Tag: Marvel Comics
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Ultimate Spider-Man vol3 #1-3 Review
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Marvel Comics, $3.99 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Art: Sara Pichelli, Justin Ponso Having grown as convoluted as its progenitor, Marvel’s Ultimate Universe has become a bit of an aimless alternative. Ever desperate to lure their extensive audience of cinemagoers into comic stores, The House of M gave its once beloved imprint a relaunch in 2009,…
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Why do Comic Books Rule the Box Office?
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in ColumnOf course, there are many successful films these days that didn’t start off in the world of comic books. But if we take a close look at the box-office results over the last five years, each year we find that a comic based film is in the top ten. The only exception was 2009, which while…
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Marvel’s Villains Wreak Vengeance
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in Comic NewsFear Itself #1 hit the shelves just last week, but the folks at Marvel are already are teasing us with their next big event, Vengeance, which, as Tom Brennan told IGN, will offer “an exploration of villainy in the Marvel Universe through the eyes of the next generation.” Not the sequel to Acts of Vengeance…
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Marvel vs Capcom 3 DLC List is Fake. For Now…
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Since releasing Shuma Gorath and Jill Valentine for MvC3, Capcom have kept rather schtum on exactly who will be filling in those two additional DLC slots – though the current crisis in Japan is probably of more concern to the game’s developers. But this hasn’t stopped one beaver from spreading a 14-strong roster of new…
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Venom #1 Comic Book Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Tony Moore, Sandu Florea, Karl Kesel, John Rauch With Mac Gargan no longer hosting the symbiote, there’s a certain desperation in the way Marvel have been so quick to reinvent Spider-man’s erstwhile antithesis. Flash Thompson, the former Peter Parker bully turned paraplegic war hero, is now in the black;…
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FF #1 Comic Book Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Writer: Jonathan Hickman Art: Steve Epting, Rick Magyar, Paul Mounts Given the publicity and teaser images preceding its debut, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this Fantastic Four reboot would start afresh with Marvel’s first family, now sans the recently deceased Human Torch. Instead, Jonathan Hickman’s Future Foundation is an extension of the…
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New X-Men: First Class Posters are Second Rate
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With so many Marvel movie projects on the go at once, nary a day goes by where we’re not treated to another intriguing publicity image or poster. These two new X-Men: First Class posters, however, are anything but a treat.
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New Thor Movie Posters are Epically Fugly
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Following the release of 20th Century Fox’s promising X-Men: First Class posters last week, Paramount and Marvel Studios have decided to take a less inspired approach to promoting that other impending Marvel movie, Kenneth Branagh’s Thor (source: IGN). Yup, they’re bland, inappropriately Gothic, and unlikely to appeal to a) those clued into the Thor comics,…