Avengers Assemble!

[Anderson]

Shit, if they're gonna go that far, might as well bring in the purple mask.

They might in Cap 3. Dude's in it.

[Abraham Smashington]

WOOO VISION.

[IggytheBorg]

AWESOME.

[Abraham Smashington]

oh shit Civil War is coming?

[Matt]

can you nutshell Civil War and why I should be excited about it?

[BillyG]

Government makes super-heroes register and become super-cops, Captain hates it. Iron Man likes it. They fight.

[Captain Russ]

Which is not going to be either as cool or as terrible as it was in the comic because:

A) They have what, a dozen or so fucking heroes right now? No Iron Spider. Sloppy ass execution of ideas, like most crossovers. Everyone hates Iron Man forever.

B) Bright side: not beholden to Marvel editorial to sandwich in terrible moments and out of character behavior (implications of what the rise of Ultron does to Tony's mentality about heroing is a much richer vein to mine in terms of motivation).

[Abraham Smashington]

I doubt this will be anything like the comics though thanks to the fact there are no secret identities. I just like the idea of Iron Man being the bad guy.

[Captain Russ]

I don't like Tony as a bad guy.

But RDJ might be fun as Tony being the bad guy.

I just thought Civil War was a boring fuckbag of a miniseries.

But then Planet Hulk came out of that stupid bullshit though, so I'm staying positive.

[Abraham Smashington]

But RDJ might be fun as Tony being the bad guy.

exactly.

[Anderson]

Which is not going to be either as cool or as terrible as it was in the comic because:

A) They have what, a dozen or so fucking heroes right now? No Iron Spider. Sloppy ass execution of ideas, like most crossovers. Everyone hates Iron Man forever.

B) Bright side: not beholden to Marvel editorial to sandwich in terrible moments and out of character behavior (implications of what the rise of Ultron does to Tony's mentality about heroing is a much richer vein to mine in terms of motivation).

A couple of things.

  Spoiler: Let's start from the very beginning 

1) Don't expect a straight adaptation.
2) Cap 3 is very much hunt for Winter Soldier, then Civil War.
3) Iron Spider might not be that much of an issue anymore.

[Matt]

Just curious, but how much traction does all of this 'Marvel is going to get the rights to Spiderman' speculation actually have? Could this legitimately happen?

[Anderson]

Just curious, but how much traction does all of this 'Marvel is going to get the rights to Spiderman' speculation actually have? Could this legitimately happen?

SONY actually came to the table to negotiate a deal. A decade ago, that would've been a pipe dream.

Hell, 3 years ago it would've been a pipe dream.

[Matt]

Nice!

Betcha it ends up being that Sony gets a percentage of the gross on any film with Spiderman on it. I doubt that they'd just outright sell Spiderman back to Marvel (unless Marvel ponies up a TON of money).

[Abraham Smashington]

I want it to happen but I also want Garfield to be Spidey and I know that won't happen.