclops

 

Daredevil, Duo Damsel, Darkwing Duck

 

Electra

 

Flash, (Mr.) Fantastic

 

Green Lantern

 

Hulk, Human Torch, Hawk Girl, Hawk Man, Huntress

 

Ice Man, Iron Man, Invisible Woman

 

J'onn J'onzz (The Martian), Jubilee

 

Kull the Conqueror, Knight, Krypto the Superdog

 

Lobo, Lightning Lad, Longshot

 

Miss Marvel, Mockingbird, Man Hunter, Morph

 

Nightcrawler, Nightwing

 

Oracle

 

Psylocke, Powergirl, Phantom Quiksilver

 

Robin, Rogue

 

Superman, Supergirl, Spiderman, Shadowcat, Storm

 

Thor, The Thing

 

Ultra Boy

 

Vixen, (Dr.) Voodoo

 

Wonder Woman, Wolverine, War Machine, (The) Wasp

 

X (Professor) X

 

Yellow Jacket

 

Zatanna

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Oh man, my friends! The dam has burst, and Thor media is flooding the internet! At the risk of this being the only thing I ever write about on GeekaChicas, I can't imagine letting anyone else get the jump on sharing the latest with you loyal fans! (At least, it is my greatest hope that you will all come to love Thor as much as I do!) Just days after getting the nod about the Captain America and Thor movie logos, there's more!

 

You can all imagine my excitement to hear that ET went on the set of Thor. And we have video!

 

 

My thoughts beneath the cut, as usual!

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Just the other day I was shaking my fists to the sky wondering why we were getting Concept Art for Captain America and not for Thor, when obviously Thor was coming out first! (Don't get me started on the fact that the time for concept art was BEFORE the first image of Chris Hemsworth as Thor was released...) But thankfully, Marvel, or whoever is leaking something that looks like it could be the real deal, didn't let me down!

 

Yesterday these renders were released, in the exact same style as the Captain America art, and we got our first unofficial, and possibly (but probably not) false, images of Thor's full costume and Mjolnir! 

 

The photoshopping leaves something to be desired (I think this is like the uncanny valley phenomenon), but the overall look is great!  I'm really pleased with the way Chris Hemsworth looks as Thor so far and the only question I have left is this: Where the heck is his iconic and awesome helmet?! You know-- the one that inspired this fabulous and incredible winter hat on etsy?  (Which, by the way, I'm dying to get for myself even though I no longer live in a place with real knit-hat-wearing winter weather.)

 

I can't wait to see more real images, and if Marvel doesn't give us a teaser trailer at Comic-con I might cry.  My thoughts on Captain America's concept art beneath the cut!

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On the off chance that you all haven't heard about this already, an all-star panel of geeks (including Joss Whedon and Stan Lee) are making a documentary about the weirdos people who go to Comic-Con San Diego--and they could use some fodder, in the form of YOUR geeky life.  Regular readers of this space may recall that I am a habituée of Comic-Con, so I urge you all to get your geek on!

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 ( BATMAN NEWS!!!!)

 

The next batman film has an official release date, it is set for July 20, 2012 so REJOICE BAT FANATICS!!! Mr.Nolan did talk about how this part will be end of the chapter to the film series " Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story . . . I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters. My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff. Unlike the comics, these things don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling. And it hearkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories. That’s what we do.” Nolan has also confirmed that Jonathan Nolan is writing the script and that the villain of the film “won't be Mr. Freeze.”

 

There is some huge buzz going around that this year Comic-Con will hold more details to the film, which includes a title and some casting information. Comic-Con takes place this July 22-25,  You can bet I'll be all over any Batman news coming out of the Con.

 

 

 

( THE HUMANS ARE DEAD !)

 

It also seems our favorite New Zelander Jemaine Clement, who started in the HBO comedy show Flight Of The Conchords will be playing the villain Yaz in the next M.I.B film. A role that Mr. Sacha Baron Cohen was rumored to be in talks for. I wasn't sold on the movie, but when you add Jemaine, I'm all in!

 

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...you too can smell like Iron Man! 

 

 That's right, my friends.  You (or your boytoy) can now purchase the ever-coveted scent of Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit.

 

The product description reads:

 

Top notes of modern leather contrast with the fresh aroma of sparkling lemon and the warmth of amber and cedar in Only The Brave, a masculine fragrance that epitomizes determination and bravery. 

 

Since this is Iron Man cologne, I'm guessing that's marketing speak for "motor oil and vodka."  Perhaps with added pheromones that cause women to fling their undergarments at the scent combination of motor oil and vodka.

 

 This marketing enthusiast thanks you, Diesel, for enriching our planet with your product.

 

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My friends, if you do not know it by now, I am a fan of Thor. So imagine the level of geeking out that just took place in my home when I saw that the FIRST Thor still had been released of Chris Hemsworth in costume!

 

Guys. This movie could make all my dreams come true. They have already hit it out of the park in the adaptation of Thor's costume from what this picture shows us.  I'm eagerly awaiting further stills and news!

 

But what are your feelings on the forthcoming film? Thor: Hoping to Love, or Fearing You'll Hate?

 

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As an aspiring author, it behooves me to support the publishing industry. Usually this means that I just overspent at the bookstore, and almost always this means I came home with a new comic book trade. This weekend, I picked up Superman: Red Son, and let me tell you my friends, it was totally worth the cover price. I love a book that makes me think, and Superman: Red Son delivers that in spades.

 

Red Son is an alternate reality story answering the question "what if Superman had crashed in the USSR instead of Kansas?" and I think they tackle it in incredible ways. Superman is still Superman, still struggling to find a way to give the world the peace he knows it deserves, to give humanity safety, security, the basics of food and shelter, and he is still very much a sympathetic hero, communist dictatorship aside.

 

The really incredible thing for me, in this story, was realizing that the differences in Superman's choices are ultimately very slight. These are choices that Superman might have just as easily made as an American--the difference is not the politics and economics of his homeland, but the cries of the people he loves. The results of those slight differences, however, are incredibly large, and in Red Son, we see Superman take the world into his hands as a political leader, as a lawmaker, as a ruler. Instead of choosing to lead by example and allowing humanity to make it's own mistakes, he tries to keep humanity from making any mistakes and fix the systems in place that are already broken through his own personal interference. Superman decides he knows what's best for the world, and sets it into motion.

 

It would have been very easy for this story to have been made into the typical pro-capitalism propaganda, and they didn't escape those overtones entirely, but they did succeed in writing a story that at least allowed the reader to consider that capitalism and America's Way isn't the only way. In Red Son, there are glimpses of what communism and the Marxist revolutions were meant to be-- a chance at utopia and an ideal world. 

 

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BREAKING NEWS!!!

 

It’s been confirmed, yesterday D.C has struck a deal with writer David Goyer to helm the script for the reboot of the next Superman movie titled " Man Of Steel " According to Variety, Goyer pitched a more high action packed script including villains like  Lex Luthor and Brainica, making this a non origin story.

 

It also seems D.C will have to look for a new Man Of Steel, as it’s been confirmed Brandon Roth will no longer be playing the role of superman, and it seems D.C is cleaning house as they have no plans in letting Bryan Singer direct the next film.

 

D.C  still needs a second writer to take on the script, if I see a Nolan in there I might die from a geekgasm. I'll make sure to keep the GC readers updated if anything new breaks out.

 

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I was out of the game, but with this latest news I had to come back. Someone needs to filter the truth from the lies.

 

*Cue the heroic music *

 

 

( Real news turned into lies! )

 

News broke a few days back that David Goyer and Jonathan Nolan are ready to write the script to the next Batman movie, with Christopher Nolan coming back to direct the third installment of the trilogy. With this a wave of sites began to claim that they had the scoop into the next film.

 

 

( Who started it? )

 

Comicbookmovie.com was the first to proclaim it had a source simply known as " TT " inside Warner Brothers who saw the story outline for the next film. In it was plans to introduce Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Dr.Fries (A.K.A Mr. Freeze) Penguin and that's not all, there's even plans to mention Lex Luthor. DC way to tie in Batman and Superman. ( It's fan fiction gone wrong !!!)

 

 

( Debunked rumor 1: Robin )

 

If you've followed the Batman franchise and read my last article, you know Nolan and Bale are anti-Robin. Meaning all you Robin lovers will just have to wait until Nolan steps down as director to see the boy wonder.

 

 

( Debunked rumor 2: Barbara Gordon )

 

Barbara Gordon, SHE CAME OUT IN THE LAST FILM, she played James Gordon's wife. If they meant Batgirl, well, that just won't happen. Seeing how this is an early telling of Batman. (so off with the head of this rumor )

 

 

( Debunked Rumor 3: Superman & Batman )

 

We know Christopher Nolan will take on the role of Godfather as DC prepares to hammer out the next Superman film. They want Nolan to pass his wisdom on to the team that takes on the Superman reboot. BUT, the notion that Nolan would hint to Lex Luthor in this next film is highly doubtful. It doesn't fit into the realism of the past two films. I guarantee you DC  will save the crossover reference for the next film or the reboot of the series.

 

 

( Debunked rumor 4: Penguin and Freeze )

 

Penguin isn't Nolan's cup of tea and the same goes for Mr.Freeze. We've seen Nolan tackle characters that are believable, none of these seem to fit the bill. 

 

 

( An End To The Madness )

 

The news going around is 100% BS! How do I know this, because so many other sites are claiming to have a source, and some of these rumors are old ones rehashed. Let's not forget, Goyer and Nolan haven't even finished or started writing the script. A lot of bloggers and sites are jumping the gun on this. Take these rumors spreading around the web as a fan boy/girl fan fiction to the next movie.

 

 

( NOW THE GOOD NEWS!!!)

 

Geekachicas readers you have nothing to fear, I plan to hunt down the latest news and bring you solid information on the next Batman film. And if I had to guess when we'll see some real news, I'd say on July, August or September. If anything concrete comes out before that, I'll make sure to break It here at the GC. You can call me your Batman to the film ( minus the fighting or cool gadgets... But I do have pogs! )

 

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I'm a sucker for comic books.

I love the art. I love the story telling. I love the combination of art and story telling. I love that they use art to tell a story just as much as they use dialogue and narration. And I love bulked up superheroes, flawed and perfect. I love that we've taken the richness of classical myth, and recreated it for our modern world in a way that people who would never otherwise pick up a book on the topic can find meaning. The reinvention of myth and even the reinvention of what it means to be a hero. I love it all.

Lately, I've been taken in by the relaunch of Marvel's Thor title. It started innocently enough. I've always been fascinated by mythology, pantheons, and the cultures that worshipped them were always my favorite part of history classes. I took a class on Norse Mythology in college, in fact. It's impossible to ignore the influence of the Scandinavian people, and their heritage when you live in North Dakota for any extended period of time-- but I'm pretty sure my love for Norse Myths, and Thor in particular, came before I fell into that Midwestern (and I say it lovingly) black hole.

The Thor title in its previous incarnations (588 issues? really?) never attracted my attention, though. For one thing, it wasn't until my teens that I cultivated any real independent taste for comic books that wasn't influenced by my older brother, and for another, it's a little bit hard to jump into those titles when they're on issue 500 and counting, and you have no idea what the heck is going on. In my opinion, this is the number one problem with the big titles, today. Superman, Spiderman, X-men, Avengers-- you almost have to know the entire history, as well as read every other title in the universe to have a context for the story in the issue you picked up off the rack, but that's another post altogether.

 

But I was totally blown away by Ultimate Thor-- that is, Thor as he appeared within the Ultimates 1 & 2 titles (3 was a catastrophe that I've been trying to repress). The idea of turning Thor into a hippy conservationist using his powers to try to save the planet, ecologically, while boozing it up with his fellow activists was so alarmingly different, so incredibly unique a take, that I couldn't resist. Who can say no to a thundergod smiting a whaling ship with a bolt of lightning? Not only that, but this incarnation of Thor didn't feel at all compelled to speak awkwardly in the third person with outdated language! I was hooked!

 

So naturally, in my casual stroll through the graphic novels section of the bookstore, when I happened across volume one of this new title in trade paperback form back in August of '08, I had to pick it up. Why not, I thought? I had a long train ride ahead of me to go visit my sister, and some reading material was in order. But once I read the first couple of pages, that was it. Marvel had me. Again. Just when I had given up on them because of that horrible Ultimates 3 fiasco. Here was a Thor I could respect! And more importantly, a story that treated him as more than a musclebound oaf.

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Let's show some love for today's Guest Blogger, Jessenovels from JESSEnovels, and welcome him to the lofty state of Honorary Chicahood. (He's already got the geek thing down.) ~ The Management

 

It's no surprise that I'm a huge Batman fanatic, and with this coming year my mind jumps to one thing, THE NEXT FILM. So, as the crazy bat fan I am, I thought I would put my two cents and try to predict what we will and won't see in the next film, also dismiss some rumors. As we all know, MOVIE PREDICTIONS ARE FUN! (except when they're wrong )  

 

(Things We Won't See )

- Robin -   For those fans who want to see Batman's young sidekick in this film, do three things. First walk over to the nearest mirror. Second, start slapping yourself. Third, repeat after me, "Not a chance in hell."  

 

Let's face it, Robin isn't much of a character. I wasn't of a fan of his when Bob Kane created him, or when he came out in Jeph Lobe and Tim Sales, " The Dark Victory." If you ask me ( and I know you didn't ) Bruce should have taken the boy blunder to a mall three cities over and left him there.  

 

Robin would be poison to the franchise, having him would radically change the dark feel of the story, which would be a huge mistake. Nolan and Bale are anti-robin, so it's clear that this rumor can be put to rest. (I SAID TO REST!!!!)  

 

( Batgirl )    

 

Miley Cyrus as BATGIRL! I know the Geekachicas will get behind me on this and say, "For the love of God, no! " This nasty little rumor started to fly around when Comic-con got on its way last year. It was said that Miley  made herself a homemade costume to impress some executives at Warner Brothers  ( and what a fantastic costume it was). She even read a few lines for them and, believe it or not, she KNOCKED THEIR SOCKS OFF! Only a fantastic actress like Miley could do this. You've seen her acting skills, I mean someone please give that girl an Oscar. ( sarcasm... as if you didn't know )  

 

Yeah, this amazing story is fake! (But you know what's not fake, my website jessenovels.wordpress.com.  Don't look at me that way, it was bound to happen)   Hannah Mountain fans Don't hold your breath, maybe when hell freezes over she might.. na, not even then. Just save it for your fan fiction.

Let's face it, do we need another Batman Forever, let's keep the character in the closet until ... maybe a reboot is better .

( The Penguin )

It would be nice to see Nolan recreate the character for the franchise, but as we heard from  Nolan before, that's a no go.   

( Killer Croc )  

If you've seen Gotham Knights, you know he would tie in perfectly with the movie. Sadly that's not going to happen, Nolan is more interested in bringing in characters that are more realistic. (He's a must for the next film, fingers crossed.)

    (Characters That will and might appear.. percent included)

 

 The Joker

Percentage of coming out in the next film: 75%  

 

We all know the Joker was a huge story arc for the next film, but after the late great Heath Ledger's death, the chance of the character coming back looks slim.  

 

People have said no one would be able to fill the shoes left by Heath Ledger, but these are the same people who bashed him when he was first cast. I, for one, would love to see the character recast. I strongly believe in sticking with the story. I'm not the only to think so - producer Chuck Roven said at the People Choice Awards to MTV,  "On a personal level, Heath was a friend of mine. We had worked together before 'The Dark Knight,' but I still think that 'The Dark Knight' is its own thing, and we have to separate them."

 

A storyline should not be changed due to one actor. If Nolan and the team change the foundation, the third film might be the blow that ends a successful franchise.  

 

( Harvey Dent/ Two Face )  

 

Percentage of coming out in the next film: 55%  

 

Yes, he's dead, BUT  could the death of Heath Ledger make Nolan rethink this decision? Let's not forget Two-Face was the one leading the freaks in the Long Halloween comic, and it would make for a strong storyline between Bruce and Harvey.  

 

As much as I want Two-Face to come back, his presence would hinder the Dark Knight story. So the chances of Harvey coming back look bleak, but we shall see. We can't deny fans would jump off their seats knowing Harvey Dent is back from the grave, maybe even camping, "I Believe in Two-Face" as he crushes the mob and hunts down the Batman, with the aid of the Riddler.  

 

( The Scarecrow )  

 

Percentage of coming out in the next film: 98%

 

This is a given, we might even see his role extend more then just a cameo.    

 

( Catwoman )

 

Percentage of coming out in the next film: 85%

The thought of having Catwoman in the next film wasn't a sell for me, but if we don't see the Joker or Two-Face, this is her time to shine. She would tie in easily and add a nice romantic relationship with Bruce. Just no Megan Fox. She's eye candy, not an actor. (You've seen her films *gag* )    

 

  ( The Riddler )  

 

Percentage of coming out in the next film: 100%

 

Mr.Nigma is the face for the third Batman film, and a solid actor like  David Tennant would make that role shine. Tennant himself expressed interest in playing the Ridder. Let's hope he gets the role.        

 

Before I wrap this piece up, let's go ahead and make some predictions on who will be in the next Batman film. Will I be right? We'll soon find out...( I hope I can re-edit this,  so I can tell people " SEE TOLD YOU SO" Muhahaha!)  

 

Cast and title predictions:

 

THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS

Joker  ( Johnny Depp )

Riddler ( David Tennant )

Catwoman (Angelina Jolie )

Scarecrow ( Cillian Murphy )

Cameos - Mad Hatter - Zsasz    

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It's summertime, almost Comic Con time, so let's talk superheroes!  I propose we go around the table and talk about our favorite comic book movies.

I'll kick things off with a paen to The Rocketeer, an underrated little gem from 1991.  To set the scene, let us get into the Wayback Machine and revisit the state of movies made from comics at the time: its immediate predecessors in the film-adapted-from-comic genre were Dick Tracy (1990) and the first Batman (1989), both dark, heavily stylized, star-studded, intensely marketed blockbusters.  Neither was aimed at children.  (In fact, I--a preteen at the time--had somehow formulated the idea that comics weren't for kids.)

 

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