Monthly Archives: July 2017
Thor: Ragnarok Comic-Con Poster Unveiled
A new poster for Thor: Ragnarok has been revealed ahead of Marvel Studios' panel today at San Diego Comic-Con.
A photo of the poster was revealed on Twitter by Marvel Studios concept artist Andy Park. The art, which was painted by Park, features Thor and Loki facing off against Hela. See it below:
Thor: Ragnarok SDCC poster, via Andy Park on Twitter
New Justice League Poster Revealed
Ahead of its panel today at San Diego Comic-Con, Warner Bros. has released a new poster for Justice League.
The image, which was posted on the film's official Twitter account, unites Ben Affleck's Batman, Ezra Miller's The Flash, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa's Aquaman and Ray Fisher's Cyborg, and bears the tagline: "You can't save the world alone." See it below:
Justice League SDCC Poster, via Twitter
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Geoff Johns on the Batman Movie Universe
The Warner Bros. panel is easily one of the most anticipated events at Comic-Con this week. But you don't have to wait until Saturday morning to learn more about where the DC Extended Universe is heading in the next few years. We were able to chat with DC Films co-head Geoff Johns today to pick his brain on Wonder Woman and the Batman-heavy approach of this universe.
Johns noted his excitement that Wonder Woman's recent success will fuel the push towards Justice League this November. "Having Wonder Woman in Justice League is exciting because, again, there's such a different audience than the typical audience that went to see that movie, and now they'll see Justice League and get to be introduced to all these other characters like Aquaman and Flash and Cyborg, and see Batman and the whole gang together."
The 100: Clarke Will Evoke Sarah Connor in Season 5
Filming hasn't yet started for the fifth season of The 100, but showrunner Jason Rothenberg did give a few hints to the enthusiastic crowd in Ballroom 20 for the show's panel at San Diego Comic-Con, moderated by IGN's own Eric Goldman.
As viewers saw in the Season 4 finale, six years will have passed when the story resumes. Clarke has become a mother to a surviving nightblood named Madi, and though this isn't Clarke's biological child, Rothenberg asserted that the mother-child bond is strong. At one point, he likened Clarke's parenting style to that of Terminator 2's Sarah Connor, who had to prepare her child for impending combat. Madi has grown up listening to Clarke's stories of her mother and her friends, so they are her heroes.
Saga, Vision & Jughead Win at 2017 Eisner Awards
Tonight marked the presentation of the 29th annual Will Eisner Comic Book Industry Awards, honoring the best and brightest in the industry in 2016.
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga is always a perennial favorite at the Eisners, and that was certainly the case this year. Saga won the coveted award for Best Continuing Series, while Vaughan won the award for Best Writer and Staples for both Best Penciler/Inker and Best Cover Artist.
X-Men Show The Gifted Shows Mutant Powers in Action
At the panel for The Gifted today at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel and FOX showed off lots of new footage from their upcoming X-Men based TV series. As we reported earlier, showrunner Matt Nix confirmed at that panel that the show is set in a different timeline than the X-Men movies -- a timeline where the X-Men have disappeared, by the way -- but as the scenes screened today proved, that doesn’t mean that mutant powers aren’t flying aplenty in the world of The Gifted.
In the first scene showed, Blink (Jamie Chung) is on the run from the police while a group of other mutants are also attempting to track her. They are the light-projecting Eclipse (Sean Teale), the mistress of magnetism Lorna (Emma Dumont) and the tracker Thunderbird (Blair Redford). They find the wrecked top of a police car, which had earlier been accidentally caught in one of Blink’s teleportation fields.
The Punisher Clip Revealed
Today’s Marvel/Netflix panel at San Diego Comic-Con was mostly about The Defenders, with the surprise premiere of the first episode of that team-up show and the news that member Iron Fist is getting a second season of his own series. But Jon Bernthal also showed up just long enough to unveil a clip from his upcoming solo Punisher series.
The clip featured the tortured Frank Castle that made him so popular when this version of the character debuted in Daredevil Season 2. It started with images of Castle remembering teaching his daughter how to play the guitar, interspersed with shots of the modern-day Frank playing alone, but then suddenly yelling or slumped on the floor or rubbing his head -- just generally devastated.
DC Reveals Doom Patrol/Justice League Crossover
DC held a panel at SDCC this evening focused on Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint. During the panel, Way and his fellow writers revealed that the Young Animal characters will be crossing paths with the Justice League in early 2018.
This announcement is a case of good news/bad news for Young Animal fans. The bad news is that three of of the four ongoing series - Shade: The Changing Girl, Mother Panic and Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye - will be going on hiatus between October 2017 and January 2018. The good news is that DC will be publishing a series of four Young Animal/DCU crossover specials beginning in January.
Doom Patrol/Justice League #1 cover by Frank Quitely. (DC Comics)
The Defenders: We Just Saw the First Episode
There was no shiny Stark Tower or fancy Quinjets or enchanted hammers to see at Marvel and Netflix’s The Defenders panel at San Diego Comic-Con today. Nope, just the “street level” heroes that have make such a big mark on the streaming service in recent years -- Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. And they made a big mark here at SDCC too, with a surprise screening of the first episode of the show, plus the announcement that Iron Fist is getting a second season, and a first look at the new Punisher series starring Jon Bernthal.
Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb moderated the panel, with Marvel/Netflix stars Charlie Cox (Daredevil), Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones), Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Finn Jones (Iron Fist), Bernthal, Jessica Henwick (Colleen Wing), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elodie Young (Elektra) and Sigourney Weaver (who plays the Defenders’ baddie, Alexandra) and Defenders showrunner Marco Ramirez taking the stage to get fans excited about the show prior to its debut on August 18. You can watch the new trailer right here: