Warner Bros just released (via Facebook) the official logo for their upcoming Superman reboot, Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill, directed by Zack Snyder, produced and conceived by Dark Knight team Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, coming June 2013. It also stars Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Michael Shannon, and Laurence Fishburne.

While not saying so outright, the new version of the logo is certainly darker and edgier™, with the red muted, the blue turned to charcoal, and the yellow gone almost completely in favor of more of an amber glow. Because when you’ve got a superhero who wears spandex tights, a red cape, knee-high boots, and a giant S on his chest that stands for “SUPER!”, the last thing you want is some lame color like yellow making him look all gay.

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They had to put plastic over the cameras to protect them from all the moisture coming off ladies' genitals

Zack Snyder is currently shooting his Superman movie, Man of Steel, in Vancouver, with Henry Cavill and Amy Adams. So far, we know that Cavill’s Superman (Clark Kent?) is… uh… bearded. Though we’re not sure why at this point. Maybe he joins an indie band? It’s anyone’s guess. All I know is, a beard seems awful informal for a guy wearing a cape.

Meanwhile, does it bother anyone else that Thor has a shaved chest while Superman is au natural? Because when I think “Viking,” I think hairy mountain man. Whereas Superman is a guy in red underpants and knee-high boots. He seems like the type to shave, if not wax. I mean, he’d at least trim to keep it from getting all tangled up underneath that spandex, wouldn’t he? It’s quite possible I’ve put too much thought into this.

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Someone over on the SuperheroHype forums just posted these new pictures of Henry Cavill on the set of Zack Snyder’s Superman: Man of Steel, and WHAT THE HELL, NO MANTIES!?!? WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? It’s right there in the damn song: You don’t spit into the wind, you don’t tug off the old Lone Ranger, and YOU DON’T TAKE AWAY SUPERMAN’S MANTIES, YOU GODDAMNED TERRORISTS! Phew, deep breath, Mancini, we can do this. Okay, let’s think about this logically: He’s not wearing a cape in this picture either, but we know from the publicity photo they already released that he does wear a cape in the movie. So… maybe they took the manties off temporarily so that he wouldn’t get his biceps caught in them while he was doing punch stunts? Sure, why not? Seems plausible, right? I do it all the time. Guys like me and Henry, we have to take off our underpants before we do any serious punching, or else our thighs chafe.

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Warner Bros have released the first official picture of Henry Cavill as Superman in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, Man of Steel. Now, there are a few things to take from this. First, the suit looks very rubbery. It seems like that would be really hot to wear under your clothes every day like Superman does. Secondly, where are his manties? You can’t even tell if he’s wearing them! If Superman isn’t wearing his red underpants over his tights… what’s the point, you know? As long as they’re not those huge granny manties George Reeves used to wear. And finally, what the hell did they do to his hair? Where’s his little Superman spit curl? That was the best part! This looks more like some kind of greasy Puerto Rican pompadour (I meant the hair is greasy…).  “Mira, I fighteen for truth y yoosteece.”

Now that I think about it, minus the ‘S’, that whole outfit looks like something you’d see during the Puerto Rican Day parade. What, I’m racist now? Give me a break, it’s not like I called him the “Man of Steal.” Okay, okay, too far. Anyway I still have my fingers crossed for a giant spider in the third act.

When I heard Laurence Fishburne would be playing Perry White in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, Man of Steel, my first reaction was “who f*cking cares?” Followed quickly by “who the f*ck is Perry White?” But then I remembered Laurence Fishburne’s daughter does porno and I was vaguely interested in the potential for monkey-fufu jokes. I know, I’m the worst.

White has traditionally been a hard-charging, old fashioned newspaperman, who relies on his ace reporters, Clark and Lois, to get the big scoop. Jackie Cooper played White in the Christopher Reeve-era Superman films, and Frank Langella took on the role in director Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns in 2006. The Superman reboot, produced by Christopher Nolan and directed by Zack Snyder, stars Henry Cavill as Clark (a.k.a. Superman), Amy Adams as Lois, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent, and Diane Lane as Martha Kent. David Goyer (Batman Begins) is penning the script. Man of Steel is due to begin filming this fall, and is slated for release on June 14, 2013. [EW]

YOU KNOW IF DAT WAS A BROTHA HE’D A BEEN RUNNIN A NEWSPAPER LIKE THIS, AWWWW SHEEEEEEEEIT.

Perry is white in the comics, so there’ll probably a couple of dipsh*ts out there pissed about this (not to mention Sam Jackson, who’ll be bummed to miss a paycheck). While I agree that’s a little lame when they cast Thor’s sidekicks like a college course catalog stock photo (two white, one black, one Asian), especially since they’re supposed to be, you know, Vikings, swapping a white dude for a black dude every now and then is perfectly acceptable, and vice versa, as long as it’s not Anthony Anderson as a famous waterpolo player or Cam Gigandet as a human. This casting is fine. I think the bigger problem is that this character is just a less-interesting version of JK Simmons in the Spider-Man movies.

JK Simmons rules.