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X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST History in the Remaking

courtesy @Bryan Singer viaTwitter
courtesy @Bryan Singer viaTwitter

The Cuban Missile Crisis was interweaved with the struggle for mutant rights in X-Men: First Class. The Cold War and spread of Communism will be part of the drama of X-Men Days of Future Past. Director Bryan Singer revealed two photos via Twitter from the set of the upcoming sequel that help set for tone for the setting – 1973.

The first picture shows an actor playing President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office with the caption “Pivotal meeting” and the second includes “GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!”

courtesy @Bryan Singer viaTwitter
courtesy @Bryan Singer viaTwitter

The “Pivotal meeting” could be real history or comic book history  – this could be the meeting in which the U.S. government initiates Project Wideawake and begins the creation of the Sentinels – mutant hunting robots!

X-Men Days of Future Past will take place in 1974 and in the near future and arrives in 2014.

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GREEN LANTERN Begins Again

Green Lantern #21 courtesy DC Comics
Green Lantern #21 courtesy DC Comics

This week marks an Emerald Dawn for the Green Lantern family of books with new blood, new creative teams and new threats!

It all kicks off in the flagship book out this week:

A new beginning for Hal Jordan begins in Green Lantern #21 by new creative team: Robert Venditti and Billy Tan.

Jordan is now the leader of the Green Lantern Corps! How will the hero lead the most hated and feared group in the universe?

Plus, a new villain is on the way – the Relic!

Venditti tells MTV GEEK, he’ll “tie together every Lantern of every color that has ever appeared in any comic book ever.”

Green Lantern #21 arrives this week with new creative teams on all the GL books coming later this month!

Green Lantern #21 courtesy DC Comics
Green Lantern #21 courtesy DC Comics

It’s thrilling to see Billy Tan back on a monthly book and I’m eager to his take on more of the Green Lantern Corps!

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INFINITY #2 Preview!

Infinity #2 courtesy Marvel
Infinity #2 courtesy Marvel

If you got a copy of Marvel’s Infinity Free Comic Book Day preview book you saw what happens when a tribute is paid to Thanos! Lots and lots of aliens die!

Infinity #1 kicks off the conflict with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes against the forces of Thanos! Marvel shared this preview of Infinity #2.

This cover by Adam Kubert shows Captain America leading the interstellar forces against Thanos!

But the teaser includes an ominous line:

“The Inhumans pay tribute”

What could that mean? Will Black Bolt and the Royal Family fight with the heroes or pledge their allegiance to Thanos? This powerful group of aliens have made pacts with villains before (Ronan the Accuser) so could they sacrifice their alliances with Earth’s heroes to save their race?

We’ll find out this summer!

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Benicio Del Toro Joins GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

Guardians of the Galaxy #1 courtesy Marvel
Guardians of the Galaxy #1 courtesy Marvel

Benicio Del Toro (Sin City) has joined Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and signed a deal to appear in several Marvel films according to Deadline. James Gunn is directing the film starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista as the heroes of the film based on the Marvel Comic. Glenn Close will play the leader of the Nova Corp (an intergalactic police force) and Lee Pace and Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) are playing villains. Michael Rooker Continue reading Benicio Del Toro Joins GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

Want to Know Who Is a MIGHTY Avenger?

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courtesy Marvel

It will take some MIGHTY heroes to protect the planet when Earth’s Mightiest Heroes must go into space to save the universe!

Marvel shared this image and teaser:

“From the battlefields of Infinity comes a new team to protect Earth! With the Avengers light-years away in space, contending with the Builders and Thanos’ marauders ransacking the Earth, who will stand in defense of mankind?”

Look at the image of the fist! If you want to know who is on this team keep reading if not use your Marvel AR app and the Marvel.com image to learn the secret from Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort himself!

If not here’s the scoop: Continue reading Want to Know Who Is a MIGHTY Avenger?

Marvel’s MIGHTY Post INFINITY Tease!

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courtesy Marvel

Is Marvel teasing a new Avengers series? A MIGHTY Avengers series after this year’s cosmic showdown with Thanos?

Here’s the image and teaser:

“From the battlefields of Infinity comes a new team to protect Earth! With the Avengers light-years away in space, contending with the Builders and Thanos’ marauders ransacking the Earth, who will stand in defense of mankind?” Continue reading Marvel’s MIGHTY Post INFINITY Tease!

THE END OF X-FACTOR Begins

X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel

The End of X-Factor. begins this week with X-Factor #257. Why and how is Peter David preparing to end the long-running series he’s written on and off for nearly a decade?

“It just seemed the right time. ‘The Hell on Earth War’ was so huge that it was as if everything I’d been doing had led up to it. When you’ve reached a dramatic natural climax, that’s the place to stop.”

“It will be a series of one-issue stories each focusing on one or two characters, trying to give each of them a decent conclusion,” says David.

X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel

The final issues will be devoted to specific characters “#257 focuses on Layla Miller, #258 focuses on Rahne. Rictor and Shatterstar are #259. Polaris is in #260” David tells Marvel.com.

Where do you want the members of X-Factor to turn up now that the series is ending? Here are my X-Factor X-pectations for these mutant detectives.

Keep scrolling for more preview art from X-Factor #257 by Neil Edwards.

X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #257 courtesy Marvel

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DC Comics Reveals FOREVER EVIL Villains Month!

Joker/Batman courtesy DC Comics
Joker/Batman courtesy DC Comics

The bad guys win…at least for one month!

After the “Trinity War,” crossover in the Justice League the DC Universe is taken over by villains this September!

Count Vertigo/Green Arrow courtesy DC Comics
Count Vertigo/Green Arrow courtesy DC Comics

Villain’s Month will spotlight 52 of the DC Universe’s biggest rogues in their own one-shots.

“September has always been a big month for us and we look for an opportunity every year in September to do something big that really redefines the line and invites anyone who hasn’t been following comics to step right in,” DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Jim Lee explained to BUZZFEED.

“We launched the New 52 Continue reading DC Comics Reveals FOREVER EVIL Villains Month!