The world has a vast variety of different tastes in just about anything. Food, clothing, and music varies pending on what country you are in. This is almost especially true with comics. China seems to be quite the fan of Rogue losing her virginity to Sentry. However, it seems across the board that everyones new favorite is Injustice: God’s Among Us.
The new Superman Unchained fold out poster has been released. This amazing work of art is the love child of Jim Lee and Scott Snyder. The comic comes out next week and is an additional $2 than normal pricing due to the huge fold out poster. This fantastic piece of artwork will be strung up on walls of fans everywhere.
Joss Whedon is standing for his Iron Man. Robert Downy Junior is in the middle of negotiations with his contract for Marvel’s The Avengers 2 and Marvel’s The Avengers 3, but it’s not clear whether he’ll return or if Marvel will recast Tony Stark. Please say it isn’t so. I couldn’t see Tony Stark as anyone else at this point.
Marvel has teamed up with Gazillion and Secret Identity Studios to take the MMO category to a completely new level of excitement and engagement, as Marvel Heroes combines action role-playing games with the MMO genre. This first trailer was released late May shows gameplay, new heroes and new enemies. The opening cinematic was released this week, and it looks freaking amazing. Check it out below. This game is going to give World of Warcraft a run for it’s money.
Oh Thor, you beautiful specimen of Godly hammer wielding man. Thor; The Dark World will be released on November 8th to theaters everywhere. There is so much to expect from this film. There will be Dark Elves, which look pretty creepy if you ask me. There will be Natalie Portman, who is just nice to look at. There will be Malekith the Accursed who will be played by the doctor himself, Chris Eccelston. So many many exciting things to look forward to.
Recently Marvel Comics has been creating many variant covered featuring baby super heroes that have done surprisingly well all over the market. They are marked up on ebay for quite a bit including Deadpool #1 for $30, Fearless Defenders #1 for $16, Iron Man at $20, Red She Hulk at $16. Who can blame buyers, they’re kind of adorable. However, the hefty pricing of these books are about to be liquidated by the mass production of books and variants that are about to flood the market.
In September, Infinity will be hitting comic stands everywhere and how thrilled we are. Marvel has been releasing promo material left and right for the franchise. Multiple covers and variants have been released and tidbits about reoccurring characters have been mentioned. This six part series is being brought to fans by a laundry list of talent.
The wonders of the Marvel/ABC/Disney mix are well underway with their plans for new animated films and what have you. The newest installment of their grand master medium clash franchise plan was released the other day. A graphic novel base on the show Once Upon A Time is set to air on September 4th, and loos pretty dark.
This weekend My Chemical Romance’s former lead singer Gerard Way took to twitter to reveal some images of a failed pitch to Vertigo for his Batman mini-series. Way of course made famous in the comic world for his series The Umbrella Academy has been popping up more and more in the comic scene as of late with new ideas and potential movie options.