Post by wittzo on Feb 28, 2006 0:05:20 GMT -6
So I rented the Ultimate Avengers that came out last Tuesday.
The art is excellent, the animation is a little choppy like they made it a nudge better than their typical Saturday Morning Cartoon Show quality..
Perfect re-telling of the origin of Captain America, it "feels" right.
Don't care for the black Nick Fury. Too much soap opera crap that turned me off to the X-Men every year I tried to read it but it's accurate. Bruce Banner acts like a weaselly crackhead. I loved the near-future look of everything, especially the SHIELD flying headquarters. All they are lacking is the flying cars. The Black Widow reminded me how much Marvel artists need a good date.. ;D
Colonel Nick Fury of the Howling Commandoes is and shall forever be a cigar-chomping redhead with a 7 o'clock shadow and gray at the temples. One of the first soldiers to receive the experimental Super Soldier serums but unlike Steve Rogers(Captain America) he has to get shots every few years as it wears off. He's in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D, can't remember what it stands for but it's some sure-secret gov't agency in charge of weird stuff that the rest of the alphabet agencies can't handle.
So here it goes: In the 30's Marvel Comics was a comic book title, an anthology, a collection of different stories every month with different characters. Some of the characters became popular enough that they earned their own books like Captain America, the Human Torch, and Prince Namor the Sub-mariner. During WW2, the company teamed up the more popular heroes to fight the Nazis. After the war, they faded away.
Stan Lee worked for the company before and after the war and rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief. He decided to bring back super heroes to Marvel in the 50's, they had been doing a lot of Westerns and teen romance books.
He created Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, The Daredevil, The Avengers, etc. In the Fantastic Four, he brought back the Human Torch and Namor from his childhood. He used the Avengers to bring back Captain America.
So the original story was, Captain America was fighting some Nazis on a plane headed to the US. He destroyed the plane (and he thought he killed his sidekick, Bucky Barnes) He crashed into the ocean and got frozen into an iceberg. He was wearing his traditional red-white and blue skintights and had his round shield. He used a heraldic shaped shield in the 30's but it evolved into the round shield.
Years later, he was discovered floating in the ocean in a chunk of ice. The government thawed him out and used him as a founding member of The Avengers.
In the new version, SHIELD is actively looking for him using a giant submarine. He's wearing red white and blue combat fatigues. He was fighting Nazis (and aliens) at a fortress and fell off a nuclear missile that was headed for Britain after he destroyed it with a grenade.
The extras on the DVD are pretty cool, I forgot just how many different heroes made up the Avengers over the years. I might have to dig up my comics and get the boys into them, old school.
They are releasing a sequel in July and I'm looking forward to it.
Marvel is going to make a Nick Fury movie after they make and release a Captain America movie. I hope they do well and I hope Nick Fury is right.
The art is excellent, the animation is a little choppy like they made it a nudge better than their typical Saturday Morning Cartoon Show quality..
Perfect re-telling of the origin of Captain America, it "feels" right.
Don't care for the black Nick Fury. Too much soap opera crap that turned me off to the X-Men every year I tried to read it but it's accurate. Bruce Banner acts like a weaselly crackhead. I loved the near-future look of everything, especially the SHIELD flying headquarters. All they are lacking is the flying cars. The Black Widow reminded me how much Marvel artists need a good date.. ;D
Colonel Nick Fury of the Howling Commandoes is and shall forever be a cigar-chomping redhead with a 7 o'clock shadow and gray at the temples. One of the first soldiers to receive the experimental Super Soldier serums but unlike Steve Rogers(Captain America) he has to get shots every few years as it wears off. He's in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D, can't remember what it stands for but it's some sure-secret gov't agency in charge of weird stuff that the rest of the alphabet agencies can't handle.
So here it goes: In the 30's Marvel Comics was a comic book title, an anthology, a collection of different stories every month with different characters. Some of the characters became popular enough that they earned their own books like Captain America, the Human Torch, and Prince Namor the Sub-mariner. During WW2, the company teamed up the more popular heroes to fight the Nazis. After the war, they faded away.
Stan Lee worked for the company before and after the war and rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief. He decided to bring back super heroes to Marvel in the 50's, they had been doing a lot of Westerns and teen romance books.
He created Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, The Daredevil, The Avengers, etc. In the Fantastic Four, he brought back the Human Torch and Namor from his childhood. He used the Avengers to bring back Captain America.
So the original story was, Captain America was fighting some Nazis on a plane headed to the US. He destroyed the plane (and he thought he killed his sidekick, Bucky Barnes) He crashed into the ocean and got frozen into an iceberg. He was wearing his traditional red-white and blue skintights and had his round shield. He used a heraldic shaped shield in the 30's but it evolved into the round shield.
Years later, he was discovered floating in the ocean in a chunk of ice. The government thawed him out and used him as a founding member of The Avengers.
In the new version, SHIELD is actively looking for him using a giant submarine. He's wearing red white and blue combat fatigues. He was fighting Nazis (and aliens) at a fortress and fell off a nuclear missile that was headed for Britain after he destroyed it with a grenade.
The extras on the DVD are pretty cool, I forgot just how many different heroes made up the Avengers over the years. I might have to dig up my comics and get the boys into them, old school.
They are releasing a sequel in July and I'm looking forward to it.
Marvel is going to make a Nick Fury movie after they make and release a Captain America movie. I hope they do well and I hope Nick Fury is right.
