It will be interesting to see how Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) fares at the box office this weekend. I have to admit that for me, it looks like it will be a rental, unless they reviews manage to sway my opinion. Harley Quinn looks great in it, but Huntress, Black Canary and Cassandra Cain do not seem like the characters I know from the comics. Hopefully once I see the whole movie, that will not remain the case.
OK, I want to give thanks for the idea of giving Thor HQ's mallet - but I seem to have misplaced my notes on that. So, whoever it was, speak up, and thank you!
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Bwah hah hah hah. That is a cover of true creativity.
Indeed, it is, 3H. Thor; stealing Harley's mallet?!
As Voluminous Volstagg might say: "I may occasionally act the fool. But, not e'en I doth be that crazy!"
Not enough fans of Arrowverse to make a difference at the B.O. Doubt if it gets the awards Joker has gotten. At least HQ's hq is not gonna have a Charlie's Angels look. Wonder how many women will see it more than once at the bigger screen?
Just for appearances, Loki put a spell on her sthick and it works. Thor just has to remember to speak softly with it.
Great cover and for a natural follow up: Harley encounters Storm.
How's about Harley meets the 1940's Daredevil? Icon of fashion?
If Mjolnir did, for some reason, regard Harley as a worthy wielder, would she rename herself...Thorazine?
This is another really fun cover. I agree with Anon@8:56, though; I'd like to see if maybe you can do something like recolor the Jane Foster Mighty Thor into Harley's black-and-red. It'd be worth it just for the pun (though naturally I'd want to see her teaming up with other amalgamated characters from the blog, like Iron Beetle et al).
@Horsefeathers (8:13): I think you mean "Not enough fans of the DCEU."
@Bob G(11:06) : you've got more tv watchers than comic readers. More people that watched Batman TAS than who regularly watched Arrow. Are millions more constantly watching the bigger screen than their tv? Do they only know the movies??
Yo DC!!! Have people reading Batman comics in Wonder Woman movies and vice versa. Learn to cross advertise your characters in DC movies - Johnny Storm was reading Hulk #1 in FF #5. EXTRA FREE EXPOSURE WHILE YOU HAVE AUDIENCE ATTENTION.
(think they heard?) (do you think they'll care?)
Ross you should do your best jobs like this into an adult coloring book.
@Bob & Anon: I can just see Dionne Warwick singing...
"What the world needs now...is more...Thorazine!"
:-)
The hammer switch is a really, really neat idea. Sometimes your covers not only put characters from different comic universes together (which is great enough) but also make some iconic link between them that just adds that extra something. I've already cited Spidey in the Bat-cave on his Bruce-Wayne-is-my-father-quest (surely true enough in some sense). Another up there in the same league for me is Lois Lane telling Ben Grimm she's determined to prove he's...the Thing! That one was genius.
Until this I'd never even realized that these two had hammers in common.
Anyway, I think Thor should keep his cute new hammer - and change his name to Thorley Quinn.
BTW, a mallet would fit the (cultured(?)) violence of The Three Stooges better than the simplisticker violence on The Flintstones.
Holy cow Ross! You went and done it!
(that was me suggesting this on Patreon)
I just have to pick my jaw off the floor now.
Thank you for this, good timing with Harley's movie coming up.
(Now Harley's mallet needs a name.)
That pose? Only thing missing is Thor's thought balloon: Odin, Give me strength!!!
Or rather, I suggested Harley lifting Mjölnir.
Your switcharoo is much better!
How about Fin Fang Foom and Starro.
Or FFF vs. the Muppets?
Or, better yet, have him go up against a clone of Titano housing the mind of Gorilla City's most notorious traitor.
"FIN FANG FOOM VS. GRODD-ZILLA!"
Ah yes, Ken Roskos! Thanks for the inspiration and for being a Patron!
@Ken How's Bop-in-fresh or there-a-py or "Redd Tape" for a name?
ie; Bother me anymore and you're going to have a bad case of Redd Tape to deal with!
I loved Carycomic's Volstagg comment. I actually laughed out loud.
@Horsefeathers: Bird of Prey is a DCEU movie, not Arrowverse; the only points of commonality between the two are their DC roots, and the Ezra Miller cameo during Crisis on Infinite Earths. I don't think that the CW shows are going to give much boost to any DCEU movie, except maybe The Flash (especially if the rumored second Miller appearance comes to fruition).
Right now I see little reason to not wait for Birds of Prey until it's available on Netflix (if that happens) or through my library.
PS: This just occurred to me. After the above panel, Thor balks at the return, so Harley snatches it from him and says, "Give me that! You get the little one!"
PS #2: I'd still love to see Wayne and Garth contemplating Mjolnir.
Bob Greenwade said...
@Horsefeathers: Bird of Prey is a DCEU movie, not Arrowverse; the only points of commonality between the two are their DC roots, and the Ezra Miller cameo during Crisis on Infinite Earths. I don't think that the CW shows are going to give much boost to any DCEU movie, except maybe The Flash (especially if the rumored second Miller appearance comes to fruition).
?? Bob, Arrow has had Huntress and Black Canary often. There have been a LOT of character cameos on Arrow during its 8 years.
Yep. TOTALLY agree about the tv shows not giving much to the box offices. How long ago did tv lead the movies about audience's size on viewing?
HHH: Yes, those characters have appeared on Arrow -- but they aren't the same characters as in the DCEU. It's a completely different continuity. Different actors is a clue (Grant Gustin versus Ezra Miller, Tyler Hoechlin versus Henry Cavill, etc.). They're derived from the same characters in the comics, but they're not the same as each other. The movie Huntress and Black Canary will have never heard of the Green Arrow, though they probably will have heard of Cyborg.
As for how much TV led into connected movies, I don't think there have been a lot of examples to look at: Firefly/Serenity and Star Trek are the only ones that come right to mind. Everything else is a reboot or alternate version, and movie reboots of television shows have, at best, a spotty history.
B G : BATMAN. Adam West
then there's Batman TAS
according to Paramount, Mission Impossible was a direct follow up from the tv show
Thunderbirds Are Go
Twilight Zone
Wayne's World
Absolutely Fabulous
come to mind, and that's not counting all the tv movies done from series like I Still Dream of Jeannie or Dallas or Love Boat or Perry Mason or Dr Who (#8) and so on.
Time was a tv show would provide millions of fans to help make a movie.
and X Files
So there you go. Being a direct connection does help. Reboots and alternate versions, though... not so much. There have been a few hit reboots, but not many. (And Wonder Woman did do quite well, though the character did originate in the comics and the Arrowverse has no Wonder Woman beyond a single name-drop in Batwoman.)
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