Habitual tweeter and X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer has confirmed the presence of actor Lucas Till in the next X-Men film when he posted a photo of the character this morning. With a caption that simply reads “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind”, attributed to …
Jul 16 2013
SDCC 2013: Marvel reveals new concept art for ‘Thor: The Dark World’
Along with the Captain America: The Winter Soldier concept art released last week, Marvel (via their official site) has announced they will be releasing this Thor: The Dark World concept art as a poster for guests at the San Diego Comic-Con International this week. Get yourself along to the Marvel Booth (#2329) to grab two new posters …
Jul 16 2013
SDCC 2013: Comic-Con posters for ‘I, Frankenstein’, ‘The Walking Dead: Season 4’ and ‘300: Rise of an Empire’
With the San Diego Comic-Con International kicking off this week, we’re going to see a stack of posters coming out of the US west coast camp. Hitting the interwebs this morning are some fine one-sheets for several upcoming comic book adaptations. The 300: Rise of an Empire poster features Lena Heady, who fixes her steely …
Jul 15 2013
Graphic Bits Reviews: Daredevil #28, East of West #4, Hawkeye #12 and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #2
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 (10 July 2013) take a look at the start of the next arc in Daredevil #28 (Marvel), find out what woman has power over death …
Jul 15 2013
Video: ‘Injustice: Gods Among Us’ adds Martian Manhunter and John Stewart DLC
No longer content to be that guy floating and watching creepily from the background, Martian Manhunter a.k.a. J’onn J’onzz has been announced as the latest new downloadable player for active duty in the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us. The video below shows us the character in action, along with one hell of a special move. No date …
Jul 15 2013
Robert Kirkman details ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 4
Series creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman has laid out some of the plans for the fourth season of AMC’s The Walking Dead for THR this weekend. Be warned, as this post contains some spoilers for the third season. With incoming showrunner Scott Gimple, the show’s third in as many years, Kirkman speaks of a …
Jul 13 2013
Watch the first clip from ‘Beware the Batman’ online
DC Entertainment (via their DC Comics YouTube channel) has released the first clip from their new DC Nation series Beware the Batman, premiering this weekend and to play Saturday mornings at 10/9c only on Cartoon Network in the US. While we will find out soon enough whether this animated series is any good, the stylised animation …
Jul 13 2013
Review: Thor: The Dark World Prelude #2
Filling in some of the gaps of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, our second taste of the Thor sequel comes in this comic prelude. In the first half of this prelude comic, writers Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle appeared to be hampered by their inability to be able to give away too much story ahead of …
Jul 13 2013
SDCC 2013: Green Arrow LEGO mini figure and more at Comic-Con
Those of you heading to San Diego Comic-Con International this year have another reason to make your friends jealous, or at the very least make a profit on eBay. LEGO will be handing out four exclusive minifigures at the ‘Con between July 18-21 at the San Diego Convention Center, reports USA Today. Green Arrow, Spider-man, …
Jul 13 2013
Jeff Wadlow tapped for ‘X-Force’ film for Fox
Amidst a flurry of rumours that an X-Force film announcement is forthcoming at next week’s Comic-Con, THR is reporting that Kick Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow is writing a screenplay for an X-Force film with an eye to also direct. The rumours began with various sites reporting the website X-ForceMovie.com being registered by 20th Century Fox …
Jul 12 2013
Fraction and Madureira to launch ‘Inhuman’ in December for Marvel
Marvel has announced (via their website) that Matt Fraction and artist Joe Madureira will release a new ongoing series called Inhuman, focusing on the Inhumans. The series will spin out of the Infinity event, commencing in August, and mark the return of the Marvel cosmic universe’s foremost royal family. Writer Fraction comments that the events …