Tag: Marvel

When Marvel and DC snipe, the reader is the winner...at least this time with a Deadpool-esque take off on DC's 52-variety state flag variant...

After September's virtual hiatus, October saw Marvel emerge from crossover season and hit the ground running. AVENGERS VS X-MEN wraps up, while Marvel Now gets underway with the debut issues of UNCANNY AVENGERS and A PLUS X. On top of that, there's AVX: CONSEQUENCES, the MARVEL NOW: POINT ONE one-shot, a new ongoing series with WOLVERINE: MAX, the "Minimum Carnage" crossover, and more. Given all that, it's no surprise that Marvel had the biggest share of the North American direct market, leading DC by 40% to 34% in units and 35% to 32% in dollars.

Finally, the long national nightmare is over as future Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has apologized on Facebook for his unwise, unfunny and offensive comments that he wrote on his blog two years ago:

Yesterday there was a new source of gender battle outrage on the internets, as spelled out by The Mary Sue. It seems that director James Gunn, who has made the film Super and is slated to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy has a very active website and online presence and nearly two years ago he ran a piece called 50 Superhero you want to have sex with that included all kinds of jokes about having sex and rape and gays.

Snikt, bub—although Hugh Jackman's popular portrayal of Wolverine made only a (hilarious) cameo in X-MEN FIRST CLASS, he's in negotiations to appear in the...

Marvel is holding one of the press conferences to cover UNCANNY AVENGERS this afternoon, and although neither The Beat nor Sterling Steve Morris could...

Spoilers for X-Treme X-Men #6 below, as a classic Marvel character made their glorious comeback in this week's issue, which was written by Greg...

The "Fearless" teaser in Marvel NOW! has been unveiled as FEARLESS DEFENDERS by Cullen Bunn and Will Sliney, and it will be a buddy...

Confounding those who thought they knew what the identity of the Superior Spider-Man would be, Marvel have announced that top candidate Alpha will be...

Marvel continues to roll out some quirky content for their quirky new FF book with this variant cover by Art Adams. The new FF team features Ant-Man, She-Hulk, Medusa, and Ms. Thing and is by Matt Fraction and Mike Allred.

Here's a look at a book that a lot of people will want to look at, the wacky new take on the FF by...

Although Steely Steve Morris couldn't make it to today's Marvel Now call we did get the artwork and it's very nice.