Comic book fans
around the world will have no shortage of media to sink their teeth into the
coming year in 2012. There will be several movies, a direct to DVD feature or
two, several animated cartoons both new
and continued. Will they remain true to the larger than life characters that we
all know and love? The jury may still be out on that one but right now we
remain hopeful.
Big
Superhero Films to Be Out in 2012
Obviously you’d have to live
underneath a rock to realize that the Dark Knight was one of the most beloved
comic book movies of all time. Can Christopher Nolan top his last performance
with the Dark Knight Rises? Comic book films have been notoriously weaker at
the third adaptation of a particular series, Superman III, Batman Forever,
Spider-Man III, and X-Men III, but I think that the Dark Knight Rises might be
the film to reverse the curse. The Dark Knight Rises will be out in the
theaters on July 20th 2012.
Spider-Man 4 was thrown right in
the junk pile, for a reboot for the Spider-Man movie series, for the movie
entitled Amazing Spider-Man. As Batman will tell you, a reboot can breathe some
new life into the series and much like Batman Begins brought us previously
unused movie villains such as Ra’s Al Ghul and the Scarcecrow, the Amazing
Spider-Man brings in the Lizard. Obviously not the house hold name such as the
Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, or Venom, but they’ve been done before(although
not well in Venom’s case but this is not the time or the place). Amazing
Spider-Man hits theaters on July 3rd 2012.
The success of movies featuring
the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America have been varied, but never the
less, the Avengers will assemble on the big screen. It does remain to be seen
what will come of one of the premier super hero teams in marvel, the Avengers,
but hopefully it will not disappoint the fans. The Avengers will assemble on
the big screen on May 4th 2012.
After the polarizing Superman
Returns, the Man of Steel gets a reboot on the big screen with…well the Man of
Steel. The reboot of Superman coming out in December 2012 will hope to do one
of the oldest superheroes some justice. Unlike the Spider-Man and Batman
reboots, an old foe will return to plague Superman in the first part of the
reboot, the nefarious General Zod. Would have preferred a new villain not used
before in Superman movies like Brainiac but whatever. Perhaps, I should KNEEL
BEFORE ZOD, for that blasphemy. The Man of Steel will hopefully be one to add
to the all-time greats.
Reboot is the buzzword of 2012,
as that beloved team of turtle teens are set to return to the big screen for a
reboot, as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be getting another movie.
Details at this moment are scarce and hopefully the movie remains set for 2012.
Superhero
Related Cartoons To Be Out in 2012
Obviously the second half of the
second season of Iron Man Armored Adventures will air, as will more Young
Justice. Just in time for their movie, the second season of the Avengers: Earth’s
Mightiest Heroes are on tap to air in “early 2012”.
Also after the taste we got back in
November, Green Lantern the Animated Series will hit the waves on Cartoon
Network in February. After a promising start, fans are expecting nothing more
than big things for this show.
After the cancellation of the
beloved Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon due to pesky rights issues, due to the
purchase of Marvel Comics by the evil empire of the mouse(aka Disney), The
Ultimate Spider-Man will be back, based off of the Ultimate Spider-Man comic
books, which means Samuel L. Jackson er Nick Fury. Hopefully this one doesn’t
get screwed over like every other Spider-Man show since the 1990s animated
series had. Coming up in the fall of 2012.
And last but certainly not least,
for their third cartoon, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return on screen.
This show and what news has come out seems to have the Ninja Turtle fanbase rather
divided, but I’m adopting a wait and see approach. Fall of 2012 will see the
return of the TMNT, in CGI.
Also Justice League: Doom, a
direct to DVD DC Comics animated feature will be out on February 28th
2011. It is an adaptation of the great Tower of Babel storyline and hopefully
they can do it justice in a 75 minute movie.
2012 is going to be a big year.
Hopefully we’ll get some good stuff out of the equation.
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