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– Entertainment Weekly has given us new photos of the X-Men: Apocalypse cast in costume, including Oscar Isaacs as the title villain, Olivia Munn as Psylocke, and Alexandra Shipp as mohawk-Storm. Because mohawk-Storm is the Storm that you go with if at all possible. The pictures don’t have her in Yukio-inspired punk leather attire to go with that hairstyle, but baby steps, people, baby steps. They do show Munn sporting the psychic knife, aka “the focused totality of my psychic powers”. If they get her to say that while in an action scene where she’s actually using it against someone, I will be duly impressed. Not just in some dialogue scene; I’m talking about mid-air kicking one dude while stabbing the other in the head with the psychic blade. If you’re not going to use that Matrix slo-mo cam for something useful like fitting large swathes of Claremontian dialogue into split-second action scenes, you aren’t really moving cinema forward, are you?
– Over on the DC TV side of things, it looks like they have found their Atom Smasher: former WWE performer/champion/Superstar Adam “Edge” Copeland. Atom-Smasher will be showing up in The Flash this season looking to put a pounding on Barry Allen and crew. I wouldn’t be surprised if we eventually see a change of heart from the character over his tenure on the show, as executive producer Geoff Johns wrote Atom-Smasher as a troubled but ultimately solid hero in his run on “JSA” a decade ago. And interestingly enough, in his first appearances as Nuklon with Infinity Inc., Atom-Smasher also sported a mohawk.
– People are still talking about that Justice League trailer from SDCC last week. Wait, there wasn’t a Justice League trailer shown at SDCC last week? Then where did this come from? Oh, it’s just a fan-made trailer using footage from Batman vs Superman, Man of Steel, Star Trek and some other films to show the League going up against Black Adam? Oh, OK. Still looks pretty cool, tho, despite the lack of mohawks.
– Turns out that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is tapping into some of that geek magic to get his campaign to do some truly superhuman feats: among his advisory inner circle is Jeff Weaver, owner of Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA. Weaver has worked for Sanders in various campaign and congressional positions since 1991 and has known the senator even longer than that. He took a break from politics to open Victory Comics in 2009, but it looks like he’s back to give Bernie Sanders (a man known for some wicked hair, but sadly no mohawk) a shot at the White House.
– Proving that you’re never too young to help others, a 5-year-old dressed up as Batman for the day managed to help rescue a toddler who was accidentally locked inside a car. Police had been able to break a window in the car but still couldn’t fit through enough to gain access or unlock the doors, but Bat-kid the UK edition managed to slide right in and do so. Good job, although your costume could use a little work in the ‘hiding your identity’ department, what with the complete lack of mask. Couldn’t still have a mohawk, tho.
