I have a feeling that the Deathstroke DLC might just be Challenge Room content like the Nightwing and Robin DLC packs for Arkham City, the latter of which was a pre-order bonus at Best Buy. Not that that's really a bad thing, mind you.
Good on them for getting Kevin Conroy again, though. WB Montreal is already fighting an uphill battle simply by not being Rocksteady, so it really adds to their favor that they are retaining THE voice despite the earlier reports of that not being the case.
Did Brett Booth design this? This looks like one of the most 90s-era character designs that I've seen come out of The New 52 yet. She kind of looks like one of those rebellious kids that you would see in a "My So-Called Life"-esque teen serial drama around 20 years ago, with the long trenchcoat and the flannel, and the silly "HAHAHA!" tattoo going diagonally across her abdomen just screams of overkill.
I respect Brett Booth; I think his art is pretty decent and he is able to churn out a consistent level of work at an impressive rate, but I feel like his character designs in particular have been some of the most needlessly complex and overly busy in The New 52, especially his redesigns for the various Teen Titans characters.
I mean, looking at his Red Robin design alone, he has two different shoulder logos, a non-logo on his chest, a utility belt with an off-center buckle, an X-strap across his chest, similar straps on his biceps, and though I know these were eventually phased out of the design and actually appreciate the logic behind this, he also has straps across his abdomen to hold his X-strap in place. He has straps for his straps. It's simply too much.
Apart from the fact that I like Ellen Page, and I liked her and Shawn Ashmore as Kitty Pryde and Iceman, respectively, I don't really like this news. I haven't really liked the news that has made it seem like they're trying to go back to the original trilogy of films and connect it with First Class even further. One of the things I liked most about First Class was that it did something different as an X-Men film and provided a chance to get away from the first trilogy. To reboot the film franchise, if you will. And if I may be completely honest, I also find it a more than a bit disheartening that the general sentiment on here is one of excitement, as if X-Men: The Last Stand wasn't a horrible train-wreck of a film.
@Smurfboy said:
Nice. I hope each X-Men members will have plenty of their screen-time in a movie. That's a huge rosters right there, wow. Oh and as for Rogue, for God's sake, make her fly! She can fly on TV cartoons, in comic books and video games but not the movies. Doesn't make any sense.
And one last thing I want to say is: OMG!!!! WOLVERINE!!!!!!! Yay!!!
Actually, it does make sense. In the comics and even in the Fox Kids cartoon, Rogue was shown to have gotten the ability to fly (as well as her super-strength and stamina and what have you) from Carol Danvers (formerly Ms. Marvel, recently promoted to Captain). However, her contact with Ms. Marvel was too prolonged, which is why she kept those powers, and this also resulted with a copy of Danvers's mind residing in Rogue's for a while. This also helped lead her to defecting from the Brotherhood and becoming an X-Man.
Considering that basically none of that happened in the films, it does make a great lick of sense that she can't fly in them.
Also, and I really hate to be such a downer today and apologize for doing so, but no. Please, no. Wolverine was already the star of the first three movies, as well as his own line of ongoing spinoff films, the first of which was also actually rather horrible. Are we really that unable to make an X-Men movie without having Wolverine star in it? Joss Whedon understood the benefit of only using Wolverine in moderation, and that's something that I'm afraid the filmmakers and people at Fox (and Marvel, considering how completely oversaturated with Wolverine the Marvel Universe has been for a good long while) are not able to understand.
One question that's been bugging me about Doctor Octopus's "Superior Spider-Man" is that if Octavius is trying to prove that he is a better and smarter Spider-Man than Peter Parker, why would he redesign the spider on his back to look even less like an actual spider?
@The Poet: I agree that The Riddler's question-mark mohawk was a bit silly, and I had a similarly negative reaction to the one you had upon seeing that in the previews of the first issue (though apparently not nearly as strong). However, I read an article where either Scott Snyder or Greg Capullo (or both) explained the justification for that weird hairstyle, and I thought it was kind of clever and inspired. They explained that because the inmates of Arkham Asylum were stripped of their trademark costumes and get-ups and forced to wear simple jumpsuits, they had to create makeshift costumes in order to continue being their criminal personas in that environment. If you look, you can see that Professor Pyg's mask is made out of sheets and the eyes on Scarecrow's mask are made out of buttons.
Batman Rogues
So though it was kind of silly, I thought it was a smart way to show their insane need to be recognized as their outlandish criminal identities rather than as mere people. After reading that, I didn't think those depictions were intended to be major and lasting redesigns for The New 52.
You probably already knew this, but in case you didn't, that's why he was like that.
I couldn't find the A-Babies Vs X-Babies in comic book store. :( I'm going to try again next week. There was another cover for A-Babies vs X-Babies as well.
According to the previews that were released either yesterday or today, that issue of A-Babies Vs. X-Babies actually comes out next week.
Ohh really? That explains everything, lol. I'll go back again next week for that issue. Can't wait!
This was supposed to be an ongoing title, but apparently they turned it into a one shot.
Yeah, I've noticed that they're going for one-shot issue. I tried to find the next cover of issues (previews) and couldn't find it, so I figured it must be one-shot. I seriously hope not because I'd like for this series to release monthly, just like Superman Family Adventures.
No kidding. Marvel could really use some truly all-ages titles that have something in them that both kids and adults can really enjoy. The only all-ages Marvel books right now are based off the cartoons (not really counting Skottie Young's Wizard of Oz books), and they basically canceled the entire Marvel Adventures line, which actually often had better stories than the mainline books.
I couldn't find the A-Babies Vs X-Babies in comic book store. :( I'm going to try again next week. There was another cover for A-Babies vs X-Babies as well.
According to the previews that were released either yesterday or today, that issue of A-Babies Vs. X-Babies actually comes out next week.
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