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As Al Ewing writes the main Empyre title, the fallout of the event is extending through Marvel's publishing catalog, creating a laundry list of tie-ins including Emperor Hulk, Empyre: Captain America, and Empyre: X-Men Under writer Jonathan Hickman's reign, all of the X-Men titles got a completely fresh slate and very much have their own tone, drive, and subject[...]

Credit: Marvel. Al Ewing writes from a plot by himself and Dan Slott, and all of the problems with Ewing's writing that make the first two issues almost unbearable are here in force The characters sound nothing like themselves, as every line of dialogue is either plot-driven or an over-dramatic clunker, with Tony saying "blasted!" like a[...]

Credit: Marvel Comics. Al Ewing writes from a plot by himself and Dan Slott, and the wit that made his Loki run such a must-read is worlds away in this comic Instead of buckling down and focusing on character now that the inciting incident has flipped the Marvel universe upside down, this issue falls back on lowest-common-denominator[...]

Credit: Marvel Comics. Al Ewing scripts the big event from a plot by himself and Dan Slott The plot itself is engaging, with years of conflict brewing underneath the surface and, even though Marvel has done it a lot before, brilliant and powerful superheroes finding themselves at odds feels like a natural source of interesting chaos[...]

Marvel has become over the years the House of Events, more than the House of Ideas that it once claimed to be.  There are usually at least four to five Event Crossovers (series that are significant "event storylines" that are separate from regular ongoings and serve as the "backbone" of the story, which then has[...]

This 100-page special features brand new work from the likes of Jock, Al Ewing, Dan Abnett and more, with a combination of new work and old, exploring Rebellion's tenure as the publisher of 2000 AD. Originally launched by publishing giant IPC in 1977, 2000 AD moved to IPC's Fleetway comics subsidiary, then sold to Robert Maxwell in[...]

Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy José and Paul Mounts is the best comic book Marvel Comics is publishing by far Sorry, Donny Cates, Jonathan Hickman, but it is Reminiscent in parts of Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing, it has taken the Hulk back to its horror roots, and created[...]

The rise of the sentence-led death-obsesses comic book title continues following up Something Is Killing The Children with new Boom title for September, We Only Find Them When They're Dead by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo about one man's unrelenting quest throughout space to discover the truth—no matter where it takes him. And yes that means everyone'[...]

In the new Swamp Thing digital first comic, writer Mark Russell appears to be tryin to steal Swamp Thing's clothes back from Immortal Hulk.

Should Superman return to rocking a mullet? That's the question posed by Superman's official Twitter account, which teased that the Man of Steel is thinking of growing out his hair to the classic 1990s look. Thinking of growing the hair out again 👊 pic.twitter.com/hRD95hlC6C — Superman (@DCSuperman) March 24, 2020 But writer Tom Taylor quickly jumped in to[...]

From today's Marvel Comics, a house ad for the upcoming Empyre event with the Avengers and Fantastic Four, with some choice quotes from writers Dan Slott and Al Ewing, even as it is also used to sell copies of the Kree/Skrull War comics from decades past. That Dan Slott will use Empyre to make changes to[...]

Bleeding Cool Ace Reporter and shoe-in for next year's journalism Eisner David Pierce was on hand at the panel to send us breaking news, and he provided us this juice quote from Al Ewing: "Hulk #33 will be the issue where they succeed with the long-standing goal of making a reader vomit while reading the issue." IMMORTAL[...]

Empyre #0 is coming in two flavours, Avengers Empyre #0 with a touch of Al Ewing and Pepe Larraz and Fantastic Four Empyre #0, garnished with Dan Slott and just a soupcon of RB Silva.  Dan Slott promises that Empyre will have long-lasting life-changing impact on the Fantastic Four, that cannot be undone… and it[...]

And we can't wait to see what Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen has to say about this move – will he escalate the war he started with Boom? At ComicsPro, Boom's Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry announced the company has signed Al Ewing (the writer behind Immortal Hulk, which made waves for outselling Batman) to release[...]

Bleeding Cool looked at the recent Immortal Hulk #31 by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett and the backstory of one Dr Charlene McGowan, a scientist working for supervillains who is now working for the Hulk. She formerly worked for CalTech but was fired for drug use She later began working for the Kingpin's Mutant Growth Hormone narcotic[...]

But in today's Immortal Hulk #31 from Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, there may be another solution – at least for the Marvel Universe version of the UK With a science researcher, happy to work for any side who pays her, working on the Marvel narcotic Mutant Growth Hormone, paid for by the Kingpin. Who was[...]

Today sees the release of Guardians Of The Galaxy #1 from Al Ewing, Juann Cabal and Federico Blee And with Al Ewing having been the lead writer on Incoming and also co-writing the upcoming Empyre, it is natural that we may look to see what may be set up for April today And with a[...]

And ComiXology's creation and promotion of such titles has changed the rules by which people can successfully publish. Al Ewing (New Entry) The writer who would be king, an encyclopaedic knowledge of comics – and that which he doesn't know, he will devour, he took a comic with very little anticipation The Immortal Hulk and, with[...]

And Nova remembers what others do not… And is the Senator is worried about child superheroes on Earth… What will he do when he finds out about Billy, Hulking… Not just a soldier… Not just a warrior… But a full-blown King, combining armies, races, species… Against Earth? We've seen Empyre be set up – probably with Al Ewing – and the title[...]

At least that's what they thought… Hulk incoming… IMMORTAL HULK #27 (W) Al Ewing (A) Joe Bennett (CA) Alex Ross • Some monsters are born from gamma… other monsters worship a different kind of green. •  In his war on the human world, the Immortal Hulk is taking the fight to its lords and masters – the Roxxon Corporation. •  But when you mess[...]

As we wrote before, AWA Studios’ Upshot Now #0 anthology was the giveaway to get at New York Comic Con this year. It’s a 140-page black and white

One out of three ain't bad. So yes, as announced at Marvel's Next Big Thing panel at New York Comic Con, Al Ewing and Juann Cabal are the creative team behind a new Guardians of the Galaxy series in 2020, replacing the series that Dinny Cates began with Geoff Shaw. Which Guardians will be in the series is[...]

Smith, Red Border by crime novelist Jason Starr and Will Conrad, and the opening pages of Fight Girls by Frank Cho, HotELL by John Lees and Delabor Talajic, Year Zero by Benjamin Percy and Ramon Rosanas, Old Haunts by Ollie Masters, Al Ewing and Lawrence Campbell, and Devil's Highway by Benjamin Percy and Brent Schoonover[...]

Al Ewing and Mark Waid worked together on the recent Avengers weekly series They are probably best buds So when both create complementary but contradictory explanations for the end of the Marvel Universe, you know that they have a plan All part of this connective tissue that we will read about in Incoming #1. In Immortal[...]

And, courtesy of writer Al Ewing, he is 'connective tissue' made flesh In both Marvel Comics #1000, today's Marvel Comics #1001 and Incoming #1 to be published in a couple of months and change. Let's go back. Oscar Schisgall's 1930's novel, The Black Caballero, crossed The Shadow with Lone Ranger to create the Masked Rider and his Native[...]

The day before New York Comic Con, Marvel Comics will publish the Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk one-shot by Al Ewing and Filipe Andrade And people may be going to get a little silly. When solicited, it looked like this comic book would deal with the kidnapped corpse of General Ross, who was once the Red Hulk[...]

With Al Ewing bringing back The Masked Rider/Raider as seen in Marvel Comics #1, and his stories in Marvel Comics #1000 and the upcoming Marvel Comics #1001. Here are all the other teases we have run… INCOMING #1 Written by AL EWING DAN SLOTT, CHIP ZDARSKY, KELLY THOMPSON, GREG PAK, EVE L EWING, MATT ROSENBERG, ED BRISSON,[...]

The sequel to Marvel Comics #1000, it continues the same overarching idea of an ongoing story by Al Ewing threaded through a litany one one page stories by the good and the great from Marvel Comics' history. Currently that includes writers Al Ewing, Audrey Loeb, Jimmy Palmiotti, Declan Shalvey, Vita Ayala, Howard Chaykin, Kaare Andrews, Frank[...]

But the likes of Al Ewing, Jock, Garth Ennis, Jimmy Broxton, Pat Mills and many more made their home, past and present, in 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine And you can find a few of them in Rebellion's November 2019 and beyond solicitations for the US market… as well as a new collection of[...]

You ever get the feeling that somebody is watching you? If you've ever said anything about Marvel Comics, it might not just be paranoia… maybe they really are out to get you! Earlier today, the New York Times confirmed Bleeding Cool's scoop that the teasers Marvel has been dropping all week for Al Ewing and Friends[...]