Amazing Spider-Man the Movie Review

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Spider-Man is Marvel’s most identifiable hero not because he is the most powerful or smartest or invincible but because he is just like us with all the problems of life of a young person growing to adulthood. And its cool he can walk on walls and swing through the streets. The latest version of the Spider-Man movies the The Amazing Spider-Man a reboot of the legend started by Stan lee and Steve Ditko in 1963 does a decent job of retelling the story of Peter Parker and how he became…

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Northern California Stockton Con Pop Culture and Comic Convention Coming

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Coming this August 5th at the University of the Pacific’s Spanos Center in Stockton California. This beautiful UOP campus will host the first Comic and Pop Culture Event of this kind brought to the central valley area. The day-long event, which will feature exhibits from artists, fans dressed as their favorite pop culture icons, several game tournaments and more. Proceeds from the event will benefit St. Mary’s Dining Room and United Way. “I’ve been attending numerous comic-book and pop-art conventions for years, including Comic-Con, Sac-Con, Wonder-Con and APE (Alternative Press…

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Before Watchmen Comic Series

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Before Watchmen is a series of comic books now being published by DC Comics in 2012. Acting as a preque to the 1986 12-issue Watchmen limited series by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, the project will consist of seven limited series and an epilogue one-shot. Moore stated in 1985 that if the Watchmen limited series was well-received, he and Gibbons would possibly create a 12-issue prequel series called Minutemen featuring the 1940s superhero group from the story. DC offered Moore and Gibbons chances to publish prequels to the…

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The Phoenix Force New Hosts Avengers VS X-Men 6 Preview

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Media Release — The all-powerful has found not one, but FIVE hosts and in Avengers VS. X-Men #6 – their mission is clear, remake the Marvel Universe in their image. Kicking off the world changing second act of the comic book event of the year, the blockbuster team of Jonathan Hickman and Olivier Coipel show fans just what Pax Utopia looks like through the eyes of Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus & Magik! How will Earths Mightiest and the other X-Men respond to this new development? And what role will…

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EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES Canceled for New AVENGERS Series?

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MEDIA RELEASE Albert Ching, Newsarama Staff Writer: Multiple outlets say that Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will be ending its run on Disney XD after two seasons, in favor of a new animated series starting in 2013. Sources including Marvel TV News cite a “print only” press release stating the following: “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes won’t be renewed for the 3rd Season. Marvel Animation will present their newly developed series Marvel’s Avengers Assemble in 2013.” The report came with a purported promotional image of Avengers Assemble, featuring the movie Avengers…

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Earth 2 #2: Why Do You Read Comics? DC New 52

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DC Comics reveled that the New 52 version of Alan Scott is gay in Earth 2 #2 this week. As the original Green Lantern it is quite a change from the character created in 1940 by Martin Nodell with story development from Bill Finger. Both men if still alive would be startled by the new direction of their superhero. He was one of the founding members of the Justice Society of America the early superhero group before World War II. He also had a daughter in time called Jade and…

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The New 52: Earth 2 #1

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MEDIA RELEASE: First issue of an ongoing series from writer JAMES ROBINSON and artist NICOLA SCOTT!• Who are the heroes of EARTH 2 – and what befell them?• Starring ALAN SCOTT, JAY GARRICK and many others!• You may think you know Earth 2…but this is DC Comics – The New 52, where anything can happen! “EARTH 2 is a big step in a new direction for me. “I haven’t previously had many opportunities to work on a truly epic scale but working with James [Robinson], on some of his favorite…

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America’s Got Powers Review

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Not to far off the beating path… For those of you who don’t know me I am a browser.  I go into my local comic shop and stare at the stuff I cannot afford to buy and look at the things I am not collecting often wondering if I should be collecting those.  This particular week I was excited for all the comics that I was going to get off my shelf, but I had to look at the Racks anyway. That is when I came across a little Gem…

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Marvel, DC, to Feature Gay Characters

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Northstar revealed he was gay in the pages of Alpha Flight No. 106 in 1992. He was one of Marvel’s first characters to do so. Since then, numerous comic book heroes and villains have been identified as gay, lesbian or transgender. The decision to wed Kyle and Northstar in Astonishing X-Men #51 has brought with it a lot of controversy. Marjorie Liu is writing the series. She says the decision to have the pair marry was fitting, noting that the relationship between Kyle and Northstar has grown in recent years,…

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Amazing Spider-Man Movie Trailer: Coming 7/3/12

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The Amazing Spider-Man is an upcoming American superhero film directed by Marc Webb, based on the comic book of the same name and starring Andrew Garfield as the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father’s former partner. In a year filled with mega super hero movies here comes The Amazing Spider-Man is back in an attempt by Marvel to bring one…

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The CW Television and the Green Arrow

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The question has been answered The CW is going to bring Arrow to television. Here what we have found out thanks to Greenarrowtv.com it will begin in the fall on Wednesdays with the first season. It will star  Stephen Amell a solid actor with a real hard body as you can see in the trailer provided on You Tube. This one looks like a keeper for Wednesday night TV. Here are some of the Characters in the show: Oliver Queen – It’s pretty obvious this would be the name of…

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Spider-Men Coming in June: Marvel U. Meets Ultimate U.

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Since the initial, vague announcement back in February, Marvel has slowly revealed more information on Spider-Men, namely that it’s the first-ever meeting between the classic Spider-Man, Peter Parker, and the recently debuted Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales — and the first interaction of any kind between their two fictional universes. Spider-Men, a five-part miniseries by the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man team of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, debuts with two issues in June. The villain of the series is classic fishbowl-helmeted Spidey foil Mysterio, and the story is also…

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NO MORE AVENGERS? Marvel Teases AVENGERS VS. X-MEN Act Two

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The Avengers in Avengers vs. X-Men seem to have the upper hand right now but thanks to the Marvel teaser for Act Two , that might not be for long.  Promoting the second act of Avengers vs. X-Men, starting with June’s issue #6, Marvel released a teaser Wednesday stating “No more Avengers” — calling back to Scarlet Witch’s famous “No more mutants” proclamation at the end of 2005’s House of M, which led directly to the “Decimation” era of a depleted mutant population. What type of affect this statement will have…

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Star Trek 2 will Feature Khan Plus Leonard Nimoy

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MEDIA RELEASE: 1:00 PM, Monday, May 7th, 2012 – Posted by John Wilson TrekMovie is stating that 1, Leonard Nimoy is returning to the film as Spock Prime. In fact, he’s already done filming his scenes. His time in the movie will be much less than that of the previous film. 2, Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Khan in the new film. This, too, is according to several sources. There’s a lot to play with if this is the case. Spock Prime knows what a problem Khan can be, so he…

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Who is the villain at the end of ‘The Avengers Movie?

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The Avengers movie was great for Marvel fans. It had everything dialogue, intrigue, suspense, Thor vs Hulk, Iron Man vs Thor, Hawkeye vs the Black Widow, Aliens vs the Avengers, Loki vs everyone, and Hulk smash. Josh Whedon really did an outstanding job as director and turning the screenplay into a great action movie. If you are comic and Marvel savvy you will love this big screen version of the Avengers. A band of heroes learned to put their differences aside to become earths mighty Avengers. This movie is a…

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