Marvel Comics

By J. Caleb Mozzocco “Kenneth Branagh? A comic-book superhero movie? Are things really that tough? And not even an A-list Marvel hero—but Thor?”: Paid professional, film critic, author and apparent grown-up man Marshall Fine is shocked, shocked, shocked that talented directors and actors might make Ho...

By Travis The Amazing Spider-Man 611, Daredevil 502, Dark X-Men 1, Realm of Kings: Imperial Guard 1, Strange 1, SWORD 1, and X-Force 21 Four #1 issues this week, let�s see how they are! The Amazing Spider-Man 611 Daredevil 502 by Andy Diggle and Robert De La Torre Dark X-Men 1

By Travis All of DC's big guns have now "died" in some form and come back. Superman's death was the most famous, and Batman's probably the least convincing. But Flash (Barry Allen), J'onn J'onnz, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Aquaman, and Wonder Woman have all met their end in some way and time. Green Arr...

By Travis Assault on New Olympus 1, Captain America: Reborn 4, House of M: Masters of Evil 4, The Torch 3, Ultimate Comics Armor Wars 1, and X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas 2 Assault on New Olympus 1 Captain America: Reborn 4 Ultimate Comics Armor Wars 1 X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas 2

By Travis I�m not sure what the deal is with naming this title, but as of issue #2, they changed the indicia to drop the �comics� out of �Ultimate Comics Spider-Man.� We are now just �Ultimate Spider-Man� again (same for their Avengers title). The story stinks, as MJ is hit on by her manager, and a gangst...

By pozzyfreak Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Brian Reed, Carol Danvers, Catherine Donovan, Comic Book Reviews, dark avengers, Karla Sofen, Kyle Posluszny, Moonstone, Ms. Marvel, Ms. Marvel #46, Ms. Marvel #46 Review, Sana Takeda, The War of the Marvels, WCBR, Weekly Comic Book Review, weeklycomic...

By pozzyfreak Posted in Marvel Comics Tagged: A Good Man, All We Want Is The World And Everthing In It, Comic Book Reviews, Dark Reign, Dark Reign: the List, Dark Reign: The List - Wolverine, Dark Reign: The List - Wolverine #1, Dark Reign: The List - Wolverine #1 review, Dark Reign: The List - Wolverine Re...

By Brad Curran I knew it was gonna be Wolverine: The List. The best Grant Morrison Marvel characters teaming up with Wolverine in ... At October 29, 2009, Daniel O' Dreams wrote: At October 29, 2009, CF wrote: At October 29, 2009, Dan Fleming wrote: At October 29, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

By Travis The Amazing Spider-Man 609, Dark Wolverine 79, Wolverine: Origins 41, and X-Men: Legacy 228. Oh, and ASM 609 was possibly the worst Spider-Man story ever. The Amazing Spider-Man 609 X-Men: Legacy 228 Tpull is Travis Pullen. He started reading comics at 5 years old, and he can't seem to stop.

By Babs Comic Vine asks the artist of 'Dark Avengers' a few questions!   2. What is your favorite character to draw? Captain America. It comes from my childhood. I just love the character.  Second on that list is probably Wolverine.  Can you tell I'm a comics fan?

By Graeme McMillan Well, watching the movies? Not necessarily a bad idea. Watching Ultimate Avengers: The Movie, Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise Of The Panther (Well, kind of. See below), The Invincible Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Next Avengers and the Hulk Vs. movies in one sitting? One of the dumber ideas I've had i...

By Travis This issue wasn’t as funny as the first one, but there’s an Iron Man story, a few FF stories, and one with Brother Voodoo. M.O.D.O.K. ‘N’ Me is kinda cute in a gruesome way, and M.O.D.O.K. is so popular now, it’s fun to see him getting to much use in every universe, whether here or the Marvel Adventures line...

By Travis Agent Morales refuses the efforts at drafting by another evil organization, and this entire bloody affair seems to be escaping the notice of Norman Osborn. This title as been so disconnected from the rest of the Marvel universe, it’s disgusting. Even the crossovers that attempted to tie t...

By googum(noreply@blogger.com) The four figures I needed, on clearance, five bucks each. While I might have preferred the red Daredevil or the skull-masked Punisher, I was not about to look that gift horse in the mouth. This also makes Nemesis the first builder I've completed since...DCUC's Metamorpho, back in wave one of th...

By Travis The Amazing Spider-Man 606, Avengers: The Initiative 28, Fantastic Four 571, Guardians of the Galaxy 18, Incredible Hercules 135, Ms. Marvel 45, New Avengers 57, and Nova 29 The Amazing Spider-Man 606 Avengers: The Initiative 28 Fantastic Four 571 Ms. Marvel 45 New Avengers 57

By pozzyfreak Posted in Marvel Comics, Reviews Tagged: Brian Reed, Carol Danvers, Catherine Donovan, Comic Book Reviews, Dark Reign, Disney, Ikari Studios, Iron Patriot, Karla Sofen, Kyle Posluszny, Marvel Comics, Ms. Marvel #45, Ms. Marvel #45 review, Norman Osborn, Philippe Briones, Storytell...

By Joe Rice At September 24, 2009, Joe Rice wrote: At September 24, 2009, Joe wrote: At September 24, 2009, Joe Rice wrote: My completely non-earth-shattering predicted ending to Dark Reign: Iron Man will come back and work with a revived Captain America ...

By Travis The movies are the worst. Paramount has the deal to distribute the biggest characters: Iron Man 2 & 3, Captain America, Thor, and the Avengers. Sony has already green-lighted another trilogy of Spider-Man movies, and Fox will be developing as many mutant movies as they can to hold onto...

By Mike Fahey A Crossover Epic: Ultimate Alliance 2 presents a truly epic tale in the Marvel Comics universe, combining elements of both the Secret War mini-series and the all-encompassing Civil War storyline, pitting heroes against heroes as the government tries to force all superheroes to regis...

By Caleb(noreply@blogger.com) 3.) If it's true that Marvel and Disney settled over the Howard the Duck issue by the former promising the latter that Howard the Duck would always wear pants, so as not to be confused with one of the Disney ducks, maybe now Howard can go pants-less. Who's Disney gonna sue, themselves? and

By Yib-Yab This doesn't mean that I don't have a slight weakness for Marvel Comics from the mid to late 70's or early 80's. See, even though I was a DC kid growing up, I did end up with some Marvel comics here and there, mostly purchased for me as gifts.

By Greg Burgas The Incredible Hercules #132 (”The Replacement Thor”) by Greg Pak (writer), Fred van Lente (writer), Reilly Brown (penciller), Nelson DeCastro (inker), Guillem Mari (colorist), and Simon Bowland (letterer). $2.99, 22 pgs, FC, Marvel.

By pozzyfreak The Story: Norman Osborn tries to figure out who keeps attacking his secret Goblin weapon caches. Spider-Man tries to figure out what’s up with the no longer deceased Ms. Marvel. Meanwhile, a woman named Catherine Donovan tries to make sense of her recent thoughts…

By pozzyfreak By Brian Reed (Writer), Sergio Ariño (Artist), and Emily Warren w/Christina Strain (Colors) The Story: Everyone (as in Deadpool, Ms. Marvel, the New Avengers, and the multi-colored cosmic entities) wants to get to the M.O.D.O.K./Storyteller babies.

By pozzyfreak The Story: Deadpool gets hired by A.I.M. to retrieve the “storyteller” babies that Karla Sofen (the current Ms. Marvel) got control of in the last issue. Meanwhile, the mysterious glowing figure battles Ms. Marvel and a few of the other Dark Avengers for control of the babies.

By Corey Henson If you’ve been following the recent goings-on in the Marvel Universe, then you know the score: Norman Osborn, having “singlehandedly” saved the Earth from the Skrull invasion, is now officially the man in charge of keeping the American citizenry safe and secure from danger, with the he...

By Richard Guion I've liked lot of the things Dan Slott has brought to Mighty Avengers.  He's brought back a lot of classic Avengers elements (Jarvis, Vision, Quicksilver, Hercules, etc) while twisting them for the current Marvel universe.  He really faked me out big time with the Scarlet Witch in the firs...

By Travis Finally, Finke has a good breakdown of all the existing deals with movies, theme parks, toys and video games, all of which will have profits going to other companies. Since Marvel will be part of Disney, Marvel’s share of those profits will count towards Disney’s bottom line in the future,...

By Travis Avengers: The Initiative 27, Fantastic Four 570, Guardians of the Galaxy 17, Incredible Hercules 133, Ms. Marvel 44, New Avengers 56, Nova 28, and Secret Warriors 7 Sorry for the delay on the Marvel reviews this week, I had to put out the breaking news regarding Marvel and Disney first.

By Johanna Similar Posts: Wolverine: Inside the World of the Living Weapon § Marvel Worth Reading: Web of Romance, Young Avengers #10, She-Hulk #5, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #3, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #2, Nextwave #1 § Make Your Own Comic § Ranma ½ Book 2 § Marvel Super Hero Squad Gets Cartoon Wo...

By Don MacPherson Captain America 70th Anniversary Special #1 (Marvel Comics) by James Robinson & Marcos Martin I hadn’t heard about this one-shot until a couple of days before its release. I wasn’t sure if I was going to pick it up, but Marcos Martin’s association with the project was enough to get me on...

By Travis Avengers/Invaders 9, Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1, Dark Reign: Fantastic Four 2, New Avengers: The Reunion 2, and War of Kings 2 Avengers/Invaders 9 Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1 Dark Reign: Fantastic Four 2 New Avengers: The Reunion 2

By Travis Agents of Atlas 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 590, Invincible Iron Man 12, Secret Warriors 3, and War Machine 4 Agents of Atlas 3 The Amazing Spider-Man 590 Invincible Iron Man 12 War Machine 4 Tpull is Travis Pullen. He started reading comics at 5 years old, and he can't seem to stop.

By J. Caleb Mozzocco In 2009, it can be hard to understand, let alone appreciate, what superhero comic books were like at their inception. This story is a perfect distillation of Cole’s talents in various genres; The Claw a creature of horror and crime, Daredevil a wise-cracking superhero.

By Travis Despite Warren running around in Secret Invasion: X-Men in his blue skin, the Beast acts like this is the first time anyone outside of X-Force has seen him in action as Archangel again. It’s rotten continuity, and on a team of telepaths and such, not very believable. Wolverine 71

By Travis Captain Britain and MI:13 #11, Guardians of the Galaxy 11, The Immortal Iron Fist 23, and Invincible Iron Man 11 For whatever reason, whether it’s Iron Fist or Iron Man, we’ve got similarities in titles, in the number of issues, with three of the comics being issue #11 this month, and the cr...

By Travis I wanted to check in on this series since they are doing an X-Force crossover, and see how the whole new mutant birth was affecting the Marvel universe. Not much, as it turns out. McKelvie’s art is sparse, with most of the action taking place in desert wastelands. It’s like Lord of the Rings, wit...

By Travis Captain America 47, Incredible Hercules 126, Marvels: Eye of the Camera 4, New Exiles 18, Nova 22, She-Hulk 38, Ultimate Spider-Man 131, Wolverine: First Class 12, and X-Force 12 Finishing off with the second half of Marvel’s massive release of titles this past week. Captain America 47

Talent Coordinator for Marvel, Chris Allo adds, "In regards to finding new artists, we in the Talent Management department will still continue to look at online websites such as Deviant Art, Comic Art Community, as well as comic art blogs, and other related sites. Online comics are rapid...

By Russ Burlingame Talent Coordinator for Marvel, Chris Allo adds, “In regards to finding new artists, we in the Talent Management department will still continue to look at online websites such as Deviant Art, Comic Art Community, as well as comic art blogs, and other related sites.  Online comics are rapi...

By Don MacPherson Agents of Atlas v.2 #1 (Marvel Comics) by Jeff Parker, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz & Benton Jew Like many other Marvel readers, I’m thrilled that the publisher finally opted to launch an ongoing Agents of Atlas series. While the first limited series wasn’t one of Marvel’s best sellers,...

By noreply@blogger.com (Caleb) Agents of Atlas #1 (Marvel Comics) After a couple of years of writing many of Marvel’s very best comics, mostly for the Marvel Adventures imprint, Jeff Parker gets a nice shot at the center of the main Marvel Universe. He’s writing the quirky characters he re-introduced in the Agents of Atl...

By Dirk Deppey Top Story] Stan Lee Media suing Lee, Marvel Link: BBC News Literary Comics Pop Comics Quick looks at several recent comic books. Comic Strips Digital Comics Art] Bill the Minder Link: Golden Age Comic Book Stories The Comics Press Comics Culture

By Brian Cronin One thing that stood out a bit to me, in a negative sense, was the whole “Iron Man keeping a bunch of his extra armors in Avengers Tower and not doing anything about them being there when Avengers Tower comes into enemy hands.” Heck, I don’t even get why it is necessary for Osborn to use actual Ir...

By LaRevolucion44@aol.com (Rokk Krinn) While Secret Invasion centered around high profile characters like the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, DnA are utilizing more unknown characters like the Inhumans and various other cosmic characters as the centerpieces of War of Kings. This means that DnA have the extra burden of educating new readers enough on the various characters so that the new readers will be able to properly enjoy War of Kings. I loved how DnA were able to take the normally reserved and passive Inhumans and naturally and logically transform them into the weapons that they were designed to be. I like that Marvel is finally utilizing the full potential of the Inhumans. These are great Jack Kirby characters that have never lived up to their potential.   [read the full post]

Red Hulk continues to pound on the Marvel Universe’s ladies. The sequence provides some funny one-liners from Red Hulk and he eventually finds himself in some trouble with the ladies. He plays an interesting trick on them and eventually isolates one of the ladies and propositions that person with a side deal. Red Hulk gets away and it appears he has a new ally that is hiding among the regular Marvel Universe. It’s a good story with a big battle but it ends with a very interesting twist. The art covers an awful lot of characters in this comic and it does it well. Perhaps the best part of the art is the handling of the Wendigos. There are so many of these things and they all have plenty of detail and all appear to be unique. I also liked the transformation of the...   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (Rokk Krinn) I am sure that some new readers are picking up Nova with the buzz about War of Kings. DnA nicely re-cap the past nineteen issues of Nova for those readers. And DnA do it in a fashion that does not bore readers who have been aboard this train since the first issue. Marvel continues to display a savvy marketing sense and knowing how to make their big events new reader friendly and easy to consume. Overall: Nova #20 was another good read. DnA continue to impress me with their quality work that they are doing with Marvel’s cosmic characters. At this point, I find Marvel cosmic characters to be the most intriguing and entertaining aspect of the Marvel Universe.   [read the full post]

By ron@ifanboy.com Well I can tell you one thing, I didn't expect New Avengers #48 to read just like those early New Avengers issues.  I didn't expect Captain America/Bucky to step up and reform the team, with the New Avengers characters like Spider-Man, Wolverine and Iron Fist.  I didn't expect that the Luke C...

By Johanna By the way, if you can’t find Marvel Chronicle on the shelf in the graphic novel section of your local bookstore, snoop around the store a bit. DK has designed a special freestanding display stand for the book, with a sample copy that you can flip through in the store! (A complimentary copy fo...

By Travis The story itself focuses more on Sheldon than the first series seemed to, but starting almost from the beginning again, in a sense. The first series started with the first Marvel superheroes, Namor and the original Human Torch, and Sheldon ends up having to get an eyepatch after getting hi...