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Marvel are stepping up to support the launch of their new Power Man & Iron Fist series by David Walker and Sanford Greene by matching every retailers orders for issue 2 of the series with what they ordered for issue 1, for free. It's standard practice for comic book retailers to order high for a first[...]

Looks like Black Panther is on Iron Man's side in this new teaser for Civil War II, given by Marvel PR to their old friend at ComicBook. And since Thor doesn't have an Iron Man eye visor might that suggest she is on the side of Captain Marvel? This isn't just a man-woman thing, is it?   [...]

Marvel's latest teaser campaign has begun, for Civil War II, asking which side different characters will choose, without actually answering the question. The Marvel Universe is at a crossroads A new power has emerged, one that can predict the future—for good or ill— and the heroes of the Marvel Universe are faced with a choice: Wield the[...]

By Tim Hanley It's another new year of stats fun here at "Gendercrunching", and both DC and Marvel started 2016 with their highest overall percentages of female creators in several months We also take a look at female characters at the Big Two, and track how their representation has changed over the past six months. DC COMICS After[...]

This article contains spoilers for Marvel's Agent Carter episode Hollywood Ending. . . . . . As we reach the second season finale for Marvel's Agent Carter, there is a lot of speculation about if there will be a third season I'll address that more at the end of the article But last night brought all the characters back together, dealt with[...]

The first one kicked things off, 2.0 added Marvel and 3.0 added Star Wars Disney doesn't have any glaring holes in the game's arsenal any more. It turns out that there will be no major release this year though, it was confirmed in a presentation last night It was revealed that there will be lots of[...]

Seduction Of The Innocent #4 knows the truth. And X Thoughts About X Of Today's Comics has no intent veer from that plan. Brutal and ugly, here we go.

Something slightly intriguing about Avengers Standoff: Alpha, compared to the Marvel Previews booklet in stores right now. That line about Hillary Clinton It has been removed in the Preview Trying not to spook the horses? Unfortunate because Avengers Standoff: Alpha #1 in stores today does little else We have The Whisperer, the man who leaked all the[...]

You have been warned. As Marvel Comics has diversified their central line-up of characters, we have seen a black Captain America, a mixed race Spider-Man, a female Thor and Wolverine, an East Asian Hulk and a gay Iceman Actually, two gay Icemen. There seem to have been two opposite and extreme reactions to this One is that[...]

Martin Freeman joined Jimmy Fallon last night on the Tonight Show when the subject of Captain America: Civil War came up. He talked about how odd it was

It's true, there were no X-Men related titles in Marvel Comcis' Timely three-issues-for-$3 reprint program announced the other day. I wonder if there will be any in this? Marvel's Greatest Collection Previews is an attempt to shine a light on some of Marvel's backlist, their collection of previews in paperback and hardcover for the bookshelves. In recent years, Marvel[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running Tim Hanley's Gendercrunching columns on Bleeding Cool for years, measuring the "above the line" credits in comic books form

Frank Cho has come to the end of his current Marvel Comics contract and is wondering what to focus on next. He may have finished his final pages on Totally Awesome Hulk, but he'll still be doing covers for Marvel There are, however, a number of other projects with his name on. There's Skybourne from Boom! that[...]

We've already mentioned that Chris Eliopoulos will be adding back-up strips to the new Star Wars: Poe Dameron comic from Marvel Even if Chris is keeping his Star Wars trading cards close to his chest. I am neither confirming or denying this story.https://t.co/VGeDNknPN0 — chris eliopoulos (@ChrisEliopoulos) February 26, 2016 Even while drawing things like this. Well, something else[...]

Apparently most of our customers prefer DC projects that harken back to the pre-New 52 days! The other big news is Saga climbing to second place in our store, which means that it outsold everything from Marvel, DC., etc., EXCEPT for Dark Knight III: Master Race #3! Strong interest in Silver Age Captain America books and[...]

Courtesy of Anthony Mackie on The Daily Show and Captain America: The Winter Soldier - this was, apparently, The Falcon calling off his attack birds from

When you go to adapt a comic book property, remember to adapt the actual property. You know, like what Marvel Studios has done consistently. The odds are that producers and executives in Hollywood are running around with three thoughts in their heads: people want R-rated superhero movies, comedy works better than dark-and-gritty and the Fantastic Four[...]

Ah, so that's why Marvel registered the trademark for Timely Comics last year It wasn't just to do with 1872, it was this year's 75th anniversary of the company that one day would be Marvel Comics being formed. And time for a new publishing initiative, Timely Comics, 3 for $3, the first three issues of a number of All-New[...]

I'm hearing here may be some movement on this situation... but if any publishers who enjoyed Watchmensch, Civil Wardrobe or the Avengefuls wants to get in

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel had cancelled a swathe of their planned second printings of recent issues Marvel Comics had made a big thing about upping and increasing their second prints in the light of sellouts and increased consumer demand, but this seemed to be going against that grain Last week, only Darth[...]

Marvel has tapped Star Trek's own Will Riker… Jonathan Frakes… to voice J'Son, King of the Spartax in the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series USA Today is reporting bringing the veteran actor on board to play the father of Peter Quill (Will Friedle) Frakes has spent more time behind the camera than in front[...]

A reference is enough as Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, breaks into SHIELD to access mystery files… I do wonder how the Marvel Universe would cope with a Donald Trump win though….   There have been references to Donald Trump's campaign in current superhero comic books But Hillary Clinton's run for President hasn't been touched on as[...]

Netflix has released the second part of the official Marvel's Daredevil trailer This one focuses more on Elektra (Elodie Yung) as she returns to tell Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) that he didn't drive the Yakuza out of New York… they've been lying low and waiting as Daredevil eliminated all of their enemies This lead to[...]

This article contains spoilers for Marvel's Agent Carter episodes – Edge of Mystery and A Little Song and Dance. . . . . . Another night, another double episode of Marvel's Agent Carter Last night we got to see some risk, betrayal, revenge and a dance number All of this leading up to the season two finale that airs next week[...]

Frank Cho writes, Though I share my cover painting process with you and the fans. This was for the Black Panther #2 variant cover. Step 1 - I roughly

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I'm going to keep using this until everyone is completely tired of it. I've got a long way to go though.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7DKr14Zs3U

This of course contains spoilers for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. . . . . . Still here? . . . Okay, at the midseason finale everyone's favorite former SHIELD agent to hate, Grant Ward, returned from the alien planet a wee bit different Okay, he was dead then alive with an evil force inside of him Lots of speculation happened Turns out we had it[...]

Executive Editor Nick Lowe got asked some very important questions… sadly none of those made the cut in this edition of Ask Marvel Instead he tells us which Marvel character he relates to, which one he would date, what is good… most of his answers are food related… and how many stories are in the[...]

Otherwise,it was eight Marvel titles and one Image title–and that was in an ordinary week with no major blockbuster books! Can a Rebirth stop the lingering death of the DC legacy? DC barely squeaked into the Top Ten at our shop, with Batman & Robin Eternal taking the tenth spot Otherwise,it was eight Marvel titles and[...]