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– Disney CEO Bob Iger dished to Newsbeat about Marvel Studios’ future, as well as Star Wars’s. Basically, they’ll never end. While Iger said he did not know how many Star Wars movies will come after Episode IX, there will definitely be more. Plus, Iger mentioned that since Marvel deals with thousands of characters, those movies will go on forever. Which means the chances of me getting cast in a Marvel movie are now at 100%. Right? Right?!
– Here’s an updated version of that “Dead No More” teaser Marvel threw out last week, courtesy of Comic Book Resources. It’s got a spider-web on it so maybe whoever is getting resurrected will be a Spider-Man character? Uncle Ben? Gwen Stacy? Doctor Octopus? BEN REILLY?! CAN IT BE BEN REILLY?! I live for that denim jacket outfit every day of my life.
– Do you want to solve grisly murders with Pikachu? I can’t guarantee that you’ll be investigating SVU level crimes or anything, but this trailer for Great Pikachu Detective: The Birth of a New Duo looks like it’s going to be mixing up Pokemon adventures with cold-blooded noir. Like, Pikachu is definitely checking someone’s dead body that was just left on the street. The Japanese voice for Pikachu is also super deep compared to literally every other interpretation of Pikachu that has ever existed, so I hope the US translation is just a copy and paste of Jack Nicholson’s dialogue in Chinatown.
– In actually really cool news, “Venom: Space Knight” writer Robbie Thompson consulted the Wounded Warrior Project for an upcoming issue. The Wounded Warrior Project is a non-profit that helps out wounded military veterans, which fits a comic called “Venom: Space Knight” since the current Venom, Flash Thompson, is a veteran who lost his legs in Iraq. Since then, he’s inherited the Venom symbiote, joined the Avengers, and gone into space. I don’t have any bits for this piece, writers reaching out to charities like this in order to bring a more detailed depiction of characters like a disabled veteran is just really neat.
– “Batman” #50 is going to have a variant cover illustrated by Chris Daughtry. He won American Idol and wrote that song about him going home. Apparently he’s been spending the past half decade drawing a Batman cover. Good for him.
– Here’s the new trailer for The Angry Birds Movie, you miserable bastard.
