And then there’s this.
For Comic Con, Marvel has been releasing pieces of a giant poster promoting next May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
The final pieces were released today.
And yes, that’s the Vision, as played by Paul Bettany, up in the corner. And he looks to be the proper green and yellow color.
That’s a whole lot of Ultrons.
I’m gonna have to think about this for a while.
As Comic-Con begins in San Diego tonight, we’ll see and hear lots of interesting comic-book-movie-related stuff.
Here’s a tidbit from Entertainment Weekly: A poster promoting Marvel’s “Ant-Man.”
You got your Michael Douglas, your Paul Rudd. And you got a very comic-booky-looking Ant-Man.
Something tells me that if Edgar Wright had continued as director of the movie, we’d see something with a different tone.
I’ve noted here, more than once, that I don’t attend a lot of comic and sci-fi conventions anymore. I had a lot more time for it when I was younger. Friends and I traveled around the Midwest, from Indy to Chicago to Columbus and points in between, attending Star Trek, Doctor Who, sci-fi and comic cons.
In more recent decades my friend Andy and I attended the Star Wars Celebrations, which started out as once-every-three-year cons that coincided with release of the “Star Wars” prequels.
So this weekend’s Indiana Comic Con seems smaller in scale than most of those cons but still fun.
One element of cons that’s greatly increased since I was regularly attending cons is the amount of cosplay, or elaborate costumes patterned after popular or enduring characters from movies, TV, fiction and games.
So while my favorite thing about attending Indy Comic Con yesterday was going with my son – a Star Wars Celebration veteran from when he was a pre-schooler – was seeing some creative costume work.
Here’s a sampling:
The best Catwoman I saw.
A good Bane. Man, this costume would be warm.
Awww.
Lots of good Batman-related cosplay here.
A very good Natasha/Black Widow.
And here’s a variation on Black Widow, worn by artist Alexandria Monik.
More thoughts and photos from the convention to come.
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