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The Avengers: Cool New Banner. And Another One.
Continuing in the vein of the giant 'Assemble' poster we saw back in July Marvel have issued two new banner images to promote next year’s Avengers movie. You’ve probably seen them. If not, here they are.
Marvel Know What They Want From These Potential Thor 2 Writers And Directors
As we reported a few days ago, Patty Jenkins has left the helm of the good ship Thor 2 due to some kind of "creative difference", but Marvel Studios aren't exactly stopping to mourn Instead, they're lining up possibilities for a replacement director and also seeking a new screenwriter. Here are the names they have lined[...]
The Metatextual Retconning Of Fear Itself #7.2
We got in return "well she's not my friend now." Okay, people allergic to spoilers gone? Good. We got the idea that new character Tanarus would be the new God Of Thunder after the death of Thor in Fear Itself #7 But we didn't that Tanarus would always have been the God Of Thunder Which means all[...]
The Avengers – Assembled! (Kinda)
You would be forgiven for missing it but tucked away between all of those explosions there’s something quite special in the new Avengers trailer.
So: The Avengers Trailer Is Live
So far, on the basis of the few snippets of dialogue on show here Robert Downey Junior owns the film but there's a lot that can happen between now and next May. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatgnqdIefs[/youtube] ..but why is Thor fighting Cap? ..and could those blue plasma blasts be from a Skrull ship? [...]
DC Comics Buys Thor, Iron Man, X-Men And Spider-Man. On Twitter
They have bought the Twitter keywords Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor and X-Men But rather than buy the worldwide rights, they've bought the American-only rights. So that I can't see them. Thankfully Bleeding Cool readers with an American IP address can… A few days ago, Bleeding Cool pointed out that DC had bought Marvel as a Twitter search[...]
Tanarus, The God Of Typo
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[...]
Tanarus To Replace Thor In Thor #8
You know how Thor wasn't looking too well in that Fear Itself #6 preview we posted yesterday? You know how he was suddenly missing in those Battle Scars previews, replaced with some new fellow? Well, now we have a name Tanarus Starring in Thor #8 as the new God Of Thunder, by Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry[...]
Tuesday Runaround: Captain America vs Thor
—'Captain America' didn't beat 'Thor' after all – latimes.com SDCC: Joss Whedon on His Dark Horse Buffyverse | Superhero Hype "Having discovered I can do it differently from the television show," says Whedon of the bigger-than-TV world of "Season Eight," "I discovered that I didn't really want to." SDCC '11 | Fantagraphics to publish Complete Zap Comix |[...]
San Diego Debut: Walter Simonson's The Mighty Thor: Artist's Edition
Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Walter Simonson's The Mighty Thor: Artist's Edition Creators: Walter Simonson Publisher: IDW Available: Booth #2643 High concept: This collection presents Thor 337-340 and 360-362—Simonson's first story, followed by one of his favorite story arcs. Format: 176 pages, black and white, hardcover Print run: 500 Price: $100 What's the website: Preorder at http://bit.ly/mightythor. [...]
Avengers Movie Promotional Poster Debuts At Licensing Expo
  Looks like a merchandising image rather than an actual movie poster, but a good look at characters and costumes for Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Black Widow — and still very cool. Licensing Expo 2011 just opened in Las Vegas and attendee @theonlyesq has given us our first look at a[...]
Friday Trending Topics: X-Men First Class Beats Thor's Midnight Opening
X-Men's midnight opening edged out Thor's by a few bucks We'll know soon what that means for the weekend. Most-Read DC Relaunch Stories Today The Secret Origins Of The DC Relaunch So, I was told recently that the original decision for DC to relaunch all their titles with 52 new issue ones was originally planned to[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Okey-Dokey, Loki
An excellent Thor-in-four-panels by Ty Templeton Ty previously had pretty damn funny takes on the Granito saga, Charlie Sheen, and… well, you may as well go check out his website while you're at it. I think Templeton's work first came to my attention a long time ago due to a favorable nod from comics-reviewing ironman[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Do Michigan Authorities Fear Comics?
No sooner do we hear that a small tourist town in Michigan has arrested Batman, then comes word that Michigan state police have handled a Thor movie press kit as a possible bomb  Better safe than sorry in such situations, to be sure  But early this year there were rumors that both Batman and[...]