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NEXT MARVEL For BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

Guardians Team-Up #1 courtesy Marvel
Guardians Team-Up #1 courtesy Marvel

Brian Michael Bendis renewed his exclusive agreement with Marvel Entertainment after announcing his departure from the X-Men franchise. Bendis will make his exit with the milestone Uncanny X-Men #600.

The current Guardians of the Galaxy writer is launching a Guardians Team-Up book. Both titles will tie into the just launched Black Vortex crossover with All-New X-Men.

Bendis is reuniting with this original Ultimate Spider-Man artist Mark Bagely for Ultimate End, the final Ultimate Universe story.

All these stories come just before the big Secret Wars event where the Marvel and Ultimate Universes are destroyed and there is only Battleworld.

After acclaimed runs on Avengers, Daredevil, X-Men and Ultimate Spider-Man, which Marvel heroes will he take on next?

Here are our picks for the next big thing for Bendis and Marvel: Continue reading NEXT MARVEL For BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

SECRET WARS JOURNAL

Secret Wars Journal #1 courtesy Marvel
Secret Wars Journal #1 courtesy Marvel

Marvel announced a new Secret Wars tie-in series set in Battleworld.

Secret Wars Journal will be an anthology series with a wide variety of tales set in the new reality.

“We’ve got a few crazy twists on some old favorites, but we’ve also got some real fun explorations of some of the zanier corners of the Marvel Universe as well,” Editor Jake Thomas teased on Marvel.com. “We’ve got a fun riff on Millie the Model that made me laugh when we pitched it and tear up when I read the outline. We’ve got a Night Nurse—You heard me right, kids! Night Nurse!—story that is going to be killer, an intense X-Men story, a completely bonkers Misty Knight and Paladin tale. Honestly, there are times I can’t believe I’m getting away with this stuff.” Continue reading SECRET WARS JOURNAL

BRIAN BENDIS Leaving X-MEN With UNCANNY #600

Uncanny X-Men #600 courtesy Marvel, a Comic Book Resources Exclusive First
Uncanny X-Men #600 courtesy Marvel, a Comic Book Resources Exclusive First

After making and changing mutant history Brian Michael Bendis announced he’s leaving the X-Men with a giant-sized Uncanny X-Men #600.

Bendis brought the original students of Xavier into the present in All-New X-Men and Cyclops started a revolution in Uncanny X-Men.

As the Children of the Atom feel the fallout from Professor X’s greatest secret – Bendis will exit just before Secret Wars.

The acclaimed writer explains why this was the time to leave:

“Over the course of the last few years, I will have written almost 90 issues of X-Men. That’s a good run! One of the best parts about being on X-Men was that I knew I was never going to hit Chris Claremont’s X-Men record, so I was free of whatever that is that drives such a thing,” Bendis exclusively told Comic Book Resources. Continue reading BRIAN BENDIS Leaving X-MEN With UNCANNY #600

CELEBRATING BLACK COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS

All-New Captain America #1 courtesy Marvel
All-New Captain America #1 courtesy Marvel

As we celebrate Black History Month we’re inspired to salute African-American superheroes and update fans on their status in their comic book universes.

With Anthony Mackie’s breakout performance as Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Chadwick Boseman (42) cast as Black Panther and the return of Milestone Media with new and returning heroes – a lot has happened in a year.

Fictional superheroes are not as critical as real civil rights leaders, scientists, boundary breaking athletes and artists but it’s important to celebrate diversity in comic books. Most of these black characters were created by white males but we hope by recognizing these characters it might inspire new writers, artists and editors of all backgrounds to push for new voices and greater diversity in making comics and inside comics. Continue reading CELEBRATING BLACK COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS

DAREDEVIL Trailer

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

The Man Without Fear is almost here.

Marvel shares the first trailer for Marvel’s Daredevil the upcoming new series on Netflix.

Charlie Cox is Matt Murdock, blinded as a young boy but given extraordinary senses and a unique radar, now fights injustice in the courts by day and as a vigilante by night in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City.

It’s your first look at classic characters from the long-running comic book series including Karen Page, Foggy Nelson and Wilson Fisk.

But watch for Cox in action as the masked crime fighter.

Watch the teaser trailer below: Continue reading DAREDEVIL Trailer

AGENT CARTER & BLACK WIDOW ORIGINS

Hayley Atwell and Neal McDonough in Marvel's Agent Carter courtesy Marvel
Hayley Atwell and Neal McDonough in Marvel’s Agent Carter courtesy Marvel

Peggy Carter vs. Black Widow?!

Producers of Marvel’s Agent Carter are exploring the origins of the program that gave us Natasha Romanoff (played by Scarlett Johansson.)

The first episode was filled with Avengers and Iron Man Easter Eggs.

This week Peggy reunited with the Howling Commandos (including Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan) for an adventure into Russia in the ongoing mystery of Leviathan. There’s a darker mystery that’s closer than Peggy realizes.

Before I continue here’s a…

SPOILER ALERT! Continue reading AGENT CARTER & BLACK WIDOW ORIGINS

BRANDON ROUTH In Costume As The ATOM

Brandon Routh as The Atom in Arrow courtesy The CW, photo by Cate Cameron
Brandon Routh as The Atom in Arrow courtesy The CW, photo by Cate Cameron

DC Comics and The CW revealed a first look of Brandon Routh at The Atom.

It’s huge news for fans of the Justice League legend famous for getting small.

Routh joined Arrow this season as Dr Ray Palmer, new owner of Oliver Queen’s company.

This season we’ve seen Palmer in the labs working with the A.T.O.M. prototype getting closer to his big discovery that give him the power to go microscopic.

Routh suits up for the first on the series on the February 25th episode. Continue reading BRANDON ROUTH In Costume As The ATOM