The Star Wars announcements are cool. Kieron Gillen + Mark Waid + Jason Aaron = dream team of writers. They can do character, action, theme and make stories fun while also keeping them meaningful.
I would be excited about Cassaday if not for his deadline problems. I believe I have never seen Terry Dodson's art, so no opinion on him, but it kind of sucks that Larroca is doing Vader. Hope they give him someone good on inks and colours, I actually quite enjoyed the way he drew Cable's X-Force in the recent series.
On the other hand I can't for the love of God be excited about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Reasons:
1) The title sounds like a fantasy short story I would write in grade school.
2) Man of Steel was just a major disappointment, it didn't get Superman at all.
3) We finally get Batman and Superman on screen together and they are fighting? Come on. Also, a huge part of what made their fight in TDKR awesome was their backstory. Right now I feel like, regarding the movie, someone at Warner/DC was like "well OBVIOUSLY Superman and Batman are opposites! One is dark and the other is... slightly less dark! Huge difference! One kills and the other doesn't!!!... wait, I thought we were comparing Captain America and Punisher?"
Of course I could be (and hope that I am) wrong and the movie will actually be base on Byrne's Man of Steel #3 which was fantastic.
Oh, and one more thing:
- Yo guys, why aren't we getting any of those Avengers bucks? We have as many of those stupid (Martian Manhunter lawl!!!) costumed fuckers as Disney and Marvel do!
- Huh, you're absolutely right! Let's make a dark movie in which Batman and Superman kick the shit out of each other while grimacing like Karl Urban in Dredd 3D since their lives are so, like, though and hard, man. All those Avengers moneys will be ours!!!
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