Did you know Wolverine had a son? Well, hell, nobody did. But this year, to make absolutely sure, every single base in all aspects of Wolverine’s life are covered to make sure the tidal wave of Wolverine Origins are covered they’ve given him a bouncing baby boy. And to make things more interesting they have also given the son a few special traits
a) Made him an adult
b) Made him hate Wolverine
c) Made him an Avenger
Oh, and they’ve also given him claws, but see, that’s something you would have expected right? But as the storyline of “Dark Avengers” plays itself out things have gotten weirder. Norman Osborn is now in charge of the Avengers and he has essentially replaced all the good guys with bad guys. And Wolverine’s son has been shown to be a bad guy; with a history of callousness, mercenary work and a general bad attitude. Not so different from dad right!
But don’t forget about Laura! Who’s Laura, you ask? Why that’s Wolverine’s “daughter.” Not really she’s a clone. Code name X-23 because it took that many trials to get the process to work right. But a FEMALE clone. See? That’s the twist! Oh comic books, always so clever. Well the big difference between the daughter and the son is the she has undergone the claw enhancing adamtanium process. But maybe something similar is in the works for Daken, the son’s name is similar to the 80′s metal band Dokken. But to learn more about that you need to be reading Wolverine Origins…
So I finally got to see the movie Push a few weeks ago. I guess it originally opened WAY back in February, but I didn’t even know about it. And this is supposed to be my thing; comic books, movies or a combination of the two. But NOPE I didn’t know nothing! But let’s see, the reason I found out about the movie at all is because I recently came across the 4 issue limited series of comic books. Which were, in fact, kinda great. And somewhere on the books it referenced a movie and I was like WHAT. Oh my God, lets run over to IMDB and see what’s up.
But do you know what I found over at the movie database? Bunch of people complaining about the movie not only not being good but review after review talking about how it was like Heroes-the TV show. And I kinda see why they might say that-because they’re a similar powers aspect. But that’s kinda it! I mean some people have similar powers but it’s really nothing like the TV show. The movie Push is about random people with special powers using their powers pretty much for personal gain. A few of them seem to work for a government group. But, and let me be clear about this, you wouldn’t REALLY know what the movie’s about without the comics. And THAT is the true shortcoming of the movie. It’s an “art movie.”
I recently had a talk with a friend about how I’m planning to make my own super hero movie and the problem with most of them so far is that the movie producers REFUSE to make the movie like the comic book. Either they think they know best how to “make a movie” or they want to do something artsy like that poor stupid ass Lee who made the Hulk movie. It takes somebody like Rami who was a lifelong Spider-Man fan to make the Spider-Man movie right. So Push is artsy. I liked the movie-from a film making point of view; interesting, not overly defendant on effects. But then the director impressed me with his British gangster movie a few years ago. But as a super hero movie it was off. If he wanted to make an art movie he should have chosen Kandinsky as a subject matter.
But back to the COPYCAT issue. The current series of X-Factor features a couple of offbeat characters; Jamie Madrox and Layla Miller. And yeah, those two are basically the 2 stars of Push. This X-Factor started around 2005 so it’s POSSIBLE the movie just absorbed them. But hard to say; it takes a movie so long to get made it could have been on the shelf for 10 years. But I think not. I think somebody saw the weird dynamic of Madrox and Layla and said I’m gonna use that.
Photo from the NY 2009 Comic Con. The reason I love fan outfits so much is they’re usually so much better than what shows up in the movies. The Iron Man and Spider-Man movies being the exception they usually just look so inaccurate and bland in the movies. But I once saw some Comic con Green Lanters that were unbelievable. And this Deadpool is no exception. Yes it looks simple, but it’s accurate! There’s even a very good Catwoman in the background.
Oh, and at the last minute I just had to add this Domino and Spider Woman. Look how picture perfect they are!
