By Sean Favager
Welcome back to Inter-Comics Comic Asylum. Once again I would like to thank all those who took the time to read and contact me on twitter. Your comments and reviews make my day. I even somehow made ReadComicBooks Daily so I can now die a happy man ha. I wasn’t planning to do #002 this week but since I’m stuck in a hotel room drinking the cheapest vodka and red bull (Black energy drink, tastes like rotten shit) and I’m in London the capital of this fine country I thought why not. So this week the Comic Asylum is coming at you from Laaaandon Town. Before I start I went out to the local Asda to get the cheapest vodka and energy drink wearing my Liverpool top, doing so might have not been my brightest idea. Ooooo I stuck out like a Jedi at a Star Trek convention! Anyway enough about me pissing off the locals let’s get started with #002 of the Comic Asylum.
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“A Conversation Between Friends!”
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What you will notice throughout my blogs is alcohol is my main inspiration whilst writing (I’m Inter-Comics Tony Stark, ha Ari gave me that I’ll run with it). It gets my creative juices flowing but this issue was a question I asked my good friend @Pete_the_Red. “Is this era of comic book / superheroes being cool here to stay or is this just a fad?” Just a simple conversation starter between two friends and then I got his reply; “I think it’s a fad. Not for fanboys like us but everyone else. They did Batman and Superman in the 80s only to ruin it and it will be the same this time around”. Now this really got me thinking. Now you leave the house and within five minutes I bet you a comic book (I’m 100% serious with this bet) you WILL see someone wearing a superhero t-shirt. Be it the Bat or Supes, hell I’ve even seen a girl rocking a Flash t-shirt before. Now I bet 75% of these people have never picked up a comic book or really understand the characters background but its cool to wear a comic tee at this present time. I’m not complaining at all, the more love for these characters I read and watch the better. Now I was originally going to write about the comic book being a fad to non-comic fans but what got me really thinking was the last part to Pete’s answer “They ruined Batman and Superman before, they will do it again!”. Warner Brothers have not shied away from saying they are going to reboot the Bat after Nolan completes what is hopefully his masterpiece. They have also after witnessing Marvel’s Avengers do so well come forward and said they want to really go for a Justice League film. So is this where we come full circle. Can and do we want to see another vision of someone’s Batman on the big screen so close to what Nolan has done for the Bat verse?
Are Justice League fans in for the biggest disappointment since Fox thought sowing Deadpool's mouth closed seemed like a good idea?
To that question I personally would like to wait a good few years before I see Bruce Wayne don the cowl on the big screen. At least till the hype behind Nolan’s trilogy dies down. I wouldn’t argue with a Nolan and Bale fourth by any means but if Warner are to hand the mantle to someone else I can and would rather wait (unless Snyder had a script handy I would take back this blog). I’m going to go outlandish here and admit I enjoyed the Green Lantern film. Could it have been better yeah but if you were to watch it for what it is, it is not such a bad film. Plus I’m in the boat that says we are yet to see a good Superman film. I loved Smallville but the big blue boy scout hasn’t impressed me on the big screen. Can a flash work? Plus Wonder Woman tried and didn’t get past a pilot episode. So are Justice League fans ready for the biggest disappointment since Fox thought sowing Deadpool’s mouth closed seemed like a good idea? Has Marvel just struck gold by accident?
Yeah i said it, I enjoyed the Green Lantern film, who's with me....anyone?
@Pete_the_Red has finally got me stumped. I have no response to his answer at all but more questions. I would love just like you all for every comic film to strike gold but I understand they all can’t. Most of the time it is our fault because we expect soooooo much not realising the film studios are just out to make a quick million. But sometimes a director comes along (hey Whedon, what up Nolan) with passion and transforms the pages of our favourite books into an art form on the silver screen. I’ve learnt it’s give and take being a comic fan but still it’s hard not to get excited when a project you have read and spent money every month collecting gets announced to be a feature film. Maybe this genre has peaked at the right time or maybe we are in for another 10+ years of groundbreaking comic book films. Either way I will still get excited and spend hours talking about or surfing the net for any information I can find. So I cannot really argue with Pete’s statement yet really think to myself and maybe just expect the expected I guess. This kind of superhero movement we have going with the big screen will one day die down. But until that day if it does come I will happily sit up with a glass of vodka and enjoy the quality they are putting out now. Maybe in twenty years down the line I’ll be saying to my children “there’s only one Batman and that’s Christian Bale!”.
That’s it for #002 of the Comic Asylum, sorry if it feels abit rushed. I was trying to save #002 as a Spider-Man review but it’s crazy how a simple conversation can get me thinking. So for now i’m getting back to my drink and hitting the floor in a few hours. Take care you beautiful bunch of geeks and geekets!
You can follow Sean on twitter at @seanfav1
Posted on June 29th, 2012
Category: NEWS & VIEWS, THE COMIC ASYLUM
Tags: avengers, Batman, Comic Review, DC Comics, Flash, Green lantern, Justice League, marvel comics, Review, Sean Favager, Superman, Wonder Woman