Marvel has sunk to a new low in its ongoing attempt to get people to read super-mega-crossover events. The publisher is offering a bribe of 1500 Marvel Bucks, known otherwise as Marvel Insider Points if they'll read the 2006 heroes vs. heroes super-mega-crossover event Civil War on Marvel Unlimited. The move follows past Marvel strategies, […]
So Marvel Comics gets its own version of Greta Thunberg in today's Outlawed #1, spinning out of Incoming #1 and kicking off a new status quo for Marvel's young superheroes, now regarded as child soldiers and wards of the United States' protection. But how did events get that way? Well, we get to meet Ailana […]
Marvel has revealed the next two issues of Marvels Snapshots coming this June. From Mark Waid and Colleen Doran, Captain Marvel headlines an issue also starring Ms. Marvel and "a few more surprises." Also in June, Marvel is rehashing Civil War again with a Marvels Snapshot by Saladin Ahmed and Ryan Kelly starring Captain America, […]
Beast Kingdom and Hiya Toys have some new Previews Exclusive figures coming to local shops and such in the near future. First up, a new Injustice 2 Batman figure will be hitting shops, featuring the standard Hiya articulation and accessories. Past that, Beast Kingdom will have a new series of Egg Attack Spider-Man figures for […]
We all remember the infamous moment in Civil War: Frontline #11 when Sally Floyd accosted Captain America about the Civil War (which was clearly 100% Tony Stark's fault), accusing him of being out of touch with regular Americans due to his lack of a profile on the then-popular social media service MySpace. Ah, good times. […]
Mondo will release their third and final wave of Marvel Studios 10th anniversary posters and pins at some point today. First is a pair of Civil War posters by Oliver Barrett, and finally a Doctor Strange poster with a variant by Johnny Dombrowski. The Ant-Man and Wasp pins may be the best Marvel Studios enamel […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Thing and the Human Torch are stranded on another world where Captain America and Iron Man's Civil War destroyed everything. They've hidden away in a small town, and the Spider, a maddened version of the Amazing Spider-Man, is searching all over the country for them. Johnny is taking care of their new […]
HBO programming president Casey Bloys updated the media on two very different, polarizing projects during their Television Critics Association's (TCA) executive session on Wednesday: Damon Lindelof's authorized adaptation "remix" of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 limited comic book series Watchmen; and alternate history fiction series Confederate, from Game Of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm […]
Eisner Award-winning comic book writer Tom King (Batman, Mr. Miracle) is taking his storytelling talents to television. Topic Studios and Playground are set to develop the former CIA officer-turned-bestselling-author-and-comic-book-writer's dystopian drama States of America into an hour-long television series. King's States of America is set in a deeply divided U.S.A. that's forced to suffer foreign […]
Captain America is getting a special Hot Toys release to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the MCU. This will be a convention exclusive, featuring Steve in garb from concept art from Captain America: Civil War. He will come with two shields — the regular circular one and the heater shield. Both are black and […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Thing, Human Torch, Victor von Doom, and Rachna land on a world torn apart by the Civil War between Captain America and Iron Man. Here, they continue their search for Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Franklin, and Valeria. Instead, they encounter the new power on this world, the Spider and Doctor Strange. They […]
Jon Favreau's Iron Man came out 10 years ago on this day, May 2nd. To observe this momentous occasion and the starting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we are going to compare the state of Iron Man comics at the time versus the Brian Michael Bendis run, which is about to reach its 600th issue. It's […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Let's move onto the Black Panther's part in one of the most popular and oft-discussed Marvel Comics events of the past 20 years, Civil War. This will be recounted through the seven issues included in the Black Panther: Civil War collection released by Marvel. For the uninitiated, Marvel's Civil War was the result […]
Stan Lee is in every MCU film in a cameo role. It always gets a big response from the people watching, and it is genuinely cool when he pops up onscreen. As if that wasn't enough, now Funko is immortalizing those moments in a way us obsessive collectors understand these days: as Pops. Stan Lee […]
If there's one thing that the trailer for Marvel Studios' Black Panther shows us, it's that a revolution is bigger than any one man; and in the newly released poster, we're introduced to those who will stand by King T'Challa's/Black Panther's side for the sake of Wakanda…and those who will do whatever it takes to tear […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] I am a big Avengers guy. I have been ever since I started reading comics. My first readings of the team were the Marvel Masterworks collection of the first volume of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Avengers. From there, I read the Marvel Adventures Avengers book (I was young, remember), and, some time […]
Are you a completest who needs to make sure that they've seen everything that's come out of Marvel Studios? Maybe you want to be up-to-speed on all of the backstories you'll need to know to keep your scorecard up-to-date going into Avengers: Infinity War? Maybe you're like me and want to prove to your friends […]
Today sees the publication of Superman #28 by Peter J Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Scott Godlewski and Gabe Eltreb, and it is a "very special episode of Superman". Entitled Independence Day and originally intended to be published last month closer to, you know, Independence Day, it sees Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jonathan Kent visiting Washington DC, to […]
Earlier today, President Donald Trump had some not so great news for Marvel Studios. Seventh president of the United States Andrew Jackson was apparently not a fan of their blockbuster film, Captain America: Civil War. Trump relayed Jackson's thoughts on the film in an interview today. "I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, […]
Remember when Marvel's Civil War came out last summer? I do. So does Cheeze-Its, as you can still buy these in stores. Since I am a grown adult who has proven to everyone that my idea of good food involves comic book characters on them, I bought them. Much to my surprise they weren't stale […]
