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Michael Straczynski and Ardian Syaf and Sandra Hope, IDW Publishing's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive #1  cr, Image Comics' Bitch Planet #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick's and Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and the X-Men #1 – you might have heard if that somewhere… And on the cover of the order form? It's Roger Langridge…     [...]

Just joining dots. Take the solicitation for Axis #9 in November. AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #9 (OF 9) RICK REMENDER (W) • JIM CHEUNG (A) Cover by JIM CHEUNG Looper variant by Paul Renaud INVERSION VARIANT BY TBA ACT III: NEW WORLD DISORDER • Who will live? Who will die? Who will remain inverted? A shocking climax that promises to crack the Marvel[...]

And while Marvel are usually more upfront with retailers about creative changes, such as the ones above, DC Comics readers have to rely on Bleeding Cool ferreting out changes ahead of time, or wait till the books are published. UPDATE: Here's more for this week, Batman / Superman: Futures End #1 Art by Howard Porter actually by Cliff Richards[...]

Marvel and Disney have released the official synopsis for Avengers: Age of Ultron None of this new, but it is now official and verifies things we believed like Ultron is a creation of Tony Stark's, etc The last line is kind of strange though… I get the uneasy alliances which likely involves Wanda and Pietro,[...]

Can The Avengers and X-Men finally unite? Would their combined strength be enough to hold back the darkness of the Red Onslaught? Magneto murdered the wrong man, releasing the greatest evil the Marvel Universe has ever known Now Rogue and Scarlet Witch are all that stand in its way. Magneto going back to his murderous ways courtesy[...]

We know that big changes in the status quo are coming for Captain America, Thor and Iron Man. But it looks as if Doctor Strange will be going through a

Marvel.com announced the casting of Glenn who may be best known for his roles in The Hunt for Red October, The Right Stuff and Silverado. Along with Glenn and Cox, the cast for the new Netflix / Marvel series includes Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson) and Rosario Dawson[...]

From the Amazon listing of the Spider-Verse hardcover... a little look at the contents reveals... AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 7-15, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN 32-33, FREE

So, Marvel are going to want to launch Star Wars #1 with a bang They will want it to be the best selling comic for January- by a long way And here's one reason why it will be. One way to achieve this is by arranging exclusive retailer covers if, said retailer orders an inordinate amount[...]

Marvel already cancelled the Axis series once, and resolicited it as Avengers & X-Men: Axis, a name change chosen to help increase sales. Last week, they also published a new Hyperion comic as Avengers #34.1 in an attempt to have higher sales than one just called Hyperion. There's a lot in a name. Which is why Jim Starlin's[...]

This is Francesco Francavilla's variant cover to Original Sin Annual #1.   And this is Gallieno Ferri's cover for Zagor #85 from July 1972. Thanks

I'm generally badly jetlagged at American comic conventions. Not at this year's New York Comic Con though, it seems. Last week we reported on the The

This week sees the launch of Booster Gold, Oddly Normal, George Perez's Sirens, Purgatori, Itty Bitty Bunnies and Six Million Dollar Man Season #4. And the week after brings launches for GI Joe, Roche Limit, Aliens: Fire And Stone, A Voice In The Dark… And plenty of Dead Wolverines, 3D DC and Multiversity too…. DARK HORSE COMICS BILLY THE[...]

Cover art by Karen Hallion. Thor #1 – spinning out of Marvel's Original Sin crossover and featuring the new female Thor Cover art by Paul Renaud Both due 1st October. Sabrina #1 – the spinoff series from Archie Comics' runaway hit, Afterlife With Archie Cover art by J Scott Campbell with colours by Ula Mos. Wytches #1 –[...]

A Pat Lee drawn comic edited by Tom Brevoort, from happier times. Yesterday we ran a piece about Kelly Sue DeConnick talking about never having been invited to a Marvel Writers Summit Indeed, it seems that no female writers have been Tom Brevoort stated on Twitter that this was because she wasn't an exclusive creator[...]