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Spider-Woman Joins Strike Force is Marvel's Most Ruthless Team, in New Series
All last week, Marvel teased a new series, spinning out of War of the Realms, and featuring Marvel's "most ruthless team." The tagline for the teasers read, "No Compromise No Mercy." And we knew the team would feature Blade, Spectrum, Wiccan, Winter Soldier, Angela, and Daimon Hellstrom, with the final reveal coming "next Tuesday." Well,[...]
Rob Liefeld Will Not Sign New Mutants #98 Facsimile Editions
At the same time Marvel Comics is issuig a 'Facsimile Edition' reprint of the issue in question, reprinting the issue including advertising pages, letters pages, thee lot And issuing a variant cover for the Facsimile edition which seems to defeat the point of Facsimile Editions But there you go. Well, Rob Liefeld, has made it clear[...]
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Gets a July Release
During the Nintendo Direct feed this morning, we got a brand new trailer for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 heading into E3 2019 The company showed off what appears to be a lot more storyline material, along with some impressive gameplay showing us characters we already knew about and a few who have yet to make[...]
Marvel Strike Force Adds America Chavez As Part Of Pride Week
FoxNext Games have released a brand new character into Marvel Strike Force as America Chavez has been added in celebration of Pride Week The character is already available as of yesterday and can be incorporated into pretty much any team as your primary brawler Check out the details and a video of her skills in[...]
X-ual Healing
That's why we're calling this special episode… Let's get to recapping, shall we? 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 with a corporate merger on the way, the X-Men can finally get back to doing what they do best: being objectively the[...]
NFL SuperPro: Marvel and ESPN Homage Classic Comic Covers for Draft
Move over, Phil Grayfield! Marvel Comics and ESPN have teamed up to produce a series of homage variant covers for top football players Marvel posted the covers on their website, though they originally debuted on television back in April for the NFL draft But hey, maybe you've had too many concussions and you can't remember[...]
Rob Liefeld Says Goodbye to the X-Men With Love Letter to Claremont/Byrne/Austin
The strategy on comics sales has seemingly paid off for DC, with the company neck-and-neck with Marvel in total units sold in the recent sales charts, though Marvel handily wins dollar share thanks to the high price of their comics Units sold per title at DC easily beat the units sold per title at Marvel. In[...]
Meet the Men Who Killed the Punisher? Punisher #12 Preview
What an impact to make on the Marvel universe? Nothing will ever be the same again… Except… Yeah, you know, we probably should have seen that coming So these are not, in fact, the men who killed the Punisher. Check out a full preview below, and look for Punisher #12 in stores on Wednesday. h/t 13th Dimension for the[...]
Are You Ready for a Revival of X-Men: The Animated Series?
Not only that, but it will be the first X-Men cartoon since Wolverine and the X-Men fell victim to Jeph Loeb's terrible philosophy on Marvel animated shows and Ike Perlmutter's personal war against Fox for owning X-Men movie rights, an issue that's no longer of concern now that Disney has purchased the movie studio's intellectual[...]
Superior Spider-Man #7 Preview
But what about what we really want to know? How many feet is a frost giant packing… down there? Hopefully, some intrepid Marvel creator has the courage to explore this issue before the War of the Realms is over. Superior Spider-Man #7 hits stores on Wednesday. h/t Newsarama for the preview. Superior Spider-Man #7 (W) Christos Gage (A) Lan[...]
Marvel's No Compromise, No Mercy Teasers Are For New "Ruthless" Team
Say hello to the Ruthless Avengers? For the past few days, Marvel has been teasing a new series featuring grim and gritty characters in grimmer and grittier photoshopped teaser images, all with the words "No Compromise No Mercy." It's all building up to a reveal on Tuesday on Marvel's website, but we now know all[...]
John Byrne Won't Let Marvel Publish His X-Men Fan-Fic Comic, Elsewhen
Cebulski was made Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics, there was talk of Marvel approaching John to publish it officially However for reasons that John Byrne seems unwilling to discuss, that is not happening So he has started to post lettered pencilled pages of the comic he dubbed on a new Fan Fic forum he has just[...]
Marvel Comics Still Dominated Marketshare-Per-Capita in April 2019 - if Not By 50%
This divides it by the number of titles they publish in that month. We've already looked at publisher marketshare in the North American direct market of comic book shops for April 2019, as Marvel took 50% of marketshare for individual sales And we looked at the top 500 ordered comics and graphic novels for the month. But if[...]
Will Marvel Studios Change the Name of the X-Men to the X-People?
A lot of people are excited for the X-Men finally coming home to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but could it mean the end of the X-Men as we know them? Literally?! Marvel Studios Executive Vice President of Production Victoria Alonso appeared on Nuke the Fridge (h/t Newsarama), and there she let loose a shocking revelation about[...]
Damian Hellstrom Joins Marvel's Mysterious New Series in New Teaser
Marvel is teasing a big reveal for next week, with a series of teaser images all featuring the phrase "No Compromise No Surrender." Thus far, we've seen teasers featuring Blade, Spectrum, Wiccan, Angela, and now, the latest, Daimon Hellstrom. Each character added brings us closer to figuring out what Marvel is planning, but it's still not[...]
Now Angela Joins Marvel's No Compromise, No Mercy Teasers
By now, we're all aware of Marvel's looming reveal, coming next Tuesday and teased with a series of images featuring characters such as Blade, Spectrum, Wiccan, and now Angela Yes, Marvel is reviving the classic Nintendo 64 game WWF No Mercy with Marvel characters. No? Well, out other guess is it's another 10-part weekly Avengers series[...]