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WONDER WOMAN Logo & First Look

courtesy Warner Brothers
courtesy Warner Brothers

A first look at Gal Gadot in action as Wonder Woman in her own film was part of the DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League on The CW.

Kevin Smith and Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns hosted the special that gave fans new looks at Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman.

Johns confirmed Diana’s origins in the film that she is from Greek mythology raised on the island of Themiscyra with warriors called Amazons. They were created to protect man’s world but have abandoned it. Continue reading WONDER WOMAN Logo & First Look

STEVE ROGERS RETURNS AS CAPTAIN AMERICA

Steve Rogers: Captain America #1 courtesy Marvel
Steve Rogers: Captain America #1 courtesy Marvel

During the Captain America: 75 Heroic Years special on ABC tonight Marvel revealed Steve Rogers would return as the hero in comics.

Last year a villain called the Iron Nail seized the Super Soldier Serum from Rogers’ body leaving him an old man without powers. Rogers continued to have an advisory role with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and is a member of the Uncanny Avengers cast.

Rogers recruited longtime friend and former partner Sam Wilson (aka Falcon) to be the new Captain America. Wilson is currently starring in a solo series by Nick Spencer and leads the All-New, All-Different Avengers by Mark Waid.

Rogers and Wilson are estranged but both will come together to a new threat in the crossover: Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill, where “something happens that restores Steve to full vigor” writer Nick Spencer revealed.
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AVENGERS STANDOFF OMEGA, SPIDER-WOMEN & More MARVEL April Previews

Spider-Women #1 courtesy Marvel
Spider-Women #1 courtesy Marvel

Spider-Women united, multiple new number ones issues and the road to Civil War II continues.

Marvel’s big event is primed to explode in the aftermath of the publisher’s first big crossover of 2016.

Avengers: Standoff continues in Marvel’s April previews.

Captain America: Sam Wilson #8 Three Captain Americas united by Nick Spencer. Wilson, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes team up to stand against the evil in Pleasant Hill.

All-New, All-Different Avengers #8 by Mark Waid. The heroes are trapped in Pleasant Hill and can’t tell who’s who. Without memories – is this the end?

Uncanny Avengers #8 One Avenger “makes the ultimate sacrifice” to escape a trap in this tie-in by Gerry Duggan. Continue reading AVENGERS STANDOFF OMEGA, SPIDER-WOMEN & More MARVEL April Previews

New Comics Picks for January 20, 2016

Captain Marvel courtesy Marvel via Fast Company
Captain Marvel courtesy Marvel via Fast Company

The women behind Agent Carter take Captain Marvel into orbit and Poison Ivy gets her own book! These two women take the lead in our new comic picks of the week.

Captain Marvel #1 Carol Danvers leads Alpha Flight?! The fan-favorite Avenger is the new head of S.W.O.R.D. with her own team and satellite headquarters. Danvers is Earth’s first of defense against alien threats in a new series by the team behind Marvel’s Agent Carter and Uncanny X-Men artist Kris Anka.

Poison Ivy: The Cycle of Life and Death #1 The Batman femme fatale in her own limited series. Dr. Isley gets a new start but when a fellow scientist is killed, all evidence points to Ivy. Writer Amy Chu and artist Clay Mann get the bad girl entangled in a new Gotham conspiracy. Continue reading New Comics Picks for January 20, 2016

AGENT CARTER Team Launches CAPTAIN MARVEL

Captain Marvel courtesy Marvel via Fast Company
Captain Marvel courtesy Marvel via Fast Company

A big week for two of Marvel’s most beloved female heroes and the two women behind those characters.

Writers Tara Butters and Michelle Fazekas celebrate the start of the second season of Agent Carter and the launch of a new volume of Captain Marvel. They recruited the women behind the acclaimed Agent Carter television series.

Butters and Fazekas take over the new adventures of Carol Danvers after the departure of Kelly Sue DeConnick who transformation Ms. Marvel to Captain Marvel, inspiring the Carol Corps fan movement.

Captain Marvel will be leading the first line of defense for Earth against alien threats at her own space station when the series picks eight months after Secret Wars. Continue reading AGENT CARTER Team Launches CAPTAIN MARVEL

GRAYSON’S NEW MISSION

Grayson #18 courtesy DC Comics
Grayson #18 courtesy DC Comics

The shocks keep coming for Dick Grayson fans.

When The New 52 began Nightwing learned he was meant to be a Talon for the Court of Owls.

Dick later”died” in Forever Evil at the hands of Lex Luthor.

The former Robin faked his death, ditched the Nightwing mask/code-name to become an undercover double agent investigating Spyral in his new series Grayson.

Now Dick has an ominous new role in the fallout of Robin War.

Before we continue here’s a SPOILER ALERT! Continue reading GRAYSON’S NEW MISSION