Just What is Marvel Announcing at SXSW
If you've been paying attention, you'll notice Marvel has a panel at SXSW. SXSW is sort of like the Consumer Electronics Show for Digital Media and Entertainment. The show has been in a transitory state in the last couple of years, shifting from more of an indie-centric event to an even larger spectacle with corporate sponsors galore, but at it's heart, it's still about bringing products to the masses through digital technology. So just what is Marvel announcing?
Continue ReadingDavid Gabriel explains Marvel’s trade program
ICv2 has a wide ranging interview with Marvel's Sr VP of Sales, David Gabriel, and it covers just about every topic you could imagine, from digital coupon conversion to page counts to pricing. Go here for all that: Part 1 and Part 2. However since we've had a high degree of scrutiny on Marvel's trade program of late, here's what he had to say on that topic:
Continue ReadingNew Amazing Spider-Man trailer is out and has everyone talking
In just two minutes, this summer's Amazing Spider-Man has gone from an afterthought to the Batman/Avengers slugfest to a "Hey that looks great!' Even if it is one of those "I just saw the whole movie!" trailers, it certainly conveys all the elements of a successful superhero movie: a wise-cracking hero, a winsome love interest, a villain with a transatlantic accent and an authority figure determined to take our hero down—in this case Denis Leary as Gwen Stacy's policeman dad, George.
Continue ReadingJack Kirby Royalties/Credit Petition Live at Change.org
With the Avengers movie featuring several of Jack Kirby's co-creations starting up its media run-up to opening night, the Jack Kirby creator's rights movement has started a petition at Change.org. Change.org is a website for social movements/causes and online petitions. Change.org claims credit for getting Bank of America to drop its debit card fees and getting Universal pictures to put more of an environmental emphasis on the website for the adaption of The Lorax by Dr. Suess.
Continue ReadingThe Full-length Avengers trailer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet And here’s the complete getting the gang together AVENGERS trailer.
Continue ReadingMarvel’s Super Bowl Special: Free Avengers Movie Tie-In Comic
It's Super Bowl Sunday. How does Marvel celebrate? How about giving away a free comic?
Continue ReadingPreview: Power Pack returns in FF #15
With a variant cover by Power Pack co-creator June Brigman! Given the outcry for more kid-friendly comics these days, perhaps we'll see even more of the child super-team down the road.
Continue ReadingTeaser of the Day #1: SPIDER-MEN
Okay, just so we don't forget the OTHER member of the Big Two on this day long to be remembered...Marvel has a new project involving...more than one man tagged Spider. It comes out in June. As you were.
Continue ReadingMatthew Vaughn confirmed for X-Men: “Second Class”
A sequel to the well-received X-MEN: FIRST CLASS has been greenlit with Matthew Vaughn once again to direct, Deadline reports. Simon Kinberg has written a script and Bryan Singer will produce. Everyone expects Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy to reprise their roles as Magneto and Professor X, but no one has officially been signed yet. And given Fassbender's recent roles, maybe we'll get to see little Magneto, too.
Continue ReadingThe Curse of Santayana
Once again, a creator loses a copyright battle against a major comics publisher with a major motion picture soon to screen. The artist is living in poverty, has health problems, and is forgotten by the general public. Sound familiar? Read on... it gets worse.
Continue ReadingMarvel Month-to-Month Sales December 2011
by Paul O'Brien -- This month, the slow build to AVENGERS VS X-MEN begins with the AVENGERS: X-SANCTION miniseries; and DEFENDERS is relaunched. Both are wisely given a pretty clear run, without other Marvel launches competing for space. Elsewhere, the X-Men, Hulk and Fantastic Four relaunches continue to bed down. And down at the bottom end of the chart, the cancellations continue to mount up. Normal service is resumed, kind of, as Marvel had the largest share of the north American direct market, albeit by a fairly narrow margin - 39% to 38% in units, 34.4% to 33.7% in dollars. But bear in mind, this was a five-week month where DC more or less sat out week five.
Continue ReadingHow Many Tie-Ins to AVX and Other Items From Marvel’s April Solicitations
With Marvel's April solicitations up, we can now declare crossover season upon us. AVX (Avengers vs. X-Men, if you prefer) has been announced. Axel and Tom have talked about keeping it in the core books. Let's see how many titles that entails in April.
Continue ReadingMarvel unveils Art Appreciation Avengers variant covers
Every once in a while Marvel likes to get cultural by commissioing a bunch of variant covers in the style of great paintings. they've just done this with April's Avengers Art Appreciation Variants, which will whet your appetite for both the Avengers movie AND a trip to the local museum. Alex Maleev, Michael Kaluta, Gabriele Dell’Otto, Greg Horn, Gerald Parel and more channel Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Monet, Pollock, and Egon Schiele (one 'l'). Which one do you like best?
Continue ReadingSherlock Holmes: A Comic Comparison
The past year has seen an unusually large number of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, both in comics and on the screen, but not all Holmeses are created equal. Last night, British viewers got to see the last episode of Season 2 of the BBC's wildly popular starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows starring Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law is still doing well in theaters a month after it opened. So if you're in a Holmesian mood and wondering what to read next, here's run down on the Holmes adaptations which have come out or had new installments in the past year. Varying from inspiredly odd to unreadably awful, don't go to the comic store without reading this first!
Continue ReadingMarvel reveals cover to AvX #1
The actual Jim Cheung cover to AVENGERS vs. X-MEN #1, this April's big cross-fight event, has just been revealed.
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