Or – “How A Villain Can Make Or Break Your Story…” Ed Brubaker has been writing Captain America for several years now, and throughout that time has pitted Captain America against many different adversaries of varying levels. When this version of Captain America launched, I was immediately put off by the creation of Codename Bravo, yet another super-soldier gone bad, and no matter how well-crafted the tales, I found myself losing interest in the conflict because of the villain. Will this issue redeem the latest volume of Captain America?
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They’re opposite sides of the same coin, really: Yin to Yang, darkness to light, aggression to serenity. Sandra Wu-San; born to poverty, raised by assassins, eventually finding her way by walking the earth, fighting and killing for the sheer thrill of it all. Shang-Chi, son of Fu Manchu; Born in splendor, a pawn in his father’s schemes of domination, until he turned away to find his own path of balance. Each is acclaimed as the greatest hand-to-hand combatant of their world (he fought the Hulk alone, she TRAINED the Batman) but with wildly different views of the world and the…
Expect to see a lot, and I mean A LOT, of coverage regarding Marvel movies over the next couple of years. The Avengers bump has created a buzz, and everyone wants in on the next bit of news. On top of that, Marvel Studios is busy with sequels to all the lead in movies, and it looks like a villain for Thor 2 may have been found.
With the wedding of the year just around the corner from Marvel, the company has announced a variant cover for Astonishing X-Men #51.
Variety is reporting that actor Ashley Hamilton is in talks with Marvel studios to appears as one of the villains in the upcoming Iron Man 3 movie.
Or – “Thanks To Poor Typing, Spell-Check Wants To Call It Fat-Nasty Four.” In the last few months, the Fantastic Four have faced the Celestials, communed with Galactus, retrieved their lost fourth member from the depths of the Negative Zone and met their children from the future. The team deserves a little time off, a break from the waves of destiny and catastrophe that have been buffeting them… Sadly, this isn’t it.
The MMORPG genre is filled with popular titles that work, and many that have had to switch their pay model to a free one in order to survive. Marvel Universe Online has been an on again, off again project from Marvel for a while, but now that The Avengers are on the top of the world, the project is back on again, this time as Marvel Heroes. The first trailer has arrived, and it features some actual game play.
Who wants to bet that The Avengers stomp all over the box office again this weekend? It would be cool if the movie hit the $2 billion mark, but there are too many obstacles that will prevent that from happening. Avengers fever is at an all time high, and that means artists are coming out of the woodwork with their take on the super hero team. Today, it’s Denis Medri, an Italian comic book illustrator.
When Iron Man 2 went into production, the studio tried dialing back the budget, and in the process, dropped Terrance Howard from the cast. With the success of The Avengers, Disney is taking the opposite approach, it’s throwing money at Iron Man 3.
With the news that Northstar has proposed to his boyfriend Kyle, it’s time to start planning a wedding! Anyone who had gone through the ceremony knows that pictures are a pretty big deal. Now with Astonishing X-Men #51, Marvel is giving you a chance to put your wedding picture along side other memorable Marvel marriages of the past with a special variant cover.
Or – “In Soviet Russia, Super-Villains Fight YOU!” The Man Without Fear has found himself in possession of the Omega Drive, which contains enough information to shut down (or to CONTROL) “mega-crime” the world over. AIM, Hydra, The Secret Empire, even Black Spectre want to possess it. Can one blind man fend off the endless armies of perfidiousness by himself?
Diamond Select Toys is prepping for its 50th Marvel Minimates series, and it wants feedback from fans on who should be in it.
Press Release The X-Men, one of the world’s most popular super hero teams, have always been at the forefront of the biggest stories in comic history; and today is no different as Marvel is proud to announce the wedding that has everyone talking! Today, fans worldwide learned on ABC’s The View, that Jean-Paul Beaubier, AKA Northstar and a popular member of the X-Men, proposes to his boyfriend Kyle Jinadu in Astonishing X-Men #50, on-sale tomorrow in comic stores, on the Marvel Comics app and at the Marvel Digital Comics Shop.
If you watch television, you have probably already seen the new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. For the rest of us, who have drifted away from the networks, the Internet offers up that trailer.