Off-brand superheroes thread.

Terry Moore's Stranger in Paradise is getting a movie treatment.

Just as he's preparing to return to that world in comics too.

I'm kind of torn on new SiP comics, it ended pretty much perfectly, and it means I'll have to start grumpily awaiting the collected editions again, you'll know when that happens as I'll probably just respond to anything by calling the poster a cunt until I get my fix.

IIRC, the deal doesn't include properties already owned elsewhere, so no Kick Ass.

Hannah Simone is going to be the lead in the reboot of "Greatest American Hero".

Vin Deisel has signed on as Bloodshot for the Valiant universe.

Zak Penn is writing the ROM movie for Hasbro.
There was supposed to be a Hasbro cinematic universe joining Transformers, GI Joe, MASK, Visionaries, Micronauts, and ROM.
Hasbro looks like its scrapping the Bay-Verse Transformers for a hard reboot, and it was said they were scrapping the whole joint universe idea, including ROM, now ROM is back on!

http://www.darkhorizons.com/penn-adapts-hasbros-rom-into-a-feature/

So, here's who ROM is.
ROM was a toy back in the 80's.
It was Parker Brothers (the boardgame people) foray into action figures.
He was the first toy to have a sound microchip, so he was like the Buzz Lightyear of his day.
That's where his name comes from.
Chip, ROM, get it?
Anyway, Marvel did a comic of him, and even integrated him into their universe with the other heroes.
The toy flopped, but the comic outlived the toy by a decade.
Hasbro bought Parker Bros, so they have him now.
Marvel's rights to the character lapsed, so he can't be in the MCU.
James Gunn dearly wanted to slip him into one of the Guardians movies, but it was no-go legally.
IDW has his comics rights now, and they've been crossing him with the other Hasbro characters there.
They just did ROM meets Transformers.
ROM's overall story is pretty much like Silver Surfer, except he's a man's brain in a robot's body with a rocket pack and raygun, instead of a metal guy in a surfboard.
But the overall theme of him sacrificing his humanity to save his world is similar.
His gun is the Energy Neutralizer, and can do all sorts of things.
Like, if he shoots Hulk with it, it erases his gamma rays, and turns him to Banner.
If he shoots magical beings with it, it banishes them back to their netherworld.
It's kind of a Swiss army knife, like Dr Who's screwdriver.
He's a beloved character to 80's kids like me, so making a movie of him at all is pure nostalgia.
I hope it doesn't suck.

70's.

IDW are going hog-wild with crossovers right now. Transformers are meeting GI Joe, ROM, the Micronauts and now Cybertron's been invaded by the goddamn Visionaries!

No actual MLP crossover yet, but the art guys have drawn some variant covers:

Blumhouse is making a movie of "The American Way", about a black superhero in the 60's.

Is that linked to a comic/novel? Would be interested in reading.

The current Black Lightning series is doing a good job with the "superpowers don't get you past prejudice" angle but a 60s based series could do an even deeper analysis, given the Civil Rights movement at the time.

Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way

https://www.amazon.com/American-10t...d=1523986196&sr=1-3&keywords=the american way

Agreed!
I'm chomping at the bit to take a look too!

They're moving ahead with M.A.S.K. for the Hasbro universe with F. Gary Gray (Fate Of The Furious) as director.

But is Trakker gonna lead the mission?

And will they have that robot that looks like Artoo and VINCENT's love child which turned into a scooter for the plucky teen sidekick?

I wish they'd nod to the Transformers too - the original show was basically a mashup of G.I.JOE and Transformers anyway, and Transformers Prime managed to get little hits in like "UNIT: E" (a short-lived comic that tried to merge the continuities but in the show the division Agent Fowler worked with the Autobots through) and Prime's upgraded vehicle mode in S3 being based on an "experimental vehicle created by our M.A.S.K. division".

Hell, one of the M.A.S.K. cartoon vehicles is a dead ringer for Optimus's more modern semi-truck mode.

I should also add that although the leader of M.A.S.K. is called Matt "Hunter" Trakker (why he needed a codename with that surname I dunno) he's not the origin of my username.

Jamie Foxx is going to be Spawn.

https://www.cbr.com/jamie-foxx-spawn-movie-blumhouse/

Jeremy Renner has joined the Spawn reboot in an unnamed role.

Rogue Trooper gets a film. Gizmodo: It Sure Sounds Like Duncan Jones is Making a Rogue Trooper Movie.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/it-sure-sounds-like-duncan-jones-is-making-a-rogue-troo-1827611822

Green Arrow?

*ducks*

About time the 2000AD universe got some more love other than Dredd.

Be curious at how this'll turn out, and hopefully it'll open some doors to the likes of Slaine and Nemesis the Warlock.

Of course one I'd love to see is Zenith.

Hellboy reboot poster.

Poster and trailer for Umbrella Academy.

If he's gonna look THAT Perlman, just GET Perlman, or CGI his manly features!

*It looks fucking awesome*

Legendary Pictures has bought the rights to do a big budget remake of The Toxic Avenger.
New Line had the rights, but they sat on their thumbs for 20 years, and didn't do anything with it.

If we can have Logan, Deadpool, and Brightburn, we sure as Hell can reboot Toxie for a wide release.

I'm dubious. We'll see...

Yo, D, you know any comics where an older guy/gal gets powers? Usually, heroes are teens or in their 20s when they get zapped/bitten/bestowed and if we see an older hero they're a grizzled veteran, but I'm not aware of too many examples where a mid-40s or 50s person gets powers and becomes heroic. You'd figure it might be a mid-life crisis fantasy for some - sudden vigor and fame, members of the opposite sex very grateful for saving them from the muggers... but it hardly seems to show up.

I can think of Red Hulk, though he isn't exactly a hero and he wasn't new to combat either by the time he got his powers.

Any others?

Mainstream comics?
Nope.
But Harry Hembock has always been roughly in his 40's.

Good point, and I imagine Constantine is old enough to be world-weary, but he's prolly a 30-ish dick who just got angsty.

I remembered a few TV examples - Second Chance has a 75-year old grizzled Sheriff reborn in a peak-human younger body albeit with the insinuation that his body always had this genetic potential, it just took the scientist partner to unlock it (because it can also cure his sister's illness).

And Now And Again has Jon Goodman killed and his brain transplanted into a superhuman body played by Eric Close, having to deal with wanting to reconnect with his wife as a much younger and fitter man, but hiding that he's her deceased husband (and his attempts to woo her all over) or his superiors will pull the plug.

Oddly enough, the next example I could find is a novel trilogy about four women who develop superpowers due to the menopause...

Hellboy poster.
Trailer sometime this week.

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