Or – “Can It Live Up To The Hype?”
Marvel editorial has promised this book will change everything, that we’ll be talking about this book for years. Given where last issue left off, that seems like it might be hyperbole, but how much could one issue really change the status quo? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
Diamond Select Toys has announced that it has a new Silver Surfer action figure on the way, and it lands this winter.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: ROM! No, really… ROM! Also, A1, Spider-Man’s Sister, the new season of The X-Files, Akaneiro, and Joe Hill’s Thumbprint.
Show Notes after the Jump!
If you are anxiously counting down to Wednesday, and let’s face it, we are all looking forward to new comic book day – there’s a good chance you are also counting down to Age of Ultron #10!
For years, comic books have suffered from what has been called “trade paperback-itis.” Many stories have been told in the exact number of issues made to fit inside a “graphic novel” or “trade” format.
Well, it seems like times, they might be a-changing.
Press Release
Spinning out of the top-selling Marvel NOW! sensation “Superior Spider-Man”, Eisner Award Winning writers Mark Waid (Daredevil, Kingdom Come), James Robinson (Starman) and international superstar artist Gabriele Dell’otto (Secret War) take the world’s greatest super hero on a globetrotting adventure like never before in Spider-Man: Family Business – hitting stores worldwide in April 2014! Someone has Spider-Man in their crosshairs and there’s only one person in the Marvel Universe who can save him…Peter Parker’s secret sister! As the web-slinger faces his darkest hour, will she end up becoming his greatest ally…or the one who damns him? This all-new, fully painted, original graphic novel marks the second offering in Marvel’s all new original graphic novel line, featuring the world’s most popular super heroes brought to life by the best creators and debuts in a high-end, oversized format featuring sophisticated packaging and design.
Who’s picking up Age of Ultron #10 this week?
If you aren’t maybe this teaser from Marvel will convince you, I mean LOOK at all those Wolverines.
The Walt Disney Studios has updated the release schedule for a number of movies coming out over the next couple of years, and in the process announced firm (or firm as of now) dates for two Marvel movies.
Disney sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of this weekend’s Ultimate Spider-Man episode that has the web-head traveling to K’un L’un.
Press Release
This September, celebrate the X-Men’s 50th anniversary with the first major X-Men crossover event in over three years—X-Men: Battle of the Atom! From the blockbuster creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Brian Wood, Frank Cho, Stuart Immonen, Chris Bachalo, David Lopez & Giuseppe Camuncoli, comes an event so exhilarating, and so groundbreaking that fans will be talking about this for years to come! Three X-Men universes collide in the biggest war mutantkind has ever seen, and you won’t believe how it all plays out. One thing’s for sure—no reader will come out unscathed!
Marvel sent Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for titles arriving in September 2013.
The Avengers are down to their last resort as they forge the ultimate plan to finally break free from Ultron’s ferocious iron grip.