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Here's a preview to the new Fearsome Four comic by Brandon Montclare, Ryan Bodenheim and Michael Kaluta, a reactive title to the Fear Itself crossover gripping the Marvel universe. In which Howard The Duck is looking even less like Donald Duck than usual In case we forget, this is how Howard appeared earlier in his history,[...]

Hickman is already writing Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, is this just greedy? Only for four issues though, so there's that. Well, it's all part of Marvel's The Ultimate Comics Universe Reborn relaunching of the Ultimate line, in August and September In a press conference recorded online we learnt the following; Ultimate Comics Hawkeye will be a four[...]

Alpha Flight Collector, as part of a diatribe against how Northstar is repeatedly and lazily treated in X-Men titles notes that in the last issue of

Such fun! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsoQRGcg6dE[/youtube] FEAR ITSELF #2 MATT FRACTION! Thor in chains! Here comes the worthy: HULK! JUGGERNAUT! GREY GARGOYLE! Who's worthy to serve the Serpent as living avatars of his evil? MOON KNIGHT #1 BRIAN BENDIS and ALEX MALEEV! The Eisner winning team that made Daredevil the best book Marvel had for[...]

It began with Mark Millar and Adam Kubert, the second of the Ultimate Universe books at Marvel Retelling the X-Men tales with a younger, sexier, less continuity heavy crew And it then, basically went all over the place, becoming the regular X-Men's ugly stunted cousin shoved up in the attic. Well, as part of Marvel's The[...]

Its first two series with Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch seemed to set the agenda for superhero comics, but a third series by Jeph Loeb and Joe Madueira was critically panned, and when Mark Millar returned to the book with a number of high profile artists – and vampires – the book had lost its[...]

Here's a first look at two more X-Men history variant covers, Wolverine and Havok, from FF 3 and Journey Into Mystery 623 respectively, montaging through

And as for Justice, well that's debatable. Oh you thought Action Comics #900 had a monopoly on controversial storylines involving patriotic superheroic figures engaged in real world politics? Except in this case it's a story to get the liberals in a lather over, rather than the conservatives. Like if Captain America took down the people behind Wikileaks[...]

Mike Choi is auctioning the entire original artwork for X-Force #26, the issue in which Nightcrawler karked it, for sale on eBay to benefit the Red Cross.

Hoyts is a large Australian cinema chain, the second largest on the continent, with 450 screens spread across Australia and New Zealand, and dominating

As monster trucks… the Marvel variant covers can't be far behind. Some late night God-On-Troll action… Stussy putting comic book checklists on their T-shirts now. $40 for Thor cups from 7/11, apparently. And doesn't it make you feel grand being a New York fireman, that Thor could just rock up and pop up a little rain cloud over any[...]

The ballet dancer... The wall crack... And the sex toy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGSBApdx5Q

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; When the overall percentage of female creators at Marvel and DC hovers around ten percent, it feels very odd to say positive things about the numbers put up by the Big Two Nonetheless, March was a good month, relatively speaking, with both publishers posting their best numbers of the year[...]

America (Marvel trade paperback) collects Cap #127-156 – signed by Gene Colan – starting bid $20 7 Essential Capt Marvel (Marvel trade paperback) collects Capt Marvel #1-20 and Marvel Super-Heroes #12-13 – signed by Gene Colan – starting bid $20 8 Essential Daredevil (Marvel trade paperback) collects DD #75-101 – signed by Gene Colan – current bid[...]

I am not looking at the post-credit scene from Thor that has made its way onto the internet. No, I intend to watch it, with wife, on the big screen later

Asking them how they've been ordering the first issues of both Marvel and DC's big summer crossover titles, Fear Itself and Flashpoint. It's not pretending to be a comprehensive study It's probably not that representative But the gap in figures looks beyond any reasonable error of margin. Fear Itself is ahead of Flashpoint by a significant degree. Indeed,[...]

No More Cigarettes. Having characters tipping the intensines out of each other was okay though, and it did leave some scenes in the likes of Wolverine: Enemy Of The State looking peculiar with Wolverine, teeth apart chomping on a digitally removed stogie, after John Romita Jr just couldn't help himself. But Joe Quesada has moved up in[...]

The fools. Jim Shooter: Groundhog Day in the Land of the Apocryphiars | The Comics Journal Shooter's two blog entries purporting to accurately describe Kirby's dispute with Marvel are such falsified claptrap that they reminded me of Mary McCarthy's infamous quip about Lillian Hellman's writing, made in an eerily similar context — that every word is a[...]

Here is a new page from the classic Kree-Skrull War from Avengers, created by Upper Deck Card Entertainment and written by Sean McKeever for a new series of Kree-Skrull trading cards that will tell five seperate Avengers stories around the events of the Kree Skrull War that will, apparently, be treated as official Marvel comics[...]

(I know, I know…in more recent iterations, Clark and Lois did get married, but, hey, people, we're talking 50-plus years ago) Later, there were stories about Superman and Batman getting married, having kids, and on and on and on… DC's friendly enemy, Marvel, had a slightly different approach to the imaginary story business[...]

And so in Avengers, this building battle of the Infinity Gems that strikes at the heart of the Illuminati concept at the heart of the Marvel Universe, as all manner of Marvel characters come together, it's about proving your worth, it's about contributing to the team and it's about redemption Something Tony Stark feels he[...]

USA Today had three preview pages a few days ago. Bleeding Cool has a couple more to add to the pile. Alpha Flight #0 Point One, here are the first five

Either way, Aaron and Mike are terribly excited about Super Dinosaur, X-Force, the SHIELD hardcover collection (and my fave Marvel title). And, yes, they're right about SHIELD Very, very right. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A98JeNfu_Pk[/youtube] Weekly TOP PICKS: 4.20.2011 SUPER DINOSAUR #1 ROBERT KIRKMAN! Meet Derek Dynamo and SUPER DINOSAUR, best buds and science heroes! What makes[...]

There's something here isn;t there? From Astonishing X-Men #1 And the new UK poster for X-Men: First Class At least The Beast doesn't look like he's

And here it is. It's like a shooting gallery isn't it?

(Unless, of course, this is all made-up, ahem.) Marvel loves doing this, and we love that they love doing it The ending for "Thor" would seem to lead into ICv2 – Upper Deck to Publish Kree-Skrull Comics Upper Deck will release The Avengers: Kree-Skrull War, a 190-card trading card set that can be assembled to tell five original[...]

There's a new Thor game online. And it's a wee bit addictive. Throw Mjlonir and take down Frost Giants in a mixture of angle, thrust and lightning strikes

I'm thinking of getting this made up as a T-shirt. Possibly for San Diego Comic Con. Anyone else want one?

So, the New York Post may have, as ever, with Marvel's full co-operation and indeed instigation, have spoiled the plot of upcoming issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, but we're going to try and be a bit more careful Such as me typing all this text up front to keep it off the front page of[...]

And wants to let other people in on it. I am more of a Marvel man than DC The problem with DC is that most of their characters don't have personalities like Marvel characters do, with the exception of Batman and Robin. When you compare the personality of Superman and any Marvel character, the Marvel character will[...]