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Marvel Comics has announced a new comic this summer coming from Jonathan Hickman called Imperial, subtitled "The End Of The Beginning" and "Nature Abhors A Vacuum" And that is all Earlier today Bleeding Cool mentioned that an "Imperial" event was coming and that the Marvel teasers as part of Marvel In 2025  "Galactic Leaders Assassinated"[...]

Ultimate Spider-Man #11 by Jonathan Hickman and David Messina has seen a year pass, since the events of the Ultimate Invasion, both in publication and in time within the comic book universe When Ultimate Spider-Man kicked off, we wondered how a Spider-Man as a mid-life crisis may have a different impact on the great power-great[...]

People do seem to forget that Jonathan Hickman broke into comic books as a writer/artist Or rather a writer/graphic designer, with The Nightly News published by Image Comics But now he is reminding us all with the current 3W/3M Kickstarter which has opened that particular universe up to the crowdfunding crowd, rather than just the[...]

Avengers #2 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić is published today, sees Marvel heroes contemplating an evacuation of the remaining humans still alive on Earth While we also get a rewriting of a scene from Alien: Covenant in which the synthetic David kills the Engineers, revealed nas the creators of both the xenomorphs and humanity itself. However[...]

And now we get a bigger look at Shift, a 64-page BD-style original graphic novel written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Mike del Mundo. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ And the Arrivals, an oversized 96-page introductory issue that "directly leads[...]

Jonathan Hickman has been staying out of the Greg Capullo/FCO Plascencia issues over his Wolverine: Revenge series for Marvel But he has been talking 3W/3M or Three Worlds Three Moons, the Substack subscription publisher he founded with collaborators Mike Huddleston and Mike Del Mundo And announced two new books he is writing and co-writing with[...]

Where people asked was Jonathan Hickman, whose recent work on the Fantastic Four was so influential for both the comics and the movies, including the likes of interdimensional incursions Well, therein lies a tale. C.B Cebulski, David Bogart, Tom Brevoort, Alan Davis, Heather Davis, Chip Zdarsky, Dan Slott, Mark Bagley, Matt Fraction, Ryan North, Sara Pichelli,[...]

Tomorrow's Ultimate Spider-Man #10 by Jonathan Hickman and David Messina has more mentions of the Ultimate version of Starbucks, Starducks, than of Peter Parker, the Ultimate Spider-Man It's that kind of a comic book this week. Seriously, you can't move without those utterly fictitious product placements in a styrofoam cup. As Ben Parker and J Jonah Jameson[...]

Yesterday, I reported that Wolverine: Revenge #2 from Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo had seen its final issue slip from the 25th of December to the 19th of February 2025 But that is a mere pinprick of delays over what is happening to another Jonathan Hickman title, Aliens Vs Avengers with Esad Ribic The first issue[...]

Wolverine: Revenge #2 from Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo just came out from Marvel Comics Wolverine: Revenge #3 is still out in October But Wolverine: Revenge #4 has slipped from the 27th of November to the 25th of December, 2024 Meanwhile, Wolverine: Revenge #5 has slipped from the 25th of December all the way to[...]

And it's a Jonathan Hickman week Ultimate Spider-Man #9 takes the top, doubling Amazing Spider-Man sales, with Wolverine Revenge grabbing second place Marvel grabs seven spots; DC takes two with Batman and Zatanna, and Image/Skybound with Destro. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1. Ultimate Spider-Man #9 Marvel Jonathan Hickman Marco Checchetto 4.99 100 2 Wolverine: Revenge #2 Marvel Jonathan Hickman Greg Capullo 5.99 83.2 3 Uncanny X-Men #3 Marvel Gail Simone David Marquez 4.99 78.9 4 Batman: The Last Halloween #0 DC Jeph Loeb Eduardo Risso 4.99 59.4 5 Amazing Spider-Man #58 Marvel Zeb Wells John Romita[...]

Jonathan Hickman, Mike del Mundo, and Mike Huddleston have created the Substack comics publisher Three Worlds Three Moons, or 3W3M, a shared universe of stories set across a solar system, sci-fi and fantasy together And with guest writers and artists Steve Epting, Al Ewing, Christian Ward, Jason Howard, Ram V, Stephen Green, Tini Howard, Phil[...]

And you think people have an issue with the Absolute Batman logo… You ain't seen nothing yet with Miles Morales swinging around the galaxy with an Alien Xenomorph facehugger for a chest symbol. ALIENS VS AVENGERS #1 MARVEL COMICS MAY240625 (W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Esad Ribic ALIENS AND AVENGERS FACE OFF! It's all led to this: Xenomorphs reach Earth! The perfect organism[...]

Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic launch Aliens Vs Avengers #1 from Marvel Comics today As Hickman threads the history of the Xenomorphs through the Marvel Universe and into its near future Which might not have been what people were expecting, but it's what they got. Bring on the Garth Marenghi. After all, Alien and Aliens are set[...]

Wolverine: Revenge #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo was published this week by Marvel Comics in both a standard and Red Band edition The latter was polybagged, cost an extra dollar and promised gorier exclusive material So what did you get for your additional buck? Well, it started with a different colour scheme for[...]

You can read the thirty-two-issue saga for free here. Wolverine Revenge #1 And if you like that kind of thing, you can also read Wolverine: Revenge, a five-issue series by Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo's return to comics which, well, really reads like a version of X-Men: Elsewhen with Wolverine, SHIELD, Captain America, Winter Soldier and a[...]

Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto's chart-topping series Ultimate Spider-Man sees its eighth issue out this week from Marvel Comics Previously we had seen how the young Iron Man had allowed Peter Parker and Harry Osborn to choose personalities for the AI in their suits, with Peter Parker's suit rather resembling the Venom symbiote But with[...]

Marvel Comics is launching Aliens Vs Avengers – or AVA – by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić in July 2024 Although that's now delayed until August But aside from covers, there has been little shown from within the pages Here's a first look at some low resolution pages from within… and noting that the second issue has been[...]

Rob Liefeld is no fan of Jonathan Hickman's run on X-Men, the House Of X He did not care for it And has said so repeatedly in a Peter Griffin-style voice But with the end of the Krakoan Age, fellow Marvel writer Chip Zdarsky and X-Men lead writer Gerry Duggan took to Cameo to pay[...]

One issue equals one month, and we are up to issue six now from Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto. So something was going to break for Peter Parker. Especially when you have been beaten up at the hands of a genetically enhanced Kingpin And Mary Jane finally picks up on the subtle nuances going on in her[...]

Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo on Wolverine topped the traffic at Bleeding Cool yesterday, followed by Scarlett #1 orders from Image Comics Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead[...]

Tell him he is going to draw a Wolverine five-issue comic book written by Jonathan Hickman Wolverine: Revenge will be published by Marvel Comics from the 21st of August And will probably outsell everything in the direct market. Polygon has the PR, and Greg tells them "I've finally returned home to Marvel and I'm ready to[...]

Jonathan Hickman and Krakoa topped the traffic at Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Jonathan Hickman and[...]

And while there are still wrap-ups to come, with a certain Dominion to take care of, as well as the remains of a Nimrod or two, the story that Jonathan Hickman kicked off across the whole of the X-Men titles is coming to an end at breakneck speed. Which makes Doom #1, published today by Marvel[...]

Jonathan Hickman's Krakoan Age of the X-Men is coming to an end, and it seemed to be one that happened quite abruptly, as the X-Men keys are handed off from editor Jordan D White to Tom Brevoort But Tom has already had his hands over parts of it, it seems, as Jordan and other X-Men[...]

Marvel Comics is launching Aliens Vs Avengers – or AVA – by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić in July 2024 The rest is a footnote The first Aliens crossover with a Marvel comic, from their Fox imprint that also includes Predator and Planet Of The Apes comics, and follows their Predator Vs Wolverine series Hickman,[...]

The realisation that Marvel's new Ultimate Comics universe is playing out in real time topped yesterday's traffic at Bleeding Cool.

Ultimate Spider-Man #3 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto is published today The original Spider-Man – and the original Ultimate Spider-Man  – have a kid who has lost his father figure, learning to use his own powers for good and in doing so prevent the kind of harm that befell him With great power there[...]

Marvel Comics issues the following note regarding Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti's G.O.D.S series, stating "TO ALL THINGS, AN ENDING… FOR NOW G.O.D.S #8 is on sale May 2024 G.O.D.S #8 Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Art by VALERIO SCHITI Cover by MATEUS MANHANINI On Sale 5/15" Suggesting that the series, which published its sixth issue[...]

Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto hit with a bang The second printing even made it into Bleeding Cool's Weekly Bestseller List, the first time such a thing has happened The remaking of Peter Parker's life, only getting the spider bite as a middle-aged man, and an active choice rather than circumstance,[...]