Tag: Marvel

In today's foreshortened comics world, 25 is the new 50, and any book that gets to a 25th issue gets a gala celebration. Thus...

By Jeffrey O. Gustafson Kamala Khan is a sixteen year old girl from Jersey City. She has the same pressures as any teenager: friends, family,...

It's been announced that Mike Marts, DC's Batman group editor, has moved to Marvel Comics this week as an Executive Editor. Having overseen the...

EMPIRE magazine is having a big cover reveal day showing 25 character covers in 24 hours from X-Men; Days of Future Past, the eagerly...

by Jeffrey O. Gustafson The on-again off-again imprint Marvel Knights played a very important role in the current Marvel Entertainment empire. Started in the late...

Event season rolled on in November, as INFINITY reached its climax, while the Ultimate imprint's CATACLYSM got under way. Meanwhile, ASTONISHING X-MEN was relaunched as AMAZING X-MEN, and the MARVEL KNIGHTS X-MEN and LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE minis kick off. Though DC had four books in the top five - BATMAN, HARLEY QUINN, SUPERMAN UNCHAINED and FOREVER EVIL - Marvel still edged them in their share of the North American direct market, leading by 34% to 32% in unit terms, and 30% to 29% in dollars. As has already been pointed out on The Beat, this means Marvel and DC's combined dollar share dips below 60% - something that hasn't happened in a decade.

Of all the teasers Marvel ever released, this is by far the LEAST mysterious. A new Nightcrawler book by Chris Claremont and Todd Nauck...

Has there ever been a bigger disappointment on TV than Agents of SHIELD? On paper it look like a slam dunk, but when Joss...

As expected, Marvel has revealed the line-up for it's Post-Catgaclysm Ultimates line with three titles. Launched 14 years ago, Marvel's Ultimates timeline was...

We all knew that the Star Wars comics franchise would go to Marvel eventually, but no one seems enthused about the idea. Maybe that's...

Marvel and Dark Horse just sent out statements confirming what many had long expected: that Disney would move the Star Wars comics license to...

Jim Starlin wrote and drew Marvel's very first original graphic novel back in 1982, The Death of Captain Marvel, and he's at it again,...