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Mike Deodato is drawing the upcoming Guardians Of Knowhere story for Secret Wars, with the Guardians Of The Galaxy inhabiting an orbiting deal Celestial head around the Battleworld, crammed full of the multiverse's remaining cosmic baddies And quite a Western vibe But it has two new bad guys And here they are, in design, sketch and finished[...]

Sometimes they can lead in one direction while actually meaning something else entirely. So we looked at a recent Marvel licensed T-shirt featuring the Secret Wars #8 cover, from which the X-Men and Fantastic Four characters had been removed. It has been seen of further evidence that Marvel Comics is withdrawing licensing rights to X-Men and Fantastic Four[...]

A female one? Not quite. Today's A-Force, set on the Secret Wars Battleworld is a pretty damn fine superheroic comic books, with thumped sharks, rousing cries, emotional tugs and… the first appearance of Singularity. According to a USA Today, she is a a pocket universe that gained sentience during the multiversal collapse. But is "she" the right term? Writer[...]

Again and again and again. Secret Wars is different, with individual titles having different levels of connection to the rest of the Battleworld If you want to read titles that have a greater or lesser connection to the whole, as far as individual issues are concerned, maybe this will help? Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #1 One Doomhead out of ten[...]

DeMatteis, Bruce Timm, and Thony Silas. The launch of The X-Files: Season 11 from Joe Harris and Matthew Dow Smith. And Marvel Comics' Ant-Man: Last Days by Nick Spencer and Ramon Rosanas.  While the Marvel Previews gets an Alex Ross Secret Wars #8 cover – The Final War – by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic And the Customer Order Form gets Boom's Americatown by Bradford[...]

I felt like a kid again just reading comics all morning for fun, but now I get to talk about it with other fans instead of just sitting in my room all by myself. Secret Wars is the gift that keep giving so far The first two issues of the main book rocked my world[...]

She plays a large part in this week's A-Force #1, as her actions in the issue help to define the laws of the Battleworld and let us understand the structure of Secret Wars a little more. But I understand that there is more than just A-Force for America Chavez, better known as Miss America, in months to come. Created[...]

the full solicits for Marvel in August 2015 SECRET WARS #6 (of 8) JONATHAN HICKMAN (w) • ESAD RIBIC (a) Cover by ALEX ROSS CONNECTING VARIANT BY SIMONE BIANCHI ACTION FIGURE VARIANT BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER VARIANT COVER BY ESAD RIBIC VARIANT COVER BY BABS TARR CLASSIC VARIANT BY TBD ARTIST THE FINAL WAR! 40 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 SECRET WARS JOURNAL #4 (of 5) MIKE BENSON &[...]

Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Thanks for pressing play! Huge storyline this week as we get both Marvel and DC stories in full force! Convergence continues with the New 52 heroes entering the fray! Tons of Tangent, Red Rain, and Crisis on Infinite Earths heroes and villains from DC this week! Marvel has now dove head first[...]

This Week's Reviews: Convergence #6 Convergence: Suicide Squad #1 Convergence: Supergirl Matrix #2 Harrow County #1 In Real Life Secret Wars #2 Convergence Week 6 By Graig Kent Convergence #6 (DC, $3.99) kicks off with an Ed Benes-illustrated 5-page sequence set in "our universe" (heretofore known as Earth New 52) with the Justice League, various Lanterns, Darkseid, Nix Uotan,[...]

At ACBC, Marvel Comics announced a few post-Secret Wars notes. They publicly confirmed Bleeding Cool's report of getting a Howling Commandos series, featuring Marvel's monstrous characters in the lead, from Werewolf By Night to Frankenstein's Monster. We already knew that A-Force would be an ongoing series – and we have run  the rumour that Old Man Logan[...]

We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. And Secret Wars #2 is the top selling book from every retailer on our list, a feat only previously matched by Secret Wars #1 and Star Wars #1 And note, the second print of Batman #40 beats all but one of every DC title this[...]

So how did these two spider-women spend their last days as Earth incursed upon Earth? Announced at the Women Of Marvel panel at ACBC just now, courtesy of

On Wednesday, Bleeding Cool highlighted a T-Shirt seen onsale at Wal-Mart which seemed to encapsulate fears about Marvel's attitude towards their characters whose movie and TV rights are not fully controlled by Marvel. The famous Secret Wars #1 cover by Mike Zeck, with the Fantastic Four, X-Men and other characters removed and replaced with more Marvel[...]

Marvel #15 Dark Horse Comics: Harrow County #1 Marvel Comics: Secret Wars #2 Where Do We Go From Here #1 Also discussed: Jim Henson's Storyteller: Witches, the Exterminators, FBP, the Coffin, Deep Sleeper, Trees, Moon Knight, Northlanders, Bad Blood, BPRD, Avengers, Marvels, Fantastic Four, Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, Love and Rockets, Strangers in Paradise, Sandman Mystery Theater See you again[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And it is all about Secret Wars with related titles taking the top three spots, and 16 of the top 25 slots Yeah, it's going[...]

In one week, the launch of a new Resident Alien series Sam Hain Mystery, Vertigo's Mad Max series, Donald Duck, Dirk Gently, Indufferable, Winterworld, Valahalla Mad, A-Force, Deadpool;s Secret Secret Wars, Master Of King-Fu, Spider-Verse, Battleworld, Planet Hulk, Ultimate End, Adventures Of Aero Girl, Psycho Bonkers Accelerators Momentum, Oh Killstrike, Sword Of Sorrows: Vampirella/Jennifer Blood and Carpe[...]

And there I was thinking The Shield was all Games-Of-Thronesy, They're much closer to 2000AD. We mentioned this earlier today… a rather Judge-like Stephen Strange in Secret Wars #2.   But it's not just that… when a certain fellow dons the Captain Britain headgear and is exiled to the Cursed Earth, I'm sorry, I mean Deadlands, to bring[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran the story that, after the Secret Wars event, that the mutants of Earth would leave the planet for their own world, exiled as the Terrigen mists circling the globe attacked mutants So the Inhumans, literally, force the mutants off the Marvel Earth A war between movie studios playing out meta-fashion[...]

But I'm hearing that one of the characters to survive Battleworld, to survive Secret Wars, will be Old Man Logan. Currently in the Marvel Universe, Wolverine is dead And shows no sign of returning any time soon. Could he be replaced in the new Marvel Universe by the elderly, even hardened-bittened future version of himself, as created[...]

This is the cover to Secret Wars #1 The first time around, back in the eighties By Mike Zeck, it's all very familiar, it's a classic Note the appearances of Fantastic Four's Human Torch and The Thing, as well as X-Men's Wolverine, Cyclops, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Colossus and Storm. Well here is the Secret Wars cover, on[...]

We've been showing off glimpses at these Marvel Secret Wars Battleworld standees for a while, but here they all are in their (relative) glory. A retailer promotion item for the Secret Wars series, this will be available in stores alongside Secret Wars #4 next month, with art by Action Figure Variant cover artist John Tyler Christopher, featuring  Mr[...]

Where is Avatar Oress when you need them? Lantern City #1 launches in comic book form and already is on the Mhairi Black zeitgeist…. Are they talking about the trope of the website? And is this the first deliberate use of the phrase in what is ostensibly a kids comic? It could well be, courtesy of Bravest[...]

The final Secret Wars Battleworld Map appears in today's Secret Wars #2 Until now, three realms of the Battleworld had been classified. Today we see them all And the final three? Valley Of Doom. Doomgard. Doomstadt And this is why…. Get ready folks, for Secret Wars #2 With one question to ask Are you worthy of Doom? Oh and if you have[...]

Longtime Marvel artist Bob McLeod has done a variant cover for Secret Wars #3 that was revealed on-line yesterday Today he posted the cover art along with his original pencils/inks to his Facebook page Marvel seems to be pretty hands-off right now when it comes to covers as McLeod explains below. Well, it's up on comicvine.com,[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, it's a new A Comic Show that covers the crap out of Secret Wars #2, Thor #8's reveal, Convergence and the new DC June 8 pagers, and some of the best Image has to offer! Forget about the "Death of Marvel 616" click bait articles,[...]

In March, a number of stores ran streaming videos from a bunch of publishers, showing off upcoming comic books, and interacting live with customers across

This Week's Reviews: Convergence #5 Convergence: Superman #2 Convergence: Speed Force #2 Convergence: The Question #2 Convergence: Nightwing #2 Convergence: Harley Quinn #2 Convergence: Batgirl #2 Minimum Wage: So Many Bad Decisions #1 Arcadia #1 Secret Wars #1 Convergence Week 5 By Graig Kent Convergence #5 (DC, $3.99) is a game changer I didn't foresee the events of this issue transpiring at all, but I have to say,[...]

Here's the Fiona Staples variant cover for The Wicked + The Divine #11, just in time for FOC… While Jupiter's Circle #3 gets a couple of variants, both from Frank Quitely I understand that Death Sentence #1 London will be getting a Gifts For Geeks variant while Minions #1 will have a Books-A-Million variant. But for Secret Wars? Well, we[...]

The Punisher's number plate there… Secret Wars is upon us… the Conservatives are back with an increased majority… this is 1984 isn't it? As in the actual 1984 or possibly the George Orwell one, I'm never quite sure Do check out our coverage of Machinima at New York if you can… Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. So What Happens[...]