The Avengers

[certainthings]

I'm looking forward to this movie. Not as excited as some but some what yeee about it.

But. I don't know who they are.

Okay, I've seen Iron Man, Thor and Captain America. I've enjoyed them. I know the Hulk. But the others not so much.

What I mean is, I don't know the history of them, I never read the comics and what not.

I'm looking forward to seeing a good action flick.

But what I'm most excited about? Joss Whedon.

It fills me with stupid glee that Joss is involved. And yes, I'm aware that it'll be nothing like Buffy, Angel, Firefly or Dollhouse or any other thing that I might associate him with.

But still.

It's Joss.

And I love him.

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[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

The only characters involved with the team that we haven't seen solo movies on are Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow and Clint Barton aka Hawkeye. I know they said they're eventually going to do Black Widow and I'm sure Hawkeye will prove popular enough to get a movie,too. I mean, it's Jeremy Renner. He can carry a movie.

I fully admit I don't know as much as I should about the Avengers-verse and I AM a comics reader. I've read some Iron Man stuff, but only what Warren Ellis did, because it's Warren Ellis, and I only saw Cap and anyone else involved with The Avengers via storyline crossovers with X-Men and The Runaways. I haven't noticed it as much in the last ten years, but Marvel used to have these LONG overarcing SLs where it involved numerous character titles. If you didn't read one title, you'd miss some part of the story. The only exposure I've had to Thor's characters was via the New Mutants in the 80s and 90s, when those characters ended up in Thor's world and crazy shit happened.

You'll probably get more of Joss's shows than you'd think in this movie. I read some of the stuff he wrote for The Astonishing X-Men (I hated his run on The Runaways because he basically turned every kid on that team into some alternate of a Scooby Gang Member) and he had the same wit and charm of his show dialogue in the characters but they were still in character. This man made me LIKE Kitty Pryde, for fuck's sake, I couldn't fucking stand her before he wrote the character.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

He is talented. :)

But. I thought he was just directing the movie. Did he have a hand in writing it?

ps. Who is Black Widow and where does she come from?

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

She's a member of SHIELD. She's had a long and varied history within the comics, too. She appeared in the second Iron Man movie. Scarlett Johanssen played her. I can't remember a lot of details about her - since I haven't read her character in comic form in, like, seven or eight years - but here's a bio: http://marvel.com/universe/Black_Widow_%28Natasha_Romanova%29. I have no idea how much they've changed in the movie-verse, since they apparently cut some of her footage in IM2 that was supposed to have explained more about her.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

ok. nm.

Just saw that he wrote the screenplay.