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Marvel has done this digital-to-print voucher before but there are a few new rules this time. Rather than get the voucher with any purchase, you have to buy from a set list of Avengers and X-Men related titles (below) None of the items are marked at 99c or $1.49, $1.99 is the minimum you can spend[...]

Bleeding Cool has run a number of articles showing how Marvel is encouraging retailers to order more and more of their Avengers Vs X-Men series, to the extent that for the first issue they are all but giving it away, while for subsequent issues, they are using variant covers to keep the orders high through[...]

Stadium Comics of Ontario, Canada have held a press conference over their decision which side to take in the upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men series. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23EG58F1yq8[/youtube] Here is that statement in full; Hi everyone I have a short, prepared statement – after which I will open the floor to questions[...]

It's shaping up to be a big weekend for Marvel mutants at Wondercon, and here's the latest… Marvel has just announced that Brian Wood will take over writing both X-Men and Ultimate Comics X-Men beginning in June with X-Men #30 and Ultimate Comics X-Men #13  More on this to come, I'm sure… It's shaping up to[...]

That's the wording we were waiting for. Marvel's Infinite Comics, to be announced on Sunday at SXSW will be a "revolutionary new way of reading comics."

The books they were trying to get more copies of before the comics were sent to them. Again, Avengers Vs X-Men is at the top , which justifies the claim that Marvel have now got more preorders for the first issue than for Civil War #1, and they also seem to be loading up with issue[...]

Leinil Yu wasn't too sure about how the colourist of the X-Force #22 cover, handled his artwork. He tweeted "I was unhappy with how the grayscale was

If it's not the film, it's the comics, and as Marvel is getting steadily better at coordinating big film and comic releases, that could take the comics market into interesting places in the coming years. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Avengers Vs X-Men Checklist  Given the ordering incentives that Marvel have instigated for Avengers Vs X-Men, its respective crossovers,[...]

They are there for outreach, to recruit customers, to invite lapsed customers back, and maybe while they are there upsell them on some more comics. Then there is Avengers Vs X-Men #1 Now retailers usually get from 40-55% discount on the cover price before selling to you That profit margin helps them pay for the property,[...]

Well, that's what Marvel has in mind for the Avengers Vs X-Men launch parties in comic shops on April 3rd Allowing comic stores to create an Avengers Vs X-Men cake for the event. Of course such a thing is bound to be legally problematic Independent cake stores creating Marvel cakes without licence? That would never do[...]

With news that Bendis is leaving Avengers, and his stating that his next project will be "so much more" than taking over the X-Men books, it's another sign of big creator and universe shakeups after the conclusion of Avengers Vs X-Men. Hickman also talks plenty about Secret and The Manhattan Projects... iFanboy reports, from an interview[...]

Unscripted, reality CC. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD6OijbHTQ0[/youtube]With Avengers Versus X-Men on the horizon, this week we ask our customers to choose a side! Then CC Store Manager Dave shares his sadness with everyone about the New Printing of Kingdom Come Absolute Edition and the word balloons that are missing text on Page #104[...]

Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel had been receiving massive reorders for Avengers Vs X-Men #1, pushing it well over the 200K mark Well, here's the evidence, for reorders from the 20th to the 26th of February Avengers Vs X-Men, and their variants, taking seven of the top twelve, and three of the top four[...]

X-Men tattoos by Dave Koenig and his studio Liquid Courage of Omaha NE For when you arms need to say "I read comics"… From Bleeding Cool's new tattoo correspondent, Alex Wilson X-Men tattoos by Dave Koenig and his studio Liquid Courage of Omaha NE For when you arms need to say[...]

The X-Men seem a little outnumbered by their Avenger counterparts in this line of Marvel comics stuff for pets There are plenty of Avengers, but far too little X-Men apparel for your dog to wrap around itself or get its teeth into, in this line available at Petsmart Is this a precursor on how it's[...]

Some, of course have taken that that as confirmation – more than the X-Men, but including the X-Men, others that it scotched the rumour and he's doing something totally different Of course, based on what I've been told by relatively connected folk, I believe the former. But naturally asks more questions than it answers Which probably[...]

 Start off with an emerging new print comics distribution model (and let me make mention of retail group New England Comic Retailer Alliance's role in the developing ComixTribe story, which I too find fascinating), add a big batch of Bendis X-Men in the middle, and close out the day with a barrage of Image Expo[...]

ABC News talks to Jason Aaron and Brian Bendis about Avengers Vs X-Men And we get a little bit of new art… that you might need to squint at to read Anyone? Anyone? Oh and MTV are doing the behind-the-scenes-of-AVX documentary…. Told you this was coming ABC News talks to Jason Aaron and Brian Bendis[...]

We know that Avengers Vs X-Men is meant to have some major changes for the Marvel Universe Honest, this time Well, this looks like the first of them. After Avengers Vs X-Men, we know Brian Bendis is bringing to a close his writing and showrunning of the Avengers comics for Marvel But what next for their[...]

And Avengers Vs X-Men is the way to do just that. So it's time to break out the ads By buying skins at CBR and Newsarama Which are pretty expensive… and as I start, are the beginning of Marvel's investment to push the sales of crossovers, both to existing comic book readers and the casual browser,[...]

X-MEN A cryptic statement: "After death comes a rebirth." Everybody is excited about the WATCHMEN prequel EVERYBODY. Five words: stock up on classic Eaglemoss Just sayin'. Best line from Terry Moore of Abstract Studios: "I'm trying to sell addiction." He also stated that his readership is a lot larger than his Diamond orders, which goes to show the[...]

Exiled is a new comic book coming out from Marvel in May in the jetstream of the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover. I understand it's written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by his Dark Reign: The Cabal artistic partner Carmine Di Giandomenico. Odds are it might be the subject of one of these Marvel Live Blogs that are[...]

And a glimpse of how Marvel may be promoting Avengers Vs X-Men in the months to come… There's a stereotype that someone who reads comics, doesn't enjoy sports I'm not sure how true that is, the same obsession that sees people memorise issue numbers is sympatico with the mindset that records sports statistics The love[...]

Thank you for all those who wrote to me after seeing the cover to Avengers Vs X-Men #4 as Thor trying to face down Phoenix, as man trying to face his fear of a glowing vagina. I don't know, it may be reaching I know that the X-Men's Dark Phoenix Saga has been described as a[...]

We saw a few unlettered pages from Avengers Vs X-Men #0 earlier today, by Brian Bendis and Jason Aaron, drawn by Frank Cho Well, here are some more Lettered And featuring Cyclops scolding Hope for being, basically, Batman with a jet pack. See, that right there should be a spinoff series. We saw[...]

But it does also look like she's just spent too much time in the sun. And is starting Avengers Vs X-Men with MODOK a bit like having to include "I'm the Juggernaut bitch!" in X-Men: The Last Stand? Sometimes internet memes should be left alone… X-Men Vs Avengers #0 by Brian Bendis, Jason Aaron and Frank Cho[...]

WARNING – There are spoilers for certain Marvel titles published today. In Uncanny X-Men of late, we've had a Celestial standing around near Utopia, which became a major plot point for Sinister's machinations recently that saw the X-Men have to stare down the coming Celestials, god-like aliens responsible for the mutations in humanity, and created by[...]

"The superhero who suggested that all this fighting was just silly and everyone should just kiss and make up." Or the cover to Wolverine And The X-Men #9 from April, one of three Wolverine And The X-Men titles shipping that month. This April, as the Marvel Universe waits on baited breath for the arrival of the all-powerful[...]

It's always an impressive display, the air crackles with sexual electricity. As Avengers Vs X-Men continues to descend into a mass of homoerotic imagery, it's good to see Uncanny X-Men continues to keep its end up As it were. Here's the solicit. As the Phoenix Force continues its bee-line towards Earth, Cyclops leads the X-Men into their toughest[...]

This is the cover to The New Avengers #24, an Avengers Vs X-Men tie in. Is it me… or are Cyclops and Captain America going in for a kiss? Clearly Wolverine isn't happy about that. And here's why; This is the cover to The New Avengers #24, an Avengers Vs X-Men tie in. Is it me… or are Cyclops[...]