So, I just got back from watching "Marvel's Avengers" (or as the UK and Ireland billing has it, "Marvel Avengers Assembled" in order to avoid confusion with a certain 60s and 70s UK Cult TV classic detective show which got a Hollywood remake starring a villainous Sir Sean Connery). If you want to find what I thought of the film, just follow the LJ ( Read more... )

While one would expect that a character, franchise and (as DC and Warner Brothers would call it) "intellectual property" such as Batman presumably has legs given the pop-culture icon levels of following he and his recent movies have had - it appears that Warner Brothers isn't above making Devil's Deals to prevent any kind of risk.

Case in point, the ( Read more... )

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Brand New Day, Brand New Dead-guy.

Summary:
Peter Parker is called to take photos of something unusual: One Mortified Draftsman whose death makes no sense, and no one can think why... Birthday fic for ( Read more... )

I was recently thinking about a writing challenge for myself, and I soon discovered that the complete absence of one of our human senses (the five classic ones: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell; as well as the senses of temperature, equilibrium, pain and kinesthesis) would be an intriguing one. I was also considering a foray with a Marvel ( Read more... )

Today's big news for comics fans is that Marvel Studios struck a deal with the WGA allowing their superhero-themed projects to get back on track. "Marvel Studios' signing of an interim agreement with the Writers Guild is more good news for our membership," said WGAE President Michael Winship and WGAW President Patric M. Verrone. "Marvel is ( Read more... )

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Bringing in some positive news for Marvel Comics fans - particularly those who follow a twenty-something (or hip-n'-trendy-teen) guy running around in red and blue arachnid-themed pajamas - there has long been a history of cycling between editorial hate and editorial love for Marvel and the directions they took.

Take for example the mid-nineties. ( Read more... )

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