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Jordan White Cancels #XMenMonday Again, Promotes Music Career Instead
For the second week in a row, Marvel X-Editor Jordan White has canceled the most important weekly comic book holiday, X-Men Monday The news comes exactly one week (as that's how often Mondays occur) after the celebration of all things X-Men was canceled, apparently due to the looming midterm elections. With no elections happening this week,[...]
Hitting a Little Close to Home in Next Week's Captain America #5?
As Selene and Alexa Lukin discuss their plans in the preview below, however, we begin to wonder whether we're talking about the fictional Marvel Universe, or our own. AIIIIEEE! Politics in our comics! Well, the book is called "Captain America," so we suppose that's to be expected. What is "truth" in the hyper-polarized age of "fake news"[...]
Marvel Strike Force Gets a Magnitude of Mutants in New Update
The Brotherhood of Mutants led by the magnetic Magneto are making their way to Marvel Strike Force. The official announcement for the Brotherhood update reads: Bestial Super Villain Sabretooth, the mega mutant Juggernaut, and the powerful shape-shifting Mystique are now available to join your super squad, with Pyro and Magneto hot on their trail. With razor-sharp fangs, claws,[...]
A New Red Widow for Putin's Pet Project in Next Week's Avengers #700
Avengers #700… well, Avengers #10 if you're some kind of loser who doesn't follow the Legacy numbers… hits stores next week, and Marvel's got something special planned for the anniversary It's the return of Russia's top superhero team, the Winter Guard, under the direct orders of a man who's only two degrees of separation away[...]
Accurately Describing the Marvel Universe in Next Week's Ms. Marvel #36
Marvel and her former best friend Bruno finally discovered exactly how her powers work Ms Marvel's molecules travel in time, allowing past and future versions of herself to share mass with the present one, enabling her to embiggen her body parts. Sitting and watching the planes take off and land at LaGuardia airport, Kamala and Bruno discuss[...]
A Secret Invasion Sequel in Next Week's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #38?
Squirrel Girl is not dead, despite the claims made by the cover of last issue, but a more sinister plot may be menacing the Marvel Universe, if this preview of next week's Unbeatable Squirrel-Girl #38 has anything to say about it Of course, we're talking about the menace of a super-mega-crossover event sequel! 2008's Secret Invasion, by[...]
Mockingbird Taps Out to a Teenager in Next Week's Unstoppable Wasp #2
And since Marvel is the company WWE aspires to be, we have to assume the rules are the same, and therefore mockingbird is either a heel or a midcarder, because she gets totally owned by teenage scientist Ying in this preview of next week's Unstoppable Wasp #2. While sparring for training, Ying locks in a rolling[...]
Morbius vs. Outlaw the Vampire Slayer in Next Week's Domino #8
BOOM! Studios is busy debuting new slayers throughout history in its reimagined Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic, but over at Marvel, we're getting a new slayer for right now, next week, in Domino #8 And — spoiler alert — it's Outlaw! Not pleased with finding Morbius the Living Vampire locked inside a box they were sent[...]
Daredevil's Greatest Villain Returns in Next Week's Daredevil #611
Daredevil will be NO MORE in just two issues, as the Death of Daredevil storyline wraps up, ending this volume of the series and leading into the already-started Marvel Knights 20th mini, in which Daredevil has lost his memories After that, in January, we get a weekly Man Without Fear mini, showing the denizens of[...]
Watcher/Professor X Mashup Goes All In on the X-Puns in Next Week's Infinity Warps #1
But in a preview of next week's Infinity Warps #1, Marvel latches on to this concept perhaps a little too X-orbitantly Seen below is Observer-X, a mashup between cosmic voyeur The Watcher and the X-Men's even more pervy mentor (let's never speak of his crush on Jean again), Professor Charles Xavier. Observer-X appears to be the narrator[...]
Morlun Ranks Marvel's Spider-Men in Next Week's Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man #312
There's a lot of Spider-people in the Marvel Multiverse, as the Spider-Geddon event continues to demonstrate But none, perhaps, are more prominent in the current, mainstream Marvel Universe than Peter Parker and Miles Morales But who's the top Spider-Man? Morlun endeavors to answer that question in next week's Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man #312, as we see[...]
Corvus Glaive Battles Self Esteem Issues in Next Week's Black Order #1
The latest Marvel character to get the blues appears to be fearsome intergalactic killer Corvus Glaive, who spends the opening pages of next week's Black Order #1 ruminating on his own eventual demise, and whether or not he'll die alone or with the one he loves, Proxima Midnight It causes him to ask the question: But Corvus[...]
After 17 Years, CBR Confirms the Identity Of Marvel's Writer X
But this has to be a record. Seventeen years ago, in 2001, Marvel Comics published the mutant terrorist comic book The Brotherhood, written by the unnamed Writer X. I was writing All The Rage for the then-Silver Bullet Comics, now Comics Bulletin at the time, I wrote before the first issue was even published, X Marks The Howard Who[...]
Next Week's Exiles #10 Reveals What It's Like to Be Married to Doom
Trapped in what appears to be the world of One Thousand and One Nights, except populated by characters from the Marvel Universe, the Exiles have not just traversed time and dimensions, as they regularly do, but have instead inhabited the bodies of characters from the stories, with everyone around them seeing them not for who[...]
So That's Where Kitty Pryde Went in Next Week's Uncanny X-Men #1
Where did she go? Ahead of next week's release, Marvel has shed more light on the topic. Ah, so that's what happened It's been a while since Kitty had so much trouble controlling her powers Who could be behind it? And where is she now? We find out… FINALLY… next week Maybe. Check out the preview below, and head[...]
It's Fantastic Four-a-Palooza in Next Week's Fantastic Four #3
What he didn't tell her was that he planned to summon everyone who's ever been a member of the team, which is quite a lot of Marvel heroes It's a gathering Johnny Storm dubs… Fantastic Four-a-Palooza. Way to stay current with your references, Johnny Wouldn't Fantastic Fourchella have been more appropriate? But will even this veritable buttload[...]
Image Credits Marvel as Chelsea Cain's Man-Eaters #2 Goes to 2nd Print
The series is being rushed back to print in order to keep up with escalating demand. The really interesting part of the press release comes next, however, when Image throws a little shade at their competition by crediting Marvel's cancellation of Cain's Vision comic, and the ensuing controversy, in part, for the success of Man-Eaters. On the[...]
Here's All 5 Kyle Hotz Covers to The Man Without Fear
Marvel Comics has released all 5 covers to January's weekly Man Without Fear series, dealing with the events in Hell's Kitchen while Daredevil is "dead," that is, busy starring in the Marvel Knights 20th anniversary mini-series ahead of his next reboot Though you might be inclined to think he dies a gruesome death from looking[...]
Sacré Bleu! Captain Marvel Comes to Disneyland Paris in 2019
Captain Marvel will be headed to Disneyland Paris next year for the park's Summer of Superheroes event, like a comic book crossover come to life (except instead of shipping delays, you get long-ass lines) Captain Marvel will join other Marvel superheroes including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, and more Marvel.com does their best to explain what[...]
Was #XMenMonday Cancelled Due to the Midterm Elections?
X-Men Monday is, perhaps, the most important weekly Twitter hashtag holiday in all of comics, so the world was shocked and disappointed yesterday when Marvel X-Editor Jordan White declined to post any previews or teases from upcoming X-Books In retrospect, the first signs of trouble showed up in the morning, when White delayed the tweeting[...]
Brie Larson Shares a New Look at Captain Marvel
The most powerful character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is out telling people to get out and vote tomorrow Brie Larson took to her instagram to share a new image of herself as Captain Marvel from the upcoming movie and also encouraging everyone to get out and vote in the midterms tomorrow.   View this post on[...]
Wolverine Finally Returns… With a 2nd Season of His Scripted Podcast, The Lost Trail
Following up on the successful Wolverine: The Long Night scripted podcast, Marvel and Stitcher have announced a second season, titled Wolverine: The Lost Trail Actor Richard Armitage returns to reprise his role as Wolverine for the series, which launches in Winter 2019 on Stitcher, to be released on other platforms later Also returning are writer[...]