Those pesky new Avengers keep revealing themselves, next up The Amazingly Spectacular Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman. Mr. Parker joins the premiere group in the Marvel Universe. First on the list was Luke Cage and tomorrow will bring more reveals.  

Marvel Comics has two words to say to Spider-Man’s alter ego Peter Parker — You’re Fired! Beginning in Amazing Spider-Man #623, on-sale March 3rd, everyone’s favorite friendly neighborhood hero has to not only survive key arch nemesis Vulture’s reign of terror…but also losing his job at the Mayor’s office! Peter Parker lays it all on the line to protect J. Jonah Jameson and keep the city from ripping itself apart, but Peter’s sacrifice winds up costing his career as a photographer.  

CEO of New York based Wizard Entertainment, Gareb Shamus, announces his latest convention acquisition. Nashville’s Comic & Horror Festival is now Nashville Comic Con Wizard World Convention.  

Classic Swedish death metal outfit N2002 has announced that all original members will reunite for their first ever performance outside of Sweden at this year’s Maryland Deathfest. N2002 will perform on Sunday, May 30th during this weekend-long festival that’s held every year in Baltimore, MD.  

It’s a bill that fans of horror and hard rock could only dream of until now: For the first time ever, the “gruesome twosome” — ALICE COOPER and ROB ZOMBIE — will play an exclusive limited run of North American tour dates beginning April 26 at the MTS Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  

Las Vegas rockers Taking Dawn have been included on the soundtrack to the highly anticipated Gods of War 3 video game. The soundtrack (available March 2nd) will feature the unreleased Taking Dawn track “This is Madness”, as well as new and unreleased tracks from Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Dream Theater, Opeth, and Mutiny Within.  

In an earlier press release, we had stated that nothing said “welcome to America” like getting tased. Apparently we were wrong. YOUR DEMISE guitarist, Stu Paice just posted a rather alarming story on the band’s official Tumblr page about how the band was stopped at the Canadian border, searched and held at gunpoint by the police:  

Check Out the last red band trailer for one of the most anticipated movies this year…Kick Ass!!!  

The boys are back in town! Yup, just when you thought the net was safe from these 2…BAM! they’re back! Andrew and Mikael talk Smallville “Absolute Justice” the upcoming DC Comics DVD Crisis on 2 Earths and they tackle the rumor “Is Christopher Nolan taking on the Superman movie?” Podcast: Play in new window | Download  

On tomorrow’s highly anticipated Season Finale of The Super Hero Squad Show at 7:30PM EST on Cartoon Network, Galactus arrives in Super Hero City with one intention – to devour the Earth! The fate of the planet hangs in the balance, and the Squaddies are the only ones who can save it.  

     Straight from DC’s “Source” Blog, Geoff Johns talks about his new position as Cheif Creative Officer at DC Comics. If you’re like me than you have some what of an addiction to all things Geoff Johns and should probably seek help, but until that akward intervention, here’s a few words from the man himself that should get you more than excited about this new climate in DC. Just in time as the comics turn to the new Brightest Day line also by Johns……….. little overload there……. awesome.  

  IDW Publishing is thrilled to announce an exclusive partnership with worldwide bestselling author James Patterson to publish original comic stories and graphic novel adaptations of his top-selling novels. This groundbreaking alliance launches in May 2010 with a spellbinding, five-part story spinning out of Patterson‘s acclaimed young adult novel, Witch & Wizard.