Dave: This one was obviously made for hardcore X-Men fans—a group I do not count myself among. Don’t get me wrong–I’ll watch just about every comic-book movie put to market, but I don’t really have the time and energy to invest into reading up on their stories. I saw maybe five characters I recognized, and besides the Prof & Mag-f*cking-neto, I don’t really care about their origin stories. I know there’ll be a more mass-market trailer that introduces the principal characters in a way that a comic book-culture plebian like myself (who found all four X-Men movies of the last decades passable) can understand, but for now I’ll probably watch this one a few times to understand exactly what the hell is going on.

Will: Something like “cautious optimism” met with “cautious skepticism.” For a while there it seemed like we were hearing a new First Class casting update every damn week, which worried me then that it would become another case of too many cooks/mutants in the kitchen — read: X-Men 3, or the last hour of Origins: Wolverine. But then again, I didn’t care for the Kick-Ass comics, but thought Matthew Vaughn did a fantastic job with the movie adaptation. Here’s hoping First Class works towards curing the X-Men film’s horrible case of convoluted prequel-itis.

No big event is complete without some kind of Apple rumor or event to go along with it and that is exactly what has happened today.

Earlier today, HP announced a trio of new products, one of which is a gorgeous looking webOS tablet device called the HP TouchPad. It certainly is going to give the original iPad some competition and it will definitely compete against the likes of the LG G-Slate and the Motorola Xoom.

So what about that Apple rumor?

Well, on the heels of news that the iPad 2 has hit production lines comes a little rumor slash hint coming from none other than John Gruber over at Daring Fireball. Had this bit come from anyone else, it would have been met with laughter, coming from Gruber though and you get a sense that this could very well be more than a rumor.

News, perhaps.

Here are his musings:

Summer feels like a long time away. If my theory is right, they’re not only going to be months behind the iPad 2, but if they slip until late summer, they might bump up against the release of the iPad 3. And not only did they announce this with a distant ship date, they did it with no word on pricing.

Gruber’s theories have a habit of coming true and if this one is indeed the real deal, Apple apparently has not one but two new iPads coming out this year.

It looks like that early April release date for the iPad might be dead-on after all, San Francisco.

By Adam Mills

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