Comic book Wednesday

If you're like me (and I know I am), you love Wednesdays because it means Comic Book Day! In celebration of Wednesday, I bring you some comic book-related news from the big and small screen.

Spider-Man vs. Bruce All-"Meaty"?
Sam Raimi finally seems ready to give his good friend cult movie icon Bruce Campbell a bigger roll in the wildly successful Spider-Man film series. Until now, Campbell has been given cameos in each of the film, from the ringmaster at Spider-Man's debut wrestling match to a snooty usher.

Speaking to MTV, Raimi said, "I really love putting him (Campbell) in the pictures ... I promised him a good, meaty role."

Maybe so, but what does this mean? Could Bruce be Spider-Man's next big villain or will he take on a secondary character important to the story? Rumors on the Internet abound, everything from Mysterio to Kraven the Hunter. Personally, I'd like to see him be another hero.

Smallville meets the JSA
Despite the ever-growing train wreck that is Smallville, the series has roped in Geoff Johns to write another script this season. The episode, called "Society," introduces my favorite superhero group, the Justice Society of America (JSA). Mania.com has several fan submissions that piece together who we may be seeing from the JSA.

Reports from Fancast suggest that Johns' creation Stargirl (to be played by Britt Irvin) is among the JSA. IGN broke the news that Hawkman (Stargate SG-1's Michael Shanks) and Dr. Fate (Brent Stait) will accompany her.

Johns noted to his followers on Twitter, "Yes, Hawkman will have wings. And a big mace." Johns added, "Oh. And he and Green Arrow don't get along. At all."

The Crow gets a reboot
Dread Central is reporting that The Crow is getting a reboot of sorts. The storyline will be faithful to the 1994 Alex Proyas film. Stephen Norrington is set to direct and says that while Proyas' vision was Gothic, his will be "realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style."

Documentary-style? I guess that means he plans to subject his audience to the low-budget shaky cam style that is making Paranormal Activity so popular.