The Discovery/Warner Bros. merger is finally underway and reports are coming out that revitalizing their comic book properties in print and in film it a top priority for the new brass. Superman was singled out as a character with far too much potential to be squandered the way he has, and that sentiment holds for most of the rest of DC's roster. It will be interesting what changes we will see in the next few years and if the DCEU can find its own version of Kevin Feige to give it a cohesive vision.
Well, that's good news, at least. I'm with you -- DC needs its own Kevin Feige. I had thought, until recently, that Geoff Johns had taken that role, and comparing the timing of when he stepped away with what's happened since has me somewhat wishing that he was still there.
ReplyDeleteAbout Gargoyle, I once had this conversation in my head:
Left brain: How the heck does he fly with those tiny wings?
Right brain: It's magic. In the story, it's actually magic. Just roll with it.
Left brain: Easy for you to say!
(Of course it didn't happen in words, but that's effectively what was going on.)
It would be most fitting if WB recruited, for that role, the English actor named...David Warner.
ReplyDeleteI'm serious (for the most part)!
In 2015, he executive-produced, as well as starred in, the mystery short subject "Blue Borsalino." He was the voice of the animated version of Ra's Al Ghul on television for, at least, ten years. And, in 1979, he co-starred in "Time After Time" as Dr. John L. Stephenson...alias Jack the Ripper. That role, alone, giving him some experience at being an occasionally "cut-throat" businessman.*
*Immediately starts fleeing from a barrage of rotten Easter eggs.
Ooops! Almost forgot.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter, Ross! :-)
What?! Not even Capt. Carrot and Beta Ray Bill vs. the Stone Men of Easter Island?
ReplyDeleteOh, well! Buono Pascua, anyway. :-)
@Anonymous: That sounds like a great story! Maybe we’ll see it in the future!
ReplyDelete@Carycomic, How could you? Forgotten, DW's most important reoccurring role The Lobe on Freakazoid.
ReplyDelete@H3: Precisely _because_ I considered it forgettable (and mercifully so)!
ReplyDeleteBut, speaking of forgettable villains; I have to wonder if those humongous arms belong to Queen Syrene's ex-husband? That evil wizard from the future who briefly fissioned Superman during a pre-Crisis story arc in Action Comics?
That would've been Action Comics (v.1) #527, if memory serves.
ReplyDeleteAnd it serves you well. :-O
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