Looks like Comic-Con was the opportunity and venue to showcase a lot of forthcoming movies and trailers.
There's a glut of superhero movies now.
It would have been a ball while I was a teenager. I still watch them for fond memories but superhero-fatigue is bound to set in at one point.
Everyone is rushing up to build their franchise and also their 'Universe' where several superheroes who each have their own movies or series also get together in a new movie series on in a new mini-series.
So, this rather blatant money-grab is what gets to me sometimes.
For instance, how they re-re-booted Superman at DC. It probably went something like this: "Oh that Batman Trllogy was dark and gritty and worked very well, let's reboot Superman and make it dark and gritty as well, and let's prepare the common Universe."
Yesterday we watched "Fantastic 4", and it was really bad.
They all cannot be good, there are too many.
As for the 'made-for-TV' series, Netflix has a great one with Daredevil, but we'll get everyone or more before 'The Defenders' also airs, and despite all the talk about it, "Jessica Jones" wasn't very good at all.
There isn't anything inherently wrong with making an extended Universe as the Marvel movies were planned to be, but it has to be well written and have depth.
Maybe the Netflix 'Universe"-building will be better than the Marvel attempt with "The Avengers"?
What was good with the comics (speaking from experience, circa 1980s) was the depth of the characters, their anguish, moral dilemmas, not necessarily the action (of course, that's a big part of it too because of the superpowers).
It is a shame that today we lose that and the movies for instance just seem to be a string of action scenes with witty one-liners but no depth.
Perhaps the material is best adapted through a 'made-for-TV' series rather than movies.
Perhaps as well since I am catching up with all of it in a very short time, I feel the 'glut' of it even more.
The endless strings of re-boots are sometimes unnecessary and tiring.
We will also watch the older "Fantastic Four", but I have come to think that these comics can't be adapted successfully - they end up being cheesy, although I always liked 'The Silver Surfer' and the FF comics. Two more Blu-Rays for the bargain bin I guess.