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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, President of Warner Brothers’ movies division Jeff Robinov
confirmed the rumors of a planned reboot for the Superman franchise, presumably along the lines of what Marvel did with Incredible Hulk. Here’s the key paragraph:

Warner Bros. also put on hold plans for another movie starring multiple superheroes — known as “Batman vs. Superman” — after the $215 million “Superman Returns,” which had disappointing box-office returns, didn’t please executives. “‘Superman’ didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” says Mr. Robinov. “It didn’t position the character the way he needed to be positioned.” “Had ‘Superman’ worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009,” he adds. “But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all.”

Also of interest is Rabinov’s stated goal of having DC provide two of the six to eight tentpole films that Warner has in the pipleline by 2011 and following Marvel’s plan of establishing individual characters in solo films before creating a team blockbuster like Marvel’s planned Avengers and Warner’s stalled Justice League of America and the aforementioned Batman vs Superman, which apparently had received more consideration than I imagined.

According to the interview, Warner plans to release four DC movies in the next three years, including another Batman movie, the Superman reboot, and movies featuring two unnamed heroes. Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, and Green Arrow/Supermax movies are all said to be in development.

It’s a good time to be a comics fan.

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After all the hype leading up to the Joker’s Asylum miniseries, I’ve been underwhelmed. Every issue has been utterly forgettable. Every one except for the last.

In Joker’s Asylum: Two-Face, David Hine has written maybe the best Two-Face story I’ve ever read, taking the “in the right situation, you could be me” premise that seemed to be the sole premise of the Joker and applying it to Two-Face and a young firefighter scarred in an inferno but otherwise happy and well-adjusted.

I’m afraid I can’t get too detailed without ruining the plot, but this story (possibly coupled with recently viewing The Dark Knight) really left me with a deep feeling of who Two-Face is and what makes him tick and the “flip a coin” finale may have been the perfect ending for a story featuring Two-Face.

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I don’t even own a next-gen gaming console since all my money goes to comics, midgets, and the woman, but this Mortal Kombat vs DCU video game sounds like a horrible idea.

I mean, this trailer may look kinda pretty…

… but superhero fighting games are notoriously lame and MK has kinda run its course.

Not to mention, they’ve taken away the coolest thing about the MK games - “there will be no fatalities and little-to-no blood”! If I can’t have Scorpion rip out Superman’s heart, I don’t even want to play!

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