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Target: The Avengers

1 Comment Posted by on September 13, 2011

Well as one crossover event wraps up in the Marvel Universe, its time to tease the next one.  Marvel recently released a fairly simple promo for an upcoming Avengers event that is slated to being in December. From the looks of things The Avengers are being targeted by someone.  One of the interesting to things [...]

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Avengers Assembled – More Avengers Promo Art

2 Comments Posted by on September 1, 2011

Consider there have only been about 45 seconds of Avengers footage released to the public we sure are getting a lot of looks at the superhero team.  Most of this can be attributed to the large amount of promo art that has been flooding the internet. This first picture is of the superhero team together [...]

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Will Spider-Island Bring a Return of the Scarlet Spider?

9 Comments Posted by on August 22, 2011

One of the teaser posters shown at the San Diego Comic Con showed the blue hoodie worn by the Scarlet Spider, aka Ben Reilly aka the Spider-Clone, set ablaze.  This fueled speculation that Marvel might bring Ben Reilly back to life after his death in 1996.  Well prepare to add more fuel to that fire with the [...]

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The Fear Itself Wrap Up

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 22, 2011

As we get closer to the end of Fear Itself we are starting to see how things might be wrapping up.  It looks like than in an effort to wrap up Fear Itself Marvel will be releasing three books to wrap up the story.  This will be Fear Itself 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3.  Each one [...]

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Bad News for Thor? [Shattered Heroes]

4 Comments Posted by on August 19, 2011

There was a reason for concern when Marvel announced that there would be a new God of Thunder come November.  In order for that to happen something would have to be happening to Thor.  As for what might happen to the Son of Odin, the latest promo for Shattered Heroes and its accompanying quote might [...]

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After Fear Itself It’s Shattered Heroes

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 18, 2011

Marvel’s big summer events have been the brand wide Fear Itself and the X-Men-centric Schism.  Both of these mega events are billed as having major repercussions.  For instance in Fear Itself Bucky Barnes has died, Captain America’s shield has been shattered, Tony Stark has fallen off the wagon, and Thor will presumably lose his title [...]

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Batman and Robin Post DC Reboot

4 Comments Posted by on August 9, 2011

There has been a great deal of confusion regarding DC Comics and the line wide reboot/relaunch of all their published comics.  One of the biggest points of confusion is that in the comics everything has only moved 5 years forward from the origin. Here’s how that gets confusing for Batman fans.  In 5 years Bruce [...]

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Who Is The New Ultimate Spider-Man?

2 Comments Posted by on July 27, 2011

As I’m sure you are all aware of Marvel killed off Peter Parker in the Ultimate Comics.  Shortly thereafter it was teased that a new Spider-Man would arise.  A Spider-Man that was not Peter Parker since he would be remaining dead. The fallout over the death of Spider-Man has been taking place in the weekly mini-series Ultimate Fallout.  Right now [...]

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The Return of Nightwing and Batgirl [DC Reboot]

6 Comments Posted by on June 7, 2011

As I’ve mentioned before, the DC relaunch has the capability to shake a lot of things up.  It would seem the Bat Family is no exception.  Lets start with a few of the big news pieces. When the relaunch comes into effect in September, it has been reported that Bruce Wayne will be the only man to [...]

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The Great Reboot of DC Comics

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 1, 2011

Hearing or seeing the word reboot when it comes to comics generally sends a cold chill down my spine.  Mostly because I’m old school and like to respect the past storylines that have been told.  That being said, sometimes a reboot can be a good thing for refreshing iconic characters.  DC recently announced that starting [...]

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