Captain America Movie Trailer

Here's the newest movie trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger showing in previews this weekend.

Captain America: First Avenger movie trailer

Yes I know I've been away from this blog for what seems like forever. I apologize. I actually have been away from working on Venger all that time too. I'll post again soon and go into it some more. Right now I wanted to post about the fantastic trailer for the Captain America movie Marvel Studios ran during the Super Bowl. Wow, I can't wait.

Captain America movie preview clip at SDCC

At the Marvel Studios panel yesterday they had the casts to both the Thor and Captain America movies present for questions and clips. They actually had some footage from the Cap movie even though they had only completed about 5 days of shooting. In between working on scripts for The Venger: Dead Man Rising and approving art pages I have been trying to find that clip online. I haven't been able to find any bootleg footage of that movie clip but I was able to find a still pic of Chris Evans in the movie uniform. It's not the greatest picture but still its not too bad.

Still capture from the Captain America footage at SDCC

I'll be updating the blog in a couple of days with some more art for the Venger Special- the final phase of the preview pages I've been posting. These will be the toned versions.

Captain America Movie promo poster

I've been busy working on more scripts related to The Venger: Dead Man Rising. I'm really pushing to get the Special done soon. I'm going to be posting some more inked pages from the Deadly Beginning story in a couple of days so please check back or subscribe to the blog to get the updates.

Today Marvel released pictures of the promo posters they will be handing out at the San Diego Comic Con. They have two, one for Thor and one for Captain America. I had posted the first look we got at the movie uniform they are using for Cap. I actually really like it. The posters they are giving out are based on movie concept art. I've posted the Cap one below. Looks great to me; hope the movie looks this good.

Captain America: First Avenger concept art

Batman: City of Scars

There's a great Batman fanflick doing the rounds right now that I just had to blog about. Batman: City of Scars was created by Bat in The Sun Productions which is the team behind another excellent fanflick Patient J. Batman: City of Scars packs so much into its 37 minutes it is amazing. Deeply rooted in the comics version of the character it explores the psychology behind the Batman and the twisted relationship between him and a truly maniacal Joker.

Also be sure to check out the rest of the blog for more updates of  The Venger: Dead Man Rising. I have other movie clips and I'll also be posting some new artwork later this week.

Captain America movie costume

The last couple of days there has been a lot of rumor talk regarding the costume Chris Evans will be wearing in Marvel's Captain America: First Avenger movie that will be filming later this summer I believe. For months the bloggers have gone back and forth on what should and would the uniform he wears look like with alot of it focused on what looks good on film might not be the same as the comic. I love the character of Captain America. But I'm more of a realist and not a purist. I realize that what we see in the comic books every month just won't work in a motion picture. Remember that low budget Matt Salinger movie?

Well it seems that finally some of the concept art Marvel Studios is using to develop the uniform has been leaked. Check out Aintitcool.com for a look at all FOUR images. I have to say I approve. They look close to a combination of the designs Bryan Hitch did for 'The Ultimates' and 'Captain America Reborn'. They look realistic and purposeful and close to something that might be from WWII. And folks need to remember we will probably get another uniform for the Avengers movie too and that might be a little closer to his classic look.

costume design from the Captain America movie

Iron Man 2 trailer

I know this post isn't Venger related but I just love this new interactive trailer for Iron Man 2. Check it out and after the trailer plays be sure to click all the thumbnails for tons of cool stuff.

A Whole New World

Everyone is talking about the big surprise news of the Disney Co. buying Marvel for $4 billion. And this certainly is a historic day in the industry. Now everyone is wondering what will be the new reality in the comci book world.

My opinion is that everything will be the same for quite some time. The details of the merger show an expected timeline of the end of the year for the buyout to take place. After that there will be an evaluation period where Disney will decide how it wants to play with their new toys. But I just don't seriously see them messing with content at all. The expected relationship is supposed to be similar to the Disney/Pixar one- very hands off. Disney also is involved in film companies and networks like ABC and ESPN and there they also don't dictate content. And sadly another reason is because I don't think the deal was ever about the comics; its about the 'intellectual properties'.

Nowhere in the official press release or in the investor conference call or in any follow up comment has there been any mention of publishing- only the characters, movies and increasing exposure. You could take it to mean they want to mine Marvel for viable properties but that would be taking a very draconian stance.

I'm sure it is somewhere in the middle. Exactly how this plays out will indeed take some time. I'm hoping this does lead to more 'comic book' exposure and not just 'character' exposure and that we will see comics and trades popping up in Disney stores and the parks and brings the industry a little bit of new life.

Public Enemies

I'm really looking forward to this movie. I'm a big fan of period pieces like this as well as both Depp and Bale. These guys are two of the most intense and powerful actors out there today. I have read a few advance reviews online and all are superb. This should be great- don't expect it to do Transformers numbers at the box office but I hope it still does well, to show the studios the audience will support movies like this.

Batman: The Dark Knight

Saw this killer first look at the new Batman movie poster. Excellent!