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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The X-Men As Jaded Teens

by Jamie Frevele | 5:31 pm, June 10th, 2012


Dresden Codak (drawn by Aaron Diaz) has started working on a reboot of the X-Men as teenagers and how our favorite persecuted mutants deal with the perils of getting along (or not) with their peers. I predict a great deal of angst and some mass destruction. (via Neatorama)

  • High school track star Meghan Vogel is today’s Most Wonderful Person: She won a sportsmanship award after not just winning the 1,600 meter race at a state-level competition, but helping her injured competitor in the 3,200 race, Arden McMath, across the finish line when she took a tumble. McMath had been in the lead when she fell, and rather than just take the win, Vogel helped her up and they finished the race together. And there is your Reason of the Day to have faith in the next generation. (via The Frisky)
  • Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats has been tweeting things she’s learned about storytelling, and io9 has compiled them for us. Creative types: start your engines!
  • The Jim Henson Company has acquired the rights to the Frog and Toad series of children’s books, which follows the joyful exploits of … a pig and an eagle. I’m kidding, it’s about a frog and a toad who are friends. And now, they will get the Henson treatment. (via Deadline)

    • Attention Marvel/Iron Man fans: What do you make of this picture from the set of Iron Man 3? Does it point to MODOK as a possible villain, since Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) is the organization that created him? Or is this a bunch of speculative hooey? (via Geek Tyrant)

    And while we’re on the subject of Iron Man 3, if that wasn’t the Iron Patriot in that first unofficial set photo, then who is it? Is it War Machine? Who’s in there? Is it Don Cheadle? Or James Badge Dale? Questions! Questions that need to be answered! (via /Film)

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    • http://www.facebook.com/maxwell.lachance Maxwell LaChance

      It is war machine, and the answer is A Stunt Man.

    • Juanita W. Profit

      Because we can’t have nice/awful things.] http://GooleByGetJob2012.notlong.com 

    • http://twitter.com/Chaos_Indy Chaos Indy

      I just have to point out that you completely missed the point of Diaz’s X-Men. It’s not about rebooting them as teens and focusing on their relationships, it’s how Diaz would reboot the X-Men (Ultimate-style) if given the opportunity. They just happen to be teens because that’s how the X-Men were originally.

    • http://twitter.com/Chaos_Indy Chaos Indy

      Ah, I see the article you linked got it wrong too. Never mind then ^^;

    • TKS

      X-Men designs are neat; the premise is stupid.

      Marvel did it already, it’s called “The Inhumans.”

    • Anonymous

      It could be just cool, quick background Marvel Universe planting. I remember in Iron Man, he got a freight from Project Pegasus with high-tech supplies to make the new element.
       But probably something more, since that’s a pretty big sign.

    • Anonymous

      -Iron Man “2″

    • http://twitter.com/JRPaduch John Paduch

      Christ, how many times can they reboot the same damn series? I absolutely loved the X-men during the 1985-95 period (as well as catching up on older stuff via the “Classic X-Men” line), and even liked both versions of the cartoon, but since then it’s been in that infinite loop of misery with reboot after reboot… blech. Maybe I’m too attached to past stories, but I can’t take anything Marvel or DC do seriously, anymore.
       

    • Frodo Baggins

      Uh, it’s not an official reboot. Just some fan doing a thought experiment. Relax.

    • http://twitter.com/BartNJ BartNJ

      Agreed. First clue? That giant gun strapped to his back. I’m guessing this is the extension of Rhodey’s stealing the Mark II suit, weaponizing at Andrews Air Force Base with Justin Hammer’s toys. They probably painted it like that (in the movie) for mass US consumption. Or not.

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