A lot of people will immediately think of Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones. I always think of him as Ronon Dex from Stargate Atlantis. However you think of him, he always plays a good badass on screen. One thing I didn’t realize about the coming Zack Snyder film Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was that other super heroes would be in it. Snyder has teased a new picture of Jason Momoa in Aquaman garb.
This isn’t the cheesy green and orange Aquaman that I remember from Saturday morning cartoons growing up. Momoa plays a bearded, tattooed Aquaman that looks mean as hell.
I’m definitely going to see this movie, but I am a little bothered by the fact that the two super heroes will fight. I never followed the comic books growing up, but they were always friends in the cartoons. Plus, Superman would totally dominate Batman, since he has superhuman powers, and Batman is a mere mortal with some cool toys.
[via Kotaku]
DC Comics has been releasing monthly themed variant covers for a while now. We saw their LEGO variant covers back in August. For March 2015, DC reached out to the big screen for inspiration – and a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor.
These 22 variant covers were inspired by classic Warner Bros. movie posters. The Detective Comics variant cover shown above is of course based on The Matrix. Some of the other covers won’t be as familiar to younger folks. Fortunately Redditor Ian Mazgelis shared this Imgur gallery that compares the variant covers with the actual posters that inspired them.
There are so many outstanding combinations there, from Aquaman and Free Willy to Batgirl and freakin’ Purple Rain. There should be a The Brave and the Bold-style DC all star cartoon series where all of these silly crossovers happen.
[via DC Comics (1), (2) & Imgur via Reddit]
