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Following up on his declaration that Twitter, a social media platform where he has contributed more than 31,000 posts as of this writing, is "very ****ing bad" because of its backlash against his magnum opus, Secret Empire… https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/859588417918615553 been seeing & hearing from a lot of shop owners that the twitter rage does NOT reflect what they're seeing[...]

Following yesterday's report that Nick Spencer hadn't tweeted to argue with critics of his super-mega-crossover event Secret Empire in more than 48 hours, Spencer immediately took to Twitter to rectify the situation Lamenting the apparent failure of Marvel's ploy to spoil the ending of the event comic in an attempt to assure readers that, if[...]

But we also get a rallying cry – expect that to spread. Secret Empire #1 by Nick Spencer and Steve McNiven is published today. The Oval Office The Hydra curtains Captain America sitting there The beginning of Secret Empire #1, out today And yes, there are spoilers Come on. Do you think this A stands for France?[...]

Ready to go? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErvgV4P6FzcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Guns N' Roses – Patience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErvgV4P6Fzc) For many months, stretching far back into the US presidential election when he was just warming up, Nick Spencer has been… er… let's call it "confrontational" on Twitter. Spencer's "confrontational" antics in response to anyone who criticized his epic Captain America[...]

They even ask him a touch about Secret Empire and he admits he has never met Nick Spencer in person either: I'm just buried with Secret Empire It's a crazy story I hope people really like it I worked really hard putting it all together. I've never actually met him To this point I've never bumped into[...]

Bear in mind, from here on out, we will be discussing this particular thing, which may be considered a spoiler if you have somehow managed to avoid all discussion of it on twitter this past week.

A fan on Twitter had a question for Secret Empire writer Nick Spencer today about a panel in Secret Empire #0: Alright so Secret Empire #0 was amazing and all but WHAT'S THIS?? Spider-Woman doesn't web swing! @nickspencer why pic.twitter.com/QbzoiPMprs — Dylan/Auram 🍒 (@AuramAlexander) April 26, 2017 Looking for the No-Prize, Spencer responded: https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/857240979593613312 But superstar writer Mark Millar had[...]

This article contains spoilers about Secret Empire Free Comic Book Day Special and other fascist imagery. Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you what happens on the last page of the Free Comic Book Day Secret Empire comic by Nick Spencer and Andrea Sorrentino: Hydra Steve, standing tall over Marvel's fallen heroes, holding Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, high in the air[...]

Magneto canonically is a survivor of the Nazi death camps of the Second World War. Secret Empire writer Nick Spencer suggested that the cover in question need not have anything to do with the actual story, through the medium of sarcasm. https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/838952075966857216 That is a fair point to be sure, but nearly every other Villain Variant cover featured a[...]

This article contains spoilers for Marvel's Secret Empire Free Comic Book Day special, which will be in stores on May 6. At the Secret Empire panel at

And how now, America's greatest hero, the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America, is not just one of them, but always has been. You know how it's seen the revelation that in the Marvel Universe Hydra and Hitler won World War II, until the Allies took the totalitarian of option of using a Cosmic Cube to change[...]

Nick Spencer has been getting a considerable amount of negative feedback on Twitter about his upcoming super-mega-crossover event comic, Secret Empire and his "Captain America is a secret Hydra agent" story that's been leading up to it For evidence, simply check Nick Spencer's twitter feed on any given night, where you're likely to see him engaging in[...]

From that liveblog, Adam Ebert captured a Q&A with Nick Spencer in which Spencer was asked what possessed him to write the Hydra Cap story and joked, What possessed you to write this story? Spencer says he will not take full credit, noting he took the book over from Rick Remender who left some ideas on the floor[...]

Following up on the just-concluded Secret Empire panel at C2E2, Marvel is holding their Next Big Thing Panel, which the panel description claimed would

Marvel is holding their Secret Empire panel at C2E2 right now, described as: After years of civil strife, the heroes of the Marvel Universe find themselves united against a common foe, but it's one none of them would have expected! How will Earth's champions react to this world-shattering revelation? Learn those answers and more as Sales[...]

In what we're becoming increasingly convinced is some kind of Shia LaBeouf style performance art piece, Nick Spencer took to Twitter again to defend his Hydra Captain America story that will culminate in the Secret Empire super-mega-crossover event via a long (but short by Spencer standards) series of tweets. You know the deal by now[...]

Superstar novelist and comic book writer Brian Keene has taken to Twitter to announce that he's currently working on a secret project for Marvel or DC,

Famous Twitter personality Nick Spencer will be on hand at C2E2 this weekend for a Secret Empire panel and some quick signings at the Marvel booth, the social media star revealed this morning The former Cincinnati politician is famous for epic late night Twitter arguments, as well as being an unofficial surrogate for the Hillary Clinton campaign,[...]

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853086969986859008 After commenting on the jaw-dropping degradation and destruction of the global conversation due

Writer of Marvel's two Captain America titles and their upcoming Nazi Hydra takeover event, Secret Empire, Nick Spencer made his stance clear after 'Alt-Right' (a.k.a Neo-Nazis in smarter clothes) leader Richard Spencer got sucker-punched at the Inauguration of Orange Golf-Fanatic President, Donald J Trump. https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/822591535158034432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bleedingcool.com%2F2017%2F01%2F21%2Fmorality-punching-nazis-nick-spencer-lexi-alexander-special-guest-appearance-richard-spencer%2F Spencer (Nick, that is) argued that punching someone with a differing[...]

But they do more good for sales all around than many realize. — Nick Spencer (@nickspencer) April 2, 2017 Thank you, Nick Spencer You aren't the hero comics deserves, but you're the one we need right now. Spencer also had something to say about event sales: https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848437042908241921 https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848437566822993920 And on variants: https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848438142075944960 https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848438596335845376 https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848439259090436096 And on the cleverness of retailers: https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848439844124581889 https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848440400687779840 https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848441412056096768 People saying 'I saw a bunch[...]

It's only Saturday, but its been a long weekend for Marvel Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel. Gabriel's troubles began when

This is so much of a spoiler that it is not being published on the front page of Bleeding Cool. It is not being tweeted out or posted to Facebook, Tumblr

And one could argue that it means the entire Marvel Universe is a constant battle against the dark, always trying to reassert itself over the world, and that for the most part the heroes are winning. However, that is not the reading I took from it, and frankly, I find myself quite uncomfortable with this new[...]

Start with a huge revelation or inciting incident that really cracks the whole universe asunder. The story by Nick Spencer then gradually builds as the heroes of the Marvel Universe find themselves split in many directions through the secret machinations of Steve Rogers himself, the man they trust the most There's something to be said for[...]

pic.twitter.com/ju1rp9Cl8n — megan (@themeganpurdy) March 24, 2017 I can safely say, not Bleeding Cool. — Rich Johnston (@richjohnston) March 24, 2017 In the course of a discussion about the marketing campaign, and about the difference between fascism and Nazi fascism, Johnston offered the following thoughts on writer Nick Spencer: I see Nick Spencer as the kind of person who has[...]

In a bold move that could revitalize a slumping comic book industry, Captain America writer Nick Spencer urged a mass exit from popular social media site Twitter from his Twitter account today The industry has been plagued by delays for years, especially when it comes to super-mega-crossover event books, with the last two Marvel super-mega-crossover events,[...]

We've recently seen Captain America expose himself on the Mark Brooks cover to Secret Empire #0. On that cover, Cap's regular costume was torn,

Written by Nick Spencer, the comic is sure to perform very well, because otherwise Spencer could end up looking foolish Four artists including Steve McNiven, Andrea Sorrentino, Leinil Yu, and Daniel Acuna have signed onto the book in an attempt to actually produce and ship nine issues by the end of August Marvel's super-mega-crossover event[...]

Superstar writer Nick Spencer rarely takes a break from tweeting about politics, which he does roughly 25 hours a day, every day, relentlessly, in a freakish display of superhuman Twitter stamina But when he does, it's usually in order to blame fans for not "grasping the scope" of his Marvel stories, or to lecture them on[...]