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cjlasky7Took the day off yesterday to attend my son's ring ceremony. He's going to graduate from his elementary school in June (already?) and the entire eighth grade class had a special assembly in church to receive their class rings.
After the ceremony, my wife and I stood to the side in the school gymnasium, watching as our son laughed with his buddies and scarfed down cake. We wondered how two anti-social misfits like us could produce such a social creature. (He is so like us and yet so different. I find that to be one of the great fascinations of parenthood.)
Coming home from that highly emotional rite of passage (cue "Sunrise, Sunset"), we took a few hours to pull ourselves together for the next leap forward: checking out his new high school. After barely surviving a parking apocalypse, we toured the classrooms and the library, D. scoped out the photography club (he'll be running it inside of a year) and we grabbed the paperwork for the shuttle bus. (But if he's going to make it to the shuttle bus in the morning, the lazy bones in our house are going to have get up a bit earlier. I hope they're ready for that....)
Geez. He's going to high school. [Voice cracking, tear-streaked face] Sunrise, Sunset....
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James Gunn has revealed part one (titled "Gods and Monsters")of his plan to restructure the DC cinematic and TV universe--and while there are the usual suspects (Superman Legacy, Supergirl, Lanterns, and Viola Davis in the Amanda Waller spinoff), there are some real curveballs too:
1. A Wonder Woman prequel set on the Amazon island of Themyscira, before Diana's birth/creation (Paradise Lost);
2. Creature Commandos (animated), a WWII action series featuring a squadron of famous monsters(!);
3. Booster Gold, a time-traveling con man who uses advanced technology to impersonate a superhero--for the fame, money and chicks (and maybe, occasionally, to do the whole "save the day" thing);
4. Swamp Thing, DC's pre-eminent horror comic (presumably based on Alan Moore's groundbreaking run); and
5. The Brave and the Bold, a Batman and Robin series reframed as a father/son (Bruce and Damian Wayne) headbutting contest.
Matt Reaves' Batman sequel and the next Aquaman and Shazam movies will go on as scheduled. Todd Phillips' Joker musical extravaganza will be presented as an "Elseworlds" saga. (It has been rumored that the extremely troubled Flash movie will be used to reset the timeline, leading into the new era.)
It'll be interesting to see how Gunn will connect the dots here. Some fascinating possibilities...
After the ceremony, my wife and I stood to the side in the school gymnasium, watching as our son laughed with his buddies and scarfed down cake. We wondered how two anti-social misfits like us could produce such a social creature. (He is so like us and yet so different. I find that to be one of the great fascinations of parenthood.)
Coming home from that highly emotional rite of passage (cue "Sunrise, Sunset"), we took a few hours to pull ourselves together for the next leap forward: checking out his new high school. After barely surviving a parking apocalypse, we toured the classrooms and the library, D. scoped out the photography club (he'll be running it inside of a year) and we grabbed the paperwork for the shuttle bus. (But if he's going to make it to the shuttle bus in the morning, the lazy bones in our house are going to have get up a bit earlier. I hope they're ready for that....)
Geez. He's going to high school. [Voice cracking, tear-streaked face] Sunrise, Sunset....
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James Gunn has revealed part one (titled "Gods and Monsters")of his plan to restructure the DC cinematic and TV universe--and while there are the usual suspects (Superman Legacy, Supergirl, Lanterns, and Viola Davis in the Amanda Waller spinoff), there are some real curveballs too:
1. A Wonder Woman prequel set on the Amazon island of Themyscira, before Diana's birth/creation (Paradise Lost);
2. Creature Commandos (animated), a WWII action series featuring a squadron of famous monsters(!);
3. Booster Gold, a time-traveling con man who uses advanced technology to impersonate a superhero--for the fame, money and chicks (and maybe, occasionally, to do the whole "save the day" thing);
4. Swamp Thing, DC's pre-eminent horror comic (presumably based on Alan Moore's groundbreaking run); and
5. The Brave and the Bold, a Batman and Robin series reframed as a father/son (Bruce and Damian Wayne) headbutting contest.
Matt Reaves' Batman sequel and the next Aquaman and Shazam movies will go on as scheduled. Todd Phillips' Joker musical extravaganza will be presented as an "Elseworlds" saga. (It has been rumored that the extremely troubled Flash movie will be used to reset the timeline, leading into the new era.)
It'll be interesting to see how Gunn will connect the dots here. Some fascinating possibilities...
