Category: Books

X-MEN Ready For PHOENIX Return

You could call Jean Grey #2 a Phoenix Force Family Reunion this week.

Jean Grey courtesy Marvel

Jean knows the Phoenix Force is coming back. In this new chapter it’s a telepath power up as Jean unites Quentin Quire, Rachel Grey (now called Prestige in X-Men: Gold) and Hope Summers hoping to find answers as she prepares for the inevitable confrontation with the cosmic entity.  It’s the driving force behind Jean’s first solo ongoing by writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Victor Ibanez. Will she be ready as the Phoenix resurgence enters a new phase? What does it mean when Jean Grey meets Jean Grey later this summer? Continue reading X-MEN Ready For PHOENIX Return

NEW COMICS PICKS For May 24, 2017

Baby Groot goes solo. A new chapter in the twisted Hulk/Wolverine history. It’s all in this new comic picks of the week kicking off with a uniting of Valiant’s dark warriors:

Rapture #1 courtesy Valiant Entertainment

Rapture #1 A supernatural showdown with two warring armies. A teen girl is Earth’s last hope but this mystic calls on Ninjak, Shadowman and Punk Mambo to stop the rise of an Elder God out to seize Heaven. Matt Kindt and Cafu continue Valiant’s ICONS line with this epic team up of new and classic heroes. Continue reading NEW COMICS PICKS For May 24, 2017

BATMAN, FLASH, BUTTON Finale Reveals DC REBIRTH Mystery Villain

Can you feel the shockwaves across DC fandom?! The Flash #22 is here. The finale of The Button, picking up the mystery launched in DC Universe Rebirth #1 last summer with a HUGE revelation.

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In this week’s finale by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter, a Golden Age hero returns, a bad guy dies and the identity of the mystery villain (?) behind a multiversal mystery is revealed. Continue reading BATMAN, FLASH, BUTTON Finale Reveals DC REBIRTH Mystery Villain

TOM HARDY As VENOM

Comic book villain veteran Tom Hardy is going darker as Sony spins a Spider-Verse spinoff.

Amazing Spider-Man #692 80’s variant courtesy Marvel

Sony revealed via Twitter Hardy will play Eddie Brock in a Venom film slated for October 5, 2018 with production starting in the fall. The actor sported a t-shirt featuring the villain, and a shaved head in a photo on the post. Continue reading TOM HARDY As VENOM

AGENTS OF SHIELD Season Four Cliffhanger Questions

A year of Ghost Rider, LMDs turned and a Framework of a dark mirror world with Hydra in control and Grant Ward resurrected. All the Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season four story lines came together for an action and emotion packed finale. And that out of this world cliffhanger!

Agents of SHIELD season 4 cast courtesy Marvel

Supernatural and super scary technology threats weaved the season’s three arcs into the season ender World’s End. But what about that ending? What does it mean for Team Coulson and the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Continue reading AGENTS OF SHIELD Season Four Cliffhanger Questions

GAMBIT’S Greatest Sins Before His X-MEN Return

Gambit rejoins mutant heroes in X-Men: Gold #4 this week.

But Gambit is often more anti-hero – and guilty of villainous acts. The rogue has redeemed but it’s hard not to forget his shady past.

Gambit #3 courtesy Marvel

Gambit’s mutant power is kinetically charging any object but he’s a skilled thief and con man. Remy proved himself a hero, shared a tortured romance with Rogue, friendship with Storm – the first X-Man he met, but hid many secrets and make some shocking moves.

Here are Remy’s greatest sins: Continue reading GAMBIT’S Greatest Sins Before His X-MEN Return

COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY CLOCK By GEOFF JOHNS

The countdown begins to one of the biggest DC Comics stories ever.

DC Comics announced (via Blastr) DOOMSDAY CLOCK by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson coming this November. Johns writes again for the first time since DC Universe Rebirth #1, which kicked off a major mystery.

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The cosmic conspiracy centered on the return of Wally West, powerful beings who manipulated the DC Multiverse, have kidnapped and killed heroes and villains…and the button. Continue reading COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY CLOCK By GEOFF JOHNS