Category: News
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Like the subject of this post, this old man was nearly off to bed when the news came across the wire that Steve Rogers would once again wield the shield as Captain America following the upcoming "Avengers: Standoff" event. Rogers will star in a new title, Captain America: Steve Rogers, while his successor, Sam Wilson,…
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These days, comics companies love to leak big story details to the press, usually the day the comics hit the stands shops, and sometimes even the day before. But today, Marvel Comics went several steps farther. In a piece in the New York Daily News written by a reporter "embedded" in an editorial retreat, not…
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If I knew the official announcement of Sam Wilson (the Falcon) picking up the mantle from an aged Steve Rogers was coming so soon, I would have waited to write my post on the new Thor, since many of the points I have to make are the same. But here I'll focus on the aspects…
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Recently it was announced—on "The View," of all places—that the next person found worthy to wield the power of Thor in the Marvel Universe would be a woman, after the current Thor is judged unworthy. (See here for the best write-up I've found, including an interview with writer Jason Aaron and EIC Axel Alonso.) Predictably,…
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As Zap2It reported early this morning, part of Grant Morrison's sprawling DC Comics series Multiversity will tell the story of a stranger from another planet landing in Nazi Germany rather than Smallville, Kansas: "Imagine you're Superman and for the first 25 [years] of your life you were working for Hitler," Morrison says, "And then you…
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HUGE SPOILERS BELOW—if you don't want to know that Mary Jane Watson is the new Spider-Man, read no further! As everyone in the comics community knows, Amazing Spider-Man #700 and Avenging Spider-Man #15.1 come out today, and the transformation revealed in Amazing Spider-Man #698 is confirmed: Otto Octavius, aka Doc Ock, is now aka Spider-Man,…
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As you might have heard by now, in today's Ultimate Comics: Ultimates #15, Captain America is elected president of the United States in a special election. (He takes the oath in #16, shown to the right.) America is the real world may be divided ideologically, but the Ultimate version is divided physically, with various grouping of states…
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In this morning's New York Post, we get an image of the new Captain Marvel Shazam. Gritting his teeth. Looking mean. With a hood. Grrr. Just like the old Captain Marvel. No different. Ahem. Somehow I don't think Hoppy the Marvel Bunny is showing up in the DC New 52, unless he plays the role…
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New from The Source is a teaser about the new Earth 2's Batman and the design by Jim Lee: “Who will Batman kill to save his own daughter?” asks EARTH 2 editor Pat McCallum. “Right out of the gate that should tell you we’re dealing with a different kind of Dark Knight here. More ruthless,…
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Hardly a secret at this point but finally officially confirmed, DC Comics unpeels its plan for seven prequel miniseries to Watchmen, the 25-year-old classic series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Creators for the new series include Darwyn Cooke, J. Michael Straczynski, Amanda Conner, Andy and Joe Kubert, and Len Wein. Get the complete details…
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