DEATH OF SPIDER-MAN: USA Today and others reveal the ending

Even though Ultimate Spider-Man #160 is polybagged for your protection, that hasn’t stopped Marvel from sharing the news with major media outlets like USA Today, who then printed it all over the place.

**RUSSELL ALERT** Spoilers after the jump! **RUSSELL ALERT***

UPDATE: NEW IMAGES AND FULL PRESS RELEASE NOW INCLUDED

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Marvel planning for social networking service called Blip

Think Marvel is content with only printing comics, offering digital comics, dominating the comic book movie box office, and hosting its own online digital comic repository? Think again. According to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office it looks like Marvel has something big planned for BLIP and secured the domain name blip.com.

Take the jump for a look at the trademarks Marvel filed. It gives you a pretty clear idea of what is going on.

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REVIEW: Fear Itself – Youth In Revolt #2 (of 6)

Or – “I Have A Theory!  It Could Be BUNNIES!”

Given the events of the last ten years of Marvel Comics, taking into account the comic-time dilation effect, factoring out Earth-A doubles and the occasional altered time-stream, there’s really only one way to to explain the way continuity unfolds at good ol’ Marvel:

EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the Marvel Universe is dangerously unstable.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, we can look at a ‘Fear Itself’ crossover.

(Be warned:  Spoilers for the main book are most certainly ahead!)

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MOVIE: Director found for Wolverine sequel… Again!

It’s been a merry-go-round for 20th Century Fox as they search/find/replace directors for the upcoming Wolverine 2: Electric Boogaloo sequel.  It looked like Darren Aronofsky would helm the project, but he stepped down, then rumors and rumored rumors circulated as director after director sat down to talk with the studio.  Now it looks like 20th Century Fox has settled upon James Mangold to direct the picture.

If you are not familiar with Mangold’s work, it probably means you didn’t see the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action/comedy/romance/disaster Knight and Day.  Of course he also directed 3:10 to Yuma, so there’s still hope this movie will turn out okay.

via Deadline

After Schism comes X-Men: ReGenesis!

Like you didn’t see this coming…

Press Release

Marvel is pleased to announce X-Men: ReGenesis, a bold new direction redefining the X-Men franchise! X-Men: ReGenesis kicks off this fall in Uncanny X-Men #1 & Wolverine and the X-Men #1 and its ramifications will send shockwaves throughout every X-Book and the Marvel Universe! Prepare for the X-Men’s new dawn as former allies head off in different directions, taking with them your favorite X-Men characters. Following the unforgettable outcome in X-Men: Schism, mutantkind will be asking one another “Who will you follow?” and their answers may surprise you! Never before have there been TWO teams calling themselves the X-Men and never has anyone had to choose a side. Guided by their different ideologies, each leader has their own mission for saving their species, but is only one of them right?

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