The sudden revelation that this nitwit’s movie is opening NEXT MONTH.

Hello 2016.

Big damn heroes on the big screen in 2016. This is a golden age for comic fans. Nearly something for everybody. Marvel zombies, DC fanboys-and-girls, get ready.

Just won this Mike Hawthorne sketch of Deadpool through a random drawing tonight. 

Pretty damned sweet!

Deadpool digital sketch.

I tried.

The Creator Vs. The Improver

There's been a lot of dialogue about the Siegel Estate's lawsuit against DC Comics for control of the very popular and very lucrative Superman franchise. As a result, the Siegels own many of the elements that made up the character's core: Krypton, the Kents, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, the Lois-Clark-Superman love triangle, the Daily Planet, jumping high and falling with style instead of flying, and the original costume.

However, many of the traits remain, including Lex Luthor, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, flight, Kryptonite, the more familiar costume, mostly the other 50% of who Superman is, the elements introduced in the 73 years after the character's creation.

The big question I have is this: What matters more, the person who created a character or people who improved the characters and made them more relevant?

Rob Liefeld "created" Deadpool. I put quotation marks on both sides of created because, well, he's a carbon copy of DC Comics' Deathstroke. Hell, his real name, Wade Wilson, is similar to the Terminator's real name, Slade Wilson. But the character didn't really evolve until Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness took on Deadpool, turning him from a homicidal amoral mercenary with a quick wit into a fourth-wall breaking antihero who is still a homicidal and amoral mercenary. Kelly and McG made him actually likeable and marketable, which is why he's probably one of the biggest characters in the Marvel Universe right now, and probably one of the biggest ones the mainstream media don't know.

You look at every creation known to man. They all tend to be updated and improved. In the end, their initial state of being is a sum of many parts, not just the person who created it. Edison may have created the light bulb, but Latimer made it better, and yet, when I just typed in Latimer's name, I see the Firefox Red Line of Misspellings (Latimer also drew up the schematics for Bell's patent of the telephone, another invention that has been improved over the years).

I had a computer long ago that had a 1 GB hard drive. 14 years later, I had a thumbdrive that had eight times the capacity that I could put in my pocket and a 4 GB video storage card no bigger than my thumbnail. Innovation makes brands last longer, strengthening them over time. Superman evolved largely because of other creators putting their input into the mythos of the character.

Now is that to say Siegel and Shuster weren't denied a chance to let the character evolve in the direction they wanted it to go, But who's to say that Superman would even be around these days? Who's to say he wouldn't? These are questions we don't have the answers to nor could even imagine.

But it is fun to think about.