I wonder if there are fans of the paper Captain America who are dissatisfied with what they saw onscreen. I find him kinda boring in the comics, and compelling on the big screen. Are whatever differences explain that bothersome to people who were his fans pre-2011?
At the Cincy Comic Expo in 2011, there was a Cap panel with 2 current Cap artists (a husband and wife, actually; he's the artist and she's the colorist), and Allen Bellman, who was one of the first Cap artists back in the 1940s. The panel was post-Captain America movie. I asked the panel how they felt about Bucky being aged up for the movie, and they said (basically) that even though "their" Bucky is a kid, they thought the movie did it pretty well. And overall, they liked the way the movie portrayed Cap. I'd love to know what they think about him in Avengers.
And it was really, *really* sweet to hear Allen Bellman talk about how, in his wildest dreams, he never thought in 1940-whatever, when he was drawing Cap comics, that almost 70 years later he'd be on the red carpet for the premiere of the Cap movie. Very, very cool. I love hearing people talk about doing work that they love, and this panel clearly did.
Ha! This is kind of funny.
BTW, although it was a great joke, I'm kind of surprised that Tony didn't know what it was. I mean, it's not caviar or anything, but he's a worldly jetsetter, so I figure if I've heard of it (and loved it), he'd know what it was at least.
I've read Ultimates Cap more than anything else, and he was reasonably interesting there. And that's who his movie self is supposed to be modelled after more than 616. Maybe that's it.
Although I did follow the Civil War plot. I wonder if that's something they'd introduce into the movies--maybe that ground was already trod by the somewhat competing X-Men? I also do wonder if Demon In A Bottle will be used (the foundations have been laid pretty decently), or that's too much of a bummer for the snappy funny movie Iron Man.
My first experience of the Maria Hill character in comics was of her ordering a bunch of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to capture/gun down Captain America for voicing his objections to the Registration Act
before
it was passed into law. Subsequent efforts to make her a sympathetic character have been a lost cause IMHO.
Some of the look and enhanced abilities of Movie Cap are taken from Ultimates, but his likeable personality and commitment to protecting the weak are pure 616. The Ultimates version is closer to USAgent in terms of personality and morals.
My Avengers feels go Coulson, Cap, Nick, Tony, Thor, Hulk, Natasha
Hey, I share Avengers feels with ita ! ! This makes me strangely happy.
::high fives the exceedingly right-thinking Jilli::
Question about shawarma--exotic food, or someone as cosmopolitan as Tony has heard of it? Street food and not the nosh of billionaires? What's the what?
eta: I honestly believe my sister watches these movies just to be able to talk to me about stuff that wets my panties, and she's not into it...but she did have the Coulson feels. I told her I'd drawn Colin as Hawkeye, and she asked me who Hawkeye was. So I know the front and the back of her list looks like mine.
Street food: Tony must have heard of it.
I agree that if I worked it out by uni, Tony would have heard of it. And I'd assume Joss doesn't actually think it's exotic for
him,
so what for that line?
...of course, I can imagine Pepper chastising him and saying "Remember the secret Palestinian meetings? After you ducked them and got trashed? The food you chowed down on after that...that's shawarma."
OMG, he was so clearly wearing running shoes with lifts in those scenes.
Got me. Unless Tony's lying, which I wouldn't find unlikely. He's just running off at the mouth to be entertaining.
