Marvel has been teasing its next event, Secret Empire, for a bit, with events rolling out of the Cap/Hydra storyline. And now Disney affiliate ABC has all the core-shaking details and the roll out of he cover by Mark Brooks, complete with Spider-Man in his tarditional taint-first pose:
The Marvel Rundown: Is Marvel’s Latest Monster Mash Terrorizing or Tired?
Civil War II doesn’t seem that far behind us, but we’re already starting a new phase of Marvel with the debut of Monsters Unleashed #1. With recent teaser images, we can already start to infer that the publisher is now trying to bring these frayed heroes together despite the tension surrounding the heroes in the […]
Marvel to announce MU by Bunn and McNiven at Diamond Retailer Summit
Marvel has gone cryptic again with a new teaser for something called MU by Steve McNiven and Cullen Bunn. Here’s the clues for the logic puzzle: • McNiven is the artist on Civil War • Bunn is the writer on Uncanny X-Men • But McNiven is given top billing, suggesting he’s a co-writer. • […]
Review: Uncanny Inhumans #0 Black Bolt Returns to his Kingdom
Writers Charles Soule Ryan Stegman Artists Steve McNiven Jay Leisten Ryan Lee Brandon Peterson Colorist Justin Ponsor James Campbell Marvel is adamantly trying to push the Inhumans as their premiere X-Men team, even stealing the adjective from their former property. Frankly, who could blame them with the Inhuman film coming in-house from Marvel studios as […]
UPDATE – Amazing Arizona Con 2015: Deadpool ruled & art crooks were called out
The Valentines State’s first comic con of the year wrapped up over the romantic weekend. Jimmy Jay, Amazing Arizona Comic Con organizer, didn’t let a hallmark holiday get in the way of putting on his three-day annual comic book convention on Friday, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 15. The event kicked off with an intimate panel with Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane and the New York Times best selling Batman artist, Greg Capullo. They signed someone’s baby.
New Marvels retro teasers take us back to The Infinity Gauntlet and Old Man Logan
We missed yesterday’s Marvel teaser campaign entry, and it was a good one. The Infinity Gauntlet, originally by Jim Starlin, and one of the cornerstones of modern comics continuity and readership.
And today’s call out is Old Man Logan, by Mark Millar (him again!!!) and Steve McNiven, who draws this image. This one was revealed in a Tweet.
Marvel teases Civil War 2015, bringing back its most successful event ever
Not content to resurrect Secret Wars, their most successful mega-event ever, Marvel just sent out a Civil Wars teaser image showing Iron Man and Captain America once again battling for the soul of Spider-Man, as he was in the 2005 Civil War event. The cover image is by Adi Granov.
Civil War the original event was written by Mark Millar and drawn by Steve McNiven. It ran for seven issues from 2006-7 and had the tagline “Whose side are you on?” It was the waning years of the Bush administration and Milar’s story played into the still fresh wound of 9/11 with a story in which Iron Man and Captain America took different sides on the eternal debate over freedom vs safety. The book was well written and had a larger subtext that just who was fighting who and really tied into the Zeitgiest. Perhaps by no coincidence it remains the ONLY event book which still sells in collected edition form (at this very moment it’s Marvel’s #6 book on Amazon.)
Wolverine and Kitty talk about old times in THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3
With Wolverine’s days dwindling as he dies for the 9th or 10th time in the comics, he and Kitty go to Japan to talk about the days that were, the days that are and the very few days that are to come. Don’t cry. It’s the story that has the whole world talking, and today […]
Review: Remender and McNiven’s Uncanny Avengers 14
By Jeffrey O. Gustafson I guess I’ll start off by admitting I haven’t really been reading writer Rick Remender’s Uncanny Avengers. I read the first arc largely because of John Cassaday’s presence on art, but Remender’s story – involving the Red Skull stealing the recently deceased Charles Xavier’s brain – left me a little cold. […]
Marvel Announce Inhumans Series by Matt Fraction featuring… Nightcrawler?
The Inhumans were promised to have a big role in Infinity, and it appears that we’re about to get an idea as to what that is. Matt Fraction has been announced as the writer for an Inhumans ongoing series in December, which will launch off the back of a storyline in Jonathan Hickman’s big Marvel […]