Runaways next for Marvel

It looks like no one does care after all.

The point of this Strike Back section is to discuss the content of a news article, not to try and discredit the person who wrote it, or try to show the world how knowledgeable on comic books you are.

Bottom line: don't come here and complain about the journalism, just because no one cared about YOUR work when you entered the production world decades ago.

Until next time, when you post a comment complaining about the fact that there should be a hyphen between “Spider” and “Man” or some shit, enjoy laughing at other people with your friends when things slow down at the office.

I have no comment on whatever dick-measuring these two are doing. Yay, someone's a big comics fan. Me too. Yay, someone's a screenwriter. Me too. Just get over it, guys.

But I will take issue with anyone calling Joss Whedon "Box-Office Death". That's just plain stupid. He's directed one film. ONE. He's had three television shows and is coming up on four. One show lasted seven seasons and one lasted five. FIREFLY was totally fucked by Fox's programming department by showing the episodes out of order. But somehow, someone out there thought it was a good idea to let him make a film out of that show, and SERENITY may not have pulled in the crowds at the theater (who honestly expected it to?), but it's had its first extremely popular DVD that spawned a Spec Ed that has also sold equally well, not to mention all the midnight screenings that are still held all over the country (well, not so much anymore since Fox declared that illegal since they're not seeing any revenue from it... I fucking hate Rupert Murdoch). Hollywood isn't as much about asses in seats anymore, as the recent WGA strike and the upcoming SAG strike are proving. Personally, I can name about 100 films each year that I would rather wait for on DVD.

To preempt the joke, "Yes, including one of mine if I ever sold a screenplay."

I would really hope to get someone of Whedon's talent as a director and ideally have BKV write it. I don't see anything wrong with that scenario. But if SERENITY = "Box-Office Death", then what the hell can we expect from RUNAWAYS? A by-and-large no-name comic with a cast of teens? The only big names they could get are the Pride members.

BTW, Nathan Fillion is enjoying some success on the unfortunately high-rated DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. Never count out Bill Pardy.

Jeez...all this over a "Golden Age" line? Dude, Santos, take it easy...it's a f**kin' line for crying out loud. Fine, so Mike may have been wrong...you don't have to prove how big of a comic fan you are by laughing out loud at a simple error with your two friends who for some reason seem as weird as you are. It makes other comic fans such as myself look bad. So yeah, Mike didn't know who exactly was in the Golden Age...hey, I didn't know either and guess what, I LOVE comics! I can hear you laughing now. JoBlo is a movie site for Pete's sake, not an Airforce War unit...sometimes "accuracy of information" as you call it, isn't what you always get. Go to CNN.com if you need something like that. Want fun? Head back over here. Go down to the store dude, buy yourself a sense of humor.

P.S : Love the Runaways idea...hope Marvel does the film some justice..!

I'd prefer a Runawyas film over a Young X-MEN film any time,this sounds like a good idea, Marvel can introduce these characters through film for those who don't know of or read the comic.

I started this, so I can't sit here and act like I'm a saint, but to be fair - my original post was merely pointing out that it's not such a big deal that Mike Sampson made a mistake and that his journalistic integrity shouldn't be called into question because of it.

I still believe that.

By defending my script it was fairly obvious that your next line of attack would be to imply that I was full of myself, but that's just not the case - I'm proud of what I wrote. Will anything come from it? Maybe, maybe not. I just think it's very easy for people to sit back and laugh at, or comment on, other people's work.

You've done that twice now.

It was actually a screenplay I wrote in my third year for an adaptation class I was taking, it was not my final thesis (which was an original screenplay). I'm not ashamed of it at all, it got me into my Honors year of study (and then into the Golden Key Honor Society), so it couldn't have been too bad. But by all means keep laughing... it's nice sharing time with friends, sitting around a computer, reading posts on the Internet and laughing at them... oh wait, no, I'm confusing "nice" with "sad".

That's wonderful, but maybe next time you and the two guys next to you can reflect on the fact that you all “broke out in laughter” because some online writer incorrectly referred to a certain line of comics as belonging to a certain period in comic history incorrectly.

So the guy made a mistake, I don't think his journalistic credibility needs to be called into question because of it.

Wait a minute – I'm trying to reason with a guy who laughs out loud when people incorrectly label certain heroes as belonging to the “Golden Age”, what am I thinking?

There is a writer, probably the only one I'd accept as a die-hard fan: Vaughan himself. So at least we can be secure in not expecting drastic, irritatingly unneeded changes.

"Mr. Sampson could do himself and his journalistic credibility a favour and research some comic book history before throwing out terms like 'Golden Age'."

No one cares.

More to the point, Brian K. Vaughan is a great writer and also a great guy. I once sent him an e-mail asking him for advice on my college thesis (it was a screenplay adaptation of Y: THE LAST MAN). I did not expect him to reply. However, not only did he respond, but he took the time to write a detailed explanation of his involvement in writing an adaptation for New Line Cinema (which meant he couldn’t read my adaptation for legal reasons) and also explained how he came to come up with his own idea for a comic: “I was a huge fan of PREACHER when I was a film student at NYU, but Garth Ennis encouraged me to try to create something new rather than adapt work of his, so I came up with the idea for Y: THE LAST MAN instead.” I'm totally happy with this news and I didn't even know this comic existed until five minutes ago... good times.

I haven't actually read any "Runaways," but I've heard good things. And I'm really curious how they'll explain a telepathic dinosaur in a "realistic" and "believable" way.

this made my day! runaways is one of my favorite comics currently, and i can't wait to see what's instore...unless it's bad.