By tamaleknight
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Ever since the film rights to Blade reverted back to Marvel Studios in 2013, the question grew, "Would they make Blade 4?" The Wesley Snipes trilogy cemented the potential for awesome superhero movies way back in 1998, just before the rise of X-Men and Spider-Man. Now with Wesley Snipes' return to acting, the environment seems prime to bring Blade to the ever-growing Avengers' Universe.
That very thing may be happening, but with some 'All-New All-Different" Marvel influence. We may be seeing a new 'Blade':
Via Yahoo News
Katie Couric and Yahoo News explore the rise of women in comics, both on the page, and in the creative positions behind the books.
While her stint in directing Marvel heroes was short lived, Lexi Alexander has been generally light-hearted about the experience, joking that she wished Marvel Studios had been in charge instead of Lionsgate. Now, the director of Punisher: War Zone is blowing up Twitter about a different Marvel hero: Kamala Khan.
Kamala is the current hero using the title Ms. Marvel, an honor most famously held by Carol Danvers who, in 2012, took on the name Captain Marvel in a popular book by Kelly Sue DeConnick. Captain Marvel also has the dubious honor of being the first woman to star in a solo Marvel Studios film (currently slated November 2018). But Alexander wants to direct another movie.
Artist, Lord Ingvard is sick and tired of the costumes artists give their female superheroes.
I love comics and superheroes as much as the next nerd, but the women’s costumes—sweet mother of Moses!—the COSTUMES. At the very least, highly impractical. And at worst, incredibly sexist. I mean, EXTREMELY so. Honestly, I don’t know why women haven’t been a lot more angry and vocal about this kind of thing over the years.Below are the heroes, Ingvard re-designed with a more practical touch.
That being said, I just had to take a shot at addressing the most obvious problems. Now, I am not by any means an experienced or accomplished character designer. I am not suggesting these costume re-designs are ideal, or even very good. My main goal was to at least TRY to approach the subject of female superheroes with the degree of logic, equality, and respect they—and their readers—deserve.
Via Uproxx
While Marvel Comics continues to make leaps and strides in the area of diverse representation, Marvel Studios can't seem to find their footing when it comes to female and minority heroes. The Avengers movie line-up as it stands now, has less women than any Avengers team has had in a long time. Making matters even worse, since merging with Disney, the merchandise of their franchises seems to frequently forget their female heroes. First Gamora was left off Guardians shirts, and Black Widow hasn't been seen on shirts and toys since the first Avengers despite starring in two of their movies.
Finally (maybe because of DC's push with Wonder Woman) Marvel seems to be hearing the call. At Licensing Expo 2015, Marvel senior Vice President of Licensing Paul Gitter said they were going to have "a big focus on adult female apparel". Maybe Black Widow will get some shirts once Captain America: Civil War comes out, but let's hope both Scarlet Witch, and they're upcoming Captain Marvel see some love, too.
Via Marvel
Marvel Comics is rebooting their entire multi-verse and their teases for the next line of books has some major changes. The most glaring change is the new female Wolverine. With Logan dead, his iconic title will apparently be adopted by his clone X-23:
This change seems to be right up Marvel's alley. They did a similar change when Carol Danvers dropped the Miss and took over the Captain Marvel moniker when her longtime love interest, Mar-Vell, died. Like Logan, Laura Kinney (X-23) has a healing factor, improved strength and reflexes, heightened senses, and an adamantium skeleton and claws.
Artist Stephen Langmead made these Vintage Pin-Ups of popular super heroines in their original costumes.
Via Deadline
We're right in the middle of a giant wave of superhero movies, with four studios vying for box office dollars. One of the biggest complaints in this trend thus far, is the apparent lack of leading ladies. The two biggest contenders, Marvel and DC, have failed to produce any non-white male solo characters, but now the race is on.
Deadline is announcing that Sony has hired Lisa Joy Nolan, writer of Burn Notice, to pen a solo film for a female hero from their Amazing Spider-Man franchise to be released in 2017. The most-likely candidate, as she appeared briefly in Amazing Spider-Man 2, is Felicity Jones as Black Cat.
This news comes on the heels of Marvel head, Kevin Fiege, hoping that their first female driven superhero picture (hopefully Captain Marvel) will "come sooner rather than later", and DC's announcement that a solo Wonder Woman film is also scheduled for 2017.
2017 better prepare itself, it's shaping up to be the summer of super heroines.
By Ross (Via ABC)
The female Avengers burlesque cosplay group could not go ten feet before being asked to pose for photos.
Featuring Spider Woman, American Dream, Mockingbird, X-23, Valkyrie, She-Hulk and Rescue
