Bleeding Cool has pointed out how, after increased discounts and valuable variant cover distribution, comic book retailers basically getting all their copies of Avengers Vs X-Men #1 without costing them a cent.
Well Ultimate Comics of Durham, North Carolina seems to have taken that to heart On April 3rd, for their Avengers Vs X-Men launch party[...]
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With The Avengers opening weekend little over a month away, it's time for us rumor-mongers to turn our attention towards the post-Avengers Marvel Studios landscape in earnest Like Alasdair Stuart in one of today's trending posts, I'm very pleased to see Black Widow back for Iron Man 3 Good continuity move, and Scarlett Johansson's take is[...]
Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool:
The Avengers' survivor count begins Widow confirmed safe, en route to mess with billionaire genius playboy philanthropist.
I have a tremendous fondness for Iron Man 2 and a big part of that is the dynamic change brought about by Black Widow As well as Tony spewing his well intentioned and cheerfully[...]
Marvel has done this digital-to-print voucher before but there are a few new rules this time.
Rather than get the voucher with any purchase, you have to buy from a set list of Avengers and X-Men related titles (below) None of the items are marked at 99c or $1.49, $1.99 is the minimum you can spend[...]
And it's completely awful.
Part of some special projects deal, Marvel have created an Avengers comic to emphasise good personal banking practices, with Visa The usual thing, the Avengers battle a foe and while doing so, both teach and learn about balancing budget, managing saving accounts, that sort of thing Forced, yes Laboured, absolutely You'd expect[...]
Tom Huxley writes for Bleeding Cool;
The Avengers: Heroic Age by Brian Michael Bendis, which came out this week, features Bendis' first seventeen Avengers comics under the "Heroic Age" banner from just over a year ago, in Marvel's oversized hardback format at a pretty reasonable price, just in time for The Avengers movie[...]
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Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye in The Avengers 2012! First you saw him on screen in Thor, but he started in the pages of Marvel Comics! Host Grace Randolph, from Beyond The Trailer, and guest Alan Kistler talk about the history of Clint Barton aka Hawkeye, who Jeremy Renner will be playing in The Avengers 2012![...]
Nobody doesn't like those rather wonderful Avengers #25 pages that Marvel sneak previewed today, written by Bendis and drawn by Walt Simonson Walt, good to have you back.
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Bleeding Cool has run a number of articles showing how Marvel is encouraging retailers to order more and more of their Avengers Vs X-Men series, to the extent that for the first issue they are all but giving it away, while for subsequent issues, they are using variant covers to keep the orders high through[...]
No embed yet that I've seen, but you're going to want to go check out this new Japanese trailer for The Avengers Lots of interesting new footage here that I'm sure Brendon will be dissecting in detail in a couple hours, but in the meantime here's a look at one of the bits that everyone is going[...]
Next month… anything could happen!
While Norman Osborne finds a new superhero to emulate in Avengers That's right folks, it's time for Purple Hulk! That Hulk Rainbow meme can't be far off… at least I could follow this comic Avengers Assemble was a little… disjointed.
Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London, currently celebrating C-Day for the[...]
That's the wording we were waiting for. Marvel's Infinite Comics, to be announced on Sunday at SXSW will be a "revolutionary new way of reading comics."
The books they were trying to get more copies of before the comics were sent to them.
Again, Avengers Vs X-Men is at the top , which justifies the claim that Marvel have now got more preorders for the first issue than for Civil War #1, and they also seem to be loading up with issue[...]
The dark spin on the Wizard of Oz mythos as seen in No Place Like Home also grabbed a lot of attention.
As far as Marvel and DC offerings, Daredevil continues to pick up steam and build buzz, and issues #1-3 of Avengers: X-Sanction have been flying off the shelves as people prepare for Avengers Vs[...]
We've got lots of other stories on the site and some of them really aren't too bad.
If you're still here, we'd like to tell you about a new Marvel storybook for The Avengers If you're still here and you're in the UK we'd like to tell you about a new storybook for Marvel Avengers Assemble.
The[...]
In the final issue of Avengers: The Children's Crusade, a group of people stand around and argue Then another group of people sit around and mope.
That is basically the issue.
Oh there's plenty of stuff that works as a lead into Avengers Vs X-Men, there are time circles that complete, there are tributes, there is reconciliation and there[...]
There has been a fair bit of speculation about that big flying snake whatchamacallit at the end of the most recent Avengers trailer.
Some have guessed, quite reasonably, Fin Fang Foom.
Others have said, with equal credibility, the Midgard Serpent.
Well, I was flicking through Avengers #17 earlier today, because it was free, and I noticed this.
In case[...]
The Avengers have headlined quite a few trending topic posts recently, and something tells me that's going to continue pretty regularly over the next several weeks If it's not the film, it's the comics, and as Marvel is getting steadily better at coordinating big film and comic releases, that could take the comics market into[...]
They are there for outreach, to recruit customers, to invite lapsed customers back, and maybe while they are there upsell them on some more comics.
Then there is Avengers Vs X-Men #1 Now retailers usually get from 40-55% discount on the cover price before selling to you That profit margin helps them pay for the property,[...]
And that's true, but hey, let 'em save something for the movie…
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Well, that's what Marvel has in mind for the Avengers Vs X-Men launch parties in comic shops on April 3rd Allowing comic stores to create an Avengers Vs X-Men cake for the event.
Of course such a thing is bound to be legally problematic Independent cake stores creating Marvel cakes without licence? That would never do[...]
With news that Bendis is leaving Avengers, and his stating that his next project will be "so much more" than taking over the X-Men books, it's another sign of big creator and universe shakeups after the conclusion of Avengers Vs X-Men.
Hickman also talks plenty about Secret and The Manhattan Projects...
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Then CC Store Manager Dave shares his sadness with everyone about the New Printing of Kingdom Come Absolute Edition and the word balloons that are missing text on Page #104[...]
Based on internet consensus, the new trailer for The Avengers is… pretty much the best thing ever Gotta say I agree And be sure to check out Brendon's shot-by-shot breakdown of what's in it and what we know about it.
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This is really strong stuff[...]
Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel had been receiving massive reorders for Avengers Vs X-Men #1, pushing it well over the 200K mark Well, here's the evidence, for reorders from the 20th to the 26th of February Avengers Vs X-Men, and their variants, taking seven of the top twelve, and three of the top four[...]
WARNING: There are spoilers for the first few pages of Avengers #23 and New Avengers #22 below.
Kieron Gillen has said that everything he is writing on Uncanny X-Men is leading up to Avengers Vs X-Men But how to get Avengers ready for it?
There's a scene in the first issue of AVX that sees the Avengers[...]
The Avengers UK release had everyone twittering today for 1) being retitled Avengers Assemble to avoid confusion with the classic British spy-fi of the same name, and 2) featuring a poster which is a pretty obvious photoshop job Point 1) raised quite a few more eyebrows than I would have expected It's still a cool[...]
In the sixties, there was a British TV series that also aired in the US, called The Avengers A tongue-in-cheek spy action adventure series starring a bowler hatted pinstripe-suited dapper fellow and selected beauties in skintight leather as his foil.
They even made a rather poor film of the series a few years ago Everyone tried[...]
According to The Express, Steven Moffat, the showrunner for both Who and Sherlock, is trying to get his two leading men together.
Only That Software From CSI Can Solve The Avengers Alien Riddle Now – UPDATE: Solved?
We think that aliens are named down there in the bottom left Everybody seems to have their name underneath their[...]