8 Major Comic-Con Revelations Everyone Missed
There's more to Comic-Con than Domhnall Gleeson spoiling Episode VII.
As you can probably tell if you've looked at the Internet at all, San Diego Comic-Con happened over the weekend, drawing in the standard humongous crowds of comic book cultists, cosplayers and fans of sci-fi, fantasy and general geek culture. Now bigger than ever, the event has become a magnet for the the media and discerning bloggers looking to catch every word and throw it out into the echo chamber of the internet.
For three days straight, Twitter has been lighting up every time Batman V Superman, Star Wars Episode VII or any of the other tentpole films doing the rounds dropped a trailer or another crumb of information. Now it's over, you probably know just about everything you think you need to know to decide what level your excitement should be at.
You'll know that Domhnall Gleeson is playing General Nux in Episode VII, you heard about the Green Lantern Corps movie, you probably know Jennifer Lawrence will likely be back for more X-Men movies (after months of speculation)... If you really kept afloat of things, you probably heard the best thing of all: that Bryan Cranston will literally say he slept with your mum and drop the mic if you try and troll him at a Q&A.
Not every morsel of info was widely reported, however, and not just because the other stuff eclipsed it - there were some genuinely revelatory tidbits that just happened to get lost in the noise. So by means of a public service announcement...
8. Kevin Smith Has Made A Superhero Movie, And It Looks Rubbish
It’s too easy to make jokes about “everyone” missing Kevin Smith’s Comic-Con panel this year, and that's mainly because it’s almost true. As Star Wars Episode VII’s much-anticipated panel - which preceded Smith’s - culminated with a squad of stormtroopers marching Hall H out of the building to some Star Wars concert going on outside, it left hardly anyone behind for Smith.
You probably heard JJ Abrams later personally apologised to Smith for his accidental transgression, but do you even know what Smith was there to promote (beyond himself, naturally)? That would be his latest movie Yoga Hosers, the second instalment in his True North trilogy (the first being Tusk), a quasi-superhero movie that sounds… questionable at best.
The film concerns two 15-year-old girls obsessed with yoga (Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith and Johnny Depp’s sprog Lily-Rose Depp) teaming up with man-hunter Guy Lapointe (Depp himself, reprising his role from Tusk) to battle an ‘ancient evil’. And what is this ancient evil? The Bratzi, a “Canadian Nazi made of sentient Bratwurst” played by Smith.
Okay...