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In June, Marvel softened readers up for their Marvel Legacy announcements by claiming they would change the comics industry and then releasing a bunch of homage variant covers It was a brilliant PR move, disappointing readers early so that everything that comes after seems more exciting by comparison. Now, Marvel is slowly rolling out the creative[...]

As part of the exciting grand finale of announcements promoting Marvel's upcoming Marvel Legacy initiative, announcements that Marvel has promised will change the industry forever, Marvel has shockingly, industry-changingly revealed that Ms Marvel will continue to be published when Marvel Legacy hits in September. Prior to the announcement, there were serious questions as to whether Marvel[...]

Following up on a day's worth of anti-climactic homage cover reveals for all the titles that are part of Marvel Legacy in September, the House of Ideas has begun sending homage covers that serve as the grand finale, presumably the announcements that will change the industry as they've been promising. So far, we've seen a teaser[...]

All day long, Marvel Comics have been changing the comics industry forever with the reveal that, come September's industry-changing Marvel Legacy initiative, they will be publishing mostly all the same titles they were previously publishing, with a few exceptions To illustrate just how industry-changing this is, each title has been revealed via a homage cover[...]

In their most recent press release copy, Marvel touts Legacy as "honoring the past while embracing the present." Is that really what's going on here? Or, when you consider they just teased killing off Jane Foster in the Mighty Thor as well, is there a different theme emerging? Let us know what you think. Throughout the day,[...]

All day long, Marvel has been changing the industry with a series of announcements via media partner websites about which titles they'll be publishing during Marvel Legacy in September (mostly the same ones with a few exceptions), each complimented by a cover homaging a past Marvel classic (and sometimes, if you're lucky, the names of[...]

In a shocking development that nobody saw coming, the Universe-threatening crisis set off by Marvel's attempts to change the comic book industry over and over again today by releasing homage covers for its upcoming Marvel Legacy titles has been stopped by Marvel itself, as the publisher's eighth set of industry-changing reveals has accidentally changed the[...]

Like an unspeakable horror straight out of a drug-fueled nightmare, Marvel Comics has been slowly but surely unraveling the threads of reality itself by changing the comic book industry over and over again with its Marvel Legacy homage cover and title reveals Though the publisher warned us yesterday that this was coming, nobody could have[...]

As Marvel continues to change the comic book industry forever over and over and over and over and over again today, Bleeding Cool has learned that a

Has it been hours since Marvel changed the comics industry forever with their first set of homage covers and title reveals for their upcoming Marvel Legacy event? Or has it been weeks? We've completely lost track of time in the the aftermath of so much industry-changing news in such a short time period When's the[...]

Yesterday, Marvel Comics promised us an announcement about their upcoming Legacy initiative that would change the comic book industry, with Legacy affecting every hero, every title, every story Today, Marvel has begun to deliver on that promise with… six Legacy covers homaging classic past covers, released to a compliant media partner website Well, you can't[...]

Marvel Legacy is on the horizon now, and, with it, Marvel is promising fewer titles and a return of the classic heroes This seems unsurprising as their attempts to add new heroes and diversify their cast has been met with fan outcries, and their shipments to stores in North America have taken a drop The[...]

Then, with DC Reborn, even though some of the books were twice-monthly, DC was publishing fewer titles again overall. The focus on fewer books and higher sales for those individual books was a controversial one at the time, but seems to have paid off for publishers that are now able to build their lines up again[...]

We already know that Venom went from #6 to #150, as part of Marvel Legacy renumbering, taking the issue number of comic book series to where it would have been if it hadn't been multiple volumes, with relaunches and restarts. While Ultimates2, similarly, is going to Ultimates2 #100 But a lot of the other Marvel Comics titles[...]

No more red wire/blue wire decision-making for CTU…at least for now. Fox has canceled 24: Legacy after just one season,  however it might not be the last we see of the realtime series. The network is still exploring a restructuring of the once-popular series, possibly as an anthology series built around a similar real-time storytelling format[...]

And in many cases, Marvel has already course corrected, with a big X-Men relaunch earlier this year and plans for Marvel Legacy and Make Mine Marvel planned for later this year, after Secret Empire (whose Captain Nazi storyline and vitriolic defense from Marvel staff on social media certainly has nothing to do with low sales, right?), bringing back[...]

We swear, we didn't mean to make that headline rhyme. We've known for some time that a new Thor will be debuting in The Mighty Thor #20, in stores in

At Marvel's Next Big Thing panel at C2E2 today, Jason Aaron teased an exciting component of he and Esad Ribic's Legacy one-shot The series, which kicks off Marvel's Legacy initiative that will affect the entire line, will serve as an "entry point" for readers to figure out what's currently going on with Marvel's continuity (remember[...]

But how much of it is old hat to Bleeding Cool readers?announced the return of legacy numbering across the board? Well, at the Secret Empire panel, they announced the return of legacy numbering across the board You read about that first on Bleeding Cool six weeks ago, the third of March, along with the news that Venom[...]

Press and phones were banned from the presentation to comic book retailers, and it wasn't just so that no retailer would get a recording of another Marvel exec talking about diversity. They also talked about Marvel Legacy, teased recently, and what it will mean for a number of their titles, So we will see the fall of[...]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hmdqk8NA4[/youtube] The trailer for the party film #legacy has just hit, ahead of release in the UK on 25th June followed by a DVD and digital release on 29th June The film stars young British talent including Franz Drameh ahead of his debut in DC's Legends Of Tomorrow and is produced by friend of Bleeding[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2Cq9BDwq4[/youtube] From the Marvel AR at the end of X-Men: Legacy #1, in case you don't have smartphone/tablet access, Si Spurrier answers his critics Followed by editor Daniel Ketchum interviewing his mother about the cover…     [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2Cq9BDwq4[/youtube] From the Marvel AR at the end of X-Men: Legacy #1, in case you don't have smartphone/tablet access, Si Spurrier answers[...]

Disney has launched a very swish HTML5 enhanced comic book format for its new Tron: Legacy online comic, launching today It's meant to only work on Internet Explorer 9, but it seems fine on Google Chrome (and dead on Firefox), and the comic is viewed in a continual sideways scrolling fashion As you "grab" one[...]

Here's the trailer to next year's Tron Uprising TV Series, a prequel to the recent Tron Legacy movie… It's full of sound and fury I wonder what that will signify. Here's the trailer to next year's Tron Uprising TV Series, a prequel to the recent Tron Legacy movie… It's full of sound and fury[...]