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Kill off the Autobot leader at the final end of the Autobot/Decepticon war. Written by John Barber and James Roberts, with art by Nick Roche and stacks of variant covers, including one with covers for all the 125 Transformrs comics so far. And then the series will split into two ongoing Transformers series from IDW starting in[...]

This is a lesson in how to keep an event comic going on for an entire year after it finishes. Longer, if it's late. By Matt Fraction, Chris Yost, (mostly)

But of course the Marvel Universe exists a little further towards the "anything-can-happen" end of the spectrum, so suddenly it's open season on all these deranged bio-, chemo- and techno-theories we've all been waiting for. For instance, some of the story revolves around the construction of a Space Elevator That's a concept which has had Scientists[...]

Here's a double page spread preview of Fear Itself. Captain America holding the line with a couple of guns and some debris. When suddenly... I wonder if

So you've left your comic store with your X-Men Schism and Generation Hope. And you know what happened last month, what with reading the comics in the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMbYQMZAKD8 No Willy Wonka Golden Ticket Stan Lee autograph again. Did you get lucky?

In 2008, Marvel Comics entered into a deal with the French publisher Soleil to republish a number of French titles to the American market Then they seemed to… stop. Recently Axel Alonso told Comic Book Resources that "At this time, there are no plans to publish additional Soleil titles We love Soleil, their comics and[...]

DC slid down, while Marvel rose only slightly and remains firmly below their previous high. DC COMICS Hey, we've got a format change! We're going to run though the monthly totals quicker to get to some cool stuff in the third section In August 2011, DC Comics released 97 new comic books with 861 credited creators, 768[...]

Alan Davis has taken over Steve McNiven on the monthly Captain America comic book, still written by Ed Brubaker. He will start work on the series from

So what do to. Diamond UK are offering random variant packs, each containing at least ten variant comics from the likes of IDW, Marvel, Dynamite, Boom, Aspen and more, for the wholesale price of £5, or around $8 Given a typical markup of 50-60%, that's retail value of £10 or around $16 However it shouldn't be[...]

From Marvel's December solicitations, the description of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness sounds awfully familiar. CABLE IS BACK! AND HE'S GOT JUST 24 HOURS TO WIPE THE AVENGERS FROM THE PAGES OF HISTORY! Wiping continuity from history, rebuilding it in some form…? How has Cable been reborn? Where has he been since "Second Coming"? And what dark[...]

Last time we caught up with Valkyrie in a Marvel PR puff piece, she was just chilling in the armoury with Sin and Death Now she seems to be taking those weapons and having a go at three of the Fantastic Four, with the Thing in shadow, possibly still displaying signs of Worthiness. I do hope[...]

A google doodle designed as a comic strip to aptly dedicate the day for Pai had many recollect the fond memories of growing up virtually with him. StripWatch: Doonesbury steps up a notch. Gendercrunchingwatch: DC and Marvel get gendercrunched by Tim Hanley On August 24, DC had 9.4% female creators and Marvel had 8.5%.  On August[...]

Where one French blog is reporting that he appears to have told the adoring crowd that Marvel's 2012 event will be co-written by the five so-called  "Architects" of the Marvel Universe,  Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Jonathan Hickman and Jason himself, also suggesting that such a book may be drawn by Olivier[...]

Marvel has given itself,  Comic Book Resources, Newsarama,  iFanboy, and IGN teaser panels for X-Men Regenesis by Kieron Gillen and Billy Tan Bleeding Cool didn't get any, obviously Nevertheless we can do what all those others haven't and… put them all on the same page! What scamps we are! Marvel has given itself,  Comic Book[...]

But Roger Robinson has popped up at Marvel working on the new Avengers Solo book Here are a few pages from the upcoming comic from Marvel starring Hawkeye… He may have disappeared from drawing Mister Terrific for the DC Relaunch But Roger Robinson has popped up at Marvel working on the new Avengers Solo[...]

In the final (and rather wonderful) issue of Criminal: Last Of The Innocent, out this week, Ed Brubaker talks about his and Sean Phillips' next project for Marvel's Icon imprint, in the back. It's called Fatale. Brubaker says; Fatale is a bigger story, one that'll run at least 12 issues, and I think it brings a new twist[...]

Once upon a time Marvel and DC sold 22 story page comic books for $2.99. Then they started selling some of them for $3.99 and the people thought "blimey that's a bit steep" So the companies added extra story pages, usually 8-10 pages more And the people grumbled, but paid up. Then DC started selling 20 story[...]

From ColourLovers.com comes this infographic looking at the colours common in comic books focusing on the output of Marvel and DC Comics over the years. From ColourLovers.com comes this infographic looking at the colours common in comic books focusing on the output of Marvel and DC Comics over the years. From ColourLovers.com comes this infographic[...]

Thanks to skylight on the Comic Book Resources forum for taking a quick snap of this promo piece doing the rounds. We'd only had the silhouettes before to

Honest. The treatment of Captain America at Marvel Comics has come in for some criticism, especially from the right of late Placards aside, there was considerable disquiet as to what was seen as Captain America criticising what were seen as Tea Party supporters Of course, that was a different man, Bucky, under the suit and he's[...]

Marvel would like to remind you that the press have been talking about other comics as well as the DC Relaunch Such as a certain Ultimate Spider-Man #1, in comic stores tomorrow. All sorts of websites, newspapers and TV shows Including one called "The Coblert Report" Yeah, I know, mote and beam, mote and beam. Of course,[...]

We made a guess this morning that this big new Avengers/X-Men Marvel thing could be whatever had been teased at San Diego Comic Con as coming from Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness under the title Cable Reborn And looky looky. Avengers: X-Sanction is a new four issue miniseries from Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness starting in[...]

A few days ago, Bleeding Cool pointed out that DC had bought Marvel as a Twitter search keyword, so that anyone who searched for Marvel got a DC ad up front for the New 52 relaunch While not illegal, this is the kind of thing that can be challenged by a trademark owner in a[...]

That the weekly Marvel video show, The Watcher, was without its host and writer Grace Randolph, replaced by Ben Morse and Ryan Penagos – and was poorer for it Maybe she was on holiday, maybe she was sick… or maybe she'd been fired. Then at the end of last week, Grace made it official[...]

TweetWatch: On Ultimate Spider-Man… Mark Waid: Until Morales shows up on live-action TV, in cartoons and on toy shelves, I–with respect–cry foul. Tom Brevoort: Well, you'll see at least one of those before the year is out. TeaseWatch: More on this Avengers teasing image today at Noon PT, 3pm ET, 8pm BST At Marvel, an X is always an[...]

If that held true for August, then Justice League #1 sold 170,000 and Flashpoint #5 sold 94,000, with Fear Itself #5 on 90,000, Flashpoint #4 on 86,000 and Ultimate Fallout #4 (geaturing the first appearance of Miles Morales) on 75,000. Despite only shipping two superhero comics through Diamond in the last week of August, DC has[...]

Heather Kenealy, a self-confessed Marvel zombie reviews the DC Newniverse title from her rather rarefied point of view… What a week, right? Thirteen new books to wade through! So, I'm looking at this HUGE stack of books on my desk, and I'm trying to figure out which order to read this in[...]

Iger. Robert Chapek will replace Andy Mooney, who resigned as Chairman of the division earlier this week. Disney Consumer Products extends Disney brands into everything from apparel, toys and home décor to books and magazines, foods and beverages, stationery, electronics and animation art, as well as Disney Publishing Worldwide, and DisneyStore.com. But Disney[...]

So that the first result is a "Promoted Tweet". If you search for the word "Marvel" then you get this. The cheeky buggers. Trademark owners can challenge when their trademarks are bought as keyword searches, let's do a count down until Marvel's lawyers get in touch with Twitter… UPDATE: And… it's gone. If you have a large marketing budget,[...]