Category: Marvel Comics
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Short and sweet, folks… amidst the wonderfully poignant, mostly silent elegy for the recently departed (I won't spoil things if it you didn't read #654), Dan Slott and Marcos Martin's Amazing Spider-Man #655 portrays Peter in his dreamworld confronting those lost in his battle against evil, and being taunted by the evildors themselves for not…
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In a fantastic new interview at Newsarama, The Invincible Iron Man writer Matt Fraction discusses the future of the Iron Man title (including the mammoth #500 issue and the reflective #500.1 issue), previews Tony's role in the upcoming Fear Itself event, and–most interesting to me–compares Iron Man and Spider-Man in terms of their ethics. From the…
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In the spirit of Bleeding Cool's "Swipe File," here's the newly released poster for Captain America: The First Avenger: My first impulse was that it was similar to the famous "Cap's pissin' behind his shield: pose from the wonder Michael Turner (RIP) piece for Civil War: But now I think it resembles more…
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In the latest Hot Button feature at Newsarama, Vaneta Rogers discusses social commentary in superhero comics with writers Denny O'Neil (notable in this particular context for his classic run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow), Judd Winick (controversial runs dealing with hate crimes and AIDS in Green Lantern and, uh, Green Arrow), and Greg Rucka (celebrated for redefining The…
Mark D. White 