July 2013 archive

Watch a clip from new Marvel One-Shot ‘Agent Carter’ online

Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter

 Marvel has released the first clip from the upcoming Marvel One-Shot, Agent Carter, a follow-up to Captain America: The First Avenger. The full film debuted at the Comic-Con International in San Diego on Friday, and will release it wider as part of the Iron Man 3 DVD and Blu-ray in August/September around the world. The clip shows a post-Captain America Peggy Carter …

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First official posters from ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ revealed

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Magneto poster

 X marks the spot with the release of two new posters for one of the most anticipated superhero films of 2014. After the massive cast gatherings and footage reveals at Comic-Con International in San Diego over the weekend, Fox has released two new official posters for X-Men: Days of Future Past via x-menmovies.com. The two posters depict the …

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List of 5: Wolverine comics you should read

Uncanny X-Men #173 - Wolverine and the Silver Samurai (Artist: Paul Smith)

First introduced in 1974 in the pages of The Incredible Hulk, he was introduced to the X-Men in the pages of Giant X-Men #1 in 1975, and soon became a staple of Chris Claremont‘s historic run that followed. Now the character is quite literally everywhere, occupying several of his own monthly titles, along with various X-Men and Avengers …

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Chuck Palahniuk announces graphic novel sequel to ‘Fight Club’

Fight Club soap

We are Jack’s happy amygdala. Appearing at the Comic-Con International at San Diego over the weekend to promote his new novel Doomed, author Chuck Palahniuk let slip that he was working on a graphic novel sequel to his most famous work, Fight Club. The 1996 novel, a commentary on the dissatisfaction with modern male ideals of masculinity, was …

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Official logo for ‘Superman/Batman’ film revealed online

Superman/Batman Official Movie Logo (2015)

After the crowd-pleasing announcement that Zack “Snack” Snyder would be bringing a sequel to Man of Steel to cinemas in 2015, and that sequel would feature some character named Batman. Now that the excitement has (not) died down, the official logo has been released in hi-res online. At Comic-Con International at San Diego, Snyder took the stage to …

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SDCC 2013 Highlights: News from Comic-Con International in San Diego

SDCC 2013: Comic-Con International in San Diego

So another Comic-Con International in San Diego has come and gone, and whether you could be there or not, the Monday following such an event should be declared a geek public holiday. The sheer amount of news leading up to and coming out of the ‘Con is a little hard to digest, so we’ve made it …

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SDCC 2013: Marvel announces ‘Amazing X-Men’, ‘Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe’ and more comics

Amazing X-Men #1

More comics news (shock horror!) emerged from the Comic-Con International in San Diego, as senior editor Nick Lowe, Brian Michael Bendis, Paul Cornell, Gerry Duggan, Peter David, Sam Humphries, Chris Hastings, Terry Dodson and Brian Posehn took to the stage for the Marvel Comics X-Men panel. The two big announcements of the panel were the new series Amazing …

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‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ not based on miniseries

Avengers: Age of Ultron

After the Comic-Con International in San Diego announcement yesterday that the next Avengers film will be called Avengers: Age of Ultron, many assumed that it would be based on the recent critically panned Age of Ultron miniseries from Marvel. However, in an interview with ComicBookMovie, writer/director Joss Whedon has been quick to correct this. “Well, because there …

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Behind The Panels Issue 65 – Claremont ’82: Wolverine/God Loves, Man Kills

In this issue, we report back on Oz Comic-Con Melbourne, and our chats with Bill Farmer and Phil Jimenez. THEN we bring you some extraordinary television news and look at the Harvey Award nominations. PLUS our Kick-Ass Picks of the Week: a Chris Claremont ’82 double of Wolverine with Frank Miller, and bonus book X-Men: God …

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SDCC 2013: New ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ concept art and press release revealed

Guardians of the Galaxy concept art - SDCC 2013

On a day of far too many announcements to mention, Marvel Studios have also released a Comic-Con International in San Diego exclusive piece of concept art showing off the whole Guardians of the Galaxy team. The press release also confirms Glenn Close as Nova Prime. Unlike the original concept art, this features redesigned costumes for …

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Marvel announces The Avengers sequel is ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, official logo revealed

Avengers: Age of Ultron Logo

In a surprising announcement, Joss Whedon took the stage at Comic-Con International in San Diego to announce that the next Avengers film with be Avengers: Age of Ultron. Age of Ultron was the big summer blockbuster from the comics world, and despite criticisms, Marvel seems keen to push this to the big screen. The plot revolves around …

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