Last week, Mike Haynes from Panels of Awesome, RJP of Between The Staples, frequent readers and commenters AJ and Midknight, and I traded a bunch of e-mails that culminated in a Skype chat between Mike, AJ, and myself this past Sunday night.
The original plan was to focus on Iron Man, but the chat ended up going all over the place. We had so much fun that we decided to try and make it a weekly thing, every Sunday at 7pm EST. Hopefully Midknight will be joining us this week, but we know RJP won’t be there due to prior engagements at Emerald City ComicCon. We all expect tales of Seattle debauchery to make up for his absence.
If you would like to join us us this Sunday, or any Sunday, drop me a line at any of the many ways to contact me listed on the “About” page (or even drop a comment on the blog) with your Skype username (Skype is free, kids!) and I’ll make sure you get an invite to the chat!
Anyway, Mike beat me to posting excerpts from the roundtable discussion, but here are some of my favorite quotes:
Holy SHIT, that movie was awesome.
Hurry up and watch it so that I can geek out with y’all!
Also, in case you haven’t heard, make sure to stay until the credits are over.
~Me, immediately after getting home from seeing the Iron Man movie.
Best Marvel flick to date…with Spider-Man 1 & 2 coming in a close second and third. X-Men and X-Men 2 would be somewhere in the mix too I guess.
~Mike, on where Iron Man stands among the other Marvel movies.
I’ll go as far as to say best Comic Book Movie to date, edging out Batman Begins.
~AJ, going one step further than Mike.
I’m still not willing to go THAT far. Batman is God, people.
Mike Haynes: Speaking of acting, Robert Downey Jr. - Best casting ever?
AJ Tardive: Oh man, amazing. Like I said before, if Tony Stark was that much of a BAMF in the comics, I would be a die hard Iron Man fan.
Dustin Christian (Crackerbob): Yeah, Downey ran away with it, as I expected, but everyone was excellent in it. I think they cast with an eye on the long term… Howard can easily carry the focus on War Machine, as can Paltrow and Favreau with any increased exposure on their characters. I don’t think there could have been a better person to play Tony Stark.
AJ Tardive: Howard’s shining moment “Next time baby…” was great.
Mike Haynes: Loved that little teaser.
AJ Tardive: Really got my hopes up too, cause for a second I thought he’d actually become War Machine this early in the series.
Dustin Christian: I hear he probably will wear the armor in the sequel; everyone is signed for three movies.
AJ Tardive: Yeah, next film will supposedly delve in to Tony’s alcoholism.
Mike Haynes: Exactly. If it’s not Iron Man II, it’ll be in the third. Either way, he’ll be in that armor before the trilogy comes to a close.
~The whole group, discussing the casting and the future of the franchise. Again, this was before Marvel made their announcements on Monday morning.
Dustin Christian: I snickered every time they made fun of SHIELD’s name.
AJ Tardive: I was surprised, I didn’t catch the SHIELD references until he actually said “SHIELD” at the end.
Dustin Christian: really?
Mike Haynes: Yeah, me neither.
Dustin Christian: huh…I caught it right away.
AJ Tardive: yeah. when he said it I was like “oh…damn”
Mike Haynes: Then right before he says it I was like…”Oh. He’s SHIELD…” [and then] “…just call us SHIELD.”
Dustin Christian: I caught it the first time, when they said “Strategic Homeland…” I was like “ooooh… COOL!” I kept halfway hoping to see some people in the jumpsuits, even though they would have looked ridiculous.
Help me out, people - am I really the only one who caught that right away? Am I that much of a geek?
From there, we kinda bounced all over the place, talking about what’s coming out, what’s out, how much Jeph Loeb needs to step up his game with Captain America: White, how Spider-man can just not win as a comic in my mind (no matter what), my seeming obsession with the viral campaign for The Dark Knight, why no woman should EVER date Matt Murdock, and various other topics. There were awesome moments and I was funny as hell, but putting it all into context would quadruple the size of this already long post.
Your best bet is to join our little Bags-and-Boards Mafia this Sunday for more comic book fun! Anything goes and we can talk about anything you like - even RJP’s sex-change operation!
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