•Face front, true believer! Did you know Scarlet Witch’s hex fields are loci of improbability (as seen in the nearby photo)? That’s only one of the things you might have learned if you went to New York Comic-Con this weekend, as did the editor of the site BleedingCool.com, which posted that cosplay pic.
Since I didn’t actually attend, the other pics you see in
this blog entry are merely ones I took during the set-up day, Thursday, prior
to the real con – including a shot of the faux-set for what appears to be a
major new South Park project and the
booth of Japan-influenced knickknack-seller Hip
Hop Candy, run by Olivia Lilly, who together with Matt Brandenburgh got me
in. Among other things, Hip Hop Candy
now sells “Unicorn Poo” perfume (I cannot promise it smells like real unicorn
poo).
If that’s not cute enough, this entry also contains a photo
pointed out by Jacqueline Cohen that shows a unicorn with a dog sitting on it.
Cuter still, in this clip a single, unbroken shot of
very rambunctious kittens lasts A HALF HOUR.
•If it’s more-serious geekery you seek, though, I see
November brings three major nerd films, the controversial Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, the second Hunger Games film, and the second Thor film. I cannot promise any of them will be as interesting
as this month’s spectacular Gravity
(with its silent absence of Mission Control bureaucrats both welcome and eerie)
and mediocre Machete Kills. The two films have far more in common than
one would have anticipated -- and you would never guess which one has the cameo
by space/travel/etc. entrepreneur Elon Musk (who was also in an Iron Man
movie). 
•The second of three Hobbit
films comes out in December, but you can already enjoy this
mind-bogglingly large Lego version of the Battle of Helm’s Deep from the
second Lord of the Rings movie. Less fun
is this
tragic story of a real-life “Hobbit home” vs. all-too-human government (h/t
Andrea Pisani, Jesse Forgione).
And speaking of fantasy, shouldn’t they use this rock
classic in a Game of Thrones
promo at some point, tone be damned?
•Finally, if all this leaves you wanting to plan your 2014
and 2015 nerd-movie-going, you already can, with the help of my expanded list,
below, of what I think’s relevant for the next two years (if you’re not
boycotting Joss Whedon or anything).
Oh, and here’s free marketing advice for the people doing
the new Godzilla: Due to what I think may be the horrific, metallic wail of
industrial- and farming-sized “grader blades” being bent back into shape,
numerous people around the world have posted clips of terrifying noises echoing
throughout their towns, thinking the world is coming to an end. Well, it happens to sound like Godzilla’s
distinctive roar, too, so I say: do ads inviting people to listen for
Godzilla’s approach and post videos of warning if he nears! Instant viral campaign! I got a million of ’em. (That whole earthquake/Fukushima reactor
situation ought to create some sort of mutant-fish-watch opportunity, too. It’d be no more tasteless than Gilbert
Gottfried.)
2014:
2/7 RoboCop
3/7 300: Rise of an Empire
4/4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
? Mad Max: Fury Road
5/2 Amazing Spider-Man 2
5/16 Godzilla
5/23 X-Men: Days of Future Past
7/4 Atlas Shrugged: Part 3
7/25 Jupiter Ascending
8/1 Guardians of the Galaxy
11/7 Interstellar
11/21 Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
12/17 Hobbit: There and Back Again
2015:
3/16 Fantastic Four
5/1 Avengers: Age of Ultron
5? Star Wars: Episode VII
6/26 Ted 2
7/1 Terminator 5
7/17 Batman vs. Superman
7/31 Ant-Man
11/6 Bond 24
11/20 Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
12/18 Warcraft
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