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But with the future of the television version slightly up in the air, it's time to focus attention back on the comic. In July, Marvel will publish Powers FBI #1, alongside the new Powers trade paperback, Volume 14 Gods  and the second issue of the current series of the pair's all ages comic Takio. The new series[...]

Alan Davis always seems to have the concept of family at the heart of the stories he writes. If a character hasn't got a family, he finds one for them.

Here's the solicitation copy for Avengers Vs X-Men #7 shipping in July from Marvel Comics. AVENGERS VS X-MEN #7 (OF 12) AVX MATT FRACTION (w) • OLIVIER COIPEL (a) Cyclops changes the game with these three words: "No More Avengers!"   Ooh! How very Scarlet Witch of him! Oh and while we're at it, here's #8 as well… AVENGERS VS[...]

Coming out of the Diamond Retailer Summit is the news that Ultimate Captain America is to return as a series from Marvel this summer, expected to get big attention as the character is caught "a decision no superhero has ever done before… that can only be done in an Ultimate book" and once again a[...]

All the spoilery scuttlebutt about Marvel's tentpole-of-all-tentpoles seems to be centering on trivial stuff like who the villains are and what will happen in the movie. That seems to me like an oversight. Because there just has to be an after credits teaser showing Nick Fury recruiting a new member of the team. Doesn't there? Even if there isn't,[...]

Marvel digital is now available around 8 a.m on release day Image and other publishers are usually available around 9:30 DC is  available around 1:30. What purpose did getting Iron Muslim up as a pirated comic so fast serve, do you think?< Truthfully, I could make something up like it got your book more exposure because it[...]

Marvel Comics are running a promotion with comic book stores and cinema chains, to try and make the link with The Avengers movie and their offerings for Free Comic Book Day. On May 3rd, AMC cinemas across the US will be running The Ultimate Marvel Movie Marathon, screening Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Hulk, Captain America[...]

Two Spider-Men plus the first Marvel Universe / Ultimate Universe crossover? Yeah, that'll be big But actually, I'm even more pleased to see that they're tying a major event to Spider-Man's 50th Anniversary Because as we noted here last month, Hulk's 50th seems to have been largely forgotten, after a pretty big deal was made[...]

So what looks good? Resident Alien from Dark Horse is a must, as is Boba Fett Is Dead, there's the long awaited Shooters from DC, a little Next Men, a pinch of Manhattan Projects, some Amazing Spider-Man, a modicum of Stitched, Pocket God, Castle Waiting and Harvey Pekar... DARK HORSE COMICS 3 STORY SECRET FILES O/T GIANT MAN[...]

You too can have a body like this apparently. Well, it's about as realistic and acheivable as most of the folk that appear on magazines such as this

This will have been the conversation. "Okay people, our next TV ad for Farmers will be a tie in to the new Marvel movie The Avengers." "Why?" "Because if we sign up more than five of our clients to promotional activity with The Avengers, we get a discount Soft drink, sneakers, fast food, candy and… we're one short[...]

We've already seen how some if the AVX imagery can trigger a 3D Iron Man walking around the device on your screen. But one of Bleeding Cool's more technologically minded Little Bleeders, Matt Watts, has been having a closer look at the Marvel AR App on his Android device And with a but of jiggery pokery[...]

I've been hearing that Marvel has a new Hawkeye series on the cards And this teaser for a new series by Matt Fraction and David Aja does seem to indicate that's where we should be looking You know, what with the purple and black, the arrow and the bullseyes So it's probabky worth calling at[...]

The New York Daily News has reported that in June, the touted Spider-Men series from Marvel will be the first official crossover between the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. Brian Bendis has long decried such an event, denying that the Ultimate Universe is even an alternate reality to the 616 And getting annoyed by[...]

  Hulk #4 and Irredeemable #36. While unlikely to be intentional, it does make a rather nice piece when placed together like this... In Swipe File we

Marvel is still being oh so coy on the details and I'm starting to wonder if Rictor and Shatterstar or Hulking and Wiccan will pop by to make it triple gay wedding. Anyway, Marvel have told retailers today, regarding Astonishing X-Men #51 ships on the 20th of June (and odds are we'll get the proposal in[...]

My main issue of the book isn't with the fortunately absolute "schism" in opinions between the two teams, but with how conveniently the writers (Marvel's combined team of Architects) play fast and loose with the Phoenix's continuity. [MINI-RANT] Noone expects them to reference the Ultraverse fiasco, or the Phoenix force inhabiting Prime of all people, but[...]

Right now, and I mean right now, in a metropolitan area, someone should set up a Walking Dead shop. Selling Walking Dead comics, trade paperbacks, DVDs

Due to legal issues, the French shop Comics Zone in Lyon that specialises in American comics held its Avengers Vs X-Men party last Saturday . They ran an

It was a rather fun scene from the most recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man. And that's saying something, considering how Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli

Mark Millar has very kindly posted a series of statistics regarding the orders of Supercrooks. In an industry where we usually have to make estimates

Put your Apple device over it with the Marvel AR App Play around with what happens. I wonder what other images out there trigger interesting things on App in question… Anyone fancy some research? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE5Or-G21VE[/youtube]   Take a random Avengers Vs X-Men image Put your Apple device over it with the Marvel AR App[...]

Bleeding Cool rather ragged on a recent Marvel Comics title commissioned to explain banking to students for being, well, awful In comparison however, this comic written by Marc Sumerak and drawn by Marcio Takara to promote awareness of the effects of alcohol to kids, commissioned by Elks National Youth Program, both succeeds as a comic[...]

Over at Broken Frontier, David Hine seems to have done a rather good job at burning his bridges. A familiar smaller press name from the nineties, David Hine relaunched his comics career at Marvel, working on a numbr of titles including X-Men and Daredevil He also write Azrael until Flashpoint and the New 52 18 months[...]

This is our first look at the black-and-whiteing of Ms Marvel and Rogue in the third issue's variant cover by J Scott Campbell They are available to retailers who over 90% of their orders for for the first issue. There are then 1:25 covers with the regular J Scott Campbell varuant, 1:100 for the Sara Pichelli[...]

Just as Marvel did when Venom shipped five issues every week in February, Marvel are issuing a bunch of incentive postcards to be given away in comic stores alongside the weekly five issue Hulk Smash Avengers. If retailers match their orders to 125% of Venom #13 or the first issue and just match Venom #13 for[...]

Here is a panel from one of the final pages of Avengers Vs X-Men #1 from Marvel Comics The print edition. And here it is again, in the digital edition. Note that the digital edition very kindly points out that this is a Shield Helicarrier, and where it is positioned but not in the print edition. Please also[...]

I expected that Marvel would take the top spot away from Justice League in March, due to the sales of Avengers Vs X-Men #0, and Jim Lee leaving the book for a short sabbatical But, thanks to Marvel shipping Avengers Vs X-Men #1 a week early, to be held for this week, they've taken the[...]

Do we have any proof that Daredevil is no cream puff? Well, Marvel's Daredevil can hear heartbeats In a strange numerical quirk of fate, as well as being Daredevil #10.1 it is also Daredevil 101, going to the heart of the character How he perceives the world – and also how the world perceives him From[...]

I was happy to be back, to smell the paper and squeeze around the people reading comics in the shop as if it was a library." DigitalToDigitalWatch: Joe Quesada talks anout what Marvel's Infinite Comics can provide. "The biggest benefit of reading and making comics digitally, Quesada said, is the ability to surpass the printed page as[...]