There's not much we love here at MTV Movies more than seeing the greatest superheroes on the big screen — except maybe talking about them. Between obsessively pouring over trailers like they were the Zapruder film and compulsively checking our voicemail hoping those Gotham viralists have left another message — if being geeks is our full-time job, well, you could say that business has never been better.
With the release this week of "Iron Man," the greatest summer in comic book film history is officially open, so we assembled a panel of comic and film experts, including Staci Layne Wilson of Sci Fi Wire, Steve Weintraub of Collider.com, Shane Coleman of California's Golden Apple Comics stores and, of course, Larry Carroll and Shawn Adler of MTV News, to discuss everything in the world of upcoming comic films.