* not comics: it would be nice if they could revive this as I think they're going to do some filming down here and that part of the local economy could use a boost even if it's at a reduced rate. Then again, the thought of a budget-conscious $215 million movie production makes a part of me want to leave society and live in a cave.
* not comics: the curious thing about Entertainment Weekly's coverage of the forthcoming Avengers movie is they apparently couldn't score an actual group photo for a proper cover. I mean, I assume the magazine would have wanted one, and I can't think the studio wants to see something that goofy-looking hit the stands as major initial advance publicity for a movie like that.
* I could see very much liking a Shang-Chi story written by Warren Ellis and drawn by David Aja. Of all the comics in Marvel's second burst -- that period from the initial departure of Jack Kirby to Secret Wars -- it always seemed to me that the late '70s/early '80s run of Master Of Kung Fu comics was the one group of stories Marvel did that would most easily translate into their present-day superhero espionage fixation. It's a far better fit than Steve Englehart's Captain America is, for instance.
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