Ya. But like, what is the movie about?
I hope itās just a series of vignettes based on those weird Superman comic book covers from the 60s/70s.
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Superman
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the poster was made by an image generator
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Iām a little curious how this will fit into the MCU.
This takes place in a retro future, will the MCU now be in a retro-future?
Will they multiverse their way into the normal MCU?
Will they not be in the MCU?
That said, I havenāt watched a superhero movie for a while.
This doesnāt look like itāll be the one to pull me back in.
My thoughtsā¦
It looks generic.
They took away the Thingās accent? Gross.
It set in the past to ignore that theyāre all white? Cuz the last movie was too much DEI I guess?
Too many known actors obscure the characters being the stars.
They added old movie āfuzzā to give it texture and reduce the cost of it being a cartoon.
Clearly, this would have gotten a better script if it was actually animated.
Galactus again?
Basicall,y another billion-dollar idea thatās a poor adaption of a 60s comic that Iāll watch one night and then think, āeh, that was kinda funā.
-edit with more thought on the whole ai thing- Screwing over artists is maybe the most in legacy thing Marvel can do with the Fantastic Four.
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My Fantastic Four rule of thumb: if it isnāt written by Jonathan Hickman I donāt care.
Then youād be missing the Ryan North issues which are great
i like the cast but remain skeptical, mainly because they havenāt shown mr fantastic being all weird and stretch, feel like thatās kind of a bad sign. i love it in f4 stuff when mr fantastic just abuses his stretchy powers to do completely mundane stuff in an unnecessarily abject way that seems like it would make everyone around him uncomfortable, just spaghetti noodle arms flopping all over the place, neck doing 3 loop de loops just to like look out a window a normal distance away
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thinking about the mcu spiderman movie where heās doing influencer shit to land a tech internship with his favourite mogul. it brings me no pleasure to say that peter parker has joined DOGE. heās swinging around inside the treasury getting webs(?) all over the computers.
yesterday i gave into the most unforced error and read some marvel thing, it was a jonathan hickman one, i remember enjoying his FF comics but kinda wish they didnāt exist bc every time i flip thru a marvel comic now regardless of whether heās writing it itās always about how hard but important it is to be a lv99 genius engaged in 5d chess beyond good and evil with every other lv99 genius in this goofy setting. even when itās spiderman (wasnāt there a run where he was a ceo off of prison technology?) even when itās the hulk. everyone gives monologues about how intelligence is destiny and other stuff that you previously would have heard MODOK say the panel before being kicked in the head.
itās funny how much more fash the smart superhero comics feel to me than the old might is right kind. if i think abt where this stuff came from it sorta feels likeā¦ idk maybe vertigo era stuff trying to get at some of the same domineering thrills as superhero stuff but for a different kind of nerd. the grant morrison batman where heās omniscient thru planning. the weirdly bleak multiverse fixation everything has now where the same 30 guys are the most important person in every possible universe. idk we finally did it, comics are Relevant Art, the most contemporary fantasy is not just being a cop who kicks people in the head but also getting to lecture them on how smart you are while you do it.
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peter parker was a tech ceo for a bit, but i think they wrote some way to bankrupt him as it was getting too close to marvelman āwhat if a superhero actually decided to properly save the world?ā territory, and that would obviously irreversibly change/end superhero stories in that universe (the same reason gothamās still a violent nightmare city despite being the only place in america where no-one has to worry about medical bills or student loans)
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oh yeah i figured it would have probably been a story that lasted a year before all his prisons got hacked into by one of the many guys whoāve devoted their lives to annoying him (the one thing we DIDNāT want to happen, etc) it just seemed extremely on the nose as fantasy. is he still divorced via pact with the marvel version of Satan
i think that nonsense still stands, but he and mary jane became a couple again anyway. and also in ultimate spider-man (which i think is the one you recently read: in a world where evil reed richards prevented the creation of all superheroes and all the supervillains secretly run the world, peter parker doesnāt become spider-man until heās already somehow a rich photographer in his late 30s), he and mary jane are married with two kids
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Hickmanās Avengers and FF stuff I couldnāt get into much, and honestly I miss him illustrating his own stuff when it comes to his creator-owned material, but his take on X-Men, namely House and Powers of X, was something that I found really enjoyable and fraught, morally and politically muddying even further cape comicsā most accepted cast of freaks even in a world where theyāre mostly recognised as a misfit franchise films laundering systemic child abuse and Ryan Reynoldsā career.
Iām not surprised editorial didnāt know what to do with Krakoa after that, nor had the appetite to figure it out. But you get to see beloved grandstanders and monologuers finally get their time and itās horrifyingly intoxicating. And the logic of it all couldnāt barely have ended anywhere else.
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Man those credits are just like begging you to think this is an actual real movie. Marty hurt em
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Iām confused to how neon lights, hard cuts over substance and thumping EDM isnāt just an admission that thereās no there, there.
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