SDCC Is Over for This Year, And It Was Enjoyable

 San Diego Comic Con sure was a big hit this year with lots of announcements that were made public involving movies, new comic titles and video games.

The Reading Gamers tried to cover everything we could have covered during this hectic weekend, so if we missed anything, I apologize.

I enjoyed a lot of the stuff announced at Comic Con this year, but I think the biggest thing that stood out the most for me was the upcoming plans for X-Men and the teaser picture of Scarlet Spider-Man's hoodie. The whole X-Men universe seems like it's going to be changed a good amount, the X-Men are splitting up, it seems like something will happen to Cyclops and the mutants are supposedly having a bigger role in the Marvel Universe. And as far as this hoodie goes, I have no idea what the people at Marvel is really planning, I don't think anyone does besides themselves, but they're doing something that's related to Spidey's favorite clone it seems. I wonder if this has anything to do with Spider Island, I wouldn't be surprised if it were.

Comic Con was also a chance for Marvel to promote their Avengers movie as they showed off some really well done poster depicting Black Widow, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Thor and Nick Fury with Agent Coulson and Maria Hill.

Tons of other things were announced, if you want, check out all the posts starting from Thursday till Sunday which will include lots of things that we tried to cover during San Diego Comic Con. We have announcements about Super Street Fighter X Tekken, Soul Calibur 5, the Silver Samurai on the big screen and much more!

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The Defenders Finally Announced

San Diego Comic Con is coming to and end, but the news keeps coming. During Marvel's last panel, they finally announced that there will be a new Defenders team.

Remember all those "It's Either In You Or It's Not" posters, that's exactly what I'm talking about. But Arune Singh says that Red She-Hulk, Iron Fist, Dr. Strange, and Silver Surfer aren't the only ones on the team.

I'm not sure if this picture has been released, but it teases that the Hulk will also be in the newly formed team.

The current Defenders members at the moment are Doctor Strange, Loa, Namor, She-Hulk (Lyra) and Silver Surfer in Fear Itself: The Deep. I'd like to see how they acquire more members and who else would be involved, not too sure if Loa and Lyra will still be in the new one or not.

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Avatar The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra Trailer [Update]

During San Diego Comic Con, a trailer for Avatar the Last Airbender: Legend of Korra was released. So far, I'm loving it, I'm really enjoying how modern the look to some of the towns and the animation is looking superb.

Legend of Korra is expected to come out mid 2012 with 26 episodes already planned. Korra is the next Avatar after Aang; the series also takes place 70 years after the original Last Airbender.

Update:

Thanks to RestlessMonarch, I have a better quality trailer for Avatar; it looks really amazing and I'm totally digging the music for it also.

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More Marvel On T.V.

Marvel is on a roll with their announcements this year at San Diego Comic Con. This time, Jeph Loeb, Head of Television, was brought to the stage to talk about Marvel's projects for the television.

The lucky attendees were able to watch footage from both Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Season 2. Loeb also announced some some live-action shows that are in development, and they're pretty shocking. The shows will focus around these characters (each one is getting their own show):

• Jessica Jones
• Hulk
• Cloak and Dagger
• Mockingbird

Who would've ever thought that Jessica Jones will be getting her own show, and what about Mockingbird? Mockingbird might be cool, Cloak and Dagger would be awesome, Hulk as been done before, but Jessica Jones? I don't know how to feel about this, I do want to see it though, just for curiosity; if that's the case, I hope it doesn't flop like Wonder Woman. Loeb does say that some may or may not make it to the screen, but he does talk about each one.

aka Jessica Jones is being done at ABC and will be based on Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos' Alias, don't get it mixed up with J.J. Abrams Alias because they're both different characters. Loeb does confirm that Carol Danvers and Luke Cage will be featured.

Hulk will be focused on Banner and Betty and their love for each other with the setting to be set in the Hulk's earlier years, before everyone knows Banner the Hulk. This show sounds boring, I don't want to watch a show that will be full of romance scenes.

Cloak and Dagger will be featured on ABC Family and will be set in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Mockingbird is also going to be on ABC Family, Bobby will be depicted as "a Peter Parker Nerd" as she's getting into S.H.I.E.L.D. Hopefully some other characters will be shown in the show.

Loeb then moved away from the live-action and moved onto the animated shows. He announced that Ultimate Spider-Man will be on Disney XD next year. After then, he showed the audience footage of the show. Unfortunately there's no footage of it, I wish I could see it though.

Hulk: Agents of SMASH is another television animated project that Marvel is working on that will also be featured on Disney XD.

The first episode of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Season 2 was premiered in which it showed the Fantastic Four hanging out with the Avengers at the Avenger's Mansion as Doctor Doom is the protagonist in this episode.

I'm pretty much excited for all of this, minus Hulk and aka Jessica Jones. I can't wait for Avengers to start up again and see the Fantastic Four for more than 5 scenes. I would love to see Marvel get their own television station though; they'd be able to show all T.V. shows Marvel has done, which is quit a big amount considering that they have shows focused around Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men (X-Men TAS, X-Men Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men) Spider-Man and whatnot. I'd watch that station 24/7 though

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Is Marvel Teasing Scarlet Spider-Man?

Once again Marvel has released something else at San Diego Comic Con and this could possibly be the biggest thing for huge Spidey fans. Marvel released a picture of a blue hoodie, that Scarlet Spider-Man wore, on fire.

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The Avengers Concept Art

Marvel has released some pretty awesome concept for the upcoming The Avengers movie. The artwork includes Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Evans as Captain America.

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Skyward Sword's New Item System

Bill Trinnen, Product Marketing Manager of Nintendo America, announced that The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword will feature a system that enabled you to upgrade your items, something that we've never really seen in any Zelda game. Also featured in the video is some new gameplay.

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Movies at Comic Con: Ant-Man, Jurassic Park 4 and Sin City 2

With San Diego Comic Con being a big hit, three movies have been confirmed.

Edgar White, director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, says the he just recently turned in a draft for a movie based around Marvel's Ant-man.

Steven Spieldberg has just announced that he chose a story for Jurassic Park 4 and a writer is currently developing a script with the movie to be made in the next couple years.

Robert Rodriguez has confirmed that Sin City 2 is done being written and is going to feature three different story lines. Rodriguez plans to start the film this year and is interested in doing it in 3D.

Ant-Man, Jurassic Park 4 and Sin City, I can care less about Sin City but I'm excited to hear that Ant-Man and Jurassic Park is in development. I was so surprised when I heard that Spieldberg announced Jurassic Park 4, after 11 years, a new one is going to be made.

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X-Men And Their Future

San Diego Comic Con is a perfect time for Marvel to discuss their plans for certain Marvel heroes, and today were the X-Men's day.  

The world of X-Men is changing with Schism going on and lots of changes will take place during the events of Schism and afterwards.

Starting with X-Men: Regenesis in October, mutants will start to separate from one another and form their own groups with their own ideologies. Wolverine and the X-Men will also hit in October while Uncanny X-Men gets a renumbering. Marvel has released a picture for Uncanny X-Men, but notice that someone is missing?

Cylops isn't at her side on Utopia and Marvel won't tell us why. Instead, we'll have to read Schism and it will be revealed to us.

All X-Men titles will be affected from this mutant shaking event, even Uncanny X-Force will face something, despite them currently running their Dark Angel Saga.

Ron Gamely will be returning to Wolverine in the aftermath of Schism as he's being forced out of San Francisco for an unknown reason. Arune Singh says this about Wolverine:

"He needs some money, so he goes to his stash. But someone's stolen his stash, and that's a very bad idea. He's going to get it back, and he'll tear apart San Francisco to find it."

X-Men, X-Men Legact, Generation Hope, and X-Force are the only comics that will be continuing after the events of Schism. 

People have always wondered why X-Men don't play a large role in the Marvel Universe like all the other heroes. Axel Alonso says that, "there's a reason 'Fear Itself' and 'Schism' come to a conclusion the same month." And that the X-Men will have a pretty important role in the Marvel Universe. 

Moving away from Schism, Wolverine's female clone will be taking on the FF in an upcoming X-23 comic, and his son, Daken, will still be trying to sneak his way to the top as a crime lord in L.A. where he'll encounter Moon Knight. Singh says that there's a reason why L.A. is starting to become popular in some Marvel titles. 

Yesterday, Marvel announced a new character, Evil Deadpool. Daniel Way explains how Evil Deadpool forms, "Evil Deadpool is a collection of Deadpool's former body parts that were thrown into a dumpster and gelled together." He continues to say, "Evil Deadpool does lead into something really big, but I don't have clearance to talk about it yet."

One audience member asked about Jean and if she's coming back, in which Rick Remender replies with, "It's not the 616 Jean, but Jean plays a big role in 'Dark Angel Saga.'" By the looks of it, Marvel has no intention to do anything with Jean besides the Age of Apocalypse Jean.

Lots of questions were asked about returning characters, like Mimic, Psylocke, Maggot, Cable and Scarlet Witch, but Marvel isn't giving much away about them. Axel Alonso hinted that Cyclops might not be around  when he said, "don't assume Cyclops will be around." 


Lots of stuff will be going on in the X-Men Universe, and they seem pretty big and important to the whole Marvel Universe. I'm pumped and can't wait to see all the plans; I wanna know what happens to Cyclops and Wolverine and how other mutants will deal with Schism.

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The Walking Dead Trailer And Video Game

At San Diego Comic Con, AMC showed atendees thei trailer for Season 2 of The Walking Dead along with revealing the date and time for the show. The 13-episode season will debut October 16 at 9 P.M. ET/PT.



I'm pretty excited for the second season (especially the farm house part), I loved the first and how it was adapted into a T.V. show. I really hope that they show their prison hideout, I loved that part in the comic book.

Along with a trailer for the T.V. adaptation, Telltale has released some pictures of their upcoming The Walking Dead game. Telltale has decided not to follow Rick and his group, but instead they created a new character - Lee - who was a prisoner during the whole outbreak.

The game is about Lee trying to survive and will have situation where you will have to eat and mend a broken bone. The Walking Dead won't be a straight up run-n-gun zombie shooter, it will be more like an adventure game where you talk to people and solve puzzles. Some choices you make in the game, can affect other parts of the game also.

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More Ultimate Stories and Arcs/Titles Announced For Marvel

Big news came from San Diego Comic Con today involving the Ultimate Universe. Axel Alonso, Editor-in-Chief over at Marvel has announced that a new Ultimates volume will take shape, and along with that, an Ultimate Hawkeye mini will also come along. He has this to say about the Ultimate Universe:

"We really want to stress that these are going to be monthly shipping books. You guys deserve an'Ultimates' book that ships every month, and I want to give you that." 

"One of my priorities when I came in as Editor-in-Chief was taking a good, hard look at the Ultimate line.[...]You'll have to just buy three books to get one universe and not 52."

Writer Nick Spencer also took stage to talk about his new Ultimate X-Men and how it won't be about mutants worrying if humanity will work with or enslave the mutant race, instead it will follow teens - probably the ones from Ultimate X - surviving on their own and following what it's like to be an outsider.Spencer says that he will have a big cast that will include Storm, Colossus, Quicksilver and Jimmy Howlett - Wolverine's son.

Moving away from the Ultimate Universe, Jonathan Hickman started to talk about FF and how the next two arcs for the comic will involve a war that has been teased for a long time - War of Four Cities is what he's probably talking about. 

Along with Ultimate Universe and FF news, upcoming comic arcs/titles have been announced, such as:

• Hulk of Arabia 
• Evil Deadpool
• Villains For Hire
• Avengers Origins

Hulk of Arabia will take place in Hulk as a new villain will be introduced for the Hulk. Evil Deadpool will involve Deadpool straightening up his act as he goes against Foolkiller. Evil Deadpool will also be a new character that this arc will create . Nothing much was announced about Villains for Hire except that it will be a new monthly ongoing which will come out this November and that Misty Knight builds up a team of villains.

Avengers Origins will be a series of one-shots that retells the stories of various Avenger members - once an Avenger, always an Avenger. Characters that will be featured are:

• Antman & The Wasp
• Luke Cage
• The Vision
• Quicksilver & The Scarlet Witch
• Thor

 Avengers Academy will have a new addition of members that will include characters from other comics, like Runaways.

Marvel has a lot of big plans for their comics for the upcoming year, I can't wait for the Avengers Origins along with the new titles for the Ultimate Universe.

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