Well that was quick. Joe Madueira's grand return to comic books was three issues long. With issue 4, the digital-download-code-included Avenging
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Could this be the greatest battle of all time? Phoenix Wright Vs Squirrel Girl? "Objection!!!" "Nuts to that!"
This act was colossal, its impact on the world immense, and the crime up there in the Marvel Universe with the desctruction of Genosha and the Phoenix' galactic rampage, and with the action of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot in our own.
To that extent this book is set during two conversations One with Odin in[...]
You know the show from Disney owned ABC that they made after they suddenly stopped developing the Fables show with Warners and DC Comics..
That show.
And now they're using Marvel comics in the show Must be like rubbing salt into the wound for anyone involved with the DC plans.
Of course, that the comic was written by[...]
The news today that Marvel will extend its $3.99 digital codes inside every Ultimate comic to the upcoming Season One graphic novels recalls a conversation I had at New York Comic Con with a Marvel staffer.
Asking about whether the Season One books were indeed intended to be exploited by the Disney distribution system, offering as[...]
Up on eBay. I love Fred Hembeck.
This has encouraged the "fifth week" special event in the past, though of late Marvel has found it good reason to increase the amount of comics they'll ship in those particular months.
But DC has arranged a strict monthly schedule for their new DCU relaunch, with each book getting an allotted week of the month, though[...]
Daniels was the author of numerous books on the history of American comics beginning in 1971 with Comix: A History of the Comic Book in America, and including widely-read histories such as Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, and DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes[...]
Analogues gathered together, bearing centuries of mythology on their hunched shoulders, letting a battle of philosophy as much as fist, as Free Will Vs Responsibility is played out across the Marvel Universe While the comparison between Hyde and Jekyll has often been made with The Hulk, at it's core it's far more Frankenstein, with both[...]
Getting comic book retailers to increase their orders with a series of incentives, then doubling all orders anyway saw comic stores flooded with copies of Point One from Marvel this week, a fifty-odd page comic for $5.99 was soon selling for $2.99 in many stores as a result (although someone did manage to sell a[...]
September was a surprising month in several ways, with the DCnU books making a disappointing splash, ladywise, while an ignored Marvel quietly had its best month of the year My apologies for the delay with this month's stats I know that September was a while ago now, but I was missing one issue that was[...]
And has found a Friends Of Ol' Marvel fanzine from the seventies, with a list of competition entries Including everyone from Marc Silvestri to Tim Sale to S'Express's Mark Moore and, well, Steve Cook… and one current co-Publisher of DC Comics, Dan DiDio Or Danny Didio as he is here.
It does make you consider a[...]
Mick Anglo died last week, aged 96, Bleeding Cool has confirmed.
Novelist and comic book creator in the forties, fifties and sixties, it was his recreation of Captain Marvel as Marvelman for L Miller And Son for which he will be most remembered, an early British superhero character, writing over seven hundred issues of Marvelman, Young[...]
Previewed at the New York Comic Con, here is the first Marvel/Disney crossover with Santa's elves Prep & Landing sent to sort out the gift of giving in the Avengers Mansion, on high security alert, from the creators of the original Disney cartoon Look for it it in the back of Avengers #19, Marvel Adventures[...]
Double the number of copies with no extra charge to retailers, BC heard about plenty of shop promotions for this future lynchpin of the Marvel Universe What did readers think? I saw some mixed responses in the forum, though I guess that's no surprise with something stuffed with so much raw information Sounds like everybody[...]
UPDATE: As a result of the following article, I understand that the comic in question has been pulled from ComiXology. Hope you got it/read it if you
Would have allied with Tony Stark against Captain America in the Civil War? Come on Marvel, let us in on the details of the new continuity.
It's only a story after all.
I said that the beginning of Defenders #1 reminded me of Sandman Well pretty much all of Fear Itself #7.2 does Oh and a[...]
But Battle Scars #1 out today from Marvel looks like it's intended to launch a brand new character into the hearts and minds of the Marvel Universe Soldier Sergeant Marcus Johnson, war hero, with his own personal tragedy to deal with.
But seemingly with a hidden past, present or future that a number of people seem[...]
Marvel did all they could to encourage orders of Point One, a fifty-odd page $5.99 comic, set to plan the future of all manner of comic books coming out from Marvel next year From the rather obvious identity of "It's Coming" to an entertaining set of twins new to Marvel to the identity of the[...]
Nowhere in the Marvel App to enter the code – oh silly me, you have to do it on the web page Okay, done that, tapped it in, it asks me where I bought the comic – an International comic store… except they don't list the United Kingdom or Great Britain or any of that[...]
Sometimes it's legal, sometimes it's a change of mind, sometimes it's a technical issue and sometimes… it's a shame.
Marvel Makes Minor Amends To Royalty Agreements – Takes 5%
Bleeding Cool has made note of the continued salami slicing of budget at Marvel Comics The firing of staff without a decrease in workload for the department[...]
But with Marvel's Point One shipping tomorrow, it may not be a bad idea Two lots of seven points about Point One...
Marvel are bringing a lot of attention to bear for their Point One oneshot next month, as the Final Order Cut Off point for retailers approaches next Monday But why should the readers care?[...]
You wondered when Marvel was gonna have a response to the DC NEW 52, right? It's this, and it's 64 pages!
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #1
ZEB "ROBOT CHICKEN" WELLS & JOE MAD! We didn't need another Spidey book OR another Avengers book, BUT a Spidey book WITH the Avengers as the supporting cast[...]
Bleeding Cool has made note of the continued salami slicing of budget at Marvel Comics The firing of staff without a decrease in workload for the department The reduction and justification for every expense, no matter how small, in the offices The move from some projects to a "B" rate of[...]
I don't know what it is, but Marvel just can't keep dropping their testicles whenever they feel like it.
What's in a name? Often comic book products change their name from concept to production Sometimes it's legal, sometimes it's a change of mind, sometimes it's a technical issue and sometimes… it's a shame.
Take the Deadpool[...]
Barnes & Noble took all 100 of the DC print graphic novels that were digitally exclusive to the upcoming Amazon Kindle Fire off their stores' shelves as an act of protest in favour making books available in all formats, and not exclusive to one device.
And now today, the new Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet and[...]
Marvel had announced the mini-series Destroyers a couple of months ago with a targeted promotional campaign But no sooner had that happened than the book appears to have been cancelled by Marvel.
That's before orders could even have been received on the book It hadn't even been solicited Replying to enquiries on Twitter,writer Fred Van Lente[...]
HiddenHistoryDelight: Two of Marvel's hidden histories come to 99c on ComiXology today The Marvels Project by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, looking to the runup to World War II in the Marvel Universe, 8 beautifully told issues for 99 cents each, a total of $7.92, and a sizeable reduction on the current Amazon print price,[...]
Reading Mark Haverty's Uncanny X-Men #1 review today, and reflecting on some of the comics that have made mainstream-news headlines over the past year,
He wasn't the first artist to work for Marvel in the Silver Age, and he wasn't the most prolific artist to work for Marvel in the Silver Age, but when you think of inventive artists of the 1960s and beyond, Jim Steranko is one of the first names to come to mind Born November 5,[...]