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Gendercrunching June 2014 – Including Nationality And Ethnicity At The Big Two
By Tim Hanley After posting the higher percentage of female creators for six straight months, DC was finally toppled by Marvel in June DC took a tumble while Marvel gained slightly, and it all was enough for Marvel to finally regain the top spot after a lengthy dry spell We're also looking at nationality and ethnicity[...]
Marvel To Publish An Avengers 'Vibranium' Collection. Get Posing, Staffers!
We had the Wolverine "Adamantium" collection last year. $100, 720 pages, slipcased, oversized, massive. Well, in time for the next movie, we have the Avengers "Vibranium" collection. Can we look forward to Marvel employees posing in a similar fashion? Also, does a Scarlet Witch collection of a Abnett/Lanning mini-series from the nineties that everyone had forgotten about indicate just[...]
Time Runs Out – And Blows Up Squadron Supreme (UPDATE)
UPDATE: Marvel's latest teaser for Axis… It's all the same thing now really. Now, where were we? Oh yes…. Here's a look ahead at the Time Runs Out issues of Avengers and New Avengers, in which the stories jump forward Eight Months Later. So what do we know? Well, both Unworthy Thor and Hawkeye appear to have lost[...]
Invaders And Secret Avengers On Notice, Storm and Nightcrawler Get Renewed?
I understand that Marvel have informed the editorial and creative teams that both the Invaders and Secret Avengers comics are on notice for cancellation and will survive on an issue-to-issue basis. So if you like the books, now is the time to start evangelising on their behalf. We'd previously reported, later confirmed, that Mighty Avengers would be[...]
All-New Ghost Rider To Join All-New Ultimates In Cancellation With #12?
Heartbreak + a beating = DIAMONDBACK LOVE. • BOMBSHELL is back and ready for action — just in time to help her teammates not get picked off one by one? 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 And yes, I've heard it independently that that will see us through the end of the title. But I also hear that it will be[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks – Everyone's Killing Wolverine
The Shadow, Names, God Hates Astronauts, Dark Tower, Cloaks, Alice Cooper, Ex Con, Red Sonja: Black Tower, Doctor Mirage … and the death of a certain Wolverine. Big week. And in two weeks, the launch of Project Strikeile, Copperhead, Rot & Ruin and Prometheus: Fire And Stone. DARK HORSE COMICS 1 FOR $1 GHOST $1.00 ALLEY OOP COMPLETE SUNDAYS HC VOL 02 1936 –[...]
The Death Of Elektra
I understand that the creative team for Marvel's ongoing series Elektra, namely William H Blackman and Michael Del Mundo, were told by Marvel that the comic was being cancelled, last week. But they were also told not to worry to much as Marvel loved what they did with the character and want to use them on another upcoming[...]
Your Early Signs Of Axis, In Yesterday's Marvel Comics (UPDATE)
Updated with an Axis promo image just sent out by Marvel… The original article continues below. Spoilers for Uncanny Avengers and Adjectiveless Avengers ahead… So we are looking for telltale signs of the upcoming Axis event to come in yesterday's comic books And these two titles seem to have some. First, we have comment upon the disfigurement of Havok[...]
And Finally… The Return Of Lila Cheney
This was the November solicitation for Captain Marvel #9. CAPTAIN MARVEL #9 KELLY SUE DECONNICK (W) DAVID LOPEZ (A/C) • Face front, Carol Corps after the adventures with the Flerkin, Carol's got her hands full again – this time with a special guest star from the X-Universe: the Marvel Universe's rock and roll maven, Lila Cheney! 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 Lila[...]
Let's Face It, They're Only Doing This To Make Storm Cry Lots, Right?
And Marvel have learned Because, when Wolverine dies, they was grief from a committed partner more than just a friend And so Storm has got together with Wolverine But even so a week long fling couldn't… There you go Months and months pass, while only minutes pass in our world Just long enough to, well… …grow a[...]
The Astonishing Esad Ribic
Possibly to replace Uncanny Avengers… but who to draw it? Well, Esad Ribic is one of the more popular comic book creators at Marvel Life and soul of the party, a big brash bruiser he is nevertheless generous to a fault and guaranteed to put a smile on the face of folk around him. And it looks like[...]