The First Official "Avengers" Trailer [Video]

I'm not kidding folks. This is our first glimpse of the bad-ass superhero movie. Yeah I'm putting it down already: THIS. MOVIE. IS. BAD-ASS.

Especially Tony Stark's last line. 




Couple of notes about the trailer and what could be expected in the film:

- there will be a lot of butting-heads early in the movie (naturally)
- Captain America is reminding us that he is not only a gymnastic-shield throwing artist, but also a military man trained to kill using fucking machineguns.
- Nick Fury finally gets something to shoot at.
- There will be SKRULLS invading earth and then there's Loki creating the fiasco.
- Black Widow is still bad-ass just like she was in Iron Man 2.
- Thor vs Cap? Nah. That Captain America is a Skrull posing as Cap.
- Wow, HULK is actually there!
- Hawkeye flinching his bow. Pfft. Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) > Clint Barton (Hawkeye) any day of the week.
-  Finally... and as always... Robert Downey Jr is gonna carry this film.

Now time to watch it again.


[via CBR]

Directed by Josh Whedon.

Avengers Assemble: First Promo Poster For The 2012 Avengers Film [UPDATED]

Thanks to BleedingCool once again for this clearer  version of the first image that we saw a couple of days ago:

Now, that's much better.

Avengers Assemble: First Promo Poster For The 2012 Avengers Film

Familiar faces right there. And there's a new suit for Tony, Hawkeye looking more like his Ultimate version, and Cap's got a new costume design too. This looks awesome!

Holy cow. Can somebody have Chris "Captain America" Evans or Robert "Iron Man" Downey Jr scream: "Avengers Assemble!" already? Please? 

When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury - director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. -  finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster.

The Avengers will star Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), and Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury).  The film is slated to be released on May 4, 2012.

[via DCMarvelFreshman who found this and posted it at ComicBookMovie]

Cool "Animated" X-Men, Avengers, and DC Art from Marcio Takara

I'm not reading comic books lately so I'm on the hunt again for some of the finest works of art on Deviant. 

This time we have Brazilian comic book artist Marcio Takara, who according to his official website - has been working with illustrations, character design and graphic design since 2000. He also did comicbook work for companies like Marvel Comics (SpiderMan & Fantastic Four: Hard Choices), Chimaera (Consortium of Justice), Image Comics (Dynamo5) and Boom! Studios (The Incredibles). 

I frankly like his style - like its really made for animation shows that we see on TV. And to be honest, I have never seen such a clean and fine style of drawing like he has. How come animation studios don't get this guy to do their flicks? This guy is absolutely fit for that in my opinion, and its a shame that we are not seeing his illustrations come alive - literally - on our TV sets.

Anyway, check out more of my favorites from his deviantArt page featuring our guys from Marvel and DC.

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