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Today's Star Wars Comic Changes The Canon… Forever! Big Han Solo Spoilers
At Book Con this weekend, Marvel revealed the under-the-mask look of the new Star Wars character, who is currently seeking Han Solo in the Star Wars comic book From the cover of issue 9…. There was speculation that this could be the first Marvel appearance of the character Salla Zend from the original Dark Horse Star[...]
Is That *Really* The 616 And The Ultimate Universe In Ultimate End?
The Ultimate End comic, part of the Secret Wars spinoff titles shows us a Manhattan with two realities existing simultaneously, the Regular Marvel Universe, the 616 and the Ultimate Universe, 1610 And finding a way to get by, in the full knowledge that Doom doesn't approve of this sort of thing. But is it? At the end[...]
Spider-Man Director Short-List Includes Ted Melfi and Jonathan Levine
Marvel has gotten their potential list of directors for the first Marvel Studios / Sony Spider-Man movie narrowed down to a short list On the list are directors Ted Melfi (St Vincent), Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies) and the writers/directors team of John Francis Daley & Jonathan M Goldstein (Vacation) One other contender and a bit of[...]
Marvel And Oni Up Their SDCC Exclusive Comic Print Runs
We reported recently on a bunch of comic books exclusive to San Diego Comic Con this year coming through Diamond Comic Distributors. Well, the numbers, it appears, are not enough. Marvel's Civil War #1 Minimates Variant and their Secret Wars #4 Minimates variants see their numbers bumped from 5000 to 6000, and the Star Wars: Lando #1[...]
The New Secret Wars Expands Into Shirts, Bags, Pops And Glasses…
Mad Engine are best known for their T-shirts and hoodies While Bioworld do bags…. Well both will be creating new Secret Wars products alongside the current Marvel event of the same name, while Funko will be creating pops fugures and Cardinal publishing puzzles While Diamond Select will be creating clothing and glasses all Secret Wars branded, Just don't[...]
Marvel Mighty Heroes And Trends International On Removing X-Men Characters
At the end of March, Marvel and DeNA launched DeNA and Marvel Entertainment today launched Marvel Mighty Heroes, a real-time co-op brawler written by Fred Van Lente, creator of Marvel comics like X-MEN NOIR, MARVEL ZOMBIES 3, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, and INCREDIBLE HERCULES For the first time on mobile devices, up to four players will suit up[...]
Marvel's Top 20 Grossing Movies In A Handy-Dandy Infographic (UPDATE)
UPDATE: They do miss out Kingsman which would make it above X-Men Origins… and could still beat X2…   Courtesy of British costume company Morphsuits, the top twenty grossing movies based on a Marvel comic book The likes of Elektra, Kick Ass, Howard The Duck, Blade are a little lower down on the list…. [...]
50 Comic Collections On Your Bookshelf Worth Over $100
Just the plain old ordinary comic book collections you could have picked up in your comic shop over the last few years that are, for some reason, out of print and are now burning a hole in your bookshelf… Some recent eBay sales, spurred in part by the current Secret Wars crossover, the upcoming Infinity Gauntlet[...]
New TV Spot For Marvel's Ant-Man
New TV spot for Marvel's Ant-Man includes all the main characters Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lily) and Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) Oddly though it also refers to the in theater date as July 16th, one day earlier than the slated date Now they may be accounting for[...]
Secret Wars #4 Slips Two Weeks, Takes Other Crossover Issues With It
Secret Wars #5 has already slipped six weeks too. Slipping one week… Squadron Sinister #1 Hail Hydra #1 Master of Kung Fu #2 Siege #1 and #2 Years Of Future Past #3 Age Of Apocalypse #2 and #3 Civil War #1 Slipping two weeks… A-Force #2 Future Imperfect #2 Years Of Future Past #2 Inhuman: Attilan Rising #3 Old Man Logan #3 Thors #2 Civil War #2 Guardians Of Knowhere #2 Hail Hydra #2 Renew[...]
Marvel's 2015 Line-Up Poster Loses X-Men And Fantastic Four
Here was 2013's Marvel Line-Up Poster, licensed from Marvel and sold by Trends International. And here is this year's version, using a number of the same images But now missing all the X-Men and Fantastic Four…Exhibit C. You may draw whatever conclusions you wish Here's another from 2007 where they were even more central… [...]
Reese De Luca, The Mutant Fashion Designer
His upcoming autumn collection will include classic comic inspired hoods, padded "X" knees and quilt work, and he also considering designing cosplay… Here are a few of his sketches, including artwork for Kitty Jeans that feature Kitty Pryde, Illyana and Siryn as models. Famously Marvel Comics have been rather shy at licensing X-Men related products right now,[...]
When You Blindly Wander Into The Captain America/Bucky Hashtag #Stucky
Last week I posted an article musing about the vague possibility that the Planet Hulk comic from Marvel part of its Secret Wars crossover event, would feature a parallel universe coupling between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes Captain America and The Winter Soldier. Little did I know the world that this would open up to me[...]