When you’ve grown up with a movie since you were a kid, its characters can seem just as close and familiar to you as your own family. Maybe even more so, since they’re frozen in time. Which is why these early concept images of some of our most iconic cinematic friends are so jarring. That is not the Chewy we’re looking for.
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It’s been forever and ago since X-Men first came out (13 years!) but since The Wolverine is coming out this weekend, CinemaSins decided to re-visit the comic book classic (is 13 years enough time to call it a classic?) and point out everything wrong with it. I would have just pointed out everything wrong with the first X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie but I think the entire world is pretending that movie never happened so we can see Hugh Jackman shirtless again. [CinemaSins]
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Looking to revise the whys, hows and who’s who of the Marvel universe? Well, the movie-spinning comic book company wants to help you out, offering hundreds of first issue editions across the company’s entire history. The free digital editions will cover perennial favorites like Spider-Man, the X-Men and Avengers, as well as slightly less mainstream hits and spin-offs. The promotion kicked off yesterday and — tying in with the company’s presence at SXSW — will run until 11PM ET on Tuesday. The titles can be downloaded through either Marvel’s official comics app or its web-based digital comics shop, although it appears US readers are having more luck downloading the digital comics — we’re getting error messages when trying to access it elsewhere. Of course, if you’ve already signed up to Marvel’s Unlimited subscription service, there might not much here to pull you in, but this limited-time offer is unashamedly courting new readers and comic dabblers. If that sounds like you, start hunting down those hundreds of freebies at the source.
Filed under: Misc, Internet, Software
Via: The Verge
Source: Marvel (1), (2)
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