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Marvel has revealed the comics that will be making their way to Marvel Unlimited this month, including as usual the time-delayed recent releases, but perhaps more interesting, the classic comics that are being made available for the first time digitally as well Leading the pack is Wolfpack, the 1988 series by Larry Hama, Ron Wilson,[...]
As part of Marvel's ongoing "everything is as complicated as the Clone Saga" methodology for publishing Spider-Man comics, the publisher has revealed Will Sliney's variant cover to Spider-Geddon #1, featuring Spider-Punk Spider-Geddon promises "new villains and old villains, shocking deaths and shocking returns, and all the Spider characters you can fit into one larger-than-life tale" according[...]
When it comes to Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, fans of just the Marvel movies probably don't know what to expect from this leading lady According to star Brie Larson to Entertainment Weekly, Carol is very much a person who goes out there and does what needs to be done However, that attitude might not be[...]
After teasing us last night with a twitter post, Entertainment Weekly has shared a first look at Captain Marvel This is one of the Marvel movies that people have been sitting on the edges of their seats waiting for, and it has always seemed so far away We've seen some set photos that made people really[...]
Marvel TV usually has a big presence at New York Comic Con, and this year isn't any different Deadline has announced that the long-awaited third season of Daredevil will be at New York Comic Con If this panel is anything like previous panels we can expect the trailer, some of the cast, a release date[...]
Netfix and Marvel are really hoping that you'll forgive them for the [many] mistakes they made while making Iron Fist season one Probably a good 50% of the promotional material for the second season has been an apology tour basically trying to get fans to give the show a second chance The show drops this[...]
Chan is also making the jump to the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year when she stars as Minn-Erva Chan spoke to ODEntertainment about how different the experience of shooting Captain Marvel was compared to other projects she's done
"It was amazing It was completely different from anything I've done I look pretty different as well[...]
Since yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, Marvel editor Jordan White and most of the X-creators took the day off, but Uncanny X-Men writer Kelly Thompson showed her commitment to the most important day of the week by posting a panel from the upcoming Mr and Mrs X #3, with art by Oscar[...]
Marvel, It's Not Too Late to Lower the Price of Uncanny X-Men #1 to 99 Cents [X-ual Healing 8-29-18]
Over at Sequart.org, Tom Shapira published a column talking about Marvel's insecurity complex, in which they feel obligated to squeeze as many dollars out of the pockets of existing readers using gimmicks like #1 issue reboots to trick them into buying comics rather than trying to build a bigger audience with consistent long-term quality storytelling[...]
What? You think a regular-sized creative team can reboot a series this iconic?! Marvel is keeping secretive about what's going to happen in the opening 10-part weekly story, X-Men Disassembled (Iceman dies in a tragic jetpack accident while yelling "not like this!!" probably), but they did release some unlettered, uncolored preview art by Mahmud Asrar, and[...]
But what could cause the Merc with a Mouth to fight a team that contains his friend, Domino, who he was just palling around with a couple of issues ago in Domino's solo book?
According to this preview of Wednesday's Weapon X #23, it's all about the graphic design!
It's also nice to see Marvel actually reference[...]
Teamwork is a surefire method of success in the superheroing business, but for Scott Lang and Nadia Pym, trapped in the microverse in Mark Waid and Javi
Amongst the powers listed on the Marvel Wikia for Hank McCoy is a regenerative healing factor which does, in fact, grant him a fast metabolism:
Regenerative Healing Factor: Beast's metabolism enables him to repair mild to moderate injuries much faster than a normal human For instance, he can recover from minor ailments, such as a severe[...]
We'll find out on Wednesday.
Deadpool #4
(W) Skottie Young (A) Scott Hepburn (CA) Nic Klein
DEADPOOL IS IN FOR A WORLD OF WEIRD!
• A merc job leads Deadpool to one of the strangest corners of the Marvel U…WEIRDWORLD!
• Not only that, he's fallen into a TIME STORM! Oh no, not a Time Storm!!! Anything but a Time[...]
With this week's publication of Deadpool Assassin #6, it seems Bunn is done with the Merc with a Mouth as well, though he's definitely left his mark on the character, with Marvel revealing last year that Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe was one its best-selling trade paperbacks for several years in a row.
So long, Deadpool![...]
See you next week…
Top 25 Overall:
Extermination #2
X-Men Blue #34
Marvel Two-In-One #9
Ms Marvel #33
Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends #1
Runaways #12
Nightwing Annual #1
X-23 #3
Jessica Jones #2 (Marvel Digital Original)
Red Hood and the Outlaws Annual #2
Star Wars: Poe Dameron Annual #2
Batgirl #26
West Coast Avengers #1
Exiles #7
Batgirl Annual #2
New Mutants: Dead Souls #5
Justice League Dark #2
X-Men: Grand Design- Second[...]
Marvel Comics is celebrating Labor Day by offering discounts on their entire collection of digital comics produced under work for hire agreements of varying fairness From today until September 6th, every single comic or collection purchased on either Marvel's digital store or ComiXology earns you an additional digital comic for free.
In a press release, Marvel[...]
California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman called for a boycott of the restaurant In-N-Out Burger after it was revealed the company donated $25,000 to the California Republican Party this week, but Marvel Entertainment has somehow avoided any such calls despite well-documented reports that Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter and his wife Laura Perlmutter have been longtime[...]
We've been mining a recent episode of the Word Balloon podcast for articles all day, but we saved the best for last.
In 1988, Marvel launched a new ongoing bi-weekly anthology title called Marvel Comics Presents, featuring several stories (at least one of which starred Wolverine) The comic ran for 175 issues, and gave us, amongst[...]
It looks like Marvel has got some lofty ambitions for their 80th anniversary, happening next year We've already heard Cebulski's thoughts on the current mission of Marvel Comics, but what about the company's legacy?
On a recent episode of the Word Balloon podcast, host John Siuntres played a recording of a panel he led at TerrifiCon featuring[...]
Marvel has long adhered to the motto of representing "the world outside your window," telling stories with political messages since Captain America was punching Hitler in the face In today's politically charged climate, will Marvel continue to take a bold stance on the issues of the day? Well…
On a recent episode of the Word Balloon[...]
On a recent episode of the Word Balloon podcast, host John Siuntres played a recording of a panel he led at TerrifiCon featuring Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B Cebulski, as well as two Marvel writers, Charles Soule and Nick Spencer Well, three writers, if we count Cebulski's alter ego, Akira Yoshida But that's neither here nor there.
During the panel,[...]
If you've ever wondered why Marvel comics seem to make less and less sense within the shared continuity of their own universe, with characters appearing in multiple books in the same months on completely different adventures and world-threatening events like invading celestial hosts going apparently unnoticed in other titles, perhaps Marvel Executive Vice President Tom[...]
Back in June, we learned that the cult-favorite Iceman comic would return with a five-issue miniseries in September after being unceremoniously canceled as part of a massive culling across Marvel's lineup.
In an interview with Newsarama, writer Sina Grace revealed the reason why Marvel decided to bring the book back.
Blame capitalism! The original series kind of[...]
Netflix
Early looks and the first official second-season trailer for Marvel's Iron Fist have Netflix fans cautiously excited for the upcoming season – and that's due in large part to the eagerly-anticipated introduction of Alice Eve as classic Marvel villain Typhoid Mary Now the streaming service is giving us a look at Mary's deadly duality, using the show's[...]
The Hunt for Wolverine minis, due mostly to the fact that the existence of the follow-up Return of Wolverine mini-series, have been mostly pointless, with
With the relaunch of All-New Wolverine as X-23, a lot of X-fans wondered why Laura Kinney would go back to using the codename given to her by the people
That ex-Marvel publisher Bill Jemas was starting up a new comic book publisher and looking for people And that he may have been behind this wanted ad And I also heard that ex-Marvel EIC Axel Alonso was doing the same thing.
Well, tonight I have heard from a couple of pretty reliable industry sources, that these two things are actually[...]
Like all X-Men comics fans, we here at X-ual Healing spend pretty much all our free time thinking about how Marvel should manage the X-books What? You don't spend all your free time thinking about that? What kind of fan are you?
Around the same time we started this column, this reporter also began a reread[...]