The upcoming wedding of Northstar and Kyle (known to the paparazzi as “Northstyle”) has made me all nostalgic for past superhero weddings, and couples who probably SHOULD have gotten married, but for whatever reason, never did. (At least Paul Levitz had the decency to put Blok and Mysa together again.)
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) wants to have and to hold, love, honor and obey, asking: Which pop-culture couple (retconned or unretconned) is your favorite?
Or – “His Original Costume Is The Only One That Isn’t Awful…”
With the recent announcement that Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier would marry his long-time (you should excuse the expression) beau, Kyle, I started thinking about the long and illustrious career of Canada’s fastest man alive. From his earliest days with Alpha Flight to his current stay on Utopia, Jean-Paul has a long and storied career of heroism, haughty attitude and terrible costumes, but I imagine many of us only know him as Marvel’s first openly-gay superhero. Seems to me that it’s time to right that particular wrong…
During a recent Major Spoilers podcast, Stephen and I got to talking about sequels, and how there are those who believe that the delayed ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ might be a better movie than ‘Rise of Cobra’ was. It started us thinking about sequels, prequels, and the various iterations of movie-going magic.
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) wants to save the youth center, asking: Are there sequels that you like better than their predecessors? (And, no, Episodes I-III don’t count.)
In this issue: Bending air, G.I. Joe delayed, Youngblood does something, and Star Trek and Doctor Who team up to fight the metal men (but not THOSE Metal Men).
Show Notes after the Jump!
This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers crew takes a look at Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise Part 2.
Aang and Katara are working tirelessly for peace when an impasse between Fire Lord Zuko and Earth King Kuei over Fire Nation colonies within the borders of the Earth Nation threatens to plunge the world back into war! Meanwhile, Sokka must help Toph prepare her hapless first class of metalbending students to defend their school against a rival class of firebenders!
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This episode: The Secret of the Lizard Wizard is revealed! Plus, an extra long episode, just for you!
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Top Five is a show where the hosts categorize, rank, compare, and stratify everything… from cars to gadgets to people and movies. From stuff that is hot, and things that are not nearly as interesting – it’s Top Five.
This week, instead of moving to an exotic location, we think it is better to visit. The Top Five Places We Would Like To Go…
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A night or so ago, I was watching late-night cable and happened upon the David Arquette giant monster vehicle, “Eight-Legged Freaks.” I was a bit startled to see Scarlett Johansson as a seventeen-year-old, playing Kari Wuhrer’s daughter (briliant bit of casting, I might add.) For some reason, my mind wanted to believe that Scarlett’s first movie was Ghost World, but checking her history, it seems that she has been working in films since 1995′s ‘North.’ That movie was pretty much awful, but thinking about it started a train of thought in my head…
The MS-QOTD is a test of your memory: What other actors’ early film roles (the goofier and more embarrassing the better) have most people forgotten about?
Crossovers and guest stars have long been a staple of comics, but these days it seems you can’t swing a cat in a comic shop without hitting a guest appearance by certain characters. (Actually, comic-shop-cat-swinging is disallowed for any number of reasons, from animal cruelty to claw-damaged-back issues, but… Bygones.) Though Wolverine may be the quintessential example, Batman, Spider-Man and others have also reached a level of saturation where they’re just plain EVERYWHERE. Call it overexposure, call it supply and demand, but however you slice it, you’ll probably find a Logan cameo somewhere in the mix…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is a matter of foresight: If you got to CHOOSE who became the “Next Big Thing,” (with all the baggage, positive and negative, that comes with that status) what character would you choose and why?
In a recent Major Spoilers Podcast, I got to eat a little crow regarding my assumption that Marvel couldn’t create the same sort of “shared universe” as their comics with their various movie projects. Still, even after that successful adaptation, I have a stubborn voice in my head telling me that an adaptation that DOESN’T suck is the exception to the rule. For every ‘Avengers,’ it seems there are three critical failures, be they a live-action Underdog, a comic adaptation of Family Guy or a cartoon version of American Beauty.
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is your chance to play king-maker:
What property would you choose to adapt and to what medium would you adapt it to convince me that I’m wrong?
In this issue: The show stars with some talk about Young Justice and The Legend of Kora, but turns to a discussion of what a company might do with their characters from the multiverse.
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