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Do you smell that? It smells like cross brand marketing with a hint of desperation. Geico insurance company teamed their Gecko mascot up with Baby Groot

Marvel movies often stagger their release dates but Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 director James Gunn announced on twitter that the movie would be releasing simultaneously in the United States and China on May 4th China is one of the biggest markets in the world now and can be the thing that pushes a[...]

As you know by now, we have been heavily dissecting, discussing, theorising and pointing at the recent candid discussions at the Marvel Retailer Summit between Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel, and a number of retailers who attended the event, as covered in an extensive report from ICv2. This[...]

We're two weeks past the premiere of Marvel's Iron Fist on Netflix, a show many critics hated, many fans like and has become the most binge-watched series on the streaming service There was a red carpet event for the series and the cast was interviewed by Marvel, each giving some insights into their characters Finn[...]

You may have missed it because there were so many controversial things said by Marvel executives over the weekend, but at the Marvel retailer summit, Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso had something to say about the ability of artists to sell comic books (from a report of the summit by ICv2): There are fewer artists that impact sales than[...]

Mark Waid is the writer of high profile books such as Champions and Avengers for Marvel, a veteran of three decades in comics, a former Editor-in-Chief, a digital comics company founder, and the owner of a comic shop. He also has some thoughts on Marvel Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Cover by Kris Anka It's kinda interesting that I wound up getting to this review this weekend after everything that's been going on with Marvel's comments coming out of their Retailer Summit, and also a discussion earlier in the week on how rotating artists has the effect of diminishing the importance of an artist in[...]

As Bleeding Cool has been breaking down and reporting in small, easily digestible chunks for readers from an extensive report from the Marvel Retailer Summit with ICv2 this weekend, Marvel has laid some of the blame for the comics sales slump, and presumably perceived weaker performance in their own sales, at the foot of the push[...]

It's only Saturday, but its been a long weekend for Marvel Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel Gabriel's troubles began when Marvel allowed website ICv2 to attend a retailer summit that he and Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso treated like a candid closed door meeting Lots of things were said at this summit that[...]

Gamora may prefer to stand back and observe, but everyone else is bound to get in the groove and show off their moves during this awesome rock 'n' roll bash! Super Hero Encounters For the first time, citizens of Earth will come face-to-face with Groot, one of the Guardians of the Galaxy! You can also step up[...]

He still doesn't have a bow for his arrow. Rooker sat down with Ask Marvel to answer some questions… in his own, unique way. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 opens May 5th. https://youtu.be/kbWXIXh8awMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ask Marvel: Michael Rooker — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 (https://youtu.be/kbWXIXh8awM) [...]

Years from now, people will speak in hushed tones about the Great Marvel Retailer Summit Debacle of 2017, and the series of outrageous headlines that permeated the internet when Marvel allowed website ICv2 to attend a meeting between Marvel and retailers and report the contents of said meetings to the public The summit has become a wellspring of[...]

Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe by Cullen Bunn And Dalibor Talajic has been the best selling trade paperback for Marvel for the past two or three years Since sequels are always better and more successful than the original — just see Dark Knight Returns or Before Watchmen for proof — it makes sense that Marvel would[...]

ABC has not said whether they are going to renew Marvel's Agents of SHIELD The network will have the new Marvel's Inhumans series for the fall, but that is only 8 episodes long With not knowing the shows fate, executive producer Jed Whedon told EW.com that their working toward a season, not series finale: We are[...]

Marvel's top selling trade paperback collection isn't Civil War 2, or Secret Wars, or Amazing Spider-Man, or even The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl According to a statement by Marvel Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel at a recent retailer summit as reported by ICv2, the best selling trade, continuously, of the last two or three years[...]

Years from now, people will speak in hushed tones about the Great Marvel Retailer Summit Debacle of 2017, and the series of outrageous headlines that permeated the internet when Marvel allowed website ICv2 to attend a meeting between Marvel and retailers and report the contents of said meetings to the public The summit has become a wellspring of[...]

The use of a non-stop cycle of super-mega-crossover events has been a staple of Marvel's publishing strategy for more than a decade, used as a solution to stop the mid-series sales decline of ongoing series readership attrition and prop things up for a few more months until the books can be relaunched with new #1[...]

David Gabriel, Marvel's Senior Vice President – Sales and Marketing, has been having some pretty frank conversations over at the Marvel Retailer Summit. One element which was very frank indeed was when Gabriel discussed the sales slump in the comics market in general Gabriel says, "There was just a big shift in the entire industry, and there[...]

And at the Marvel Retailer Summit, there was a great deal of frank discussion surrounding those concerns. It's only natural Marvel has become an event churning machine in recent years, and 2017 alone is seeing about five events what with Monsters Unleashed, Secret Empire, Generations, Inhumans vs X-Men and the end of Civil War 2…oh, and[...]

Marvel Senior VP of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel joined EIC Axel Alonso for Day One of a Marvel Retailers Summit today, and all kinds of things have been coming out of that and they are being refreshingly candid over the Marvel sales slump as of late As a retailer myself, quite a bit of[...]

For the past few years, whenever Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso scores a profile in a mainstream magazine, the basic theme is always the same Alonso is a champion of diversity who wants the Marvel Universe to represent "the world outside your window," and his push to make Marvel comics more diverse has revolutionized the business[...]

IcV2 has a massive two-article report on the first day of the Marvel retailer summit that took place at Marvel's offices this week In addition, they've interview Marvel Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel in a third article You can check them out here, here, and here The reports are chock full of extremely[...]

IcV2 has a massive two-article report on the first day of the Marvel retailer summit that took place at Marvel's offices this week In addition, they've interview Marvel Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel in a third article You can check them out here, here, and here The reports are chock full of extremely[...]

Bleeding Cool has written a lot in the past few months about Marvel's plans for a "meat and potatoes" style relaunch later this year There was an interview with Marc Guggenheim about his upcoming X-Men book in which Guggenheim said that the post-ResurrXion X-Men would be "more about the X-Men as heroes than the X-Men as[...]

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool ran an extensive article about Marvel bringing back the digital codes for physical comics that people had bought, but doing it on a customer by customer and shop by shop basis Hand-crafted digital codes, as it were. That was the first shoe dropping. Here comes a second shoe. Beginning the week of May the[...]

I brought in a copy of Marvel's G.I Joe 33 G.I Joe was a popular toy line at the time The comic brought more background and depth to the G.I Joe figures No longer did we just know the characters from the back of their cardboard cards Cobra Commander had a son? The story? The[...]

Marvel Agents of SHIELD will be returning next week for their third story arc of the season After Ghost Rider and LMD, the new arc has the team trapped inside the Framework in a world where HYDRA is in control, Grant Ward is alive and Phil Coulson is a school teacher The poster below shows[...]

Back in January, there was a story going that talked about Jeremy Renner being a producer on the Ant-Man and The Wasp film. It turned out that story was

Comics and pinball have been in bed with each other since the 70's. The original Superman, Hulk and Spider-Man machines prove that. So it's no surprise

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] It's no secret that whilst I have been enjoying the Inhumans titles as a reader, I have not been a fan of how they have been set up thematically within the Marvel Universe of late There were too many inconsistencies that made it hard to see the Inhumans as big time heroes, as it[...]