It’s the second anniversary of The New 52 and DC Comics is celebrating the bad guys by letting them take over the hero books. They even get the 3-D cover treatment.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.1: DARKSEID
by Greg Pak and Paulo Siqueria with a 3-D motion cover by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado.
“For Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips, you conform or die. Now born into his realm is an anomaly who looks to challenge that. A trickster, who will go to Continue reading Villains Month Darkseid
Shadowman gets a new creative team. Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and artist Roberto De La Torre (Daredevil, Age of Apocalypse) are taking on Valiant’s dark hero with Shadowman #13.
As revealed today in USA Today, Milligan and De La Torre kick off their run all-new story arc “exposing the malignant roots of Shadowman’s superhuman abilities…roots that began in Jack Boniface’s own tortured past…and now extend through the bloodied back-alleys of 21st century New Orleans. Continue reading Peter Milligan Takes On SHADOWMAN
Dark Horse Comics expands it’s Star Wars comic book universe this with an adaptation of George Lucas’s original, pre-edits screenplay for Star Wars in an eight part series called The Star Wars kicking off this week.
Three years before the classic 1977 film, George Lucas put down on paper his first story set in a galaxy far, far away. A story of Jedi Annikin Starkiller and General Luke Skywalker, an alien named Han Solo, and evil Sith Knights. The screenplay was titled The Star Wars! Continue reading THE STAR WARS
If you got a copy of Marvel’s Infinity Free Comic Book Day preview book or saw Infinity #1 you saw what happens when a tribute is paid to Thanos: death…a lot of death.
Infinity #2 by Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver picks up the action. Adam Kubert’s cover shows Captain America leading the interstellar forces against Thanos!
The End of X-Factor is almost here. The long-running series Peter David has written for more than a decade is coming to an end. It’s a time to look back at the innovative series and ahead to see the possible futures of the team members.
Back in the early 90’s there was Mutant Genesis (when Chris Claremont and Jim Lee launched the first X-Men #1) the original X-Men left their series, X-Factor, to join the two new X-Men teams/books. After diving up the popular characters into the two X-Men books, Excalibur and X-Force Marvel still had a title called X-Factor. Continue reading The End of X-FACTOR
X-Men: Battle of the Atom kicks off this week with a special issue by Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho then continues in All-New X-Men #16.
Strange X-Men from the future arrive in the present with orders to make the original students go back to their past.
“I can tell you that nothing in this event is what it seems,” teases Bendis. “The X-Men franchise has never taken an idea this far.”
Here’s a first look at All-New X-Men #16 by Bendis and Stuart Immonen with cover by Arthur Adams. Marvel is teasing a Wolverine vs. Future X-Men fight and Young Jean and Young Scott go on the run in order to stay in the present.
