Indy is of course referring here to his first outing with Rex Mason in STF #2923...
Reports are that the release of James Mangold's Indiana Jones movie has been pushed back a full year. That's too bad, I am pretty interested to see how this fifth installment will be pulled off, but it looks like it will be a while before we learn anything more. I've read that there may be flashback scenes with a de-aged Harrison Ford, so perhaps the delay will provide enough time to get those effects just right.
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Simon Stagg always struck me as a snobbish control freak. Nearly incestuously so, where his daughter's love life was concerned! I mean; what did he hope to do? Breed her to a fellow plutocrat like Lex Luthor or one of Bruce Wayne's less altruistic business rivals?
That being said...I love today's cover! It makes a nice follow-up to STF #2923. Who knows? Ross could even turn this into a trilogy by doing a third cover, whereby these guys get to meet the Marvel character, Horus of Heliopolis. Perhaps while taking on his villainous Uncle Seth!
P.S. @ Daviticus: do you still think a fifth Indy Jones flick is a mistake? Just curious.
@Carycomic: Yeah, kinda. I mean, let's be honest, Crystal Skulls wasn't that good and Harrison Ford's not getting any younger...and neither is the franchise. Plus, I'm kind of scared that they'll try to make it "woke".
Speaking only for myself (and that phrase may be truer than you'd imagine), I'd rather see Sean Patrick Flanery in flashbacks as the middle-aged Indy. He did a fine job on Young Indiana Jones, and still looks not too far from how Harrison Ford looked when the franchise began.
I personally will be at least nominally satisfied with the new Indy movie if it shows how he lost his right eye. Harrison's 79 now, and George Hall was 93 when he played the role, so it's probably time for that.
If Generator Rex ever debuts in STF, it should be alongside Metamorpho. There's just so many similarities between the accidental powers, shapeshifting, and, well... the names.
Speaking of Lex Luthor, is that him in the bottom right of the cover?
@Daviticus: it might not have been as light-hearted as the first three flicsk. But, for me, it worked! Indy couldn't remain in the Never-Never Thirties forever. And his being older and wistfully wiser at the height of the McCarthyist Fifties made sense to me.
"That's my theory and I'm sticking to it."
Any reason why tv and movie versions couldn't be different timelines or parallel Earths?
@Anon@6:19: If you were asking me, there's no reason why the two couldn't be different continuities. I just don't want them to be!
@BG: Me neither. But, if they had to be, then they should make that the premise of the fifth movie. If only to explain why the adult Indy (from the YIJ CHRONICLES) had more-than-one offspring by a wife-other-than-Marion.
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