Oct 17 2013
Marvel has issued a press release containing a full list of the titles announced at NYCC this year, including the new and relaunched titles we can expect between January and April 2014. Marvel Entertainment’s Editor in Chief Axel Alonso claims that the “NYCC announcements were only the tip of the iceberg — we’ve plenty more to …
Sep 11 2013
Ahead of their forthcoming December solicitations, Marvel has announced that they will be plugging Inhumanity hard in the weeks leading up to Christmas with several more tie-ins (Inhuman-tie-in-ity?) for the fallout event from Infinity. Dropping in the twelfth month are Inhumanity: The Awakening by Matt Kindt and Paul Davidson, along with a tie-in arc of New Avengers from Jonathan Hickman and Simone Bianchi. The …
Sep 05 2013
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (4 September 2013), Marvel comes at us with not one but two events in X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1 and Infinity #2, things …
Aug 09 2013
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (7 August 2013) we get sophomore efforts from Avengers A.I. (Marvel), Hunger (Marvel) and Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s truly brilliant Satellite Sam (Image …
Jul 31 2013
Each month, hundreds of comics are released to stores for the hungry masses of fans around the world. To stand out on the shelves, you have to put the great art up front. You can judge a book by its cover. Welcome back to our continuing monthly column, where the covers tell a story of their …
Jul 04 2013
Sam Humphries and Andre Araujo bring the funbots out for this much-needed dose of humour in the wake of Age of Ultron. One of the best things to come out of the inconsistent and disappointing Age of Ultron was the renewed focus on Hank Pym. As we saw in Mark Waid’s excellent epilogue issue Age of …
Jun 27 2013
This one-shot epilogue to Age of Ultron almost makes the whole series worthwhile, restoring Hank Pym to our good graces. With the Age of Ultron event finally stumbling over the finish line, the Marvel faithful breathe a sigh of relief as one of the most inconsistent and dollar-centric events comes to a close. Completely ignoring …
Jun 20 2013
It’s all been building to this. The inconsistent series reaches its final issue, and the major surprise is finally revealed. Was it worth the wait? There’s been an established pattern the last few years for Marvel events: one major event begets another. It’s a cycle readers of comic books should we well and truly used …
Mar 30 2013
In great Marvel tradition, the current Age of Ultron event gives birth to a new series: Avengers A.I. Read on for the press release and a preview of the cover by Dustin Weaver. This July, red hot writer Sam Humphries (Uncanny X-Force) and artist Andre Araujo (FF), shine an entirely new light on an all-new, …
