Tag: Marvel Now
Preview: Ghost Rider is back for Marvel Now ’16
The Felipe Smith/Tradd Moore run on Ghost Rider was a stylish new take on the character. The Marvel Now '16 verssion isn't quite as stylized, but we're still digging the manga infused variant cover...
Sales Charts: September was okay but has Marvel Now!’s crop rotation leeched the soil?
It's that time of the month where comics sales pundits analyze monthly sales. ICv2 has it's industry standard sales estimates, and praise for how DC turned the ship around with Rebirth.
Comic sales in September...
Top Secret Venom artist is revealed…and you’ll never ever believe who it is!
A while ago, Marvel teased a "Top Seekrit" cover artist on a secret variant for VENOM #`1, one of the new "Tough Guys" line of Marvel Now! 2016 periodicals. The comics world trembled in...
Preview: Marvel’s Solo is getting a solo book
Marvel Now! includes a spate of comics staring unproven (i.e. haven't really had their own long running series) male heroes with single word names - Prowler, Foolkiller, Solo, Venom, and the new guy Mosaic. Most of...
Tilting at Windmills #253: Was DC’s Rebirth a Commercial Hit… or Failure?
We’re still very much in the short-term phase as I write this as the fifth issues of the initial “Rebirth” series just come out, and we’re still at least a quarter, perhaps two, to see how the greater market ends up reacting over-all – but I can look at my own data and draw out a few initial suppositions.
Marvel Now releases a new “shattered” poster
So Marvel Now, last seen give years ago, is coming back, because, as Morrisey reminds us, it's always now. I'll have to do a round-up of what we've seen so far but it's all...
Oh hai! Marvel is rebooting too with the return of Marvel Now!
Here we go again! Marvel has a new direction and it's charging right at you this faall with an ambitious new slate called MARVEL NOW!
Which they did already four years ago. And it was followed by All-New Marvel Now. And then All New All Different Marvel (ANAD). So, Marvel please check in with Stan and find some new words! Bravura. Gorilla. Defy. There are plenty!
So when you google for a headline this is going to be hard. ON the other hand "Now" is eternal and Marvel is always changing, so maybe it's a meta suggestion for the eternal flux and evolution of life in the universe.
Marvel Welcomes Fantastic Four and X-Men heroes into their All-New, All-Different Universe
Marvel has released a brand new teaser for their All-New, All-Different line of characters. While yesterday's image featured mostly Avengers heroes, this image contains a select few from the X-Men and Fantastic Four properties! From...
Marvel’s Second Wave is ‘All-New Marvel Now’, Starting with All-New Invaders
In an interview with delightful hero Brian Truitt of USA Today, Marvel have unveiled the branding for their next wave of comics. Called All-New Marvel Now, the two launch books will be All-New Invaders...
UPDATE: Avengers Assemble Cancelled — OR IS IT!?
It's reported that Kelly Sue DeConnick's much-loved but low-selling 'Avengers Assemble' will be ending. A release in the most recent Marvel subscription newsletter informs customers that the series is cancelled, and all subscriptions will...
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Annabelle Riggs
Marvel's female characters do tend to be their very best, so here at The Beat we've been following Will Sliney (at a distance, so he doesn't suspect) as he helps set up the all-female...
Uncanny Avengers Introduces ‘The M-Word’
Even allowing for the fact that we're not supposed to like any of the characters in Uncanny Avengers (only this week, Wolverine calls Japanese mutant Sunfire "a walking atomic bomb" and nobody bats an...