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Method Man to Star in Podcast Adaptation of Marvels from Marvel and Stitcher
Following up on the apparent success of those Wolverine podcasts they've done, Marvel is branching out further into podcasts with partner Stitcher for a podcast adaptation of the classic Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross comic, Marvels Marvels is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary as Marvel celebrates its 80th, and that has included a re-release of[...]
Wednesday comics
Remember the kerfuffle of Secret Empire at Marvel Comics? In which Hydra rewrote history and reality (or unrewrote it) so that Captain America was a Hydra sleeper agent, became Supreme Commander of Hydra – and of the United States itself, and saw a legal and constitutional takeover of the United States of America by a[...]
Deadpool, Morbius, Scream
A new Morbius The Living Vampire series from Marvel, launching in November… from Vita Ayala and Marcelo Ferreira. MORBIUS #1 Written by VITA AYALA Art by MARCELO FERREIRA Cover by RYAN BROWN MORBIUS IS THE LIVING VAMPIRE…OR IS HE MORE? ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES! For years, Nobel Prize winning biologist Michael Morbius has been struggling to cure himself of his vampirism, and[...]
Do the Many Lives of Moira MacTagger Explain the Dead X-Men? [X-ual Healing 8-7-13]
But you've waited long enough, so let's get into recapping last week's X-Men books… Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox owned their movie rights, The Uncanny X-Men suffered great indignities, but thanks to a corporate merger and a line-wide relaunch, the X-Men can finally get back to[...]
Hot Toys Celebrates 80th Marvel Anniversary With Venom
With Marvels 80th Anniversary this year, it is no surprise that he is getting some special treatment for the big event Hot Toys teams up with INSTINCTOY to showcase an amazing figure to show off the Lethal Protector himself This Venom here shows off a more bulky build, but not unusual to Venom fans He[...]
Loki #2
Loki's post-War-of-the-Realms solo series continues this week with Loki #2, by Daniel Kibblesmith and Oscar Bazaldua. And in this issue, Loki pays a visit
Sword Master #2
The adventures of Lin Lie continue in Sword Master #2 this week from Marvel Comics by Shuizhu, Greg Pak, Ario Anindito, and Gunji And we've got a preview of the issue below We'll walk you through it. The recap page gets us caught up on the story, as the titular Sword Master receives a package from[...]
Invaders #8
Invaders #8 hits stores this week from Marvel Comics, by Chip Zdarsky, Carlos Magno, and Butch Guice And the issue finds the United States on the brink of war with Atlantis after the undersea nation sunk an entire city of Americans and turned them into water-breathers Which, if we're being honest, might be the most[...]
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #10
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #10 will be published by Marvel Comics this week, by Tom Taylor, Ken Lashley, Scott Hanna, and Luca Maresca, featuring the latest chapter of the Feast or Famine storyline which sees Spidey, The Prowler, and geriatric superhero The Rumor facing off against parasitic villain Hellminth. First, get caught up with the recap page. After[...]
Punisher Kill Krew #1
These days, it seems like at Marvel, when a super-mega-crossover event ends, the publisher moves right on to the next super-mega-crossover event, barely even leaving time to savor the universe-rocking changes that will leave the universe never the same again before upsetting them with brand new universe-rocking changes But if you feel that Marvel moved[...]
Age of Conan: Valeria #1
If you thought that Marvel regained the rights to publish Conan the Barbarian comics just so they could milk the license for all its worth by releasing multiple Conan books and adding the Barbarian to the Avengers, you didn't see the whole picture There's a whole wealth of characters from the Conan cannon that Marvel[...]
Ironheart #9
Ironheart #9 hits stores this week from Marvel Comics, by Eve Ewing and Luciano Vecchio, and we've got a preview below. The story this far is summed up in the recap page, with Riri searching for a portal to the Wellspring of Power before her enemies in the Ten Rings find it first. And she reaches out[...]
Chris Claremont Doesn't Think He's Written a Lot of X-Men Stories Lately
Chris Claremont is the greatest comic book writer in history, and he's still writing stories today, which is why we find it so utterly baffling that Marvel Comics would pay him a retainer to be a Marvel-exclusive writer but only rarely actually use him to write a story In fact, the House of Ideas hasn't[...]
Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety #1
It's what Marvel Comics readers feel about their money after purchasing all the tie-ins to a super-mega-crossover event along with the double-priced first issue of the main event series It's also the name of a new spinoff for Absolute Carnage, ironically enough, hitting stores next week by Clay Chapman and Brian Level, and we've got[...]
Captain Marvel #9
Things aren't going so well for Captain Marvel, as this preview of next week's Captain Marvel #9 by Kelly Thompson and Carmen Carnero illustrates. The recap page lays it out Not only are Carol's powers starting to fail her, but fake news about her Kree heritage has turned the Marvel Universe against her as well Oh,[...]
Conan the Barbarian: Exodus #1
Next week, Marvel Comics publishes Conan the Barbarian: Exodus #1 by Esad Ribic And we have a rather silent preview of the issue here, as the entire book will be wordless, a "visual narrative."   Well, aside from the intro pages, of course…     After that, we're treated to a scene of young Conan killing animals[...]
Symbiote Spider-Man #5
Marvel's need to publish at least five monthly Spider-Man comics Peter David is familiar with two of those And that brings us to this preview of Symbiote Spider-Man #5, out next week by David and Greg Land…   As we head back to the 1980s, when Spider-Man first gained his black costume, to find Mysterio leaving regular[...]
Silver Surfer: Prodigal Sun #1
And we've got a preview… With a recap page that actually bothers to make note of when the issue takes place in the ever-confusing Marvel timeline (before Silver Surfer: Black) Nice! The preview begins with a flashback… …and a political scheme. But when Prodigal arrives on the planet, he finds chaos Why? Because it's feeding time for Galactus. And as[...]
Absolute Carnage: Scream #1
Absolute Carnage is off and running, but Marvel feels that $7.99 they charged for the first issue simply wasn't enough, and so they are releasing a series of spinoffs, starting next week with Absolute Carnage: Scream #1, by Cullen Bunn and Gerardo Sandoval, featuring the return of the titular symbiote, as seen in this preview. For[...]
Silver Surfer: Black #3
Silver Surfer: Black #3 hits stores next week from Marvel Comics, by the creative team of global entertainment superstar Donny Cates and Tradd Moore And you know what time it is in this preview? That's right It's sexy time.   But first, a recap… And then, the Surfer has a naughty dream about Shalla-Bal. The Surfer, it seems, wants[...]
X-Factor #87
Next week, Marvel Comics will release a facsimile edition of X-Factor #87, 1993's start to a bold new era of X-Factor following the X-Cutioner's Song crossover event, by Peter David and Joe Quesada And while we appreciate the idea of facsimile editions in general, our favorite part is getting a good look at the old[...]