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UNLIKELY AVENGERS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

All-New, All-Different Avengers #1 courtesy Marvel

A new era begins for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Mark Waid launched the All-New, All-Different Avengers in the aftermath of Secret Wars this week.

The latest version of team features legacy heroes (Sam Wilson as Captain America, Jane Foster as Thor) and rookies Miles Morales/Spider-Man, Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel and Sam Alexander/Nova with veterans Iron Man and Vision.

Imagine the surprise way back when villains Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver joined. The New Avengers era saw the inclusion of Wolverine, Luke Cage and Echo.

Change is good. Heroes you never suspected would become fan-favorite members of the team.

Here are four unlikely Avengers who might be surprise additions but keep the tradition of change, diversity and power that make Earth’s heroes so mighty: Continue reading UNLIKELY AVENGERS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

New Comics Picks for November 11, 2015

Two Marvel super groups, Batmen united and a new Wolverine make this week’s top new comics picks:

All-New, All-Different Avengers #1

Earth’s Mightiest heroes are no more until a threat from space leads to the assembling of a new team. Iron Man, Captain America and Thor are joined by Ms. Marvel, Nova, Vision and a new Spider-Man. Mark Waid, Adam Kubert and Mahmud Asrar launch the new chapter of Marvel’s biggest team.

Batman #46

The Dark Knight finally comes face to face with Gotham’s horrific new villain but he’ll need Bruce Wayne to survive.

Continue reading New Comics Picks for November 11, 2015

THE FOURTH DOCTOR WHO Returns in New Comic

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor courtesy Titan Comics

Have a Jelly Baby with your comic book?

The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith return for a brand new adventure.

Titan Comics and BBC Worldwide announced a brand-new mini series starring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, as played by Tom Baker and the late Elisabeth Sladen.

For a generation Baker with his signature hat, scarf and favorite snack was their Doctor playing the Time Lord from 1974 to 1981.

Sladen reunited with the Doctor (then played by the Tenth, David Tennant) and even starred in her own television series.

This new book expands Titan Comics’ acclaimed Doctor Who comics line, which already includes adventures from the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors. Continue reading THE FOURTH DOCTOR WHO Returns in New Comic

ALL-NEW INHUMANS Preview

No mutant or Inhuman is safe in the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now.

Terrigenesis is harming mutants as we learned in Extraordinary X-Men but a new threat from the skies is targeting Inhumans. Skyspears are suddenly appearing on Earth. The obelisks are causing Inhumans to have dangerous surges of power.

Medusa’s sister Crystal is making a big comeback as leader of the All-New Inhumans. Marvel calls Crystal’s team “part diplomatic emissaries, part strike force” and will protect their race “by any means necessary.”

The former Avengers is demonstrating her elemental powers to some new enemies in new preview art from the first chapter. Continue reading ALL-NEW INHUMANS Preview

SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN Begins

Superman: American Alien courtesy DC Comics

What you didn’t know about Clark Kent before he became the Man of Steel.

Superman is fighting for his life after losing his powers in his main DC Comics books but a new limited series looks at the young man before he became an icon.

Superman: American Alien #1 arrives this week by Hollywood screenwriter and Eisner-nominee Max Landis (Chronicle).

How do you raise a super-powered child and keep his alien abilities a secret?

It’s the story of what might be the most famous parents in comic book history.

Continue reading SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN Begins

WHY ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

All-New, All-Different Avengers #1 arrives this week.

Iron Man, Captain America and Thor are the big three icons joined by Vision and young heroes Ms. Marvel, Nova and Miles Morales/Spider-Man.

Mark Waid, Adam Kubert and Mahmud Asrar are the creative team behind’s Marvel’s biggest team.

Loki brought the original version of the Avengers together. Waid explains how the new heroes “assemble” and the villain behind the first arc: Continue reading WHY ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

FOUR COOLEST COMIC BOOK SPIES

James Bond is back in SPECTRE. Daniel Craig returns as 007 on a mission against the evil organization we haven’t seen on screen since Sean Connery’s final canon film in the series.

The latest Bond made us peer into the vault to pick four of our favorite spies from comics books.

No costumes. No masks. No problem.

These are the coolest covert operatives in the DC and Marvel Universes:

Grayson

No mask. No code-name. New mission. The man who was once known as Robin and Nightwing is his own man with a covert agenda. Dick Grayson is no longer a sidekick under Batman’s shadow and now operates in the shadow world of the DC Universe. Dick faked his death to infiltrate Spyral, a covert organization plotting against costumed heroes. Dick’s new adventures in Grayson are co-written by Tim Seeley and Tim King, a former CIA counter-intelligence officer. Continue reading FOUR COOLEST COMIC BOOK SPIES

Best JAMES BOND Gadgets, Gear and Rides

The Aston-Martin comes roaring back with other super car action in SPECTRE. The 24th James Bond adventure marks the return of the classic car that dazzled fans in Goldfinger and Thunderball.

Daniel Craig’s latest mission makes nostalgic and look back at our 7 favorite gadgets from the 007 franchise:

Attache Case from From Russia, With Love.

The first proper Bond “gadget” from the second and our favorite film. Q (Major Boothroyd) outfits Bond with this cool case secretly packing ammunition, a sniper rifle, throwing knife, gold sovereigns and a tear gas cartridge. This case was critical in Bond’s Orient Express encounter with the assassin Red Grant (Robert Shaw) one of my favorite henchmen of the series. Continue reading Best JAMES BOND Gadgets, Gear and Rides

COMICS BLEND

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