Been a while since I've had any posts relating to Marvel across other media, driven, perhaps, by the fact that I don't care for any of the Marvel animated stuff out right now (whereas I'd been so happy with it just a few short years ago between Spectacular Spider-Man and Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, replaced by the far lesser Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble. Don't know if that Hulk show is any good) and I keep tuning in and out (more recently out) of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. But here we go, the start of 2014 has brought us ample reason to talk about the huge year this will be for movies, with Captain America: Winter Soldierdebuting in April, Amazing Spider-Man 2 and X-Men: Days of Future Pastcoming in May, and Guardians of the Galaxy set to kick off August (also allegedly in production is Big Hero Six, a Marvel property and another Marvel Studios film but launched by Disney and there's been very little talk of it so it's hard to say if it will really happen by November, as it's showing on IMDb). While plenty of those titles are still pretty far out and even the closest one is still a couple of months away, the most one-sided Super Bowl ever gave us a chance to see tiny, tiny clips of what's to come. Fortunately, the internet gave us a little more so LET'S GAB.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Fans of this blog or my friends and family or the manager of my local comic shop or strangers passing by me can tell you that I'm a pretty big Captain America fan. Many of that same number can probably also tell you I'm a big ol' Winter Soldier fan. The WINTER SOLDIER storyline in Brubaker's CAPTAIN AMERICA run isn't just my favorite Cap storyline ever, it's one of my favorite storylines in comics, period. So I'm particularly excited about this movie and hearing people like Ed Brubaker himself saying that Captain America: Winter Soldier is the "best movie that Marvel has ever made"only furthers that excitement (I KNOW, Brubaker's not exactly an unbiased opinion but he's also a pretty outspoken comics creator who no longer has any contractual obligation to Marvel and, while I'm sure there are certain benefits to the movie doing well for him, I truly believe that he wouldn't be heaping praise on it if he didn't mean that praise). It doesn't hurt that they put out a trailer like this one to get people ready:
