WB/DC WTF?

Hello and welcome to the abbreviated 09/04/14 edition of The Comic Shop!


First........

Yesterday was a pretty amazing yet astoundingly frustrating news day.  At long last it was confirmed that WB has picked Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to play Black Adam in an upcoming "Shazam" film.  This news was welcomed by your humble blogger; however, the accompanying news not so much.  WB followed up stating that they had hired Darren Lemke to script the Earth's mightiest mortal film debut.

That wasn't bad, but then it got worse.  Warner Brothers in their infinite wisdom has stated that the Shazam movie will have humor and be fun (as it should), and that IT WILL NOT TIE IN TO THE GREATER DC UNIVERSE INCLUDING "BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE".    Pardon my language but WHAT THE FUCK?!  They hire a box office heavyweight like Johnson and then immediately snuff the possibility of him showing up as the big bad in a Justice League movie, or joining the justice league to stave off an ultimate evil.  This is just the most recent in a long line of head scratching decisions if we consider the huge popularity of "Arrow" and anticipation for "Flash" and that those were also treated like they weren't part of the greater universe.  It makes no sense to me why WB wouldn't cash in on well-liked, and successful properties.  Time will tell and this is certainly a snap judgement, but it is frustrating to say the least.

I certainly don't expect them to do everything like Marvel does, but it would be better to have a coherent product that doesn't confuse the masses.

Add to that Evil media Emperor Rupert Murdoch tried to recently purchase AOL/Time Warner, and that it's rumored that Disney may also soon make a bid it's not looking likely that we will see true competition between the studios after all.


Second..........

In keeping with the theme here "Futures End" has crossed over to the individual titles of DC comics.  Being the idiot that I am I picked up "Green Arrow", and found that the cliffhanger would be resolved in the "Futures End" weekly comic.  Sorry, but that is not going to happen.  There are too many other things to pay for each week without having to delve out an extra $2.99 each for the weekly release of "Futures End" and "Batman Eternal".   It feels like DC is trying to manipulate their sales numbers by having a weekly title.


Third.......   (Original Sin Spoilers)




Original Sin came to a climax this week and I have to say overall it was not a very satisfying story arch.  It felt more like a side dish to the meat and potatoes that will play out over the next year at Marvel.  It showed how Thor became disgraced and depowered, and laid the groundwork for other happenings.  I enjoyed some of the earlier issues, but I think overall I regret buying the whole arch.  Marvel has been great at the big event with "Civil War", "Secret Invasion", "Avengers v. X-men", "Siege", "Dark Reign", and others they changed the landscape and implemented a new status quo.  With "Original Sin" it felt like it was an eight issue ad that said "what's new at Marvel Comics!".  I think if given the ball Jason Aaron could do a great job in the future I just think this event set him up to fail.




That's all for today trying to keep it short since tonight we are #Back2Football...Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time at The Comic Shop!