Every year, San Diego hosts the pop culture event of the summer, Comic-Con International, and the news coming out of Saturday will have comics fans going completely bananas.
Among the headlines:
*--Marvel will bring "Blade" back to the big screen as part of "Phase 4" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (ex-Luke Cage) will play the vampire hunter originally portrayed by Wesley Snipes in a trilogy of movies that ended 15 years ago.
*--Natalie Portman will return to the "Thor" franchise in the fourth movie in that series, due in 2021, and they'll adapt Jane Foster's transformation into a Thunder Goddess, if you will, adapting Jason Aaron's recent stories.
*---On the DC side, Supergirl will have a new look when the series returns October 6 on the CW. Star Melissa Benoist asked for, and got a costume change, swapping out her skirt & blue tights for blue pants to match her top. Melissa will also be making her directorial debut during the season. Also, Mehcad Brooks (James Olsen) is leaving the series sometime during the season, which means James' on-again, off-again relationship with Lena Luthor will permanently hit the skids. Tyler Hoechlin, as some expected, will return as Superman for the Crisis on Infinite Earths adaptation, which will start with three chapters in December, but he won't be alone.
That's because Brandon Routh (Legends of Tomorrow) will reprise his 2006 role as the Man of Steel as well, in addition to his regular Legends role as Ray Palmer, aka The Atom. Some fans on Reddit are clamoring for 90's Superman Dean Cain, who didn't appear at all last season on Supergirl, to suit up as well, but if they'd cared to follow the show, they'd see that's not likely, unless Dean's been hitting the gym lately.
*---For the first time, Burt Ward will suit up as Robin without the late Adam West playing Batman. This is also part of the Crisis event. After reprising the role in 2 animated DTV's, I would suspect Ward could actually play an older Dick Grayson, suited as Nightwing, instead. We'll know for sure come December.
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ESPN yapper Dan LeBatard could find himself facing disciplinary action after speaking out on the air earlier this week about President Trump's disrespectful spew toward four freshman Congresswomen. The Disney-owned network wants to stay as far away from politics as much as possible, even though that is kind of difficult, considering President Manchild's warping of NFL players' protests of racial inequality into perceived disrespect of the flag and country. If you can get him to focus on what his job is supposed to entail, instead of trolling for media attention every day, public perception of the President could finally change for the better. Or not.
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Meanwhile, Trump has gone to bat for rapper A$AP Rocky, who was jailed in Sweden. First Lady Melania Trump made the suggestion to her husband, but that wasn't all. Rapper Kanye West, like President Trump a known narcissist, also appealed to the President. Now, I don't think the President's musical tastes include rap, though disco might've been his thing back in the day, but at least we know Melania's got her finger on the pulse of music today.
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Six months after the New Orleans Saints were screwed out of the NFC title by some incompetent officiating, a Louisiana judge has signed off on a lawsuit filed by Saints fans against the NFL.
Look, the city was lucky not to be bombarded by Tropical Storm Barry last week, but some folks there are still butt-hurt over a missed call in a playoff game? The league will, of course, fight the suit, if but to avoid verifying the worst case suspicions of fans around the country, that the playoffs are, more often than not, in their minds, rigged.
Now, I watched the Saints-Rams game, and, yes, the zebra held his flag even though the play was right in front of him. But there's this thing called karma, and it came up and bit the Rams in the Super Bowl, and had the Rams beat the Patriots, then maybe you could have a case, but I don't support this stupidity. Not one bit.
We'll send some waterproof Dunce Caps to the Saints fans.
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