Marvel has just announced new release dates with all of its upcoming film projects, with most being pushed back. Avengers: Kang Dynasty has been pushed back a full year, and maybe that's for the best. Between the writer's strike, the accusations against Jonathan Majors' and a crowded superhero movie marketplace, stepping back and making sure everything is just right seems like a sensible move to make.
Funny! I don't remember Samurai Jack being among Kang's suspects back @ STF #382.
ReplyDeleteB-But he's got to get back, back to the past, Samurai Jack! (Jack Jack! Jack Jac Jack!)
ReplyDeleteYeah I know this cover is supposed to be before the whole deal with Aku, but shouldn't Kang be looking at the demon that threw Jack in the past in the first place?
Anyone displeased with how the last season ended up? Was there really a need to make it that Jack had stopped aging and had been around for 50 years, losing his sword among those five decades and Aku not realizing it at all until he gets it back? (The romance issues aside?)
I mean, it's great we got closure, but... I don't know I thought it would've been a bit more, epic.
Don't ask me. My idea of epic is John Wick vs. Marko of the Lost Boys for the time machine of Bill @ Ted!
ReplyDeleteThis looks to me as though Kang's chosen tool for cutting Jack's actions out of the timeline isn't a sword, it's actually half a pair of scissors...
ReplyDelete@Simreeve: By George! I think you've got it.
ReplyDelete@Ross: how about Kang someday taking on the Fatal Five?
Slowing down a little in the current creative environment (which is more than what you cite) is a good idea for Marvel right now. COVID forced a one-year break between the Infinity Saga and the Multiverse Saga, which was a nice way of separating the two, and I hope there's a similar break between the Multiverse Saga and whatever follows.
ReplyDeleteOf course Jonathan Majors' legal troubles will result in Kang being recast, but I'm glad Disney's taking a wait-and-see stance (well, remaining silent, which amounts to the same thing). That's a lesson learned from the situation with Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean role. My impression right now is that Jonathan will end up behind bars (though I could easily be reading it wrong; he could be as innocent as Johnny), forcing a recasting -- which, from a creative standpoint, is a shame after his brilliant performances on Loki and in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Meanwhile, I'm a bit unhappy with the five-month gap between Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts. Harrison Ford is sure to capture the hard-case spirit that William Hurt set for Thaddeus Ross, and seeing that character as POTUS during an election year is sure to have some interesting results. (Especially if Red Hulk comes out looking a little orange-ish.)
Someday we need a cover where Sam Beckett puts right what Kang has put wrong.
@Bob Greenwade: Something which was also broadly hinted at (but never developed) back in STF #382.---Cary
ReplyDeleteP.S. @ Ross---how about Samurai Jack vs. The Fatal Five's Persuader?
ReplyDeletei think, have Sam Beckett meet Bill & Ted at the phone booth.
ReplyDeleteWith Clark Kent pounding on the glass exterior?
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