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Home » Blogs » LyleMasaki's blog » The Week in Gay Geek: WonderCon weekend, the Wolverine gets a bit of Grant Morrison inspiration and more! The Week in Gay Geek: WonderCon weekend, the Wolverine gets a bit of Grant Morrison inspiration and more!
- I wonder, wonder why the WonderCon:
For those of you who are heading out to Wondercon in San Francisco this weekend, local alt-weekly the Bay Guardian takes a look at what's gay at the convention. Meanwhile, Prism Comics has an even fuller agenda for gay fans. The San Francisco Chronicle also takes a look at the con's gay content. In addition to those panels, the Prism Comics booth is a place where you can usually find a wide variety of LGBT comics.
- Wolverine adds three hunks and Morrison creation:
While most gay bloggers have been quick to notice the increasingly hunky cast of the Wolverine movie (which now includes Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Daniel Henney, along with Hugh Jackman), it's the news that Dominic Monaghan will be playing Beak that has gotten my attention. Beak? Beak? My inner Grant Morrison fanboy is pretty excited to hear that one of his characters is going to be a part of one of the X-Men films. Now, if only we could see signs of how Morrison pushed the franchise (creatively as well as its gay metaphor) forward in his New X-Men run show up in future films. Oh, and because the excuse doesn't come up often, here's an illustration of how abtastic the Wolverine film is getting:
There aren't many guys who can manage to still look hot despite being stuck with Sally Brown's hairdo, but Jackman certainly manages it. (I'd link you to the Tim O'Neil comic I stole that joke from, but I can't find it anymore ... can anyone with better Google-fu help?)
- Wii old school gamers love the Commodore:
One way of establishing your nerd credibility -- at least if you're old enough -- is by reminiscing about Commodore. (I get to mix my Commodore geekery with my marketing geekery by being able to tell people how my parents bought me two of Commodore's failed C64 emulators ... anyone remember the Commodore Plus 4 or the Commodore 128?) Wii owners are going to get the chance to indulge in that nostalgia when Commodore classics become available as Wii Ware titles in Europe. Now, if only someone would realize how the genius Dan Dare video game needs to be introduced to a wider audience. (And is Dan Dare the nexus of video game, anglophile and comics geekdom?)
- Turok the Guykiss Hunter:
Well, this could have made it interesting, a conceptual storyboard for the Turok videogame reveal a cut scene where the game's dinosaur hunter locks lips with another guy.
I'm not sure how the Turok franchise just keeps on going. No matter how much I ignore it, it keeps coming back (unlike Quantum and Woody or other Acclaim title I liked). Is there a quality about this one the rather generic title and bland story descriptions are hiding?
- Boys on film:
The Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson comic The Boys was optioned for a possible film recently, which I have to admit has me a bit worried. While Ennis' history as a comic writer is mostly gay friendly (we did have complaints about his work on Midnighter and I'm not sure if there's a gay-friendly angle to The Boys' infamous "hamster" cover), his edgy style of humor is the type where some of his gay jokes can take on a homophobic undercurrent if mishandled by the screenwriter (and from what I've read about The Boys the title does have the occasional crude gay joke), this is one film I'll be keeping a cautious watch over.
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No doubt I look forward to seeing Hugh Jackman running around shirtless in the forests of Canada! If we're really lucky we'll get to see Wolverine's "birth" when he escapes from the Canadian government testing facilities ...in nothing but his BIRTHDAY SUIT!
If Ryan Reynolds does indeed stay in the new Wolverine film as "DEADPOOL" I just hope he keeps his costume on! Deadpool is supposed to be horribly disfigured under that skin tight suit. However, Deadpool's signature wisecracks and quick comebacks seem a perfect match for Ryan's sesibility.
And Beak isn't exactly a "looker" either:
BUT... I think the film will show them BEFORE in which case I hope they show off their AB-Tacular talents!! ;-)