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This Week in Geek

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  • Buffy fans rejoice! Willow and Oz are going to reunite (sorta) on How I Met Your Mother. (Jezebel)
  • Have you ever wondered how many zombies have died on The Walking Dead? Andrew Barr and Richard Johnson of The National Post figured it out. (The National Post)
  • Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan Labyrinth is becoming a stage musical. (Deadline Hollywood)
  • A first look at season four of Justified!
  • An oral history of one of the greatest single season comedies ever, Freaks and Geeks. (Vanity Fair)
  • Warner Bros. released a 13-minute television special for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. (Latino Review)
  • Dennis Haysbert is going to take over for Michael Clarke Duncan in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. (Splash Page)
  • Kristen Wiig is in talks to join Anchorman 2. (Bleeding Cool)
  • More former X-Men might be returning for X-Men: Days of Future Past. (Splash Page)
  • New teaser trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness.
  • It looks like Tron 3 is going to happen. (Topless Robot)
  • Disney, Pixar and Marvel movies are heading to Netflix. (Vulture)
  • Wait? Who decided that a remake of Scarface would be a good idea? (Latino Review)
  • A first look at Ender’s Game. (EW)
  • They are already developing a sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim. (Screen Rant)
  • Jason Alexander is going to guest star on Community. (EW)
  • Shawn Ryan (The Shield, Terriers) is developing Badlands for HBO. (AV Club)
  • Sigh.  It looks like Jamie Foxx is confirmed as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Latino Review)
  • Also, Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) has been cast as Harry Osborn. (Latino Review)
  • Sad news. Karen Berger is stepping down from DC Comics. She was responsible for some of the greatest DC Comics ever when she was Executive Editor of DC Vertigo – Sandman, The Preacher, Hellblazer. (Bleeding Cool)
  • The villain for the Justice League movie has been revealed and should be no surprise to any comic fan. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Will X-Files 3 ever happen? (Screen Rant)
  • HBO released a production featurette for season three of Game of Thrones.
  • Rick McCallum, producer of the Star Wars prequels and re-releases, is leaving Lucasfilm. (Vulture)
  • CBS orders a pilot for an adaptation of Stephen King’s Under the Dome. (Screen Rant)
  • Who’s in the running for Cinderella in Mark Romanek’s live-action adaptation? (Bleeding Cool)
  • Because no one asked, The Killing is coming back for season three. (Vulture)
  • New photos from Iron Man 3. (Latino Review)
  • Manu Bennett (Crixus from Spartacus) has been cast as Deathstroke in Arrow (Splash Page)

This Week in Geek

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  • The sequel to The Muppets starts filming in London in January and will feature more songs by Bret McKenzie (Bleeding Cool)
  • Screen Junkies finally made an “honest trailer” for The Amazing Spider-Man (spoilers).
  • The pilot for Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D TV series directed by Joss Whedon will start filming in January. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Skyfall‘s director Sam Mendes and writer John Logan are making a vampire hunter TV series. (io9)
  • The Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood & Chrome (featuring Will Adama as a pilot in the Cylon Wars) is finally going to air online starting today as webisodes (EW)
  • Who’s directing Star Wars: Episode VII? Is it Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class)?  Is it Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed)? (Collider/Bleeding Cool)
  • Whoever is directing, it appears Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3) has already plotted out the next Star Wars trilogy and will likely be the writer of Episode VII. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Harrison Ford is open to returning to the role of Han Solo in the new trilogy. (EW)
  • Is Disney trying to buy Hasbro next? (MTV Geek)
  • Because no one demanded it, 70s/80s fantasy comic Elfquest might finally be getting a movie. (io9)
  • Stan Lee wants a bigger cameo in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I say give it to him as long as his character is named Jack Kirby. (Splash Page)
  • Spartacus: War of the Damned premieres in January. (TV Squad)
  • Neil Gaiman’s next Doctor Who episode will feature the Cybermen. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Mark Wahlberg is going to star in the next Transformers movie by Michael Bay. (Latino Review)
  • David Yates is going to direct Tarzan for Warner Bros. Yay for the resurrection of racist franchises! (Vulture)
  • At least someone agrees with me that Preacher should be a TV series not a movie. (Splash Page)
  • Shock surprise, Man of Steel is going to be in 3D. (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
  • One of the best ongoing comic series, Locke & Key, might be getting a movie trilogy. (Splash Page)
  • DC Comics decides to end it’s longest running series, Hellblazer, just so they can relaunch it. (MTV Geek)
  • Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Brett Ratner are joining forces for Hercules. (Splash Page)
  • New trailers for World War Z (starring Brad Pitt), The Last Stand (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Les Misérables (Latino Review)

Superf*cker

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It’s impossible. Lois could never have Superman’s baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I guarantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it’s strong enough to carry his child?…He’s an alien, for Christ’s sake. His Kryptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth’s yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. But that would kill him.
- Brodie from Mallrats

I think the only reason DC has finally decided to couple Superman and Wonder Woman in continuity (it’s happened plenty of times in Elseworlds tales) is they can finally show Superman as a sexual being. The only time I can recall that Superman had sex with Lois in the comics was during Brian Azzarello/Jim Lee’s brief “For Tomorrow” arc (at least it was implied. Who knows what really happened?). As silly as Brodie’s line was in Mallrats, every comic book geek has discussed the illogical nature of Superman and Lois having sex.

Now we can have tasteful superhero sex in the New 52 like Batman and Catwoman.

Yay?

When Minor Characters Do Major Things

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A few weeks ago, DC Comics announced that a major character was going to be reintroduced as gay. So comic fans speculated which major character it was going to be. I thought it should be Captain Marvel because he didn’t really have any serious romantic entanglements in the previous continuity (ignoring for a second that he’s really a pre-teen but that might have made it more awesome and influential).

It was revealed this week that the now gay character is Alan Scott. If you just said, “who?”, I rest my case. Scott is DC’s original Green Lantern (before they came up with the Guardians, Oa and the entire mythology that spawned Hal Jordan) and was a member of Justice Society of America. This is HARDLY a major character. Adding insult to injury, Scott is going to be in Earth-2 so he’s not even in the current continuity that the average person is aware of. Why couldn’t it have been Martian Manhunter, one of the Robins or one of the more recognizable Green Lanterns like Kyle Rayner or John Stewart? It’s great that DC is adding a LGBT character but given the fanfare, I wanted more. This was just too safe.

DC Comics already has gay characters – Batwoman/Kate Kane, Renee Montoya/The Question, Obsidian (coincidentally Alan Scott’s son from the previous continuity) – so one more shouldn’t be a big deal (actually they could use a few more). DC Comics trying to ride the wave of Obama coming out in support of gay marriages to try and push a few more issues.

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Who Watches Before Watchmen?

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I’ve been meaning to write about what a horrible idea I thought DC releasing prequels to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ classic work, Watchmen, prequels NOT written by Moore (although they did ask him while offering him back the rights to Watchmen that had been denied to him for so long).

DC isn’t stupid. They know no one would accept this even a little bit unless the writers and artists behind this weren’t the best of the best. As much as I hate that this is happening, I would read anything by Brian Azzarello, J. G. Jones and Darwyn Cooke (J. Michael Straczynski…not so much).

The reason this seems like such a bad idea is Moore crafted such a detailed tale that there’s no room for expansion. Between the flashbacks and the supplemental pieces, we know everything we need to know about these characters. All these comics could possibly do is illustrate stories mentioned in the supplemental materials or flesh out stories described or mentioned by characters. It all seems like a pretty obvious cash grab on a known respected property by DC Comics.

Well, not as obvious as this Watchmen toaster.

Yes, that’s really happening.

Maybe this cartoon isn’t that far off from the truth.