Cable and X-Force from Marvel NOW!

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Media Release: When you’re a team charged with protecting a world that fears and hates you, there will, of course, be occasional differences of opinions on how to best do your job. Cable, Marvel Comics’ time-traveling mutant soldier from the future, believed he could best defend the planet by putting together a more aggressive mutant team. To that end, he founded the proactive, militant, mutant hero group known as X-Force. Over the years, there have been multiple incarnations of the team, with the last two having no ties to the…

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Who Dies in Avengers vs. X-Men #11 Review

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Well we now know who dies in the 11th issue of Avengers Vs X-Men and I must say I am not surprised Professor Xavier may have been the founder of the X-Men he has not played a large part in the X-Men saga here of late and has not had a very big say in the direction of the mutant population for a very long time. Marvel has chose to go in a different direction with the school he started and the ideal of mutant and human getting along for the…

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Spider-Man Turns 50 for Marvel

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Spider-Man just had birthday number 50 in August of 2012. If you don’t know who Spider-Man is where have you been? He is the most popular hero ever released by Marvel and has been followed by fans for half a century. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962). Lee and Ditko conceived the character as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and as a teenager, having to deal with the normal struggles of adolescence…

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Wonder Woman Series Being Developed for The CW

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September 6, 2012 Wonder Woman is getting another chance at a TV series. It was just last year David E. Kelley made a semi-infamous Wonder Woman pilot for NBC, which was passed on by the network. Now however, Vulture reports that there is a brand new TV take on Princess Diana in the works at The CW. Titled Amazon, this is a complete origin story – what Vulture describes as being about “a young, budding superhero, rather than a fully formed defender of liberty.” It seems that, like Smallville, Diana…

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End of Avengers VS X-Men 12

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I had to show when Avengers VS X-Men series will end for you who are reading this Marvel Blockbuster. The biggest comic event of the year comes to its Universe shattering conclusion in Avengers VS. X-Men #12 this October. Which team will reign supreme? Here comes the pain as all your favorite super heroes enter the battle—and only one team will emerge victorious! Don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime comic event in, Avengers VS. X-Men #12, on sale October 3rd in comic shops everywhere, on the Marvel…

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Doctor Who : New season to premiere on BBC

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BBC America has announced that the new season of Doctor Who will debut on September 1 at 9 p.m. ET, EW has confirmed. The network will broadcast five episodes of the 49-year-old British science fiction show this fall, starting with season premiere, “Asylum of the Daleks” and ending with an episode which will feature both the Weeping Angels and the departure of the Doctor’s companions Amy and Rory. The second half of the season is set to be broadcast next year. “We have, I think, our biggest range of stories…

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Comic Con 2012: The Judge Dredd World Premiere

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Lionsgate and the Masters of the Web panel co-sponsored the world premiere of Dredd 3D to a packed house at San Diego Comic Con Wednesday night. Dedicated fans lined up around the block for a chance to get into the screening, and the chance to hear stars Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby intro the film. The two play judges in a burned-out, post-apocalyptic metropolis, and as Urban cautioned before the screening, rambunctious crowd grabbing Dredd tickets better like their movies to be “dark and gritty.” Needless to say, that got…

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Green Lantern Annual #1 Preview Rise of the Third Army

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Media Release; Next week marks the launch of the next big storyline in the Green Lantern comics, Rise of the Third Army. For a long time now, the Guardians of the Universe have been planning to extinguish the Green Lantern Corps — and they’re finally putting their plan into motion. Plus, Black Hand is back and apparently, Hal Jordan is set to become the greatest Black Lantern of them all. Could that explain his absence from the previously released covers for October’s GL books? Green Lantern Annual #1 offers up…

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UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 Adi Granov variant cover

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Media Release — Marvel is pleased to present your first look at the jaw dropping Uncanny Avengers #1 Granov Variant from superstar artist Adi Granov! From the ashes of Avengers VS. X-Men an all-new, all-different Avengers assemble – enter the Uncanny Avengers! From the blockbuster creative team of Rick Remender & John Cassaday, Captain America and Wolverine begin a quest to create a sanctioned Avengers unit cast from the ranks of the Avengers and the X-Men. This October in Uncanny Avengers #1, watch as Captain America, Wolverine, Havok, Thor, Rogue,…

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DC Announces JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA

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MEDIA RELEASE: DC Comics announced at the DC Entertainment-All Access Sunday panel at Fan Expo Toronto that a new League will be forming. Launching in 2013, DC Comics will publish a new ongoing comic book series, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, written by Geoff Johns and drawn by David Finch. “This is a very different kind of team book,” says Geoff Johns. “On first glance, people might think the heroes of the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA stand in the shadows of Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the JUSTICE LEAGUE,…

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Justice League 12 Superman and Wonder Woman?

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In the pages of this week’s Justice League #12, Wonder Woman and Superman begin a relationship, something that’s been hinted for the last few issues. DC released a new cover by series artist Jim Lee that shows Superman and Wonder Woman kissing, with her golden lasso wrapped around the caped hero. And according to series writer Geoff Johns, it’s no longer flirtation, but a new partnership that he intends to continue in future issues. This isn’t the first time a relationship between the Man of Steel and the Amazon Princess…

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STAR WARS The Clone Wars Season 5 Preview

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Season 5 of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series is scheduled to premiere on September 29, 2012 at 10:30 AM, unlike past seasons of The Clone Wars which aired on Friday nights. Season 5 will be the last according to the producers and will feature many stories in one. One big plot turn in Season 5? Anakin Skywalker helps start a rebellion! That’s right, the future Darth Vader sets in motion events that will later come to be his bane. As Filoni explained in the short film, pockets…

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Avengers VS X-Men #11 Fatality! Who Dies?

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Marvel has shown us the cover of  AvX Consequences #1 about the after math of the Avengers Vs X-Men series. It clearly shows there is a casualty in the series. We can guess who it might be, some names have been suggested, but there are also hints within the cover art and future titles that will be released in November as part of the Marvel NOW! release. We will set forth possibilities of who this may be. 1. PROTECTOR – formerly known as Marvel Boy this character has played a…

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Marvel Now What Will It Look Like

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Here are the titles and descriptions for Marvel solicitations in November because a lot of you have been asking what the Marvel Now universe will looks like will here is. INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #1 MARK WAID (W) • LEINIL FRANCIS YU (A&C) VARIANT Cover by JOE QUESADA YOUNG BABY VARIANT by SKOTTIE YOUNG ARTIST VARIANT by WALT SIMONSON Blank VARIANT Cover also available Sketch Variant by JOE QUESADA Design Variant by LEINIL FRANCIS YU Hulk – Indestructible force more weapon than man. Banner – smartest man alive. Combined they are the…

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The Great Joe Kubert Dies

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Joe Kubert, a legend in the world of comic book art and founder of the school in Dover that bears his name, has died. He was 85. Kubert, who lived in Dover, died Sunday at Morristown Medical Center, following a short illness. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have themselves become successful comic-book artists. Kubert’s first known professional job was penciling and inking the six-page story “Black-Out”, starring the character Volton, in Holyoke…

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