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This is what happens when a comic convention has Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick as guests but a news website decides to begin Kelly's bio entry with "The wife of Matt Fraction." You get a little solidarity amongst friendly comic creators, pointing out that people can be defined in other ways, that Kelly Sue's worth[...]

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool Matt Fraction and David Aja's highly anticipated Hawkeye ongoing is upon us and it's not what you'd expect This isn't quite the cool, zen archer of The Avengers movie, or rather, it could be, but if it is this is pretty clearly what he does on his days off[...]

Could it be? In other just-as-relevant tweet news, regarding Avengers Vs X-Men,  @cathode_debris pointed out to Matt Fraction that he had " just realised first names of the Phoenix Five spell P.E.N.I.S" Peter, Emma, Namor, Illyana, Scott… blimey. It's the Ethan Van Sciver/Grant Morrison Sex-Men scandal all over again!   [...]

Here is your biggest clue to who, when, why and what will be writing drawing upcoming Marvel NOW! books, with the Marvel NOW! Point One comic which, like the Point One #1 book will feature short stories by creators on the chracters they'l be working on. So we have "BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, MATT FRACTION, JEPH LOEB,[...]

At San Diego Comic Con, Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin have announced a new period drama series, Satellite Sam Violence depravity and children's television A children's TV presenter is found dead, with a box of photographs, with every women the man has slept with, which unfurls the mystery of his life… and death. At San[...]

Which has a totally different vibe… and certainly less of those long flowing dresses. The backup story in Action Comics #11 will no longer be by Brad Walker, but will now features art by CAFU. While Steve Pugh is no longer drawing Animal Man #11, replaced by Alberto Ponticelli & Wayne Faucher. Matt Fraction tweeted that Journey Into[...]

A third filling. Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca, taking over the Fantastic Four when Jonathan Hickman leaves for The Avengers. Fraction has been working on a variety of books for Marvel, including a long run on Iron Man And we know that Kieron Gillen and Greg Land are taking over that book. So what's happening on Uncanny X-Men…[...]

Apart from the Iron Man one, obviously… Could we see Rick Remender and Jeremy Opena on an Avengers book? New Avengers maybe? Could Mark Waid take over Avengers Assemble? What about Jonathan Hickman and Essad Ribic on either Uncanny X-Men or the Avengers books that's not the one Remender and Opena are on? And definitely definitely definitely Kieron Gillen[...]

And this teaser for a new series by Matt Fraction and David Aja does seem to indicate that's where we should be looking You know, what with the purple and black, the arrow and the bullseyes So it's probabky worth calling at this stage. Which means, no, Fraction and Aja aren't behind Marvel's new Gambit series[...]

Bill stated that he thought superhero comics were a dying genre but they all thought that it would be beneficial for everyone to allow the characters to lapse into public domain. –Matt Fraction says to look to Morrison's Animal Man and Doom Patrol for an idea of where his run on Defenders might be going, as[...]

As revealed by the TalkComix people below (around the 8 minute mark) at the London Super Comic Convention, Howard Chaykin, as well as starting work on Black Kiss 2 which he describes as "absolutely disgusting", will be working on a new creator owned series with Matt Fraction. Since Image Comics are publishing Black Kiss 2, and[...]

X-Men, a 12-issue miniseries coming out this April involving all three of the above-mentioned women. Rather than one lead writer, the event will feature five: Matt Fraction, Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker and Jonathan Hickman, with two writers, Bendis and Aaron, kicking things off in a prologue drawn by Frank Cho. USA Today reports that, Bendis[...]

I think we can do something about that. The clip above sees CB Cebulski and Matt Fraction talking about upcoming plans on Defenders and Avenging Spider-Man reported on earlier today But also the hint that Matt Fraction may work with his main Iron Fist artist David Aja on an upcoming Iron Fist focussed issue of Defenders… [...]

And it almost succeeds. Fear Itself #7.3 by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca, seeks to be the final endcap to the events of Fear Itself, specifically those encountered by Iron Man, which can be pretty much summed up as his releationship with Odin, and his relationship with the entire population of Paris, most of whom have[...]

Marvel did all they could to encourage orders of Point One, a fifty-odd page $5.99 comic, set to plan the future of all manner of comic books coming out

Where one French blog is reporting that he appears to have told the adoring crowd that Marvel's 2012 event will be co-written by the five so-called  "Architects" of the Marvel Universe,  Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Jonathan Hickman and Jason himself, also suggesting that such a book may be drawn by Olivier[...]

So we learned that Tanarus is to replace Thor as God Of Thunder in Thor #8 by Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry. But who is Tanarus? Well, there is a Taranus, or Taranis, or Taranuos, Taranucnus, Taranucus or Taranoou. A Celtic god of Thunder, worshipped by natives of the British Isles and Gaul Indeed the Welsh verb[...]

Well, since it is being announced at the Fear Itself panel at San Diego on Sunday, maybe it could be both? Especially as Bleeding Cool has learned the new Defenders will be written by Fear Itself writer Matt Fraction and drawn by Terry and Rachel Dodson. And from the teasers, featuring Iron Fist, Red She Hulk,[...]

Pop by and say hello. It's hard not to read Matt Fraction's Iron Man and Brian Bendis' Iron Man as belonging to two generations Just as Bendis was the new generation's take on shell head when he wrote him in Avengers only seven years ago, now he seems to be the grand old man, with[...]

If anyone has an idea how to portray flourescent black on the page, we are all ears. From Marvel comics shipping this week, here's a preview of the

Jack Kirby was awarded the ComicsPRO Industry Memorial Award, accepted by Bob Chapman of Graphitti Designs And in their goodie bags, retailers found this rare Comics Pro Walking Dead #81 variant. Todd McFarlane has issues with what he calls a "computer programmer" cutting up his Spawn into panel bits fior digital consumption, but promises 15 issues[...]

From the back of Iron Man #500.1, a sneak peek at what is to come for shell head in 2011. I can see those tentacular robotic creatures up top, let us know

I was rather slating of the first issue, but the elements I disliked have rather won me round, and I hope the comic lives up to the promise of the hints it has dropped. Thor #619 by Matt Fraction and Pascual Ferry also gives us the return for a long-lost character, Odin taking his throne And[...]

Matt Fraction talked to John Siuntres on Word Balloon a couple of days ago about Fear Itself So what do we know? Well, the series will centre on Thor and Captain America, an Eden-like myth in Norse history revolving around the God Of Fear, the serpent cast out by Odin, killed his followers and churches and[...]

Sublime still exists and is the basis for current X-Men storylines by Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen. Of course, decades earlier, John Byrne had created That Which Endures in West Coast Avengers, a sentient bacteria that has existed etc etc… and also has issues with mutants. And now of course we are faced with a death in[...]

And that it's Iron Man based, with contributions from the likes of Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Christos Gage and more. Well, at the Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention, Matt Fraction gave a date for the announcement for his next big thing from Marvel. April Depending on whether you follow the international Dateline, a big announcement[...]

The latest Action Comics Annual, exploring the early adult life of Lex Luthor has been a critical hit, both writing and art. But does artist Marco Rudy

By sending Bullseye in to kill Daredevil. "All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat– All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like _that_" And then Dark Reign: The List – X-Men by Matt Fraction and Alan Davis ties into the fallout from Utopia They're keeping this one even[...]