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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[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool Gender Gap at the Big Two – Week of March 30th, 2011 Women make up more than half of the world's population, but at DC and Marvel?  It's considerably less than that And by "considerably less", I mean "calling it miniscule would be charitable." Here's a look at how the credits[...]

Well, that's brightened my already fairly bright Sunday. Bobbly USB flash drives in the shape of Marvel characters Probably not official or anything but so lovely I couldn't really care And any lawyers should just look in the other direction whistling a tune by Kajagoogoo. Check out those two gigabytes of Marvel memory in each. [...]

Dennis O’Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He’s best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman,

Don't panic! Here's a new promotional doodad that should help you navigate Kenneth Branagh's Thor even if you don't know where your towel is. Or at least

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does Anything A Knocked Over Skittle Can. Here's a look at some Spider-Man mechandise from Marvel and Franklin Sports They've got other characters as well, including Thor and Captain America (obviously) With other sports implements coming, including baseball, basketball, boxing, football, hockey, American football and tennis But if you wanted to take your aggression[...]

Seuling distributed order forms to comics stores, they ordered what they needed and Seuling went back to Marvel, DC and the other smaller publishers and said, 'here's what I need' They printed, waited for their cash and suddenly found new life There was less uncertainty for the publisher now The [...]

The Marvel solicitations are out. No more Point Ones (though there is a Point One trade paperback) and there's a little less doubling up of issues in the wake of Fear itself's expanse Still, it's an expensive four week month, with the pensulum starting to swing back to the $3.99/22 page price point and bringing the[...]

Marvel asked Who Are The Worthy? Well, since you put it nicely… Today Bleeding Cool has been showing a few images featuring The Worthy , characters turned into subjects of Skadi and the Fear God in Marvel's Fear Itself series that are rather good at revealing who is who and what[...]

Marvel asked Who Are The Worthy? Well, since they put it so nicely… Today Bleeding Cool will be showing a few images featuring The Worthy , characters turned into subjects of Skadi and the Fear God in Marvel's Fear Itself series that are rather good at revealing who [...]

Marvel asked Who Are The Worthy? Well, since they put it so nicely… Today Bleeding Cool will be showing a few images featuring The Worthy , characters turned into subjects of Skadi and the Fear God in Marvel's Fear Itself series that are rather good at revealing who [...]

Goodbye Monday:  Marvel moves from Fear to evil in the Marvel U with the announcement of Vengeance (it should've been about Loathing, but ah well) On the movie side, we've got the first footage for Rise of the Planet of the Apes Meanwhile in real life, Nicolas Cage's stolen Action #1 is recovered but it[...]

As well as Stacy-X and Holocaust there seem to be a few more members of Vengeance… whatever that is. Click here at 3pm ET, 10pm PT, 8pm BST to find out. UPDATE: So it's Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, Tom Brennan says they wanted to do a series that focused on the villains, "and naturally[...]

No one at Marvel wanted to raise the price, but they endeavour to make it worthwhile Reason for full issues appearing as backups isn't a price hiking scheme rather attempt to get new readers onto lower selling books -Rob Williams also briefly mentioned working on another secret project, which ties into Fear Itself. Before[...]

It all began with a question and answer session that long time Transformers comic book writer Simon Furman did on his blog and the IDW forums. He wrote "I actually would like to pick up the baton from Marvel issue #80 and run with it again There was a lot we never got to do, that[...]

I'll be honest, it missed me the first time my eyes went passed it. But here, blown up nice and large, is Paulo Rivera's cover to Daredevil #1 in July.

Here are a smattering of more covers for July from Marvel, some you've seen, most you haven't My favourites are the top six… And then we have the mystery Worthy tie in covers… (Guess it's no longer called The Deep then…) And more all round… Here are a smattering of more covers for July from Marvel, some you've[...]

And he was soon writing them all. But Disney bought Marvel and Disney own the Muppet Show rights So just as Boom's Pixar books faded so did The Muppet Show, with Roger Langridge recently revealing an entire issue unpublished Would Marvel republish the comics as they are doing with the Cars material? According to this visual, it[...]

First Marvel published Marville with a Smallville lookalike cover They  published Identity Disc during DC's Identity Crisis Then they renamed the X-Men animation to Final Crisis when they sold it on DVD And now… well… for July. Venom: Flashpoint #1. Someone's having a laugh But it's probably not Bob Wayne. First Marvel published Marville with a Smallville[...]

A few people reading the first issue of Fear Itself found them suffering a little deja vu when seeing the sea dragon demony serpent things that Sin

Currently on eBay at $344, from the classic comics industry satirist, Spider-Man about to be attacked by all the Ditko co-created villains. Fred drew a

One is a comic steeped in decades of Marvel continuity. The other is something very new indeed. Fear Itself is the beginning of the big Marvel crossover Take all the Marvel characters and shuffle them in a bag and see how many millions you can sell It's an overtly commercial proposition, but because of those guaranteed sales,[...]

Captain America expanded the franchise as Captain America Corps. DC published a new ongoing series, Batman And Robin. Now Marvel have announced a new series, Captain America And Bucky, taking over the numbering from Captain America, by Ed Brubaker , Marc Andreyko and Chris Samnee. Okay, it's not quite the same, but damn these seem to be interesting[...]

"I make sure almost every penny is going back into the store," he said, adding that the shop nearly doubles its growth in profits each month. 'Fear Itself' #1: An Advance, Spoiler-Free Review and Preview – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews On one hand, you've got the elements of an old-school Marvel[...]

They're gods. They're brothers. Step-brothers even. It was always going to end this way. Available on iTunes, Xbox LIVE, and PlayStation Network this

As prostitute depowered, repowered dead characters go, there's pretty much Stacy-X. Created by Joe Casey and Tom Raney in Uncanny X-Men, then moving to

So we knew Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie were working on a secret Marvel project Turns out that was a terribly appropriate phrase. The Secret Avengers book is to be taken on by Ellis and McKelvie for issue 16 Or Stalin and the Kitten as I'm now going to refer to the pairing as I may[...]

Which side are you on? Reading Generation Hope earlier today, I know which side Hope is on… And now from WonderCon today; X-MEN: SCHISM #1 (of 5) THE BIGGEST MOMENT IN X-MEN HISTORY IS HERE! This is where it's all been heading since M-Day and in one controversial moment, Cyclops and Wolverine make decisions that will forever[...]

In an unprecedented deal with Marvel Comics, IDW will publish the Walt Simonson's The Mighty Thor: Artist's Edition, recreating original art boards for the Marvel series Reproducing pencils under the ink, blue lines, yellow pages, whiteout, essentially what Walt submitted to his editors, at 12" x 17" size, 176 pages containing issues 337-340 and360-362 for[...]

"I didn't mean to hit her, I was just going for an extreme action and I didn't have time for anyone to redraw it…" In this week's Marvel column at CBR, Tom Brevoort writes; For example, we've spent years trying, but the audience will not forgive Hank Pym for striking the Wasp That's the moment[...]