It’s going to be a super-hero summer! (Especially if you consider Harry Potter to be a super-hero.) The buzz from Europe, where the Thor movie is already out, is that it’s a great, fun ride.
That’s good, because so far Jack Kirby’s creations for Marvel Comic haven’t translated to the big screen as well as the less cosmic characters Spider-Man and Iron Man. Captain America was one of Jack’s first, co-created with Joe Simon. As with Thor, I wasn’t too optimistic about the project until I saw the trailer, which looks very promising.
And there’s another X-Men movie coming too. The X-Men are also from the mind of Kirby, but the movies are based quite a bit on later incarnations of the mutant team.
http://youtu.be/0Yq7Za1JnZg
When I was a kid in the 60’s, Marvel’s summer special double-size, 25-cent comic books were a big deal. We’ve come along way from those days!
DC is represented this summer by Green Lantern, but this trailer leaves me feeling more uncertain about this movie’s prospects than Marvel’s offerings.
http://youtu.be/pHmMh0yikQ0
Joe Sinnott, one of the artists on Thor’s debut almost 50 years ago, saw the movie yesterday.
I’ll tell ya, Dougie, having grown up with you and all your Marvel comics, it has paid off! Both my (step) grandsons are REALLY into this stuff, and neither one of their biological grandmothers knows diddly-squat about any of their superheroes. I had to babysit the other night, and even though I didn’t know the names of ALL the action figures, my older grandson Andrew (age 9) was pretty impressed. Still, I was mad at myself for forgetting the theme song to the old Thor cartoon!