Category: Books

MARK WAHLBERG As The SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN

The Bionic Man courtesy Dynamite Entertainment
The Bionic Man courtesy Dynamite Entertainment

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg are teaming up to upgrade a classic television icon.

The team behind Lone Survivor will work together on the Six Billion Dollar Man for Dimension according to Deadline.

Berg will direct. Wahlberg will star as Steve Austin, a former astronaut turned into a cyborg secret agent with a bionic eye, arm and legs. Lee Majors played Austin in the 1970’s television series. Austin worked for O.S.I. the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Continue reading MARK WAHLBERG As The SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN

NATHAN EDMONDSON’S BLACK WIDOW Movie Pitch

Black Widow #2 courtesy Marvel
Black Widow #2 courtesy Marvel

Captain Marvel will soar past Black Widow to become the first Marvel Studios movie with a woman in the lead. Exciting news for the Carol Corps but lots of questions from fans of the assassin turned Avenger.  The passionate fan base started a #BlackWidowMovie campaign on Twitter.

Nathan Edmondson (current writer of the Black Widow comic book) responded via Twitter saying he “just whipped this up” his treatment for the first six pages of a hypothetical screenplay for a film. Continue reading NATHAN EDMONDSON’S BLACK WIDOW Movie Pitch

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE WEAPON X PROGRAM Shocker

Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program #1 courtesy Marvel
Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program #1 courtesy Marvel

In the aftermath of Death of Wolverine new heroes and a new mystery are born.

Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program #1 hit this week with a high impact final page.

This limited series by Charles Soule (the writer who actually killed Logan) picks up right after the moment the X-Man died.

After a four-part final adventure that brought Logan face to face with this greatest enemies, it all came back to Weapon X and Abraham Cornelius, the scientist to transformed the mutant into a weapon no one could control.

The new series picks up with survivors of Cornelius’s newest experiments trying to escape the facility as they Continue reading DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE WEAPON X PROGRAM Shocker

SECRETS WARS MARVEL Teaser Reveal New BATTLEWORLD

Secret Wars courtesy Marvel
Secret Wars courtesy Marvel

It began with a teaser for a brand new Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic with a spectacular image by Alex Ross.

What followed what an onslaught of Summer 2015 teasers hinting of revisits to classic stories and events like Planet Hulk, Age of Apocalypse, Armor Wars, Civil War and House of M.

This week came the Everything Ends teaser for Spring 2015 implying a big bang ending and rebirth.

Now we know the story behind the teasers is here.

As Hickman counts down to the finale of Avengers, New Avengers: Time Runs Out – it sure looks like the heroes fail to stop incursions from rival Earths destroying the Marvel 616 homeworld – leading to the birth of a big new epic.

Secret Wars – Battleworld Revealed! See the full video here: Continue reading SECRETS WARS MARVEL Teaser Reveal New BATTLEWORLD

DC COMICS CONVERGENCE Reveals More Lost Heroes

Convergence courtesy DC Comics
Convergence courtesy DC Comics

Earlier this week DC Comics announced Convergence, the two-month comic book event that packed with heroes and villains from across DC Multiverse and past.

 

This is a nine-part weekly comic book series written by television writer Jeff King  and comics veteran Dan Jurgens with art by Carlo Pagulayan, Stephen Segovia and Ethan Van Sciver. The event will have 40 two-part miniseries. All of Convergence will replace DC’s regular titles for two months starting in April. Continue reading DC COMICS CONVERGENCE Reveals More Lost Heroes

Inside SHIELD #1

S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 courtesy Marvel
S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 courtesy Marvel

Phil Coulson and his team from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. leap into a brand new ongoing series by Mark Waid.

 

Marvel shared a look inside S.H.I.E.L.D. #1. Waid says Coulson will be joined by Fitz, Simmons and Melinda May along with Avengers, X-Men and more comic book icons.

 

As we learned in The Avengers film, Coulson is a “fanboy” of Captain America but as an operative how does he regard the costumed heroes. Continue reading Inside SHIELD #1