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ARROW Adds VINNIE JONES as BRICK

Producers of Arrow recruit Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) to play a classic DC Comics tough guy opposite the vigilante archer.

Jones will play Brick on The CW series according to Variety. Jones will appear in episodes 10, 11 and 12 of the current third season.

In comics Danny “Brick” Brickwell is a ruthless gang leader with tough, invulnerable reddish skin.

No official word on how Brick may be working with this season’s main villain Ra’s Al Ghul.

Jones played the Juggernaut in X-Men: The Last Stand and guest starred on Chuck and played the villain on The Cape.

Jones is starring in the ABC mid-season series Galavant.

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X-23, WOLVERINE and LOGAN LEGACY

Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy #2 courtesy Marvel

Are you still mourning the Death of Wolverine?

X-23 and the X-Man’s greatest enemies are caught in a deadly game with a mystery man in the seven part Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy.

Laura, Sabretooth, Mystique, Lady Deathstrike and Daken will each have a chapter in the series connected to Weapon X and Logan’s final fate. Continue reading X-23, WOLVERINE and LOGAN LEGACY

DAVID AYER On SUICIDE SQUAD

Fury blasted to the top of the box-office now director David Ayer is gunning for DC Comics most infamous villains.

Suicide Squad is the next DC Comics movie after Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in Warner Brothers lineup of films.

In a new interview the director assures fans of his approach to the team.

“I can say that it’s a Dirty Dozen with supervillains,” Ayer told Empire. “Then I can ask the question, ‘Does a movie really need good guys?’” Continue reading DAVID AYER On SUICIDE SQUAD

Inside AVENGERS AND X-MEN: AXIS #5

A scary new world order emerges.

Only Spider Man and Nova may be able to save the Earth.

Peter and Sam are recruited by Steve Rogers for a covert mission to infiltrate Avengers Tower.

Marvel shared a preview of Avengers and X-Men: AXIS #5 by Rick Remender and Terry Dodson. Continue reading Inside AVENGERS AND X-MEN: AXIS #5

CATWOMAN NO MORE?

Selina Kyle is no longer Catwoman?

She’s a Lioness stalking her way up the urban jungle as a new creative team takes over this week in Catwoman #35.

Writer Genevieve Valentine and artist Garry Brown (The Massive, Iron Patriot) take over Selina’s adventures after a shocking discovery in the pages of Batman Eternal.

Why is the femme fatale ditching the costume and code-name? Continue reading CATWOMAN NO MORE?

X-MEN Rebuild HOUSE OF M in 2015

House of M courtesy Marvel, an IGN exclusive

The Marvel teaser machine rolls on.

The House of Ideas appears to be revisiting popular ideas with teasers promising to revisit classic stories from Secret Wars and Civil Wars to Planet Hulk.

The latest is is House of M, Summer 2015 by artist Jorge Molina as revealed on IGN.

The original House of M was a limited series by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipiel. When the Avengers and X-Men confronted the Scarlet Witch (recovering after her breakdown in Avengers Disassembled) she transformed reality into a world in which Magneto and mutants ruled the Earth and every hero was given their heart’s desire to appease them. Continue reading X-MEN Rebuild HOUSE OF M in 2015

UNCANNY AVENGERS After AXIS

Marvel reveals the next almost all-new, all-different lineup for Uncanny Avengers.

The book launched in the aftermath of Avengers vs. X-Men with Captain America and Wolverine forming a Unity squad including Thor, Havok, Rogue and Scarlet Witch. Wasp, Wonder Man and Sunfire later joined the roster.

Now we know a very different team lineup will form in the aftermath of AXIS.

Veterans Rogue and Scarlet Witch will be joined by Sam Wilson (the new Captain America) Vision, Brother Voodoo, Quicksilver, Vision and Sabretooth as reported by ComicBook.com.

Victor Creed may still be “inverted” after the events of AXIS and playing the hero or anti-hero. Marvel heroes and villains will change roles as a results of the Red Onslaught – the Red Skull armed with the telepathic power of Professor X. Continue reading UNCANNY AVENGERS After AXIS

FUTURE of FANTASIC FOUR After Cancellation

Marvel confirmed the rumors about their Fantastic Four series at New York Comic Con.

Current writer James Robinson said the Fantastic Four are “going away for a while” and he’s “building up to the end of the Fantastic Four.”

Marvel is cancelling the latest volume of the book starring their First Family.

The End of FourEver will be the final arc ending with issue 645 – a return to the original numbering.

Is this ending about sales, studio rivalry or just time for a creative break? Continue reading FUTURE of FANTASIC FOUR After Cancellation

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