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First look–Marvel Studios releases first trailer for Thor: The Dark World

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April 24, 2013

Thor the Dark World poster

Rounding out our week of dark-themed 2013 movie previews, Marvel Studios just released the first trailer for Thor: The Dark World, sequel to the hit film Thor that we reviewed here at borg.com back in 2011.  We liked the first big screen run at translating the classic popular comic book series starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, and Anthony Hopkins.  It’s probably the most notable for giving us the backstory of Hiddleston’s Loki, who became the villain bent on Earth’s destruction in 2012′s megahit The Avengers. 

Hemsworth, Portman, Hiddleston, Skarsgård, and Hopkins all return as Thor, Jane Foster, Loki, Dr. Selvig, and Odin in Thor: The Dark World, and are joined by Chuck’s Zachary Levi as Fandral, Doctor Who’s Christopher Eccleston as Malekith, Get Shorty’s Rene Russo as Frigga, and Lost’s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Algrim.

Check out the first studio preview for Thor: The Dark World:

Thor: The Dark World hits theaters November 8, 2013.

C.J. Bunce
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borg.com

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Patton Oswalt’s crossover filibuster and some pointers for J.J. Abrams

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April 19, 2013

 

Episode VII poster

If you have any doubt Patton Oswalt (Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Starsky & Hutch, The King of Queens, Dollhouse, Community, Caprica, Burn Notice) is a genius, or comedian, or improv performer, good actor, or all-around cool guy, this week should remove that doubt.  borg.com writer Jason McClain is a fan of Parks and Recreation and has championed the series at borg.com here before.  To advertise Oswalt’s guest appearance on the show last night NBC released this completely improvised scene of Oswalt performing a filibuster before the show’s city council.  It illustrates a lot about how this guy’s brain works and that he’s solidly a genre fan like the rest of us.  

Parks and Rec logo

So check out Oswalt’s vision for the next Star Wars movie (a cool Boba Fett opener!), tying in the Marvel Universe (Moon Knight!  Wolverine’s clone daughter X-23!  Hercules!) and some good ideas you could actually see J.J. Abrams taking seriously (um, minus the Chewbacca one, that is), as well as a good recall of tidbits of Star Wars and Marvel trivia. 

The background extras really had their work cut out for them by keeping straight faces, although you can see five young guys in the back that are totally engaged in Oswalt’s story almost ready to crack.

Bravo!

C.J. Bunce
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borg.com

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One hour left to sign up for 700+ free Marvel Comics #1 issues

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April 9, 2013

Free issue promo

We almost missed this one and with one hour left in the promotion it isn’t much notice. You must sign up for a (free) Comixology account to get on the list to receive a free code starting Thursday, April 11, 2013 to begin selecting your free issues for digital download (digital downloads available only). Comixology is the website most comic book shops use to manage pull lists. There is no obligation ($) to sign up for this promotion.

But you must act right now as the deadline is 11:59 Eastern, Tuesday, April 9, 2013–one hour from when this post is going live!

Go to this link NOW to get in on this!

C.J. Bunce
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borg.com

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First look–Hugh Jackman returns for his sixth run as The Wolverine

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April 2, 2013

The Wolverine poster

Basically ignoring the first standalone Wolverine film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the new film, simply titled The Wolverine, picks up after Logan/Wolverine’s life was shattered from the events of X-Men: The Last Stand.  Based in part on the Chris Claremont and Frank Miller run on the Wolverine comic book mini-series from back in 1982, we meet a girl from Japan named Yukio who takes Logan to Japan for her dying employer, who looks like he’d pass for one of those villains with strange medical maladies like Dr. No.  Logan evidently saved this man’s life and he wants to return the favor by helping to make Logan normal.  With a taste of mortality will Logan really give up his mutant powers?

Wolverine mini-series by Claremont and Miller

Marvel Studios has released two full-length trailers for The Wolverine, a better and longer international version and a shorter U.S. version that doesn’t give much of the story away.  Check out the international trailer for The Wolverine:

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New releases–Marvel Comics and Image Comics serve up a Frank Cho two-fer

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January 18, 2013

Cho Savage Wolverine Banner

Marvel Comics, under its new Marvel NOW! brand, released Savage Wolverine #1 Wednesday, Frank Cho’s new writer/artist project.  And it’s everything you want it to be.  Better yet, it might as well be titled Shanna and Wolverine.

My wager is that, if there were enough artists that drew Shanna like Cho, you could have as many Shanna titles at Marvel as DC Comics has Batman titles.  Savage Wolverine definitely is a Wolverine book, but it wouldn’t be a Frank Cho series without one or more beautiful, spirited women, and of course, dinosaurs.  And it has all that.  So even though it isn’t the long-overdue, eagerly-awaited Guns & Dinos, it might as well be, sans guns and armored tanks.

Savage Wolverine 1 cover

As for the Wolverine angle, because issue #1 was also written by Cho, we get to see some of Cho’s humor come through in Logan/Wolverine’s dialogue, humor we haven’t been able to see in a Cho series in a while.  And this humor includes an appearance, albeit short-lived, by none other than Cho’s old pal Mike McSwiggin, well-known to avid Frank Cho fans, this time as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.  What I would do to be mentioned in a Frank Cho book…

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Ten characters to watch in 2013

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December 30, 2012

Green Arrow and Superman

If there is a constant as we look ahead to movie franchises and other entertainment properties in 2013, it is the sequel, spin-off, and remake.  We’re sure someone will provide new content and stories for us for movies and TV from entirely new characters and worlds in 2013, but just take a look at the 24 biggest genre movies coming out next year and it is obvious that Hollywood is following the “tried and true” model of investing in current properties rather than investing money in “the new”.

So with that in mind, what are the big characters to watch out for next year–the characters we already know that seem like they can only get bigger?

Chris Pine as Jack Ryan

10.  Jack Ryan.  Back in the 1980s and 1990s it seemed like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan was everywhere, first with Alec Baldwin taking on the role in The Hunt for Red October, then mega-star Harrison Ford in two sequels, followed by a big break and then Ben Affleck in the prequel Sum of All Fears.  With Star Trek star Chris Pine bringing us yet another prequel effort next December, we think a wide audience will come back again to see what this CIA agent has been up to.

Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine

9.  Wolverine.  I’ve always thought Wolverine should be Marvel Comics’ key property.  Spider-man always relied on Peter Parker (well, until recently) who seemed pretty planted in the psyche of the past.  The Avengers seemed too cartoony with characters with too little in common to really be a huge property (happily I was wrong!).  But Wolverine has a certain modern grittiness that readers, especially young readers, would seem to really attach to.  Audiences seem to like Hugh Jackman’s take on the character and his incredible fifth outing as Logan/Wolverine in July, titled The Wolverine should tell us if this will be the end of a big-screen Wolverine for a while or whether he will only get bigger.

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New Backlist Chronology one-shot a must-have for Marvel fans

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November 24, 2012

Available as a free promotional item at comic books stores, the All-New Marvel Backlist Reading Chronology is a new, thick, nearly 100-page, comic book-sized publication that will serve Marvel fans as a reference for years to come. Offering suggested reading chronologies and ordering codes for hundreds of in-print trade editions and hardcovers, readers can view by subject their favorite characters and catch up on missed story arcs and crossovers.

The Backlist Chronology focuses on Marvel’s current most popular subjects: Marvel Events, Avengers, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Punisher, X-Men Universe, Ultimate Universe, and Cosmic Marvel. Each listing includes the creators, the single issue numbers contained in each compilation and a brief subject description.

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Marvel Now! serves up a new monthly fantasy fix with Thor, God of Thunder

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November 16, 2012

Review by C.J. Bunce

One of the first new books out in the Marvel Now! line-up is Jason Aaron, Esad Ribic, and Dean White’s new series Thor, God of Thunder, a smartly written and drawn saga taking place over three time periods that moves with the feel of a classic fantasy Marvel comic book series.

Beginning with Ribic’s stunning cover art, we meet this updated version of Thor–confident, arrogant, and cocky as you’d expect, humorous in his observations, and sporting the look of any number of long, blonde haired rock stars from the 1980s.  Requiring no prior knowledge of Thor or his backstory, readers will be pulled in as Jason Aaron begins in the year 893 on the western coast of Iceland, where Thor, son of Odin, has destroyed a frost giant, and almost as if coming off some kind of a high, he’s revelling in his successes with wine and women, when a murdered god washes ashore.

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Review–Excelsior! New documentary shows personal side of Stan the Man

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November 2, 2012

Review by C.J. Bunce

No matter what you think of Stan Lee before watching the new documentary about the life of the creator of the Marvel pantheon of superheroes… you’ll come away thinking how interesting a guy he really is.  Sure, Stan Lee is the smiling, funny, cheery outspoken genius who we get to see in cameos in recent Marvel Studios movies and maybe get a glimpse of in passing at conventions, but Film Buff/POW! Entertainment’s new film With Great Power… The Stan Lee Story shows a personal side of the guy fans know as Stan the Man, a side that hasn’t been captured before in films about the history of comics.

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There’s a great disturbance in the Force–Star Wars goes to the Dark Side

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October 31, 2012

Once upon a time and a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, everyone lived happily ever after.  And while they were all so happy they didn’t realize they were being slowly assimilated by the evil Empire.

You might have missed it in light of coverage of Sandy today, but the big industry news is George Lucas finally is letting Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Sound–the whole shebang–go, for the paltry sum of $4 billion–the same price Disney paid for Marvel Comics in 2009.  Yep, $4,000,000,000.  You can just hear that THX sound logo make a giant flushing sound.  Heck, I bet that was Lucas’s profit last year in action figure sales alone.  What’s he thinking?  The man whose kids I (OK, my parents) put through college through the purchase of ten thousand action figures, several hundred comic books, every book, soundtrack, poster, drinking glass, key ring, Halloween costume, spaceship, Hallmark ornament, giant inflatable landspeeder, talking Yoda, remote control R2-D2, and even more action figures, is calling it quits?  Say it ain’t so.   And he is selling it to who?  Disney???? View full article »

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