Great news if you're pining for Chris Samnee's "Thor the Mighty Avenger" & pics from "Batman Live"!

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Remember this fun cancelled series?



Yeah, I think we all do. :(

Well, Chris Samnee has been announced as the penciller on the WWII adventures of Steve and Bucky in the appropriately titled "Captain America and Bucky" (Shades of another Dynamic Duo's recent new title one wonders?). Up on his DeviantArt account he's posted a Bucky pic he did a while back, to celebrate.



And from The London Evening Standard we have the first pictures of the cast of the new Arena show "Batman live", which launches in London in August then goes on a world tour.

The Dynamic Duo


This is apparently Dick Grayson, whose introduction to the Batverse forms the core of the show..

The Bad Guys (Like their Joker and Harley)



Awww, a group shot, isn't that sweet? :)



Click for a video from the main site, of the audition process

Comments

[twomasks]

If that fellow playing the Joker is 1/10th the performer Hamill is, he is going to scare the kids in the audience to death. That costume is perfection.

[nightauditguy]

Hopefully this will be more successful than the Spider-Man broadway show that's trying to get started.

[rebecky_mo]

I'm still not talking to Marvel after that travesty you mentioned (reopening the wound, dammit). But I'm glad Chris is getting more work from them; we'll see if I forgive them in time to pick up this series.

[omnipotent]

I really like Harley's costume.

Also digging Riddler and Ivy.

[omnipotent]

It probably didn't help that the show seemed to be plagued with accidents, if memory serves correctly.

[rebecky_mo]

Think you meant this for the comment above me. But yeah, it was full of issues, including accidents.

[icon_uk]

To the extent it made the cover of The New Yorker

[thandrak]

Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot
They rob and they steal and they always get caught...

[arilou_skiff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUrQWsUjTA

And George Take made a joke about it

[icon_uk]

George Takei versus Venom? This must happen.... DO YOU HEAR ME UNIVERSE?!

[baxter2814]

Noooo!! If I so much as think about that song it gets stuck in my head for hours!

[schala_kid]

Great news if you're pining for Chris Samnee's "Thor the Mighty Avenger"

With a title like that I thought you meant they were going to continue the comic! Now I cryyyy! And even more since the Dr Mcninja writer and GuriHiru are only getting a one-shot issue for their Cap comic.

Still I'm happy that Chris is getting work and even more that he's working on Cap!

[thandrak]

The costumes do match pretty well, especially the Harley.

[icon_uk]

Luckily for me, the Robin doesn't! :)

[omnipotent]

Thank you for that laugh. I appreciate it.

[cainofdreaming]

I'm getting this weird Ozymandias vibe out of Dick's costume/the whole look of the actor... it just throws me in for a loop.

[icon_uk]

Good catch, yes, there are similarities in the face particularly.

[blackruzsa]

Oh great, now the song has returned to haunt me...

A superstitious cowardly lot....

[big_daddy_d]

Not feeling Robin's suit, but am liking the boots and gloves.

[icon_uk]

But it's schway!

[blackruzsa]

It's schwarbage.
(oh, my childhood, how I miss you so)

[icon_uk]

Actually, if you consider that we never find the origin of "shway" as a term, if we use the same sound transposition that produced shwarbage, it means that Terry just called the show "gay", and in BB's future it's an actual high compliment.

[blackruzsa]

Doncha just love them new-fangled words?

And honestly I'm just quoting Bruce from that episode XD

[icon_uk]

And honestly I'm just quoting Bruce from that episode

Oh I know you are. Do you REALLY think my gay, musical loving, bat-obsessed geek-fu self would quote "It's shway" if I WASN'T expecting someone to reply "It's shwarbage!" in this context? :D

[wizardru]

Robin's suit is weird. It's like someone made an armor piece to look like cloth instead of armor. It fails at being both at certain angles. I also prefer my Batman/Robin designs to be less armory overall.

Were the Riddler and Ivy not available for the one group shot? They look like they've been photoshopped in.

[blackruzsa]

Oh we are so in tune 8D

[kamino_neko]

So, you were setting up your comment.

Pretty sneaky, man. Pretty sneaky.

[icon_uk]

I prefer to think of it as "Offering a invitation to share REVEL in our mutual geekiness".

As is the custom among our people. :)

(Perhaps akin to calling out "Shave and a haircut", and expecting the "Two bits!" reply)

[proteus_lives]

Samnee is a new personal hero of mine.

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

Me being none of those things (though that's a matter of me being outclassed in geekiness here), I have no idea what you're referring to, but I am intrigued. My life can only be richer with the addition of some form of entertainment in which the line "It's Shwarbage" is used.