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Improbable Previews: There Are Too Many Damn X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #1
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[...]
Deadpool Appreciates the Power of Good Graphic Design in Weapon X #23 Preview
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[...]
Fat-Shaming the Beast in Astonishing X-Men #15 Preview
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[...]
Will Deadpool Find Superman's Fortress of Solitude in Deadpool #4? [Preview]
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[...]
Cullen Bunn Says Goodbye to the X-Men
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![...]
West Coast Avengers #1 cover by Stefano Caselli
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 is Holding a BOGO Digital Comics Sale on their Entire Library
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[...]
Donald Trump shakes hands with Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter at a bill signing.
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[...]
C.B. Cebulski Has Marvel Comics Presents Style Plans for 2019
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[...]
Tom Brevoort is 8 Months Behind on Reading Marvel Comics; Let's Spoil Them for Him
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[...]
Sina Grace Says Capitalism to Blame for the Return of Iceman
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[...]
Marvel's Iron Fist Season 2: There's Something About (Typhoid) Mary in New Images
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[...]
Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso Talent-Hunting For New Comics Publisher
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[...]
x-men previews aug 26 18
Each week, Marvel sends out previews of all their comics shipping on the coming Wednesday To some websites Not to this website We've asked, but crickets That's their prerogative, of course. You might think, in the year 2018, Marvel would just post their weekly previews on Instagram or Imgur so that they could be shared virally[...]
A Second Chance for Romance Between Nico and Karolina in Next Week's Runaways #12?
Could these two kids get a second chance at love? Also, apparently 2005 was just two years ago in Marvel time. RUNAWAYS #12 RAINBOW ROWELL (W) KRIS ANKA (A/C) • Nico takes a big step forward. • Gert takes a bigger step backward. • Karolina has to face the paparazzi. • And Victor decides it's time to come clean… 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 Check out[...]
Marvel Gives Cyclops a Richard Spencer Haircut in X-Men Blue #34 Preview
When will the torment end for poor Cyclops?! The former proud leader of the X-Men has been poorly treated by Marvel in recent years First, forced into the role of a villain despite Cyclops being objectively 100% right in the Cyclops vs Wolverine Schism and the X-Men being 100% right about everything in Avengers vs[...]
Silver Surfer Joins Marvel's Unannounced Defenders Lineup
More art from Ron Garney and Richard Isanove has revealed the third member of what is almost certainly a Defenders revival at Marvel Comics Earlier today, Marvel released a teaser featuring The Hulk, followed by one featuring Namor All three teasers have been drawn by Garney and Isanove and feature the phrase "The Best Defense"[...]