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SECRET EMPIRE Video Teaser Trailer

If you’re still rocked and reeling from the new Thor: Ragnarok teaser trailer, Marvel didn’t let up and unleashed a Secret Empire teaser trailer.

Secret Empire is Marvel Comics big event in which Hydra conquers all but it’s not the Red Skull leading the attack…it’s Captain America. This is the culmination of Nick Spencer’s Cap run in which Steve’s history was rewritten. Rogers has been a Hydra sleeper agent all this time including Civil War II. Continue reading SECRET EMPIRE Video Teaser Trailer

STEVE ROGERS RETURNS AS CAPTAIN AMERICA

Steve Rogers: Captain America #1 courtesy Marvel

During the Captain America: 75 Heroic Years special on ABC tonight Marvel revealed Steve Rogers would return as the hero in comics.

Last year a villain called the Iron Nail seized the Super Soldier Serum from Rogers’ body leaving him an old man without powers. Rogers continued to have an advisory role with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and is a member of the Uncanny Avengers cast.

Rogers recruited longtime friend and former partner Sam Wilson (aka Falcon) to be the new Captain America. Wilson is currently starring in a solo series by Nick Spencer and leads the All-New, All-Different Avengers by Mark Waid.

Rogers and Wilson are estranged but both will come together to a new threat in the crossover: Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill, where “something happens that restores Steve to full vigor” writer Nick Spencer revealed.
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ANT-MAN vs TASKMASTER

A fan-favorite villain strikes in Ant-Man #3 this week.

Taskmaster isn’t as powerful as Doctor Doom, Red Skull or Thanos but he’s one of the most relentless and one bad guy you don’t want to get in a fight with.

Marvel writers like Cullen Bunn, who is making a career of writing bad guys as leading men (Magneto, Lobo, Sinestro) named Taskmaster as one villain he wants to write.

Ant-Man writer Nick Spencer explains the Taskmaster’s attack is all part of his long-term plan: Continue reading ANT-MAN vs TASKMASTER

ANT-MAN Villains

Ant-Man will be HUGE in 2015.

Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang in a brand new solo movie.

Nick Spencer is launching a brand new Ant-Man comic book starring Lang.

Rudd will face Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll) on the big screen but Ant-Man doesn’t have a list of major enemies.

Spencer revealed one fan-favorite villain will appear in the series. Continue reading ANT-MAN Villains

New ANT-MAN Comic By NICK SPENCER

Big plans for Marvel’s smallest hero.

At New York Comic Con, Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso Ant-Man will get a brand new series by writer Nick Spencer (Avengers World, Superior Foes of Spider-Man) and artist Ramon Rosanas.

The new series will star Scott Lang (recently part of FF) but Alonso says they “have a plan” for Hank Pym citing the founding Avenger’s long history and saying “he’s valued.”

Paul Rudd will play Lang in the Ant-Man movie coming in 2015. Michael Douglas plays Hank Pym.

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Welcome to AVENGERS WORLD

The Avengers comic book franchise expands again with a brand new series. Writer Nick Spencer joins Jonathan Hickman for Avengers World.

In Hickman’s first Avengers arc Steve Rogers and Tony Stark declared Earth to be an Avengers World. One year later there’s this new series of that name will show the global power and presence of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

Avengers World #1 by Hickman, Nick Spencer and artist Stefano Caselli arrives this week. Here’s what fans can expect: Continue reading Welcome to AVENGERS WORLD

Nick Spencer On AVENGERS WORLD

In Jonathan Hickman’s first Avengers arc Steve Rogers and Tony Stark declared Earth to be an Avengers World. One year later there’s a new series of the same name coming to show the global power and presence of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

Avengers World #1 by Hickman, Nick Spencer and artist Stefano Caselli was one of the major Marvel New York Comic Con announcements. Here are more details about how it fits with the flagship book and what fans can expect.

“The premise of the book is that it’s the Avengers, doing big things, because it’s an Avengers World now,” Continue reading Nick Spencer On AVENGERS WORLD

Marvel Takes Hickman GLOBAL

The latest Marvel teaser is GLOBAL by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer and Stefano Caselli.

Could this be a NEW Avengers series?

The first All-New Marvel Now announcement revealed Hickman’s next Avengers arc is called Rogue Planet so this could be a companion book tied to it.

Jonathan Hickman declared Earth was an Avengers World in his first arc.

Spencer was recruited to co-write the Avengers prelude to Infinity issues. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are currently fighting aliens in space while the Illuminati fight Thanos and incursions in the pages of New Avengers, also by Hickman. Continue reading Marvel Takes Hickman GLOBAL

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