Samuel L. Jackson announces 'Avengers' cast

[jjreason]

I definitely intended for it to strike multiple nerves & resonate on many levels simultaneously.

[anarky]

I'm not sure I've ever seen a pic of ScarJo that's not wank fuel.

[jjreason]

Touche. Even in the ones where she looks like a more "normal" girl (ie the boobs aren't propped up in some cantilevered miracle bra and are following their amazing natural slope and her makeup isn't photo-flawless), she looks like an alarmingly hot normal girl:



BOOYA! 4000th post includes a ScarJo pic and I didn't even plan it!

[anarky]

Looks from the trailer like they didn't wise up and cut Hawkeye out, so I'm just hoping we don't get extended scenes of him sucking his own cock and vomiting jizz on the Skrulls. Because that's all he's good for. No, I'm hoping he's abused to death by a circus elephant five seconds after he first appears, to the tune of Toni Basil's "Mickey," and no one speaks of him again except one line where Iron Man says, "Didn't we have some fucktarded Green Arrow ripoff with us earlier? Why couldn't we get a Black Canary ripoff instead?"

[Rollo Tomassi]

I like how you deride Hawkeye as a Green Arrow ripoff. As if DC pioneered the heady original concept of a guy with a bow and arrows.

And Jeremy Renner Rocks. So even if he is playing Hawkeye it's still gonna be good.

[anarky]

Green Arrow was already a stupid idea. A 20th century superhero with a bow and arrow? He should've stayed in the 1940s. At least they had the excuse of all the stupid Golden Age shit to explain why he existed. What's Marvel's excuse for a doofus in a bright costume who fights supervillains with boxing glove arrows?

[Diabolical]

Probably the same as DC's excuse for an idiot that wears a ring that can create anything he can think of...and he makes shit like slingshots and big fists.
And all you need to beat him is something yellow.

[jjreason]

Think about how stupid that sounds when you put it like that - and wonder at the fact that Green Lantern #1 was the second or third best selling comic of last month. ><

[anarky]

I won't argue that Green Lantern's premise goes south pretty quickly, despite starting strong. I think with GL, it's the basis of it and how well Hal, John, and Guy (and Kyle) have been handled over the years that makes it somewhat forgivable.

Think about this: I am a gruff loner superhero who wears a garishly-colored costume and shoots gimmick arrows at bad guys. Though I've had a solo title, I'm more known as a member of the major superhero team of my universe. I'm romantically involved with a woman who's equally associated with a major team, and who has a thing for fishnets. I die almost weekly, but always get better.

Did I just describe Green Arrow or Hawkeye? I can forgive a lot when it comes to superhero similarities, but those two have always been too close for comfort for me. It's easier to overlook it with Green Arrow, who comes from an era where you just needed a ridiculous gimmick and a bright costume to be a hero. It seems bizarre as hell with Hawkeye coming from, what, 1965?

Mind you, I still want to see the movie and will do so in spite of Hawkeye. But I'd rather have Vision, Spider-Woman, or, hell, even fucking Rage on the team. (Actually, that reminds me: has anyone dusted off Rage lately aside from a background character only to keep the trademark active, because it seems high time to do so.)

[Rollo Tomassi]

Rage always shows up in those Event tie-in minis.

[Ran]

Green Arrow was already a stupid idea. A 20th century superhero with a bow and arrow? He should've stayed in the 1940s. At least they had the excuse of all the stupid Golden Age shit to explain why he existed. What's Marvel's excuse for a doofus in a bright costume who fights supervillains with boxing glove arrows?

the Dukes of Hazzard were 20th century heroes that used bows and arrows. they were quite popular for a while.

[jjreason]

So was Rambo.

[anarky]

Yeah, but there's a difference between using it and it being your defining characteristic/gimmick.

[anarky]

No forcible anal penetration for Hawkeye in the second trailer. They'd better just be keeping it under wraps.

[anarky]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=37812

An awful lot of the soundtrack is carp. But new Soundgarden? That, Scott Weiland, and Bush might be enough to make me grab the physical version of this on release day.

The hating on the CBR forums is sad. Soundgarden is always a good thing. Always.