Comic News And Reviews

Nov 12th 2010 By: Caleb Goellner

Webcomics: Lucy Knisley's "It Gets Better" tells the story of how the creator learned the cliché told to teens, "These are the best years of your life," is pretty much only said by people who are doing it wrong. She's absolutely right, although I do wish I had more time to play videogames these days. [Super Punch]

Weird History: Cracked counts down some eerie historical events foretold by comic book stories. Superman villains knew a thing or two about how to kill some dudes back in the day. [Cracked]

Concepts: Garth Ennis' new Dynamite series Jennifer Blood will star a housewife vigilante who slays criminals after her husband and kids fall asleep. I'll never sell Marvel my The FUNisher concept now... [ICv2]

Art: Adult Swim makes Williams Street beautiful with funky new street art. [Adult Swim] Toys: This elegant custom Grim Reaper by gypsy85 looks like it came right off the shelf. Extra points for using the Bullseye head. [Toycutter] Gaming: Britain's hedgehogs are falling victim to roadkill accidents at rate that threatens their numbers. To help raise awareness, Sonic the Hedgehog's Sega is sponsoring a hedgehog crossing and donning a real hog in his red kicks. I wonder if Archie Comics (or, more likely, Fleetway Editions) will get involved at some point? [Kotaku] Cosmic: O'Nell Design's Glyos action figure line is made even more awesome by Matt Doughty and Ralph Niese's accompanying Kirby-style webcomic. [The Gendrone Chronicles] Threads: It's too late to buy yesterdays "Going Green" shirt from TeeFury featuring a biking, green, hulk of a fellow, but it's fun to look at nonetheless. [TeeFury] Art: DeviantART user JosephB222 imagines Disney's princesses as Sith queens. Come to think of it, why weren't there any Sith females in the Star Wars films (I know, I know, there are tons in the expanded universe)? I guess Palpetine looked like somebody's great grandma. Does that count? [The Daily What]

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Although it's a bit "inside baseball" and will presumably have no impact whatsoever on the content of the films, Marvel fans may be interested to know that parent company Walt Disney has arranged to market and distribute "The Avengers" and "Iron Man 3" movies itself, transferring control from Paramount Pictures for the price of $115 million, approximately what the Viacom company would have made via its previous deal with Marvel Studios.

Deadline reports that while Paramount will lose the prestige of counting the highly successful Marvel films among its yearly take, the fact that Marvel Studios/Disney kept over 90% of that revenue always made Paramount's achievement a little bittersweet. With the "Star Trek," "G.I. Joe," "Jackass," and "Transformers" franchises all going strong, Paramount is in a good position to let the Marvel properties go home to Disney. Sweetening the deal, Paramount will make 8% on "The Avengers" and 9% on "Iron Man 3," just for being solid bros.

Paramount CEO Brad Grey:

Five years ago, when Paramount and Marvel made our initial deal, both our businesses were in very different places. We are grateful for the partnership we have had with the terrific Marvel team over these years and proud of the work we have done together. Today, this new agreement is the right deal for Paramount, for Marvel and for Disney.

Paramount will still manage the distribution and marketing of "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger" in 2011. No word on whether Disney will pursue its wayward Marvel film properties like X-Men and Spider-Man, which are locked down at 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures, respectively, and not under Marvel Studios control or financing. With "X-Men: First Class" in production, a "Wolverine 2" announcement coming soon and the rebooting of the Spider-Man franchise underway, such a move would seem very unlikely.

[Via Deadline]

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