Punisher TV Series To Include Micro?

The rumor has started around the Punisher TV series despite it not being given an official air date and the rumor that has surfaced that the new series will include Micro.

It has been rumored that Marvel and Netflix are currently casting for the role of David Lieberman AKA Microchip/Micro. We are still not sure what stage of pre-production the Punisher is in, but if they are casting for roles then it must be further along than we thought.

The script being used for the Punisher includes Micro but we are unsure how big Micros involvement will be in the series. It would make sense to include Micro in the new series as the characters have integrated with each other multiple times in the comic books and Micro also made an appearance in Punisher:Warzone.

At present this is only a rumor that Micro will be used in the series but it is more likely than not that he will make some sort of appearance in my opinion. What we do know is that actor Jon Bernthal will be taking on the role he made his own in Daredevil season 2 as the Punisher.

We will keep you posted with anymore updates right here at skatronixxx.com.

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Avengers Assemble! Tony Stark Or Captain America To Appear In Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Television news site TVLine is reporting that either Tony Stark or Captain America may appear in the first episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season Four. According to the popular news site, the cameo was filmed earlier this month in ‘Star Wars-veil level of secrecy’.

This wouldn’t be the first time a high-profile character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe has appeared in the TV Series. Samuel L Jackson and Cobie Smulders both appeared in the show’s first season as Nick Fury and Maria Hill respectively.

As for who is most likely to appear, my money’s on Tony Stark. Robert Downey Jnr filmed a scene earlier this month and many assumed it was for this November’s Doctor Strange. So what if it was actually for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

I’d like to see Iron Man fight J. August Richard’s Deathlok, for instance.

When asked during a Reddit AMA whether he would appear in the show, Robert Downey Jnr  replied ‘Nothing is impossible’ so he clearly isn’t against a cameo appearance.

On the other hand, a Captain America appearance would make sense given that Coulson is possibly the Cap’s biggest fan. A scene where Coulson reveals to Steve Rodgers that he is still alive could be a magical moment for the show akin to the eleventh Doctor’s conversation with Tom Baker’s Curator in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor.

Chris Evans hasn’t spoken out on whether he would be willing to appear, although during the rap battle between Agent Carter and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. he was on Agent Carter’s side so it’s clear where his loyalties lie!

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns to the U.S. on  Tuesday 20th September on ABC. E4 have yet to confirm a UK return date.

 

Stan Lee’s New Creation – Nitron

The man has done it again! Stan Lee has created another super-being for the world to love, and his name is Nitron. This new character is from an intelligent alien race that secretly lives among the humans of Earth. The franchise will come complete with film, TV and digital life. Plus there will be comics, (*EEEEK* ) that will be released this January as a 6 volume series with more issues to follow monthly.

Stan Lee has partnered up with Keya Morgan and Michael Benaroya on the new life of Nitron. The comic book will be the source of the material for the movie, as it should be, and has secured a whopping $50 million in funding to finance the development and production.  (ok, is anyone else’s heart pounding right now???)

  

Stan Lee, seriously this man is a god. I mean wow. Having created all that he has, from X-Men, Avengers, all the Marvel comics, and so much more, he now decided to create a new life for us to fawn over! Wow, this man never seizes to amaze me… I mean, he still is doing so much at his age and still places his remaining time into creating a new hero. My goodness, when does he sleep? Well, that is why we respect one as amazing as Stan Lee, he not only is the creator of the heroes we all aspired to be when we were growing up, but he is one. The Man is a hero to all of us in some way, and I know I personally hope to still be taking the world by storm when I am 93 years old.  ^_^

 

A Look At The Possible Villains In Jessica Jones Season 2

**WARNING** THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS! 🙂

We watched tentatively when Jessica Jones snapped the neck of Kilgrave (played by a beloved icon, David Tennant…trust me, I had a hard time watching this part), ridding Miss Jones of the evil that was haunting her in the season finale. So I guess they decided to not have him unsnap his own neck to return as the villain in season two. Darn. But it sound like the possibilities for the next season will be fantastic for those who follow the comic book world.

We remember the policeman (Wil Traval) who had a back story and some relationship with Jessica in the first season… Well, he may become the character of Nuke, the old red white and blue faced man from the comics. And yes my friends, he is the ID to our patriotic power man Captain America. In the second season there would appear to be something not ‘right’ about him. Then later he pretty much snaps and goes around enforcing his own brand of justice to whatever extent he deems necessary.

The other possibility is that Trish Walker may transform in to Hellcat. Yes that Trish, the one she told she loved right before destroying the first foe in season one finale. Which facing her beloved buddy may be the anguish needed to make season two as wonderful as season one. Though I realize that the role of Hellcat is supposed to go to a woman by the name of Patsy Walker in the Marvel universe who attempts to help the Avengers, she and Nuke are Netflix versions of the Marvel comic book fiends and could bring in wonderful complications for our super strength heroine. Though they may have big feet to fill, since Tennant brought so much creepiness to the first villain Kilgrave.

There is even rumors that both these villains may be in season two. Well that could be interesting, though I hope it wont appear to feel rushed at some point since we are now focusing on two instead of one. You know what I mean, when they place two villains in, the first seems to go out quick and the conflict is kind of a let down, but still gives a big climax to the second one. Though the second one is great, I hate feeling like they could have done more for the first one. Regardless, knowing there will be a season two of Jessica Jones is wonderful, and whoever is the opposing menace to our leading lady will sure bring us to the edge of our seats again I am sure. ^_^

 

Will Shocker Be Another Villain to Join ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’?

So far, Marvel have announced two villains who’ll be joining Spider-Man: Homecoming – The Vulture and The Tinkerer.

However, the movie has been full of rumours that there will be more villains, and the latest rumour says that Shocker will be the latest villain joining the lineup. Not only that but Heroic Hollywood have speculated that Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo, Ray, Total Recall) will be playing the villain. This fits in with the rumours surrounding his casting announcement that he would indeed be playing a villain role.

If Shocker were to appear in Spider-Man: Homecoming, he would definitely be a secondary villain – in the original comics, he’s only in his line of work for the money, and doesn’t seem to have a genuine interest in destroying Spider-Man or taking over the world. His appearance may be brief, but Woodbine certainly has the talent to bring depth and interest to this character.

Spider-Man: Homecoming swings into cinema’s July 7th 2017.

 

 

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Photos Offer Close Up of Web Shooters

Atlanta Filming decided to treat Spidey fans with a couple of close-up shots of the arachnic-kid’s web shooters from the Spider-Man: Homecoming set.

As revealed in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man was definitely working with mechanical web-shooters and synthetic webbing for this latest iteration. Whilst fans have always had a solid case for either mechanical webbing or synthetic, synthetic gives Peter Parker limitations, in that he can run out of webbing.

The web shooters this time around have a more slick design, with a black, thin material wrapping around his wrists. They seem much more aerodynamic and less clunky.

You’ll be able to catch Spider-Man: Homecoming on the 7th July 2017.

The Tinkerer Is Cast In ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’

It has been announced that Michael Chernus (Orange is the New Black, People Places Things, Complete Unknown) will be joining the Spider-Man: Homecoming cast as The Tinkerer.

Whilst the Vulture villain reveal had fans suspicious that The Tinkerer would be involved in this reboot of the Spider-Man movie franchise, it’s now been confirmed by Marvel as Chernus takes the role of the brainiac.

Spider-Man: Homecoming will swing into cinemas on July 7th 2017, with Tom Holland (Captain America: Civil War, Billy Elliot the Musical Live, In the Heart of the Sea) reprising his role as the web-slinger.

First Luke Cage Trailer From Netflix

Get excited Marvel fans! Luke Cage is coming.  Netflix release the first trailer for the next Marvel hit series. Check it out:

In the comic book series, Luke Cage is a product of the attempted recreation of the Super-Soldier research that was destroyed when Captain America was born.  Cage emerged with super strength and durability…he’s basically indestructible.  MCU fans got a good dose of Luke Cage in the Netflix series Jessica Jones.  Luke Cage was introduced after the death of his wife and reluctant to let anyone too close to find out about his abilities.  The series will follow what happens to Cage after the events that occurred in Jessica Jones, but also will take a look at Cage’s origin story and how he acquired his abilities.

Following the formula of the Avengers, the MCU has already introduced Daredevil and Jessica Jones.  This will be is the third Marvel/Netflix series that will lead up to another super group of heroes, The Defenders.  After Luke Cage, Netflix will introduce Iron Fist before bringing the group together.

Mike Colter will continue to portray Luke Cage and it looks like we will Rosario Dawson appear in this series as well as Claire Temple.  Dawson also appeared in Daredevil and Jessica Jones.  Other cast to watch are Frankie Faison as Pop,  Theo Rossi  as Shades Alvarez , Alfre Woodard as Mariah Dillard, Simone Missick as Missy Knight, and Mahershala Ali as Cornell Stokes.  It also looks like Krysten Ritter will make an appearance as Jessica Jones in this series as well.  Although it has not been confirmed, there is speculation that Iron Fist portrayed by Finn Jones could possibly make a cameo in the series…MAYBE…

Luke Cage premieres on September 30 on Netflix.

Interview With The Tick Animated Series Director Hank Tucker

Hank Tucker is a Storyboard artist, producer, director, and most recently independent comic book artist and writer. I asked Hank about his comic book The Actual Roger, his productive career in animation and of course his time on the short-lived The Tick animated series. Based on the comic book by  Ben Edlund . Spooooon! (read a book!)

How did you get connected with Alterna Comics and what was the inspiration for The Actual Roger?

Alterna was one of six publishers I submitted Roger to when I finished it. I got names from Wikipedia looked them up and followed submission guidelines. It was kind of fun. Out of the six, two got back to me at the end of the week with an offer. One of them was Alterna. I went with them because they actually included a contract and they had a New York Times bestseller to their credit (FUBAR! Zombies in History. Very cool…)

Roger was inspired by a dream I had when I was nine (Roger’s age). Just like in the book, I was lying on the floor, pushed up to get a snack or take a leak and kept going up! In the dream, I soared around the house about a foot and a half off the floor.

The overall “thematic” inspiration, I guess, was the sense of – my personal reaction to – how controlled, adjusted and “corrected” by the media and government (often hand in hand!) our lives have become. Even heroism! Heroic acts, it seems, have to be approved of and guided by people who’ve never done a heroic thing in their lives. Crazy. But also interesting…

Did you grow up reading comics as a child or did you discover them later in life?

I discovered comic’s when I was six at a children’s shoe store in Woodland Hills (or maybe Tarzana). They had a Superman comic laying on a table which I picked up and was totally bowled over by. My mom wouldn’t me keep it so I started drawing what I could remember of it when I got home. These were my first drawings. Hence my love of drawing hooked up directly to my then love of comics.

 It’s funny, though, I read Superman, Superboy, and the Legion of Superheroes…most at the time drawn by Curt Swan. But the minute Swan stopped drawing them I stopped reading them. I didn’t touch comic’s again until ’94 when I became storyboard supervisor on Fox’s Spider-Man show. While there I picked up the McFarland Venom intro issue and became totally hooked. Up to then, I’d mostly avoided Marvel having been a DC (i.e. Swan) fan exclusively! It wasn’t the drawing in that one so much as the situation and characters that grabbed me. I kept up with the series for a while then moved on…I think when Spidey became a clone I lost interest.

Throughout my career I’d been literally surrounded by great comic book people and their work: Jack Kirby, Russ Heath, Mike Ploog, Doug Wildey and many others. Knew them and frequently worked with them. And the world we all occupied was all about comics even though the medium we were engaged in was animation. It was a world of Heavy Metal, Moebius,  etc. Comic’s and comic artists were sort of hard-wired to animation then and now.

Wow! What was your experience like with Jack Kirby?

In ’79 Jack was working for Ruby and Spears in Sun Valley designing and helping pitch shows.  Thundarr the Barbarian – my first storyboard gig in animation – was one of them. He’d mosey over to my supervisor John Dorman’s office now and then for a good natured ribbing by John (we all got one regularly, Jack no exception). I was pretty much a bystander, but we’d chat now and then…usually me asking dumb questions like, “oh you don’t like Stan? Why?” So he’d light up a cigar (we smoked indoors in those days), and he’d fume/riff on some recently published statement of Stan’s. Not having grown up a Marvel guy it all went a little past me. One thing, though, he seemed happy. Very at ease. Steve Gerber of Howard, the Duck fame, was there, too, on the same show. His office was across from mine. Unlike Jack he seemed pained most of the time. Partly the life of a story editor. Partly I think he was still in some kind of litigation with Marvel. Or he had been and lost…

Did you have any formal training or education for being an artist or were you self-taught?

I never went to a formal art school. In my last years of Taft high, Cal Art’s was newly opened, but I was advised against going there by people like Chris Jenkins (story man for Jay Ward) since it was run by avant-garde animator Jules Engles. I wanted to learn traditional animation. But Engles had no intention of teaching that. He was all about scratching images onto film and hypnotic light patterns, ala National Film Board of Canada; shoot-me-now-type stuff for a 17-year-old Disney nut.  It wasn’t until the late 70’s -early 80’s that they started their character animation program and people like Lassiter and Burton showed up. I was the early bird that missed the worm. My education was handled by just getting into the business (with help from a mentor) and being surrounded by great artists.

It’s always great to hear stories about artists working for Fox or Disney without formal art school. Is that less common today or is your art still enough proof for big companies to consider you? 

I think at this point if you’ve done it, in their minds, you can keep doing it. As to people coming in “off the street” like me, it depends on what the work looks like and who’s looking at it. I’d been in animation for five years animating and assistant animating. Then I decided to get into boards. So on my own, I storyboarded scenes from books I’d read. When a friend I’d met on Bakshi’s Lord Of The Rings (Art Vitello) saw it, he recommended me to Dorman at Ruby/Spears. Dorman liked it so I was in. But the same goes with someone coming out of a school. They have to like what they see. Having a degree is nice but if the portfolio sucks…well, good luck.

 

You have been involved with many classic cartoons such as Darkwing Duck, Spider-Man, G.I Joe and Bonkers, but the most iconic one (at least in my opinion) has to be The Tick. How did you get that gig?  

 Well, let me say first off, any gig of mine that was worth anything dating from 1979 on can be pretty well traced to Art Vitello. Again, Art recommended me to Ruby/Spears in ’79, then pulled me in the following year (’80) to Marvel – where we worked with Stan. Then in ’85 he pulled me back over to Disney, but this time, it was Disney TV when they started that division. Art left two years in, eventually going to Warners where he produced and directed Tiny Toons, then to create and Executive Produce Tazmania. Gary Kreisel at  Disney tried to get him back but instead he recommended they try me as a producer. So they did.

I produced/directed 17 Goof Troop episodes and 4 Bonkers episodes (don’t even ask about that one!)  before quitting to go to the “new” Marvel beginning ’94  (back with Stan and now Avi Arad)  as a storyboard supervisor. While I was there, Art had quit Warners and went to take over the – how do they say it? “troubled” -production of The Tick animated series for Graz Entertainment and Fox.

The previous producer had been let go, and Art was brought in to supervise post on the first six episodes coming back from Korea, then to pre-produce and direct the next seven, including write a couple. When it came time to board his first solo episode he called in some of his favourite board guys – me one of them – to freelance on it. So I picked up the 1st half of his “The Tick Vs. The Tick” and did it at night while supervising on Spider-Man. It turned out they really liked mine in particular.  When the first season aired and became a hit, Art left to develop and pitch his own projects. He recommended me to take over the show, especially considering how much they’d liked my board. I’d produced already for Disney so they (Stephanie Graziano, head of Graz Ent.) interviewed me then set up a meeting with Ben Edlund the show’s creator/head writer. We met at the Ritz Carlton in Pasadena and had a pleasant chat  (no other kind of chat conceivable with Ben) mainly I think about directing and directors (I was a staunch Kubrick fan). Showed me some doodles on a pad he had just done before I’d arrived of what he called “a little wooden boy” -very insane drawing – and said it would be figuring into the first new episode.  He seemed particularly impressed that I’d worked on Thundarr the Barbarian. Later he told me that was what cinched me as producer/director of The Tick.

Was it a fun ride while it lasted?

Two of the best years of my life…and that’s 59 years we’re talking.

Any new projects in the works whether with comics or storyboarding?

Right now I’m desperately (no exaggeration!) trying to finish the 5th and last issue of the Roger miniseries, after which there’ll be a print run of all five as a compilation trade paperback. Simultaneously I’m boarding on a very fun feature for Mike Johnson (co-director of Corpse Bride)…and Simul–simultaneously I’ve been asked by a small Shanghai-based production company to write a feature for them. They apparently read Roger, fell in love with the style, and there was the email one morning! I pitched three ideas, and they chose one and just sent me the contract. Very strange. So on it goes…

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If you’re curious about Hank’s comic check out our review of  The Actual Roger #1 by Tosin Alalade    Here

You can purchase the first 4 issue digitally at Comixology

Hank’s IMDB Page

Follow Hank on Twitter @HTucker007

Twitter for The Actual Roger @theACTUALroger

Keep Your Secret Identity Hidden With These DC and Marvel Business Suits!

Ok ladies, do you want your man to look as sexy as Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark, but not feel like you are pulling teeth to get them in a dashing suit? Well, now there is a way to get our men all dressed up for us, without the bribing and begging…

Fun.com will release later this month men’s comic book chic suits! Suits lined with a Marvel comic book look, or Joker’s purple “HA HA” and so on, along with neck ties, and other accessories to make our men look ‘super’ sexy. There isn’t much more detail about these outfits other than that they are expected to be available for preorder later this month, and not officially out until November. I don’t know about you guys but, I’m thinking a blazer and tie may need to be on my next credit card purchase. ^_^