It’s Avengers-o-rama this week

First off! Captain America’s movie costume revealed!!

Also full shots of Thor’s costume!

And a side-by-side comparison of the main movie Avengers

Looks pretty sweet to me, though I feel like Cap’s costume is a little too sleek/modern for World War II, though they seemed to have mostly adapted Bryan Hitch’s Ultimate Captain America design. Also, I was kinda hoping that Thor would have A. mail pants like the Coipel design and B. have a tunic that extended a little down past the waistline. Just the same though, it’s great to see the full designs, I can’t wait to see them in action.

Also, according to Jon Favreau, Iron Man will not be appearing in the Captain America or Thor movies like at the end of the Hulk, where Stark meets with General Ross to discuss “a new team.” Now, this may just be semantics, in that we won’t see Iron Man, but may see Tony Stark. Thor is going to take place in the modern era, and we know Agent Coulson from the Iron Man movies will be in it, and the Captain America film will be bookended by modern segments, so we may see Tony Stark, just not with the armor.

Last bit of Avengers news is that Jeremy Renner is just about locked to play Hawkeye in the 2012 Avengers movie. I still haven’t seen the Hurt Locker, but I’ve heard that his character has the same sort of deadpan smartassery that Hawkeye is known for. As far as the look, just dye his hair blonde and he’s got it.

Next up is this fun piece I found on Kotaku:

I found this website a couple days ago and thought it was thoroughly fantastic:

As their tagline says, “wherein jokes and statements are made using typography.” So far it’s been goofiness like the girl kicking the flowers and seriousness like comments on the BP disaster.

First and foremost:

Chris Hemsworth as Thor! I’m really glad they went with the modern Olivier Coipel-designed costume, it looks really great.

Speaking of Marvel movies, I got into a screening of Iron Man 2 at the Alamo Drafthouse (Gotta love Austin) this past Tuesday. After watching well over an hour of bizarre cartoons and videos from the 30s and 40s, the lights came down and they ran through the usual Alamo pre-movie reel of coming events. Then the lights came back up and AICN boss Harry Knowles and Alamo head Tim League came out to introduce the movie. Then this happened:

Where yes indeed, both Robert Downey, jr. and Jon Favreau came out to introduce and talk about the film. As for the movie, it was an absurd amount of fun. More action, more spectacle, more character developments than the first. It still suffered from some slow pacing in a few parts, but the snappy dialogue made up for it. And at just under 2 hours, they crammed a LOT into it. Also, there were tons of references for the comics fans, including direct references to the upcoming Captain America and Thor movies (namely the post-credits sequence, which I had to go to Youtube to see, as it wasn’t included) as well as things like the Silver Centurion armor (combined with the iconic Silver Age suitcase armor, no less). Overall it was really good, and I’m definitely looking forward to seeing it again when it officially opens.

I also found these great pieces of Star Wars propaganda art by Joe Corroney (from /Film):

Also these pieces by “21st Century Art Deco” artist Mike Kungl

He has some great non-Star Wars work as well, I’m definitely a fan of the angular, elegant art deco style.