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Comic Con is every geek’s dream. A dream this geek plans to fulfill next year for Comic Con 2011 with as many friends as I can wrangle together.

For those of you readers who may not know much about Comic Con it is the yearly get together for all things geek.

Yes comics, but so much more than just that. We’re talking every movie premier and preview that has anything geek related as part of the story, every comic and TV show, you name it.

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I have discussed comic book movies a few times on here, including a few from last summer, some good, some bad, and some of the more terrible examples in the history of adaptations, like Batman & Robin.

When we think of comic book movies we usually think of classic examples like that— Batman, Iron Man, X-men—but there are also comic book movie adaptations from lesser known comics.

Those are the examples I would like to discuss today, because there are three such movies coming out in the near future that look pretty damn good: Kick-Ass, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
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Latest in Captain America news:

Chris Evans, also known as the Human Torch in two Fantastic Four films, may have been offered the role. We’ll see how that pans out.

For six years friends and I attended the Anime Detour anime convention in Bloomington, MN (St. Paul this past year), starting from its conception in 2004. At last we are breaking free and will be attending Anime Central in Chicago.

We were getting so sick of the same old thing every year, without any new people, new management (I could not HATE the girl that runs the cosplay masquerade more) or new panels/guests/anything.

One aspect of our con-going that we are not changing, however, is that we will be cosplaying and entering into competition.

I have two awards under my belt from those 6 years at Detour. In 2006 my friend Alexandria and I won Best Novice Performance for our Tifa vs Tifa skit. She was classic Tifa and I was the Advent Children version.
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I think most people underestimate just how many films in existence have been based off of comics. The list is rather extensive, even just for the English language ones.

I am not talking about the good ones either. This blog is for the ones that sucked. The ones that were either all around bad or just didn’t capture their parent source correctly.

This is for the ones that FAILED.

If I tried to discuss all of them, or went into TV movies, God forbid, we’d be here all day (and I really don’t want to review the Hoff as Nick Fury). So here is my short list.
 
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I am torn on this one. With the other versus blogs I had a clear favorite even when most of the time I greatly respected the opposing side, but with this particular debate it is harder to choose. I would say Marvel simply because Spider-Man, Deadpool, and the X-men are some of my favorite characters of all time, but then DC has Batman, and it really is hard to compete against Batman.

There is a lot more to cover with these franchises than with any of the others I have compared thus far, so bear with me. Onto a brief history of each of these incredible comic publishers.
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Now, I’m not trying to upset anyone here. Equal rights are an important thing, but so is femininity, and sometimes feminists and others can take an issue too far.

Women in comics has carried with it controversy since the first appearances of a female character on the page, and there will probably always be dissenters saying women are poorly or unfairly portrayed. In the past, those types of accusations may have even been true, but this is a new age of comics. For every finger pointing at exploitation of women, I can point a finger right back at how that same image or character is empowering, or has an empowering counterpart. Every fashion magazine on the rack has more negative effect on women than a single comic book character.

My examples, friends.
 
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