The Marvels Korean Posters
Marvel Age #1000
“[Charlie] just came in and nailed it on the audition. Once we had seen him, there really wasn’t any doubt in our minds. He was so obviously right for the role. There were lots of young men who could come in and play gormless and awkward, and there were others who could be wonderfully cool heroes. But there was nobody else who could go from one part to the other as convincingly. You really believe in the progression of his character throughout Tristan’s adventures.” - Neil Gaiman
My phone rings and the man on the other line is Joe Quesada and he says to me, ‘I found Matt Murdock,’ and I go, ‘What?' Quesada clarified that he was referring to an actor. However, the thing is, at the time, the Daredevil TV show wasn’t even on the table. “I go, ‘Joe, we don’t have Daredevil. It’s across the street. And he goes, 'It’ll happen. I know it will and when it does, I found a guy who’s gonna play Matt Murdock." That guy was Charlie Cox, and sure enough, he’s playing Matt Murdock today." - Jeph Loeb
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CHARLIE COX + Anecdotes of Being the Perfect Casting
Also one of the best things about him playing daredevil is no one involved told him Matt murdock is blind. He was practicing his audition with a friend and the friend was like “isn’t he blind?” And Charlie was like “no…I think they would’ve mentioned something like that.”
Suicide Squad by John Ostrander (and Kim Yale) Reading Order
This is the run that influenced both movies to the point where James Gunn has given it multiple shoutouts.
It created Amanda Waller, distinguished the team, and gave many characters new characteristics, like Deadshot’s death wish and Captain Boomerang’s backstory. Because of the constantly rotating lineup Ostrander was able to bring characters out of limbo like Shade (who spun out into a miniseries that was so popular it became a 70 issue run), Vixen, Bronze Tiger, and Nightshade and make them significant. As well as turning Barbara Gordon into Oracle.
Something I never see mentioned is that a couple dozen issues into the run Kim Yale —a DC editor and eventually wife of Ostrander— started being credited as co-writer through to the end.
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- Legends 1-6 — Event miniseries by Ostrander that brings the team together. You can just skim the SS parts, which is any scene with Boomerang, Waller, or Flag.
- Secret Origins 14
- Suicide Squad 1-10
- Doom Patrol/SS Special — Takes place around the same time as 11 and 12 but 12 spoils the end.
- SS 11-12
- Justice League International 13, SS 13 — Crossover
- SO 28 — Backstory of Nightshade. Not by Ostrander but she has a detailed origin that shouldn't be skipped.
- SS 14-18
- Deadshot 1 — 4 issue miniseries by Ostrander. The character doesn't show up in SS again until 22 but this issue has a break between stuff and is mentioned in 19, whereas 2-4 are one story.
I want to include that the story of Kim Yale and Ostrander is itself a pretty good one. She was an editor and he a writer, and from their first collaboration she was part of everything he wrote until her death from cancer a few years later.
As rare as it is for writers to get mentioned by film/show media, it’s as rare for co-writers to get a nod when comic fans bring up runs, but including her name with his doesn’t diminish his work at all, and in fact if there’s anyone in the world who would love and appreciate keeping her name and the memory of her work alive, it would be Ostrander.
“But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it…you had one last golden egg to give.
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always thought that Obadiah looked like Thanos
*pants nervously* OHhhhhHHHHHhhH lordieeeee
I’ve also noticed that both of them have a similar line in their movies
Obadiah: I never had a taste for this sorta thing, but I must admit, I’m deeply enjoying the suit.
Thanos: fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe, but this? Does put a smile on my face.
Obadiah didn’t die in the arc reactor explosion but instead was warped to Titan memory wiped and grew into a big purple man
okay but….
The theory grows
Scud The Disposable Assassin #7 by Rob Schrab/Mondy Carter
The Spirit: Tooty Compote by Will Eisner
Magik by Tim Grayson
Fantastic Four: Life Story #6 by Mark Russell and Sean Izaakse/Ze Carlos/Angel Unzuenta
Superman: Man of Steel #91 by John Rozum and Charlie Adlard
Fantastic Four: Life Story #5 by Mark Russell and Sean Izaakse/Carlos Magno
Fantastic Four: Life Story #3 by Mark Russell and Sean Izaakse
Imagine Peter Quill’s grandfather being in a Facebook support group for people who’ve had loved ones go missing. And one day he makes a post to people he’s known over a decade, who know his story by heart, and says “a man knocked on my door today and said he was my Peter back from the stars.” Going on to explain how his grandson was abducted by aliens, formed a superhero squad, met and killed his father who was a celestial god, helped defeat Thanos, formed a community in the skull of a completely unrelated dead celestial god, abducted Kevin Bacon, and came back for a reunion. Then there’s a slideshow of pictures of Peter smiling like it’s the first day of school, caught off-guard eating breakfast at the table, posing in his SL uniform, holding hands with his grandfather, then mowing some guy’s lawn.