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This Week in Geek

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  • CW is moving forward with casting for a Wonder Woman series. (EW)
  • Is Jonathan Hickman bringing the New Universe back to Marvel? (Bleeding Cool)
  • Who’s in the running to play Star Lord, the lead in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy? (Splash Page)
  • James McAvoy and Bendict Cumberbatch join a radio play of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. (io9)
  • It looks like Nick Fury won’t appear in Iron Man 3 but he will be in Captain America: The Winter Solider. (Splash Page)
  • Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are returning to the X-Men franchise in X-Men: Days of Future Past! (Splash Page)
  • Will Hugh Jackman be joining them? (Latino Review)
  • Charlize Theron is playing the lead in the U.S. remake of Chan-wook Park’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. (Latino Review)
  • Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, the team behind Safety Not Guaranteed, are working on a remake of Flight of the Navigator for Disney. (Latino Review)
  • Neil Patrick Harris has started a new web series called “Neil’s Puppet Dreams.”
  • Don Cheadle’s back as Captain Planet and he’s still a dick. (PostBourgie)
  • After Starz’s Spartacus ends, there might be a Julius Caesar spinoff (Vulture)
  • Cate Blanchett is going to play Cinderella’s evil stepmother in Mark Romanek’s live-action Disney remake. (io9)
  • Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige talks about a darker tone for Iron Man 3 (Screen Rant)
  • Zack Snyder talks about why he changed Superman’s costume for Man of Steel (amongst other things). (Comics Alliance)
  • For some ridiculous reason, Lenny Kravitz has been cast as Marvin Gaye in Julien Temple’s biopic. (Deadline)
  • The first official synopsis of Star Trek Into Darkness is released.  Still no idea who the villain is. (io9)
  • Sigh.  Looks like we’re going to have to wait a little longer for season three of Sherlock. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Sienna Guillory joins the cast of Luther for season three. (Screen Rant)
  • New trailers for Django Unchained and Freeloaders (Warning: NSFW)

Last Week in Geek

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  • When I have children, this is what their rubber duckies are going to look like. (Neatorama)
  • Paranormal Activity 5 already has a release date. (Deadline Hollywood)
  • Looks like someone is trying to kill Machete Kills. (Latino Review)
  • Chevy Chase left Community with a few episodes left to film in season four. (The Nerdist)
  • Are there already writers for Star Wars: Episode VIII and IX? (The Mary Sue)
  • Chad Coleman (Cutty from The Wire) has been cast as Tyreese in The Walking Dead. (Vulture)
  • A new trailer for Man of Steel will be attached to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Splash Page)
  • Here are the contenders for the role of Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. (Splash Page)
  • Insidious 2 is coming next summer! (Screen Rant)
  • Over two dozen animals may have been killed during the filming of The Hobbit (I Watch Stuff)
  • The first teaser for season three of Game of Thrones.
  • Here’s a prequel minisode and trailer for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special.
  • I guess that 300 sequel is actually happening (Splash Page)
  • The next Marvel event is going to be the Age of Ultron (Bleeding Cool)
  • New trailers for Dark Skies, Jack the Giant Slayer and Snitch.

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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With Great Responsibility…

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Revealed in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Fallout Issue 4, out Wednesday, the new Spider-Man in the Ultimate universe is a half-black, half-Hispanic teen named Miles Morales. He takes over the gig held by Peter Parker, who was killed in Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 160 in June.[1]

When I got to work this morning and first read about the new Spider-Man, I didn’t really care.  It was in the Ultimate Universe (which is kind if a mess right now) and not in regular continuity. Sure, it gets Marvel some press which Marvel never gets tired of.  I was going to read it since I’ve read every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man to this point.

The more I thought about it, the happier it made me.  I started imagining sharing this comic with my future mixed children.  I smiled at the thought that they would have a superhero who might look like them and have a similar background as them.  I was already daydreaming of one of my kids wanting to dress up as Spider-Man for Halloween but not Peter Parker, “the brown one”.

Even though this probably won’t last too long (NO ONE stays dead in comic books), I plan to buy every trade paperback of this comic so I can show it to them and explain that, for a brief period,  a kid like you was Spider-Man.

I really wish he didn’t look like teenage Obama though.  That’s just lazy.

1. Truitt, Brian (08-02-2011). “Half-black, half-Hispanic Spider-Man revealed.” USA Today.

Links for the Week of 1/25

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Just fair warning, a lot of the links are Lost-related (5 days away!).