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The first one kicked things off, 2.0 added Marvel and 3.0 added Star Wars Disney doesn't have any glaring holes in the game's arsenal any more. It turns out that there will be no major release this year though, it was confirmed in a presentation last night It was revealed that there will be lots of[...]

Seduction Of The Innocent #4 knows the truth. And X Thoughts About X Of Today's Comics has no intent veer from that plan. Brutal and ugly, here we go.

Something slightly intriguing about Avengers Standoff: Alpha, compared to the Marvel Previews booklet in stores right now. That line about Hillary Clinton It has been removed in the Preview Trying not to spook the horses? Unfortunate because Avengers Standoff: Alpha #1 in stores today does little else We have The Whisperer, the man who leaked all the[...]

You have been warned. As Marvel Comics has diversified their central line-up of characters, we have seen a black Captain America, a mixed race Spider-Man, a female Thor and Wolverine, an East Asian Hulk and a gay Iceman Actually, two gay Icemen. There seem to have been two opposite and extreme reactions to this One is that[...]

Martin Freeman joined Jimmy Fallon last night on the Tonight Show when the subject of Captain America: Civil War came up. He talked about how odd it was

It's true, there were no X-Men related titles in Marvel Comcis' Timely three-issues-for-$3 reprint program announced the other day. I wonder if there will be any in this? Marvel's Greatest Collection Previews is an attempt to shine a light on some of Marvel's backlist, their collection of previews in paperback and hardcover for the bookshelves. In recent years, Marvel[...]

Frank Cho has come to the end of his current Marvel Comics contract and is wondering what to focus on next. He may have finished his final pages on Totally Awesome Hulk, but he'll still be doing covers for Marvel There are, however, a number of other projects with his name on. There's Skybourne from Boom! that[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running Tim Hanley's Gendercrunching columns on Bleeding Cool for years, measuring the "above the line" credits in comic books form

We've already mentioned that Chris Eliopoulos will be adding back-up strips to the new Star Wars: Poe Dameron comic from Marvel Even if Chris is keeping his Star Wars trading cards close to his chest. I am neither confirming or denying this story.https://t.co/VGeDNknPN0 — chris eliopoulos (@ChrisEliopoulos) February 26, 2016 Even while drawing things like this. Well, something else[...]

Apparently most of our customers prefer DC projects that harken back to the pre-New 52 days! The other big news is Saga climbing to second place in our store, which means that it outsold everything from Marvel, DC., etc., EXCEPT for Dark Knight III: Master Race #3! Strong interest in Silver Age Captain America books and[...]

Courtesy of Anthony Mackie on The Daily Show and Captain America: The Winter Soldier - this was, apparently, The Falcon calling off his attack birds from

When you go to adapt a comic book property, remember to adapt the actual property. You know, like what Marvel Studios has done consistently. The odds are that producers and executives in Hollywood are running around with three thoughts in their heads: people want R-rated superhero movies, comedy works better than dark-and-gritty and the Fantastic Four[...]

Ah, so that's why Marvel registered the trademark for Timely Comics last year It wasn't just to do with 1872, it was this year's 75th anniversary of the company that one day would be Marvel Comics being formed. And time for a new publishing initiative, Timely Comics, 3 for $3, the first three issues of a number of All-New[...]

I'm hearing here may be some movement on this situation... but if any publishers who enjoyed Watchmensch, Civil Wardrobe or the Avengefuls wants to get in

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel had cancelled a swathe of their planned second printings of recent issues Marvel Comics had made a big thing about upping and increasing their second prints in the light of sellouts and increased consumer demand, but this seemed to be going against that grain Last week, only Darth[...]