On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

From my childhood watching of re-runs that were already "old" to me...

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/diana-rigg-dead-82-dies-avengers-game-of-thrones-1234765209/

My mother is currently the same age.

I remember the first teaser of the first MCU Avengers movie, using much of the first part of this text that served as the preamble of many issues of The Avengers through the 1970's and 1980's, as spoken with import and intent by Samuel L. Jackson:

And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born — to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand! Through the years, their roster has prospered, changing many times, their glory has never been denied! Heed the call, then — for now, the Avengers assemble!

It occurs to me that when - not "if"! - it finally comes time to tease out the next instalment of the team's MCU adventures, Mr. Jackson might be persuaded to intone a more complete edition of this preamble. At least, such is my hope.

I remember seeing this.




Mr. Jackson's speech in this teaser derived from the preamble of so many issues of the various Avengers comics series published by Marvel across the decades...

Effective tonight, I'm skipping Facebook for a few days...or until I see Avengers: Endgame. Whichever elapses first. If I keep logging into FB between now and actually seeing the movie, I'm going to see something prematurely.

That, and I get to destress a little about local, national, and international politics. That's always a mental-health plus these days.

I expect to have to wait a week, possibly two weeks, to see it.

Yes, I know that will make things more difficult in terms of spoiler avoidance...

Okay. I've seen variant of the wordmark available for the following languages/writing systems so far:

• Latin (which covers English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Slovene, Romanian, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian)


• Greek


• Cyrillic(Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian)


• Georgian


• Korean


• Chinese(not sure if we're discussing Traditional or Simplified on the posters available)


• Japanese Katakana


• Hebrew

Sources:

http://www.movieposterdb.com/movie/0848228/The-Avengers.html
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-avengers/

Any languages that they made poster versions for that this site hasn't gotten copies of the files for yet?

Update 13 Jan 2017: The movieposterdb.com link is useless now due to legal action by Disney. The website's still operating, but not able to show the relevant posters.

Update 31 Dec 2019: The situation in the first update's been reversed, reasons unknown!

It's possible that I should leave this to lawmultiverse to deal with in their own time. But Jonathan Hickman wrote this one up to be set in a city I called home for about twelve years before moving to Ottawa.

( Spoilers after the cut )

More as it occurs to anyone interested and reading this.

There's a linkage theme connecting these sites: graphic design, particularly for infographics and user interfaces.

http://infosthetics.com/

These four links contain a lot of stuff that I wish had been included in The Art of the Avengers. Not sure how it didn't happen, but the fact that it's available to look at via these URLs is a good thing.

http://cargocollective.com/jayse/Avengers
http://jayse.tv/v2/?portfolio=avengers-maria-hills-tri-up-displays
http://jayse.tv/v2/?portfolio=avengers-helicarrier-glass-screens
http://jayse.tv/v2/?portfolio=hud

Got this link from coudal: the evolution of a widget in Iron Man's armor "HUDware" for use in The Avengers.

This is one of those things that got left out of the Art of the Avengers coffee-table book, along with the console art for the Helicarrier sets. Stuff that I'd have liked to see more addressed - you can blame this attitude on my being an Okudagram fanboy! - but they didn't have the page space or the page count for.

At least, we have the article on the web. Anything else along these lines I'm missing?  

So...I went, saw one or two familiar faces - mostly tom_leroux promoting his new web-series Scream All You Want - and wandered around.

The crowd...was crowded. The line was so long by the time I got there - getting off the bus was simple enough, thankfully - that it took 30-45 minutes to get from the back of the line as of my arrival to the doors of the CE Centre. (It's a ballpark estimate, and I can't nail it down much better than that.)

The wait in the procession line wasn't boring, though. Lots of costumes put together with a wide range of skill levels. Some of the results suggest that perhaps CAN-CON ought to be tracking these people down to teach at masquerade "how to" panels if they haven't already come forward on their own. Hopefully, I'll be able to post pictures later over the next week.

I missed being able to say "hello" to fajrdrako and deakat (among many others!), and I'm sorry about that. Having familiar faces to talk with would've been a good thing.

Did not take in any of the panels. See "the crowd was...crowded" for why. Between that and the weather-induced exhaustion, the idea of just buying one or two key things and getting out and away got locked into the brain.

One of those Key Things was the Art of the Avengers production/concept art book devoted to that movie we've all been chattering about across the Net. Hardcover in slipcover case, and yes, worth every penny spent on it. I got a lot of stuff on their version of the Helicarrier that I was hoping for. Thinking that there's enough stuff that I saw on screen that could fit into a second volume if Marvel's so inclined.

The food court...was not well organized to my eyes. Plus I was tired and that will have aggravated my food paranoia.

Getting back downtown - or anywhere else - from the CE Centre by public transit needs work. And lots of it. I ended up climbing a grassy hill and was more than a little scared about stumbling and falling back down onto the traffic of the cross street running under the northbound # 97 bus route. And if you wanted to get to that bus shelter safely, you needed a far more roundabout route on foot. City Hall could stand to get an earful, even though it's probable that they already know about these issues.

Next year, I am considering renting a half-table for my own stuff. If the rates set for this year - $ 100 - still hold for next year. Should I dare hope for, much less count on that? At all?