Vice President International, 360i / Director of Digital Strategy, Dentsu Network
'I used to make ads, now I feed feeds'
Veteran NYC adman blessed to work with some of the greatest brands worldwide. Photos & observations from the road, with a little pop culture thrown in.
Wolverine one sheet, inspired by the legendary Frank Miller
Wolverine’s fate, from the original Days of Future Past 1981 comic - will Hugh Jackman get toasted in the upcoming film as well? Nothing left to him but a pile of smoldering, adamantium-laced bones.
It is an alternate reality tale, so it doesn’t really affect characters fates in a permanent way (hence Patrick Stewart is back), so I say if DC broke Batman’s back in homage to the books, I predict Marvel will fry Wolverine.
The subject of the next X-Men: First Class movie, “Days of Future Past” - the dystopian, time traveling, Sentinels rule early ’80s masterpiece from legendary scribe Chris Claremont, realized in spectacular Byrne/Austin glory.
If the Hollywood machine continues to retell my favorite stories from my youth, and do them as well as First Class (not to mention Dark Knight Rises and Avengers), I’ll have no choice but continue to spend, believe, and for a brief moment feel like a kid again.
Licensing the X-Men and Marvel Comics for a global deal with Mirinda when I ran the PI business at Tracy Locke was another boyhood dream made real - back before Hugh Jackman made Wolverine his own film franchise.
Illustration. The road not taken…yet.
The glory days of the X-Men, long before they were XMEN - the billion dollar marketing machine, before the cartoons, movies (great and terrible), and a dozen inane title variations and teams - before Disney bought Marvel.
SR-71 Blackbird, Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian Annex
