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What Defines A Non-Superpowered Hero?
Marvel's latest top ten list is based on characters without super-powers And after watching it, it made me really think that the definition of this list may need some clarification Some of the names on the list make a lot of sense like Elektra, Punisher, Black Widow, Shang-Chi and Hawkeye But then you have to[...]
Who Is Mads Mikkelsen Playing In Doctor Strange? I've Got A Theory
Marvel has to introduce Strange, tell his origin, establish magic and how it work, etc So the villain needs to be someone who helps do those things and presents a danger without overwhelming the film. Strange also has a lot of non-humanoid enemies like Shuma-gorath and Xemnu, but I think will avoid big monsters for now,[...]
Netflix's Global Gif To Promote Marvel's Daredevil Season 2
To help promote the release of Marvel's Daredevil second season, Netflix team with artist INSA to create a global gif The artist traveled around the world and painted different pictures of a globe that included the Daredevil logo as well as Daredevil, The Punisher and Elektra Then images were taken and combined with images from[...]
How Marvel Ensure Civil War II And Han Solo Will Top DC's Rebirth In June
DC's decision to make the first three month's of their DC Rebirth titles starting in June is likely to see their marketshare increase dramatically for those months. But Marvel look set to deny them the top spots for that month. Marvel are launching exclusive retailer variant covers for both Civil War II #1 and Han Solo #1. Where[...]
Michael Cho Is Doing Variant Covers And Lithographs For All Of Civil War II
Artist Michael Cho has been tapped to produce variant covers and lithographs for each of the issue of Marvel's upcoming event series Civil War II Each of the seven images will feature two Marvel heroes set to go toe-to-toe in classic boxing promo flier style. "If anyone proves that 'less is more,' it's Michael Cho," says Marvel[...]
"You Can't Be All Good All The Time." – Mike Colter on Luke Cage
Mike Colter was on the red carpet for the Captain America: Civil War premiere last night and was asked about his upcoming Netflix series Marvel's Luke Cage The actors tells us that it's a fugitive's story and about a man wrongly convicted of a crime He describes Luke Cage as a work in progress And[...]
Clark Gregg Talks Agents Of SHIELD And Dealing With A Characters Death
Since we're on a streak of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD stories, let me throw i one more Clark Gregg visited with Jimmy Kimmel last night just prior to heading over to the premiere of Captain America: Civil War He was asked if this film would effect the tv show as dramatically as The Winter Soldier[...]
Gendercrunching February 2016 by Tim Hanley – Women Writing Women
By Tim Hanley Both DC and Marvel's overall percentage of female creators fell in February, with DC taking the bigger tumble and Marvel posting the higher percentage of the two We also take a look at writers at the Big Two and which characters they're writing. DC COMICS After a solid start to the year in January, DC[...]
Marvel To Live Stream Captain America: Civil War Red Carpet Premiere
Even though the film doesn't open until May 6th, Marvel will be hosting the red carpet premier of Captain America: Civil War tomorrow night and they will be live streaming the event at Marvel.com/CaptainAmericaPremiere The live stream will also include an exclusive clip from the movie And you know that one of the actors is[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 10th April 2016 – Ooh, Look It's Negan
The New 52 series still has demand even though a new Batman series will be out in a few months. DC's number one book in our store was an out-of-continuity hardcover by the incomparable Grant Morrison, while Marvel took the number one overall slot with a Star Wars title Just coincidence, or does it say something[...]
Marvel Massively Discounts All Its X-Men TPBs And HCs For 'Death Of X' Sale
Whatever 'Death Of X' is, Marvel Comics wants to clear out their warehouse of X-Men related titles, it seems With every X-related trade paperbacks and hardcovers getting a very large discount for retailers who want to help Marvel in that endeavour. So why do Marvel, seemingly, want to clear their warehouse of any X-Men title? And[...]
The Women Of Civil War Take Sides
In this new featurette for Captain America: Civil War, actresses Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Emily Vancamp (Agent 13) and Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet
DC Comics Offered Batman And Superman To Dan Slott If He'd Give Up Spider-Man
Dan Slott is the writer of Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel Comics. And, if he has his way, he always will be Not that he hasn't had tempting offers. In a conversation with comics retailer Nevs Coleman, he gave us this revelation. https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/718801896937562112 They'll get their next chance in 2018… https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/557713109755125761 Tick tick tick…     [...]
Daisy Really Steps Into It In The Latest Agents Of SHIELD Clip
Turned out to be a Hydra double agent and we let plunge to his death by Nick Fury. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD airs Tuesdays at 9 PM on ABC. [youtube]https://youtu.be/VIDM9ry9iIA[/youtube] Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) and Lincoln Campbell (Luke Mitchell) head out to recruit a new member for the Secret Warriors and receive an explosive welcome[...]
Steve White Has Left Titan Comics For Hachette
I first encountered the name Steve White when I was a teenager. He was the editor of the letters pages for the Marvel UK reprints of The Punisher comic book And frankly it was the letters page I was buying the comic for While the comics were the hardcore nineties Punisher without a trace of irony, the letters[...]
Marvel Comics Also To Allow Midnight Sales On May 24th
But they'd also let retailers sell all the DC titles out that week at that time as well. We wondered how the likes of Marvel would respond Well, they appear to have called DC Comics' bluff. Currently, retailers are restricted from opening and selling new comics on a Wednesday until the normal opening hours of similar stores[...]
How Comics Have Influence Politics With Van Jones Part 2
Jones made new in comic circles when he compared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the Marvel Comic's super-villain Sebastian Shaw of the Hellfire Club Today we continue the conversation about how comic books have effected society and politics as well as diving into the current presidential election. DW: What first made me contact you about[...]
The Guardians And The Asgardians Vs The Destroyer
In this new clip from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy animated series, we see Star-Lord try to convince Thor and Heimdall to call off the war, that they are all being manipulated And since the next thing we see is Loki sending a Destroyer against all of them… Peter Quill is probably right. Marvel's Guardians of[...]
How Comics Have Influenced Politics With Van Jones Part 1
For me it was all Marvel Comics all the time Star Wars of course, not so much Star Trek, but Star Wars of course And lots and lots of science fiction Ursula K Le Guin and I loved Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I was basically hiding in my room reading stuff, hoping at some[...]
Marvel Sends Out Free Copies Of Mockingbird #2 To Match #1 Orders
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a retailer in possession of an order for a first issue of a comic book will drop orders for the second issue by a third to a half. Why? Some readers will try the first issue and not find it to their taste so will not want the second[...]
Actually This Does Look Like The Return Of Earth-616 To Marvel
Yesterday Bleeding Cool ran a story about what we thought may be an editorial error in today's Spider-Women: Alpha, along the lines of an caption note in a previous issue of Web Warrior. Yes, that one. The Marvel Universe being referred to as Earth 616, a designation abandoned by Marvel Comics after the Secret Wars series, with executives[...]
Wakanda Gets Its Own Batman In Black Panther #1. Both Of Them.
I know I'm using DC analogues there, Marvel has always tried to pride itself on showing the real world, Wakanda was an exception and is more in keeping with DC Comics' recreated world. So Wakanda also gets its own superheroes who don't happen to be members of the royal family or challengers to its throne[...]
Today, Tony Stark Film Canon Is Made Comics Canon In Invincible Iron Man #8
The one in which he will be  anti-Captain Marvel, opposed to the use of the Inhuman Ulysses to fight threats because, well, he's just a walking spoiler and Brian Bendis hates spoilers. Talking of which In today's Iron Man we learn something that we'd previously only seen in a film If indeed we saw it in[...]