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Some news making the rounds these days is Supergirl’s costume change. She now wears shorts underneath her skirt, saddening the male populace of Metropolis. Some are putting this forward as a great advancement in the portrayal of females in comics, but I think it is just practical. Plus Superman did not approve of people looking up his cousin’s skirt.

Simply put, shorts allow a greater range of movement without showing off Supergirl’s Vajayjay of Justice. I for one have always thought of Supergirl as one of the more innocent heroes around, she is like the girl next door. Who can bench press your house. The miniskirt flapping in the breeze did not convey that very well, although I will admit I never complained. For all those who are upset about Supergirl’s shorts I leave you with one thought. Powergirl’s costume has not changed. You may continue to read comics without your pants. 

Well maybe saying he saved a life is a bit of an exaggeration but he did indeed help an extra who was injured. During filming of the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie an extra got smacked a bit too hard and fell to the ground in severe pain. It seems everybody else was focused on the scene rather than the extra and filming continued. Luckily Robert Downey Jr. used his super hearing to discover the extra was in pain and immediately ran on to the scene to help the guy out. Downey even stayed with the guy until an ambulance arrived. It’s nice to hear about these sorts of acts, heroes don’t always have to have a costume. Plus this is great press to spread the word of Iron Man 2 around, now everybody will have to go see it! 

Well first off I have to wonder what they could call the sequel, since 299 of the 300 original guys are dead. Will it be 10,000? That’s the number of Spartans ready to lay the smack down on the Persians at the end of the first movie. Maybe they’ll advance the title like in the 100 and whatever Dalmations and call it 301. 

Zack Snyder, director of 300 and Watchmen, said that he knows Frank Miller is currently working on a script for this as of yet unnamed 300 sequel. That doesn’t mean that it will definitely get made, but considering the popularity of the first movie I would be fairly surprised if it didn’t. Of course Snyder wants to keep all the gory action and same cinematography style as he had in the first one, and I’m assuming the Spartans will still be muscly men in minimal clothing. I for one wouldn’t mind a sequel, the first one is entertaining just because it’s straight up action, and that’s what I’d expect from any movie with the Spartans. 

We have always seen Dr. Doom as a serious guy. whether he is trying to conquer the world or just standing around looking menacing, a smile is rarely seen on his face or that of anyone around him. Well it turns out that Victor Von Doom has just been hiding his funny side and has been spending time working on his stand-up routine in between his fights with the Fantastic Four. Now we will just have to see if there are any retaliatory jokes from Johnny Storm.

Well Transformers 2 has been making quite a bit of money. Big surprise there. Apparently it has raked in enough money already that there are talks of a sequel going on. 

 Shia LeBeouf has said a third installment in the franchise would have to be darker than the first 2. So I guess a lack of high pitched voices and robots peeing motor oil would set the Transformers movie apart from the others. LaBeouf also said that somebody would have to die. I’m assuming that he means a central character, as plenty of people died in the franchise already, they were just the not important characters.

Michael Bay has also said he would like to return for a third Transformers movie. He just wants some time off. Making explosions is tiring work. The sad thing is that even if the third movie looks like it will be terrible I will have to go watch out of franchise loyalty. They just better have Grimlock in it.

I recently came across some interesting news. Apparently Optimus Prime and the other Transformers are so detailed in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen that they caused computers to explode. That is pretty crazy. I am not a technological whiz, so I will let scifiwire.com sum this up:

 ”Visual-effects supervisor Scott Farrar was in charge of turning Industrial Light & Magic’s computers up to 11 to create the new characters and told reporters that the sequel features 40 new characters. That and the increased resolution of the characters for new IMAX footage nearly exhausted ILM’s render farms: After one hard night of rendering computer-generated footage, some of the hardware actually exploded.”

That is intense. Michael Bay has gone beyond causing explosions in movies to causing explosions in real life. The man is a menace. This news just makes me want to go see Transformers 2 even more, and see highly detailed robots, explosions, and Megan Fox. 

Many people have complained about the portrayal of Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It is true that Deadpool more closely resembled Baraka from Mortal Kombat than the lovable mercenary we all know him as. That is why I am glad to present a series of fan films that displays Deadpool way better than Fox and their millions of dollars did.

Look how they managed to capture Deadpool’s lunacy, love for Bea Arthur, and his damn costume with a budget considerably less than Fox had. I hope they are taking notes on how Deadpool should be for when his own movie is made, otherwise I will just have to settle for more fan films like this one. 

There is another fanmade trailer making the rounds on youtube, this time featuring Superman fighting against Superman. One Superman is the one and only Christopher Reeve, while the other is the new Superman, Brandon Routh. Who will emerge victorious in this epic showdown?

For the record, I like Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor more than Gene Hackman. Hackman has way too much hair. As for the Supermen, you can robably guess that I’m pulling for Christopher Reeve rather than CGI crotch enhancing Brandon Routh. Yes, now that you’ve heard that CGI was used to make Routh’s bulge bulgier, you will be staring there for the entire time you watch Superman Returns, if you ever watch it again. My work here is done.

News has gotten out that Olivia Munn has a part in Iron Man 2. I’ve never seen her actually act, but she looks good so I’d assume that she will be one of Tony Stark’s numerous conquests. I am sure this news will excite many fans who watch her on G4.

I’m not sure this exactly huge news, but it has to do with Iron Man 2, Olivia Munn is hot and well known to the comic book crowd, and I haven’t posted in a while. I guess all that’s left is to include some pictures of Olivia Munn looking good. Enjoy. 

I’m guessing that most people don’t know much about Jonah Hex, other than it is an upcoming movie and that Megan Fox will be in it. Jonah Hex is also a really cool comic character, an old west cowboy with half his face melted, hence why I am writing about him on this blog. Anyways, BamKapow just got an insider look at the production of Jonah Hex from one of the extras working on the movie. Beware, there are spoilers if you click on that link.

This exclusive report on Jonah Hex is pretty interesting, explaining the rumored zombie appearances and describing how awesome John Malkovich and Josh Brolin are. It must have been really cool to dress up like an evil henchman (and get paid) for a comic book movie, and I have decided this is one of my new goals in life.