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Here’s what we reviewed in comics this week that you might want to check out:
Empyre #3
One of the faults with this issue of Empyre is that it leans hard into a lot of pretty well-known tropes. Strong men like Cap and The Thing are leading the front lines while the eggheads, Tony and Reed, struggle to come up with a plan to turn the tide of battle against the Cotati.
Legion of Super-Heroes #7
In this issue, the Legion of Super-Heroes is dealing with a problem: Leadership. Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl argue with each other about the Legion’s de facto leader Brainiac 5. Up until this point, Brainiac has assumed top command simply because he’s smarter than everyone else. But the leadership is really like a council between Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Brainiac 5.
Suicide Squad #7
Tom Taylor consistently delivers a comic that’s as entertaining as it is sincere. A lot of times, a comic is one or the other, but Suicide Squad has a healthy balance of both. I shouldn’t care this much about a group of mercenaries and killers whose heads can spontaneously combust at any given moment, but here I am.
X-Factor #1
In this new era of X-Men, the best spin-off books expand on the nation of Krokoa and how it operates. X-Force is basically the black ops team, Marauders deals with moving drugs and smuggling mutants, and New Mutants is basically the young kids on the block. Enter X-Factor, a book that answers a curious question – What happens when a mutant dies?
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This year, fans are celebrating 20 years of the first X-Men movie, which changed superhero films forever upon release in July of 2000. The movie went through many iterations before finally hitting theaters. And there are many behind-the-scenes “what if?” scenarios when it comes to Marvel’s cinematic mutants. But one potential casting would have changed the movie entirely had it actually happened.
According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, which details the history of abusive behavior from X-Men director Bryan Singer, producer Ralph Winter dropped a very bizarre “making of” factoid. Trying to win the part of Professor Charles Xavier at one point was none other than pop superstar Michael Jackson. According to Winter, in 1999, Jackson came into the X-Men production offices wearing sunglasses. He also refused to shake hands with anyone. Jackson explained to them why he should play the part of Professor X, the X-mentor.
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The film’s producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, told Jackson at the meeting “Do you know that Xavier is an older white guy?” Instead of doing the obvious thing, and suggesting they merely change Professor X’s race, Michael bizarrely said “Oh yeah. You know, I can wear makeup.” Given what we know of the bizarre life of the late pop superstar, this story doesn’t sound all that far-fetched.
Michael Jackson was clearly a nerd, as he lobbied to play roles in other geek friendly properties. A few years back, it was revealed that Jackson also tried to win the part of Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace. He also tried to play Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, and Willy Wonka in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
But the other role he wanted in the Marvel realm was to actually play Spider-Man. Jackson went as far as to meet with Stan Lee to get his thoughts on his playing Peter Parker. He even considered buying Marvel to assure himself the coveted role! It obviously never happened, but it’s strange to think there is an alternate timeline out there where Jackson played all these iconic roles.
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