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Find previous columns here. On Thursday, June 22nd Marvel's Joe Taraborelli issued a press release headlined "Every Hero! Every Title! Every Story! Tomorrow, MARVEL LEGACY Changes the Comic Book Industry!" Big hype for the next day's announcement. The announcement? Homage variant covers 52 Marvel titles in October Yes, the number that people associate with DC "The New 52"! The[...]

X-Men editor Mark Paniccia has teased some significant, landscape changing new stuff spinning out of Astonishing X-Men. But what could it be?

I don't care if it confirms that Peter Parker has been in a Marvel movie before, I don't care that it adds new depth to his adoration of Tony Stark, you can't make me watch that two hour trailer for upcoming Marvel movies again I won't do it. There are a lot of fan theories about[...]

When Marvel recently released the names of their 52 monthly comics from October, as part of their Marvel Legacy and Make Mine Marvel promotions, one book was notable for its absence, Captain America The current Captain America comic and the Secret Empire event series has seen Steve Rogers revealed as a secret sleeper agent for[...]

IMAX and Marvel have today revealed a brand new poster for the upcoming Marvel's Inhumans, the first television show ever to be filmed with IMAX cameras. Meet the Royal Family early only in IMAX cinemas from September 1, in anticipation of the full series coming soon on television and other devices. The new poster features Black Bolt[...]

What comics an actor reads going into a film can help predict the plot of the movie. Here we see what Michael Keaton has read for Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Showing the kind of quick-thinking that a five year old might come up with to convince their parents they didn't knock over the nice lamp in the living room, Spider-Man:Homecoming producer and former Sony chief Amy Pascal has clarified her earlier statements that Sony's Spider-Man spinoff films, such as Venom and Silver & Black, will[...]

Writer and artist Shannon Eric Denton took note of a certain familiar looking van that showed up on Marvel's Avengers: Secret Wars yesterday The miscellaneous van in question is a two-tone black and gray with a red diagonal stripe going from the top back corner to run horizontal across the door and around the front,[...]

This is where it sits now… at least in the comics. The image below is for Marvel's Inhuman television series coming to ABC this fall We can see that Attilan is a good sized city, but it appears to be on top of a floating landmass similar to the floating city of Dalaran in World of[...]

And while generally the films affecting the comics in such a way can be pretty bad, here it works. Cover by Aaron Kuder and Ive Svorcina It helps that Duggan, while making the characters' personalities, relationships and banter feel much more like it does in the hugely successful films, he still takes advantage of the vast array[...]

"Marvel's Ant-Man & The Wasp Director Teases Big News," wrote CBR "Peyton Reed Teases Ant Man & The Wasp News Coming Soon," said ComicBook.com "'Ant-Man And The Wasp' Director Peyton Reed Teases Upcoming News," proclaimed Heroic Hollywood "Ant-Man and the Wasp Director Teases Big News Coming Soon," offered ScreenRant Puffinbottoms explained that these websites had[...]

There's no doubt that Disney is trying to bring more Marvel into their parks While they can't go full-on Marvel fanatic in the Orlando park (due to Universal Orlando still having the bulk of the Marvel characters), the other parks are free and clear to bring in whomever they want In a patent application filed by[...]

The collective disappointment of the Marvel Legacy announcements on Friday only existed because of the way it was hyped up by Marvel marketing as something that would change the comic book industry We pointed at a genuine attempt to do something different from DC Comics, in comparison, but the Marvel Legacy line-up of 52 ongoing[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] You may know from a couple times I may have mentioned it on here, I'm kinda a big fan of Generation X, the classic Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo created series that basically got me into comics. And so when as part of ResurrXion, Marvel announced a new Generation X, by Christina Strain and Amilcar[...]

All day long, Marvel Comics has been releasing a series of industry-changing announcements about Marvel Legacy, its big September publishing initiative The theme has been homage covers, with all of Marvels series getting them, in six-image chunks, released each hour throughout the day For a grand finale, Marvel released six more individual teasers as separate[...]

Marvel's TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) has taken on some of the most critically acclaimed and complicated Marvel story lines from Infinity War to Civil War It's a fun, animated cliffnotes' version of big events in the MCU Today, they are tackling the origin of Spider-Man, probably one of the most widely know stories in[...]

All day Marvel has been releasing GIF covers of their Legacy related issues that homage classic covers from Marvel's history. With batches released to various sites, they kept a handful back to send out themselves One such reveal if the cover is that of Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man. With a cover by Paulo Siqueira, Peter Parker, Spectacular[...]

As part of the exciting grand finale of announcements promoting Marvel's upcoming Marvel Legacy initiative, announcements that Marvel has promised will change the industry forever, Marvel has shockingly, industry-changingly revealed that Ms Marvel will continue to be published when Marvel Legacy hits in September. Prior to the announcement, there were serious questions as to whether Marvel[...]

Following up on a day's worth of anti-climactic homage cover reveals for all the titles that are part of Marvel Legacy in September, the House of Ideas has begun sending homage covers that serve as the grand finale, presumably the announcements that will change the industry as they've been promising. So far, we've seen a teaser[...]

All day long, Marvel Comics have been changing the comics industry forever with the reveal that, come September's industry-changing Marvel Legacy initiative, they will be publishing mostly all the same titles they were previously publishing, with a few exceptions To illustrate just how industry-changing this is, each title has been revealed via a homage cover[...]

Throughout the day, Marvel has been "changing the comic book industry" by releasing a series of mostly innocuous teasers revealing homage covers for most of their previously existing series, with a couple of new things thrown in here and there We haven't seen any information on creative teams, or really anything all that exciting We[...]

All day long, Marvel has been changing the industry with a series of announcements via media partner websites about which titles they'll be publishing during Marvel Legacy in September (mostly the same ones with a few exceptions), each complimented by a cover homaging a past Marvel classic (and sometimes, if you're lucky, the names of[...]

In a shocking development that nobody saw coming, the Universe-threatening crisis set off by Marvel's attempts to change the comic book industry over and over again today by releasing homage covers for its upcoming Marvel Legacy titles has been stopped by Marvel itself, as the publisher's eighth set of industry-changing reveals has accidentally changed the[...]

Like an unspeakable horror straight out of a drug-fueled nightmare, Marvel Comics has been slowly but surely unraveling the threads of reality itself by changing the comic book industry over and over again with its Marvel Legacy homage cover and title reveals Though the publisher warned us yesterday that this was coming, nobody could have[...]

As Marvel continues to change the comic book industry forever over and over and over and over and over again today, Bleeding Cool has learned that a collection of Earth's mightiest heroes have gathered in order to stop a cataclysmic event that could threaten all of reality as we know it. "We must stop these industry-changing[...]

It's just got a few slip-ups in this issue, in terms of a joke that has some unintended definitions and maybe not the best view of coming out. Overall, it does continue to set Iceman up as an awesome superhero, with a disastrous social life, and that is always a classic fun Marvel-style to read.   [...]

Has it been hours since Marvel changed the comics industry forever with their first set of homage covers and title reveals for their upcoming Marvel Legacy event? Or has it been weeks? We've completely lost track of time in the the aftermath of so much industry-changing news in such a short time period When's the[...]

Released to Comic Vine, we have a bunch more homage covers as part of Marvel's Legacy relaunch coming in September This time, we have covers for Iceman, with art by Michael Ryan,   Then we have Alan Davis paying homage to Invincible Iron Man #150 in this one, Dave Johnson brings this game for Luke Cage, Cameron Stewart brings[...]

Seven used to be the magic number when it comes to Marvel Comics and exclusive retailer variants But for September, retailers now have eight opportunities to get their very own exclusive cover to a Marvel comic book, and all they have to do is order 3000 copies of it and pay the artist. The big one will[...]

Yesterday, Marvel Comics promised us an announcement about their upcoming Legacy initiative that would change the comic book industry, with Legacy affecting every hero, every title, every story Today, Marvel has begun to deliver on that promise with… six Legacy covers homaging classic past covers, released to a compliant media partner website Well, you can't[...]