The epic four-way crossover still unfurling on The CW takes up too much space for every supporting character to get their due, though at least one notable Arrow member went missing with nary an explanation. Ahead of next week's winter finale, bosses explain where Artemis was during the crossover, and what we'll learn of her relationship with Prometheus to come.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man Experience Left Him 'Heartbroken'
Andrew Garfield and Amy Adams recently opened up about their experiences in corporate superhero franchises as part of Variety's “Actors on Actors” interview series. There, Garfield said that his title role in Sony's “Amazing Spider-Man” films left him “heartbroken.”
“I signed up to serve the story,” said Garfield, “and to serve this incredible character that I've been dressing as since I was three, and then it gets compromised and it breaks your heart. I got heartbroken a little bit to a certain degree.”
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Garfield stated that story and character are not always “top of the priority list” for big-budget films. “There's something about being that young in that kind of machinery which I think is really dangerous,” he added. “I was still young enough to struggle with the value system, I suppose, of corporate America really, it's a corporate enterprise mostly.”
Adams had some similar frustrations with her role as Lois Lane in “Man of Steel” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” She said, “I love playing her, I love everyone I work with, but sometimes it's tricky because I feel she's in service of the story instead of the story serving the character. That sometimes can be tricky when you show up and you really wanna retain a character and you have to serve the story… in a perfect universe they all work together.”
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Hopefully, Lois will be better served in 2017's “Justice League,” which finds Adams reprising her role. “Man of Steel 2” is also in development, though there has been no confirmation of its cast or schedule.
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Marvel Co-President Teases Some Plot Details from 'Avengers: Infinity War'
Avengers: Infinity War has already started filming, at least some preliminary test shots, but that doesn't mean The Meetings have stopped. Bringing a multiple-volume comic arc this nuts to the big screen has got to be complicated, and with characters being added and replaced and showing up in the movie even if they weren't in the comics, it's going to take a lot of planning and redrafting to get the story down to two 2-hour (plus a little bit, probably) screenplays. This afternoon, Marvel co-president Louis D'Esposito posted a photo on Twitter today of one of the Infinity Gauntlet covers, hinting at some plot details for the upcoming movies.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Review: 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Makes 'Deals With Our Devils' for New Ghost Rider
Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' kicks back into Season 4 making some Ghostly “Deals With Our Devils,” but is the Rider's new host a much better choice than Robbie Reyes? And was that some 'Strange' magic we spied Aida conjuring? Find out in our full review of tonight's latest 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'!
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All of Dr. Strange's Magical Items Are Gone! Oh Wait, There They Are.
In every installment of Abandoned Love we will be examining comic book stories, plots and ideas that were abandoned by a later writer without actively retconnng away the previous story. Feel free to e-mail me at brianc@cbr.com if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature.
Recently, Doctor Strange has lost a good deal of his magical artifacts during the attack by the Empirikul in Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo's “Doctor Strange” series, so I thought it would be fun to look back at another time he supposedly lost all of his magical artifacts…only he didn't.
In the final story arc of the second “Doctor Strange” series, writer Peter B. Gillis and artists Chria Warner and Randy Emberlin introduce Urthona, an alien sorcerer who came to Earth and captured Doctor Strange's friends as well as almost all of his most powerful magical artifacts with the intent of using them to turn our dimension into a Dark Dimension…
In the final issue, “Doctor Strange” #81, here he is with the artifacts, which include the Darkhold!
Doctor Strange had been attacked in a pre-emptive attempt by Urthona to keep him out of the way, so he was physically out of it, forced to take over the body of a friendly alien named Rintrah (Strange still had his most famous artifacts, the Eye of Agamotto and the Cloak of Levitaiton, since he always carried them on his person). Strange-in-Rintrah's-body traveled to Urthona's planet and defeated Urthona by sacrificing all of his other artifacts by destroying them…
The problem, of course, is that Strange was now without his most powerful artifacts and destroying them unleashed a bunch of evil energy out there, so he had even more problems to deal with while he was at his weakest, which Gillis, Warner and Emberlin explored in the follow-up “Doctor Strange” feature in the “Strange Tales” anthology series (which Doctor Strange split with Cloak and Dagger). Here is Strange explaining the problem in “Strange Tales” #4…
So Strange now had to turn to the darkest magics in the world to combat evil, which meant tarnishing his very soul.
Anyhow, “Strange Tales” led to a new “Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme” ongoing series by Gillis, now working with Richard Case and Randy Emberlin. After a few issues, though, a new creative team took over, with Roy and Dann Thomas, Jackson Guice and Jose Marzan Jr. now being the book's creative team.
And Thomas quickly abandoned the whole “dark magic and no magical artifacts” plotline (click here to see how he also abandoned a plotline involving Doctor Strange losing one of his eyes during Gillis' “Strange Tales” stint).
Strange visits the world of the All-Seeing Agamotto, who explained that he had actually saved all of the artifacts, so he gave them back to Strange…
The Thomases did a fine job returning things to normal.
If anyone has a suggestion for a storyline started by one writer dropped by another one, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!
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Monday, November 28, 2016
Wolfcop, Smosh & More Dynamite Comics On Sale November 30, 2016
Dynamite Entertainment has provided CBR with advance looks at new comics on sale Wednesday, November 30, 2016. When you're through checking out these exciting previews, stop by CBR's Independents forum to share your thoughts with other fans.
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'Gotham' First Look at Proto-Joker Jerome's Return in 2017 Trailer
Now that Gotham has officially signed off for 2016 with midseason finale “Beware the Green-Eyed Monster,” it might take a green-haired one to bring fans back in January. So it is, that the first 2017 trailer for Gotham Season 3 teases Cameron Monaghan's return as the Joker-esque “Jerome.”
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