- Before we get into this video,
know that there are potentially a few spoilers
for the movie Logan but obviously, I haven't seen it,
I'm just taking some stuff from the trailer
that's probably, completely inconsequential so, yeah.
The new trailer shows a clip where Wolverine
is flipping through some X-men comics that exist in
that universe and a few of you guys reached out
on twitter asking me about this and I wanted
to do more things responding directly to your questions
and inquiries so let's do it.
The topic for discussion today obviously
being comic books that exist within comic books
and also comics in comic book movies.
Now firstly, I think we should should address the comics
that we see in the trailer I'm sure
a lot of you guys know that they are not actual X-Men comics
but were created specifically for the film.
Jokes aside, I got a call directly from Hugh Jackman
himself asking him to pencil some of
those inner comic book pages little did Quesada know,
that Dan Panosian was also brought onto in of those pages
along with make a dozen or so covers.
The two comic creators are actually really old friends
from Quesada's very first penciling gig over at DC comics.
Also, interestingly, Panosian says there's an
additional four-page story arc that he had done
that we may or may not see in the finished film
so who knows?
Either way this is far from the very first time
that a comic book movie or TV show has referenced
having comic books in their universe, Flash for example,
has Cisco referencing comic books a couple times.
- I think I saw it in a comic book somewhere.
- [Scott] Spiderman two had aunt May give
away Peter Parker's comic book collection.
- Where are all my comic books?
- Oh, those dreadful things, I gave those away.
- And heck even Captain America,
the first Avenger featured the actual first appearance
of Cap where he is punching Hitler, a true American pastime.
And there is also president for comics
in the comic book universes themselves both Marvel
and DC and other publishers presumably.
After all, it would be weird to deny
a universe and entire art mediums
simply because that's where their universe spawned from.
I mean movies have movies and then TV shows have TV shows
in them and so on so yeah, comic books can have comic books
in them, plus, think if you are living in this world
where superheroes are going out and fighting crime,
saving the day or maybe even just being a menace
in your eyes as typical with the X-Men universe,
of course, people would make stories based around the X-Men.
We already have in our world stories based of true events
and none of those are nearly as exciting as a guy
with knife fists, there are a few particular examples
within comic books, Wonder Woman number one fifty six
for instance shows that Golden age comic books exist
in this universe, tales of herself Batman, Superman
and et cetera were made into comic books.
But that relation would be much of a shocker
as previous to this story we've seen all the way back
in Barry Allen's origin that he himself was reading
a Jay Garrick Flash comic book
but I think the prime example here has
to be over at Marvel where in their universe
they print stories of the heroes who exist in it.
Specifically and mainly the fantastic four.
In fact, Marvel comics as an organization exists
in the Marvel universe to print authorized tales
of superheroes, this was established pretty early on,
all the way back in fantastic four number 10 and 11,
and in a couple issues
of she Hulk revealed that any comic book
that bears the seal of the Comics Code Authority,
that CCA stamp right in the corner is a legal document
meaning, she Hulk can use those stories in court
as evidence for real life events.
Of course the real Comics Code Authority
isn't nearly as exciting as that.
We did do a video about it out there
that I definitely recommend you check out if you haven't.
Anyway, we are at a weird point right now
in the current Marvel universe where even
those authorized fantastic four stories
are kind of questionable.
You see there is a story happening
in Silver Surfer comic books that I'll try
to abbreviate real quickly basically Earth's entire culture
was being stolen by an alien race and in order
to save it, the Silver Surfer had to give up
his own culture and in doing so, he raised
it from everywhere including those old comic books
that referenced his home world and I mean holy cow what
an incredible sacrifice that is to give up
his own culture to save Earth's and he was repaid
with Hamilton tickets which seems appropriate
that I feel like that's the only way you can get them now.
But that is just a small sample of all the times
that comic books themselves are referenced
within other comic books.
Of course this doesn't count of fourth
wall breaking characters who realize that they're
in comic books, that's a completely different topic.
We did talk about meta-comics a couple years ago.
So if you wanna check out that video do that.
Probably don't I bet it's real bad
but I would love to know if you have
your own favorite example of comic books inside
of comic books, lemme know in the comments down below.
Anyway, this month is supposed to be about superhero science
so we have won the last super sciency video coming out
on Saturday, definitely stay tuned for that.
Oh, it's gonna be a fun one so ding that bell
or whatever it is we're supposed to be saying now
also just as a quick reminder as I've been saying
in all these other previous videos we do have
a Facebook page, go check it we do live streams
there every Monday we talked about the new Star Wars title
last time it was a ton of fun just to hang with you guys.
Definitely check it out, link in the description below.
In the meantime here is another video that you
might like to enjoy with your eyeballs.
My name is Scott reminding you to read between
the panels and grow smarter through comics.