SDCC News...on MCU, DCEU, and others

San Diago Comic Con or SDCC did not disappoint this year:

The Trailers & Announcements from the Comic Con for Marvel Universe did not disappoint

They announced all their films and television series up to and including 2025. It's a huge slate. What's also interesting about it - is the heroes are mainly women and people of color. It's not the all white guy slate that was in the past. That's kind of huge.
( Extensive List of Marvel Films )

The interesting thing about the list..is 90% of the films/television series feature female or person of colors as the leads. I think only four or five out of the twenty some films/series feature white men. If you don't know how big a deal that is - then you've clearly not been watching action/super hero films for as long as I have. You wouldn't have seen that roster in 2008.

Trailers & Announcements from the Comic Con for DC Verse or Warner Brothers was a bit on the scant side

DC is struggling here, partly because they have not done what Marvel did, and invested in top-liner white male characters for too long, and not lesser know characters. Also their big Flash film is having all sorts of on-going casting and production issues. The latest? The actor portraying the lead has been accused of rape or sexual assault, and recently. So that film - which would have been the headliner - was yanked from the line up. Leaving them with just Shazam 2 and Black Adam, neither considered headliner films. And they are focusing more on villains and the Justice Society, because their headliner Justice League films haven't done that well.

List of trailers:

* Black Panther 2 trailer shows what’s next for Wakanda - BEST of the superhero trailers.
Shazam 2 trailer shows off the villains and introduces Rachel Zegler
Netflix’s The Sandman TV series has a trailer worth dreaming about - BEST of all of the Trailers.
New trailer for Rings of Power brings big battles and one familiar flaming enemy
First trailer for Tales of the Walking Dead reveals new sides of the zombie-filled world
Groot lets one rip in first trailer for I Am Groot short series
Dungeons & Dragons movie brings owlbears, gelatinous cubes, and mimics to life in first trailer
Feast your eyes on the first teaser for Teen Wolf: The Movie
Harvey Keitel’s returning to the National Treasure franchise
The Dragon Prince returns to Netflix with a time skip this winter
Gotham Knights’ Batgirl trailer shows Barbara Gordon stepping in to fill the Batman void
Star Trek: Lower Decks sets its parody sights on Deep Space 9 in new trailer
Keanu Reeves and Donnie Yen square off in a sword and gun fight in the John Wick 4 trailer
She-Hulk is joined by Daredevil in new trailer from San Diego Comic Con 2022
The metaverse comes for Mythic Quest in first season 3 teaser
New Black Adam trailer shows off the Justice Society, more antihero antics
Marvel’s Ironheart makes her MCU debut in the Black Panther 2 trailer
Interview with a Vampire gives fans first bite of the new series with a trailer

List of Announcements:

Here’s the official slate for Marvel’s Phase 5 and 6
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars will close out Marvel’s Phase 6
The new animated Avatar movie will star Aang and the Gaang as adults
Black Adam revealed its secret villain to San Diego Comic-Con fans only
The biggest news and announcements from Warner Bros.’ SDCC 2022 panel
Sarah Michelle Gellar joins the Teen Wolf universe
The Pokémon Squishmallows are exceptionally cute
Amazon has already ordered a third season of The Wheel of Time
Here’s everything Crunchyroll showed off at its 2022 Comic-Con industry panel
MultiVersus is adding LeBron James, Rick and Morty to roster
Marvel’s What If...? season 2 is coming early 2023 with more Captain Carter, Neil Gaiman’s 1602
X-Men ’97 reveals Magneto as new leader, plus season 2 on tap
The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes movie is now a romantic Walking Dead TV show
The Walking Dead’s last eight episodes come to AMC in October
Batman and Spawn will reunite in new story from Todd McFarlane
Daredevil returns with new Disney Plus series Daredevil: Born Again
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks crews will meet in a crossover event
Nick Fury and Marvel’s Secret Invasion are coming to Disney Plus in 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will put a new spin on an old villain
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor toys show off Cal Kestis’ new look
Magic’s Unfinity set will include stickers so players can make their own cards
Marvel announces a Fantastic Four movie release date

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Other big news coming out of the con..

* Sarah Michelle Gellar as a role in the new Wolf Pack series, as an arson investigator.

* Picard is bringing back the original cast of Star Trek Next Generation for S3 of Picard, also the final season of the series.

* And there's a lot of new fantasy shows dropping soon on streaming and in theaters...

[I found all of this cheering.]

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Got a breezy haircut. Tipped about 25%, so it was all told $97. Still cheaper than Carroll Gardens site, which was $138 without tip.

Hairstylist told me to keep the gray, she said I had soft white gray, and it looked nice in my hair - so I really shouldn't die it. Apparently there are folks out there who want that color - gray highlights, which I have. And it's ridiculously difficult to maintain.

Me: I heard it's hard to maintain?
Stylist: It is - you have to re-do it every two-three weeks. And when it fades...it turns green.
Me: Green?
Stylist: Yup green, and not a pretty green.
Me: Why do people do it?
Stylist: They want what they don't already have.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

It was about a ten - fifteen minutes from my apartment. And it is nice to have a hair stylist nearby, who I can easily get bookings. The more expensive spot in Carroll Gardens is a 15-20 minute train ride from my home, booked solid for weeks. While this one had a time on Sunday, was cheaper, and just a quick walk. On a hot day - that's what I wanted.
Plus exercise. There's a yoga place near there - along with a nice coffee and tea place. I got rasberry hisbicus tea afterward. Hamilton's - a local eatery is across the street.

Hot today. In the mid-nineties. And humid. Felt like a sauna.

Spoke to mother, after I sent her a photo of the new haircut.

Mother: There's a vulture, a pretty big one sitting on my roof.
Me: How can you see it?
Mother: I'm sitting in the expressway and looking out the window across at it.
Me: Okay, that's kind of creepy.
Mother: Not sure why it's there...
Me: Anything dead around -
Mother: I doubt it would be interested in your father's ashes, unless it is interested in me?
Me: I wasn't going to go there...but here we are.

She also informed me that my brother won't be around at Christmas - he's off to Hawaii. Must be nice to be able to travel anywhere.

Me: Hawaii? Again?
Mother: Yeah, they've not been there in a while and feel its time to visit again.

Sigh. I want to go to Hawaii.

Mother: We could go on our own or somewhere else?
Me: Uhm okay.

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Watching another episode of S8 "Alone", which is not the current season. And is the only season available on NETFLIX, who likes to show single seasons of various series. So does HBO Max for that matter.

Apparently they can only bring so many items with them. Such as either a fire starter or a tarp.
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San Diego Comic Con was rather awesome this year - apparently.

Trailers...

Neil Gaiman's Sandman Panel, and the release of the Trailer and release date - this is the biggest oddball property in the DC Tent.

Wakanda Forever Trailer Dropped - it looks amazing. The heroes are the "women" of Wakanda fighting the villians - Namor and the Atlanteans.

Namor is considered the first "mutant" of the Marvel Verse in the comics.

There's more see previous post for list.

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I'm debating taking a day off next week. I'm not sure. I have ten vacation days, one personal day, and approximately 2-3 comp days left. Three vacation days and three bereavement days are being used for my Dad's funeral in Sept.