"Hey! It's Another Comic-Con! Or: Let's Play a Game, Shall We?"
Felipe Marques, Talon writer for the Entertainment section, shares his experience of his first visit to the San Diego Comic-Con.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, after years of
dreaming about (and subsequently saving up a lot of money for) it, Felipe
Marques finally went to San Diego Comic-Con, and it was wonderful. With
overpriced comic books, overhyped video games, and overly detailed costumes
beyond the eye can see, there was only one thing no-one wanted Comic-Con to be-
namely, over. Yet, as all things do, SDCC came to an end, but I was there, from
dawn to dusk, and covered all the major events from Day 1 till the end. However! Seeing as this is the start of
a new school year, here’s a little mental game for thee whose brains are still
on vacation mode: out of all the outlandish, uncanny announcements from SDCC in
this article, one, and only one, is way too good to be true…
So, without further ado, the best of SDCC!
1) Odd movies, odder directors
San Diego Comic Con is famous (or
rather, infamous) for announcing some of the weirdest green-lighted movies of
the modern age, some which should have never even been green-lighted (Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four: Rise of the
Silver Surfer, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I’m looking at you!), yet somehow
SDCC ’12 was the crème de la crème in
this field. To paraphrase Tolkien’s Lord
of the Rings, they are directed by “the most unlikely directors
imaginable”, directors you would never associate to the genre. Notable examples
include Oz, the Great and Powerful, an
origin story about the Wizard of Oz,
with Spiderman and The Evil Dead’s Sam Raimi at the helm, Pacific Rim, a movie about giant
Japanese monsters, or Kaiju, directed
by Guillermo del Toro (on second thought, maybe this one wasn’t that unlikely…), and, last but not par
for the course, Quentin Tarantino, “Mr. Kill Bill” himself, directing Django Unchained, a reboot of the Django Spaghetti Western series. Here’s
to hoping this won’t be like Francis Ford Coppola and Jack…
2) Marvel: Initiate Phase 2
Now that Avengers came and went, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently
undergoing a short, 1-year hiatus, and with good reason. Marvel Studios’
panel’s original purpose was to only reveal Iron Man 3 (which, on a side note,
has the strange casting of Ben Kingsley, of Schindler’s
List and Gandhi fame, as the
Mandarin, one of Stark’s more supernatural foes… who’d have thought it?). Yet,
to the public’s surprise, Marvel Studios revealed several other movies they had
on paper to be released sometime around 2013-14. In order of least to most
unexpected: Iron Man 3, Captain America
2: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World (let’s face it, those were sort
of obvious), Guardians of the Galaxy
(anyone remember Nova? Rocket Raccoon? No? Moving on.), and finally, the
weirdest superhero to actually get his own movie, Ant-Man (really, how are they going to explain shrinking particles
in a way that ties in to the rest of the movies?). To be honest, those merry
few who own a copy of Ultimate Marvel VS
Capcom 3 would have known, in a way, that these movies were coming (to
explain: the new characters in UMVC3 were directly related to the upcoming
movies: Rocket Raccoon and Nova from Guardians
of the Galaxy and Hawkeye from Avengers
with some help from Ant-Man are in the game, along with Ghost Rider,
predicting Ghost Rider 2, and Dr.
Strange, in a sort of teaser for his planned movie), yet even so, nobody
expected Ant-Man. Also, a special mention to a Deadpool game, of all things,
being announced right after the movies.
3) Tele-Revelations
SDCC ’12 was the stage for many a
TV series spoiler and reveal, much to the general audience’s pleasure. Now, on
a personal note, I don’t follow most of these series as avidly as I do, say, Game of Thrones (which also had a huge
reveal, to be described later), yet I have an obligation to transcribe what’s
been said at SDCC, and transcribe I shall. To begin, Supernatural‘s future was teased at, with producers saying that the
Winchester bros. are chasing a “power source we’ve already seen hints of”,
something “near and dear to their hearts”. Walking
Dead’s third season introduces a fan-favorite from the Comic Book spinoff,
the katana wielding Michonne (played by Danai Gurira), and more “hand-to-hand
combat than the last two episodes [of season 2]”, with crowbars and baseball
bats galore, and vampire fans will delight at the returns of Connor and Pam in Vampire Diaries and True Blood. Oh, and, very minor news, Game of Thrones just had 14
cast reveals, including characters such as Oleena Tyrell, Qyburn, Thoros of Myr
and Jojen Reed. Nothing much.
There’s so much more to tell you
all from Comic Con, yet I only have a few words to describe it all… It was a week of wonder and (pardon the pun)
marvel, of a great year of entertainment that is to come. Excelsior!
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