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Warren Ellis To Return To Powers

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 28, 2011 | News

Those of you who has been following Powers since it first arrived from Image Comics from a young Brian Bendis and Mike Oeming know that one of the earlier issues featured comic scribe Warren Ellis doing a ride along with Agent Walker as he does research for his comic book, Powers. Of course, the issue […]

Ultimate Avengers Vs. New Ultimates Is Mark Millar’s Last Marvel Work

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 27, 2011 | News

As revealed in an interview with Newsarama, Mark Millar has stated that the upcoming Death of Spider-Man story in Marvel’s Ultimate line will be his last endeavor in the Marvel Universe. Not that there is any friction between him and Marvel – far from it. Millar simply feels that now is the time in his […]

Retailers to Sell Digital Comics Via ComiXology

By David Harper | Jan 27, 2011 | News

ComiXology announced today that they are releasing a Retailer Tools and Pull List service that will allow retailers to create digital storefronts. What does that mean? That any comic retailer, say Floating World Comics in Portland, can create a ComiXology storefront and sell books out and split the profit (assumably) from there. Given that many […]

Marvel Releases Fantastic Four #588 Teaser

By Joshua Mocle | Jan 27, 2011 | News

With very little fanfare, Marvel has released the following teaser image for Fantastic Four #588, the last issue of the book before it is relaunched as simply “FF” in March (and before FF is relaunched as Fantastic Four #589 in give or take two years…) (source)

Marvel Announces New Herc Ongoing

By Joshua Mocle | Jan 27, 2011 | News

If you listen closely, you can hear the entire Multiversity writing team wetting their collective pants today as Marvel officially announced a brand new Hercules ongoing, titled simply “Herc”, launching with two issues in February in the wake of Chaos War. It seems rumors of the book’s demise were greatly exaggerated a few months ago […]

Sara Quin of Tegan & Sara Chooses Lemire’s "Essex County" for Canada Reads

By David Harper | Jan 26, 2011 | News

The Canada Reads book battle is just around the corner, as the five greatest novels of Canadian literature from the 2000’s will be squaring off February 7, 8 and 9 on CBC Radio One. Incredibly enough, Multiversity favorite Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel “Essex County” is amongst the contenders, and we’re all pulling for him. Also […]

PBS Is A Super Hero

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 26, 2011 | News

Here’s a nice little story for your afternoon: Little Noah, a five year old television fan, wrote a letter to PBS Kids saying that he enjoys their programming but would like if they had a new super hero show called Super Heroes To The Rescue. As a downpayment to this, he attached a dollar to […]

Arcade’s Death Game Now Just The Avengers Academy Annual

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 26, 2011 | News

UPDATE: We now have confirmation from Paul Tobin that the issue is being reformatted to a single story that acts as the Avengers Academy annual, as seen on Twitter (thanks to @Max_Barnard for the heads up!). Basically, exactly what happened to Brian Clevinger’s Cap ongoing has happened here – and that’s kinda sorta really disappointing. […]

This Week In Comics!

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 26, 2011 | News

We figure it might help to let you guys know what’s coming out this week in comics, so welcome to our weekly feature! Our reviews come out tomorrow, so be sure to look over this list to get a preview of what we may or may not be reviewing tomorrow. We’ve added all of our […]

Poll: How Did You Find Out Who Died in Fantastic Four #587?

By David Harper | Jan 25, 2011 | News

Today brings the ending of Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting’s “Three” arc in Fantastic Four, with issue #587. It also brings the death of one of the legendary foursome of adventurers and superheroes, all executed in stunning fashion by the creative team (look for a review tomorrow). However, with Marvel trying to build-up hype for […]

Victor Gischler And His Vampire Friends Join Fear Itself

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 24, 2011 | News

Victor Gischler started the first X-Men #1 in twenty years when he started … well, X-Men. And how did he begin it? By having the X-Men fight Vampires! Dracula was murdered and his son moved in to take over, but lo and behold Cyclops found a way to defeat them. But what about Dracula? And […]

"Wonder Woman" Pulls a Wizard, Gets Picked Up by NBC

By David Harper | Jan 24, 2011 | News

Just a few weeks back, news surfaced that David E. Kelley’s “Wonder Woman” TV show had been shelved because of no network picking it up for pilot season. Then, in what is turning into a trend for the day, Kelley’s adaptation came back to life as NBC picked it up for the upcoming pilot season. […]

Wizard is Dead…Long Live Wizard?

By David Harper | Jan 24, 2011 | News

What a weird day for Wizard. First it was announced that they were dead, now it looks like everything is being shifted instead of closed, as they just shared a press release stating that they will be going online under the title “Wizard World” and rolling out a 12 city Comic Con Tour. More on […]

Wizard Magazine Closed Down?

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 24, 2011 | News

Well this is certainly a shocking piece of Monday morning news. According to a scoop over at Bleeding Cool, Wizard Magazine – the #1 print source of comic news in the last twenty years – is dead in print. As the report goes, the magazine staff has been laid off, the freelance staff have all […]

Archie Comics ALSO Kicks the Code

By Joshua Mocle | Jan 22, 2011 | News

Hot on the heels of DC’s similar announcement, industry mainstay Archie Comics has also announced that it will no longer seek the approval of the Comics Code Authority on its creative output. That makes two very big hits to the Code this week, leaving this reporter to wonder “if the most clean-cut, rule following comic […]

Captain America: The Fighting Avenger Now a One-Shot

By Joshua Mocle | Jan 22, 2011 | News

While this was indicated in Marvel’s April 2011 solicitations, we now have explicit confirmation that Marvel’s previously announced All Ages Captain America series, written by Multiversity favorite Brian Clevinger and Illustrated by Gurihiru, has now been downgraded all the way down PAST limited series to a One-Shot. For my money, this is one of the […]

Check This Out: Spider-Man’s New Movie Costume

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 21, 2011 | News

Straight from the LA set of the new Spider-Man movie, we have our first rather clear look at the new Spider-Man suit. Nothing is dark or blurry, it’s all rather out there and clear. So what do we have? Well, we have silver lined boots, web-shooters and a rather different pattern than the classic Spidey […]

GINGERBREAD GIRL launches today on Top Shelf 2.0!

By David Harper | Jan 21, 2011 | News

Free comics are always a good thing, but free comics coming from Top Shelf Productions and the writer/artist team of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover? That’s a great thing. Today, Paul and Colleen’s upcoming graphic novel Gingerbread Girl had its first three pages released on Top Shelf 2.0 (Top Shelf’s webcomics site), and Top Shelf […]

Poll: Who Wil Die In "3"?

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 21, 2011 | News

This is it. Next week, Jonathan Hickman will commit murder and change Marvel’s First Family forever. Someone is going to die, and (barring someone spoiling it for everyone like a jerk) we have no clue who it’s going to be! So who do you think it is? Is it the big brain out in space […]

BOOM! Studios’ The Anchor Vol. 1 Wins 2011 Great Graphic Novels For Teens Award

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 21, 2011 | News

BOOM! Studios Press Release BOOM! Studios is proud to announce that for the second year in a row the Young Adult Library Service Association (YALSA) has selected a BOOM! Studios original graphic novel, THE ANCHOR VOL. 1: FIVE FURIES, as one of their 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. This year, YALSA has compiled a […]

Black Panther Film In The Works

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 21, 2011 | News

It looks like Marvel Studios is going to do whatever they can to bring Black Panther to us on the big screen! Having recently been unable to air their TV show on BET due to legal complications, it had looked like Marvel might have to shelve the Black Panther property for a tad. However, never […]

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