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DC Comics Buys Marvel. On Twitter. (UPDATE)
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,[...]
Whitewashing Luke Cage
From Patrick Willems comes what is clearly an adaptation of the Marvel comic book character Luke Cage With one or two deviations from the original text. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkWY2RAorA[/youtube] From Patrick Willems comes what is clearly an adaptation of the Marvel comic book character Luke Cage With one or two deviations from the original text. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkWY2RAorA[/youtube] [...]
Was This The Least Appropriate Comic For 9/11 Week?
You have been warned. This week's Marvel Comics (yes, Marvel published some comics this week as well) feature pages from their Moment Of Silence and Heroes comics, published in the wake of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Superhero action is always going to jar with such events, considering the destructive[...]
Gendercrunching The DC New 52 – Week One by Tim Hanley
Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; I'll be doing the women in comics stats for DC and Marvel like always this month, but since the DC relaunch is sort of a big deal, we're going to have special reports on the New 52 as they're released… hopefully very soon after they're released, if[...]
Thunderbolts #163 Cover Takes On The DC Relaunch
Applause to the cover department of Marvel who decided to make the cover to this week's issue of Thunderbolts… a little similar in tone to certain comics being published by DC this week Nice use of font size, folks. Okay, it's probably a reference to the very first issue of Thunderbolts But they would have to[...]
Marvel's Season One, Dressed To Kill In Disney Stores?
This is the "dress" for the new Season One original graphic novels from Marvel for 2012 tht have nothing whatsover to do with DC's Earth One line of original graphic novels, honest. And why the change in heart over commissioning original graphic novels? It couldn't be that Disney have been publishing a number of rater dull[...]
Friday Trending Topics: Future Comics
And although there's a building feeling that DC is going to crush the charts this fall — at least for awhile — Marvel analytics remind us for the second time in an overwhelmingly DC-centric week that a few months is a battle, not a war. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: How The Future Of Marvel Is Looking Right[...]
How The Future Of Marvel Is Looking Right Now
Remember that page from Avengers #5? You know, the one that laid out the future of the Marvel Universe How's that been going so far? Let's have a look Clicky for biggy. Some I will have got right Some I will have got wrong Some I have missed… what do you think? (Updated with a couple of[...]
Dicks, Battle, Witches And Fury – Garth Ennis' Plan Of Action
And the next Tankies story focussing on the mad little Geordie will also take place in Korea. 47.31 – His Nick Fury series from Marvel next year is a very grim Cold War story… It starts in Indo-China, then it moves up to Cuba, then Vietnam and then El Savador The Cold War's greatest[...]
DC Through The Eyes Of A Marvel Zombie: Justice League #1
Marvel comics have it all, and the "Distinguished Competition?" Well, I gave them a fair shot too, but something in them was lacking in my opinion Years later someone, I can't remember who, said, "Marvel writes families, DC writes pantheons." Exactly! That's what was missing! That human connection The X-Men may be an entirely other species,[...]
Preview: Guns And Dinos #1 by Frank Cho
Seriously, has Frank been nominated for lettering before? xxxx And here's a sketch and then the full inks to the cover to issue two of Guns & Dinos, seen here for the first time. He really is a marvel, isn't he? Guns & Dinos is a new comic from Frank Cho shipping from Image in December[...]
Wednesday Comics Review: Secret Avengers 16
So he creates a very silly scenario here, using the flotsam and jetsam of Marvel continuity over the decades With four disparate semi-Avengers finding a secret city buried a mile below the surface on Cincinatti, giving Jamie plenty of perspective points and lines of sight to throw down some mean architecture and car chases throughout[...]
Marvel To Cancel Herc With Issue Ten
Those of you who picked up Herc #6 Point One today, hoping to get an insight into the series with an eye to picking it up regularly may have a diappointment ahead. According to Marvel Previews released today (and not mentioned on the previously solicits released online) Herc #10 in November will[...]
Filling In The X-Men Blue Silhouettes
So Marvel have started to fill in a few of the X-Men Blue quandriptych silhouettes… throwing in a Storm, Colossus and Magik… Of course, Bleeding Cool readers knew a couple of those already Let's do a quick cut and paste with what we had before... There we go! So Marvel have started to fill[...]
Fanboy Rampage: A Liefeld, Brevoort, Kirkman Sandwich
And the mention that Killraven by Liefeld and Kirkman for Marvel remains unpublished Liefeld continued tweeting; Rob: This is common practice in the comics business I completed pencils on 5 Killraven issues over 2 years ago Fact Issues 1 & 2 colored 2008 By not soliciting Killraven for 4 years, sales automatically dropped by virtue of[...]
Fear Itself – Bullet Points From Fan Expo Canada
Thor, she foretells, will do battle with the great serpent during the immense mythical war waged at Ragnarök, and there he will slay the monstrous snake, yet after he will only be able to take nine steps before succumbing to the venom of the beast: Battle Scars and Regenesis will lead into a 2012 marvel event[...]