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Comic-Con 2013 — or as it’s known in some circles, Nerd Heaven — is over! There were tons and tons of geeky announcements, trailers, and news bits. Some of the highlights include:
- Man of Steel 2 being a Superman/Batman movie
- The Avengers 2 being an Age of Ultron movie
- A lengthy and awesome Kick-Ass 2 trailer
- Lots of information on X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Sweet details on The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- More footage from Thor 2
- More footage from Captain America 2
- The first glimpse of WWE Batista as Drax in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie
- The trailer for Cosmos, a new version of the excellent Carl Sagan show hosted by Neil de Grasse Tyson
- Updates on A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones season 4
What got your inner nerd fired up at Comic-Con 2013? What got you worried?
As for me, I was totally jazzed by the return of Cosmos and I loved the Kick-Ass 2 clip. I really didn’t like Joss Whedon strongly hinting that Hank Pym will not be part of Ultron’s origin in The Avengers 2. Yeah, there are ways to write around that like altering Ultron’s origin so that it’s an accidental creation by Tony Stark or S.H.I.E.L.D., but as a longtime comic-book nerd, I can’t buy that. The identities of Ultron and Hank Pym are tied together. Yes, I understand that it frees up The Avengers 2 and the upcoming Ant-Man movie, but it just…feels wrong.
Now it’s your turn! Fire away with your Comic-Con 2013 thoughts in the comments section (please!).
Aside from the cosplay I’m only interested in Cosmos and the new Xmen movie. I am a sucker for time travel stories.
Rest was pretty blah. So many sequels.
Im intrigued with dark horse continuing the terminator salvation storyline into a 12 issue arc written by straczynski.