Browsing: Marvel

Marvel Comics has announced Silver Surfer: Requiem #1 has sold out and is going back to print with a new variant cover by Esad Ribic.

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Yeah, after the boner joke last week, I thought it best to show Marvel can make similar mistakes. This week’s entry: Captain America I command you to WANK!

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Or – “Hulk No Care About Political Infrastructure!” Though every comic company uses the hype machine, Marvel is often considered to be the pinnacle of pre-release hyperbole, dating back to the heady days of Stan Lee. The House of Ideas has been telling the Fearless Front Facers for months that World War Hulk is going to be huge, and that nothing will ever be the same again. Even granted their overuse of that particular turn of phrase, after reading this issue, I’m starting to believe it.

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I know Logan has had a mind wipe, but I was also pretty sure he had recovered nearly all his memories. Apparently not as Wolverine: Origins Annual #1 finds Wolverine returning to Madripoor looking for answers to his past. Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek at the annual.

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The new New Warriors have a mission – fightin’ crime and the Super Human Registration Act. You’ve read the first issue, now, thanks to Marvel, Major Spoilers brings you a sneak peek at issue #2. How will Iron Skrull Man deal with this new band of heroes?

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The stage has already been set for the return of Steve Rogers, the fall of Tony Stark, and a whole heck of a lot of Skrull Skull smashing by the big green guy. So where does that leave the X-Men? They have their own major event coming up soon, and to help set the stage, Marvel has sent us a sneak peek at Uncanny X-Men #488 along with the a peek at the Endangered Species backup story by Mike Carey and Mark Bagely.

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Zak Penn, who has written the screenplay for the reboot/relaunch of The Incredible Hulk has been signed to write the adaptation of The Avengers. While the roster for the Avengers has changed since its inception in 1963, growing to include the likes of Spider-Man and X-Men hero Wolverine, the classic iteration of the team consisted of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and the diminutive Ant-Man and Wasp. Other members have been the Hulk, the bow-and-arrow-wielding Hawkeye and the probability-altering gypsy Scarlet Witch. Many of these heroes are getting their own starring portrayals in other movies, with Robert Downey Jr. as…

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Or – “The Big Bombshell Revealed…” Recent conversations with Tom Grice (who is still WRONG, Sir, WRONG!) have made me think that perhaps I’ve been unfair to Marvel lately. The entire Initiative program rubs me the wrong way, and the interlocking nature of the entire dang Marvel Universe right now does color my perceptions of titles like Omega Flight and New Warriors (though I stand by my blatant excoriation of Illuminati #3 and Loners #3.) Thus, I am going to try and give you a more balanced literary criticism of this issue, purportedly the hook upon which Marvel’s new giant…

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According to film director Jon Favreau, Iron Man will be seeking a PG-13 rating when it its screens in May of 2008. While I can understand the need to keep franchise movies like Iron Man in the PG realm, since when has an R rating kept kids out of theaters? via Jon Favreau MySpace page

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Woot! Summer is upon us, which means all the rugrats are out of school running around causing all sorts of mischief. Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of their version of summer vacation as only Deadpool and the Great Lakes Initiative can bring it.

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Marvel has announced yet another printing of the Marvel Zombies hard cover. This fifth printing will have yet another Arthur Suydam cover that is an homage to Mary Jane #1. The hard cover collects Marvel Zombies #1 – #5 that shows what happens when the Marvel Universe goes all zombie. Take the jump for this creepy cover.

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