A Super-size helping of news, this week, in geek!
DC Launching Super Hero Girls Initiative- This is definitely a sound idea and a step toward creating a gender equality in comics. I do not object to the basic idea behind this campaign of product or the animation. I do feel like Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are terrible choices for the simple fact they're villains, not heroes, and this would have been a perfect place for DC to rep their lesser known female heroes like Mary Marvel, Amethyst, or Iris West as Impulse.
Frank Miller writing Dark Knight Returns sequel - Now this is a DC decision I just cannot fathom. Frank Miller at this point has run the character into the ground once that got published as a sequel, again in a spin-off that's unrelated, and in another comic so terrible, he had to rewrite it with a new 'original' character. I have no idea what DC thinks is going to come out of this but if it's anything good, I will be immensely surprised.
TMNT 2 has Cast Baxter Stockman - Baxter Stockman shows that the new Ninja Turtles movies are not afraid at all to go deeper than films have gone before. Stockman was a throwaway character in the original comics- an inventor turned terrorist, whose pest-extermination robots nearly proved deadly to Master Splinter in the original comics. He was a serious figure. The good news is, Hollywood hasn't decided to white-wash him. The bad news is, he's being played by Tyler Perry. I intend to do my best to refrain from making a judgment call until I see the movie.
Sony reveals Spider-plans... Getting deja vu? Now that Marvel's gotten its word out, Sony has announced that it is creating, separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and prospective live-action Spider-Man movies that would intersect, they have hired Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the brains behind the Lego Movie, to work on an animated Spider-Man picture. This is brilliant and allows a truly unique angle on the character to be explored while not being confused with the MCU character. I'm going to call this movie a winner on Sony's part.
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