“Villains Month” is a forthcoming crossover event published by DC Comics in September 2013. It is the first line wide crossover since The New 52 reboot of their shared fictional universe, and involves the regular comics stopping publication for a month, with titles focusing on the villains, such as The Joker and Bizzaro being published instead. It will spin out of the events in “Trinity War”, with Forever Evil focusing on the Secret Society of Super Villains. The DC villains that are receiving their own titles and will be a…
Read MoreTrinity War Coming To DC Comics
This week Pandora is featured in her own series as a tie-in to the main series Trinity War. Trinity of Sin: Pandora #1: The mysterious woman connected to the creation of the New 52 Pandora is on an action-packed, blood-soaked mission to hunt down the horrors she inadvertently unleashed upon the world. Can she save the DCU—and redeem herself in the process? A prequel to the upcoming “Trinity War”! Written by: Ray Fawkes, Art by: Daniel Sampere and Vicente Cifuentes, Cover by: Ryan Sook. She is a key figure in…
Read MoreX-Men: Battle of the Atom 50 Years of X-MEN
This September, celebrate the X-Men’s 50th anniversary with the first major X-Men crossover event in over three years: X-Men: Battle of the Atom! From the creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Brian Wood, Frank Cho, Stuart Immonen, Chris Bachalo, David Lopez and Giuseppe Camuncoli comes an event so exhilarating, and so groundbreaking that fans will be talking about this for years to come! Three X-Men universes collide in the biggest war mutantkind has ever seen, and you won’t believe how it all plays out. One thing’s for sure—no…
Read MoreDoes Superman Kill? Reflection of the Man Of Steel
Recently there has been a big controversy that stems from the Man Of Steel movie, does Superman kill and why did they allow it to happen in the movie. As one of the last fight scenes in the movie Zod and Superman are locked a titanic battle. Zod blames Superman for destroying his purpose for living, the restoration of Krypton. Superman destroys the machine that was turning earth into the new Krypton. It was transforming the world into a version of Krypton that would kill the 6 billion living there…
Read MoreMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coming To ABC
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. coming to ABC Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET this fall! Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel’s feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson’s team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent…
Read MoreAge of Ultron 10 AI Review
After only 10 issues and about six or seven tie-ins this event called Age of Ultron sadly has to come to stop. Ending with this big finale called age of Ultron issue 10 AI Marvel introduces a new series called Avengers AI. The story of the Age of Ultron starts with Dr. Hank Pym inventing a self-aware role robot called Ultron. Eventually this robot evolves into a mastermind of warfare and destruction. After Ultron destroyed almost all of earth the superheroes of the Marvel universe decide to put a stop…
Read MoreBrad Pitt in World War Z
The figure of the zombie has appeared several times in fantasy themed fiction and entertainment, as early as the 1929 novel The Magic Island by William Seabrook. Time claimed that the book “introduced ‘zombi’ into U.S. speech”. In 1932, Victor Halperin directed White Zombie, a horror film starring Bela Lugosi. This film, capitalizing on the same voodoo zombie themes as Seabrook’s book of three years prior, is often regarded as the first legitimate zombie film, and introduced the word “zombie” to the wider world. Other zombie-themed films include Val Lewton’s…
Read MoreSuperman and Wonder Woman Comic Book Coming
Since The Kiss in Justice League 12 DC fans have been wondering how long their relationship will continue that is between Superman and Wonder Woman, no disrespect to Lois Lane, Superman’s wife in another life. The New 52 is full of surprises but this is certainly not the first time Superman and Wonder Woman have kissed but it is the first time they have had a romantic longstanding relationship. DC has plans to investigate the romance between their most powerful couple in a series Superman/Wonder Woman written by Charles Soule…
Read MoreAnother Man Of Steel Review
May I introduce Seth one of our young Comics Talk readers who has submitted his own Man Of Steel review. He is a superhero comic and movie fan and this is a 15 year old take on the Superman movie, Spoilers Ahead: DC comics continues to blow my mind with their spectacularly action packed films. Like the dark knight trilogy, Man of Steel shows us more than just the hero. It shows is who they are as individuals. In this movie, which was like none of the other superman movies,…
Read MoreSmallville Michael Rosenbaum Wants to Be Lex Luthor Again
Has The Phoenix Returned? All New X-Men 13
The Phoenix Force was believed to have been destroyed during the events of Avengers Vs. X-Men, but the young Jean Grey is seemingly wielding the deadly cosmic force in this first look at Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen’s All-New X-Men #13. CLICK TO ENLARGE
Read MoreFall Out From Age Of Ultron #10 Grows Ultimate Hunger
If you read Age Of Ultron #10 then you know that the Space Time Continuum is in flux because of the repeated changes in history has resulted in a crisis and break down of the wall between time and the multiverse of universes. The extent of that has yet to be determined but Marvel has story lines that will be affected directly because of it. The following is a media release about that event of Marvel. It includes an introduction of the series Ultimate Hunger and Angela from the series…
Read MoreMan Of Steel Controversial Ending
Note: Spoilers follow. Some fans – and noted fanboy comic book writers – are up in arms over the controversial ending to the Man of Steel. The end of Man of Steel saw Superman snap Zod’s neck, killing the Kyrptonian General (we guess he won’t be coming back as a good guy like Loki, anyway…) In an interview podcast with Empire Online, director Zack Snyder addresses the question of Superman killing, and following that we also learn that producer Christopher Nolan was at first against the Superman killing Zod…
Read MoreDoomsday Coming to The New 52 DC Comics
Doomsday first appeared in Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (Nov. 1992) and was created by writer-artist Dan Jurgens. Doomsday’s character is portrayed as a mindless killing machine. Doomsday has no feelings or sentiments beyond unfocused hatred, murderous rage, and malicious joy at destruction. The character is best known as the killer of Superman in the 1992 story line, “The Death of Superman”. Doomsday will make his official debut in the New 52 of DC Comics in September as a part of “Villains Month”. This September will see Greg Pak…
Read MoreMan Of Steel Movie Review
Comics Talk is not an organization that gets an invitation to see a premier of a movie before it is released to the public so when I saw some of the movie reviews before the release of the movie and a 57% rating by the movie critics at Rotton Tomatoes and I read some of the criticism I was discouraged. But then I saw that in the early assessment of movie goers that 82% of them liked it and many people have not seen it yet I was encouraged. Having…
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