Batwoman #17 The mythic conclusion of Kate Kane and Wonder Woman’s fight against Medusa and her army of monsters.
Captain Marvel #10 The unthinkable has happened to Carol Danvers. What happens to a hero who loves flight but can no longer fly? Is she less a hero? Who wants to make sure Carol remains grounded?
Indestructible Hulk #4Bruce Banner leads a SHIELD team on a classified mission under the ocean where Attuma is ready to strike. Can an out-of-his element Hulk defeat the Atlantean powerhouse? Is there a traitor on Bruce’s think tank team?
Justice League of America #1With a roster like Catwoman, Vibe, Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Hawkman you know this team is going to be dynamic. “America’s Most Dangerous” are recruited Continue reading Comic Book Picks for February 20th
Benedict Cumberbatch lends his villainous voice to a new motion poster for Star Trek: Into Darkness courtesy Paramount. Watch as it reveals the Wrath of John Harrison!
This week NOVA #1 blasts into the Marvel Now with a new hero under the helmet. Jeph Loeb charts the Human Rocket’s course and shares why cosmic heroes are important to Marvel’s future on Marvel.com.
“Ed McGuinness and I are huge Nova fans, particularly of the Nova Corps. When we read Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning’s Thanos Imperative, it was amazing and heartbreaking. It was the end of Nova. We rose up for the Nova fans, who know are legion, and came up with an idea that we brought to editor Steve Wacker, who championed our cause, and Sam Alexander was born.”
“We’ve seen where Sam is present day in AvX and Point One. He’s the only Nova that he knows about. We’ve seen the responsibilities of taking on the helmet and being Nova. The legacy of Rich Rider will hang a heavy shadow.”
“We’re going to go back six months to where Sam was an ordinary kid living in a small town in Arizona, never believing there was anything beyond his backyard. Now his backyard is the entire universe.”
Nova #2 courtesy Marvel
Loeb likens the new NOVA to another teen hero with great power and responsibility:
“If we’re lucky, we’re taking on the type of stuff Peter Parker did in the earliest Spider-Man stories trying to be a super hero and a normal kid.”
“That story of Sam Alexander being 16 years old and already having given up is something I think people can relate to. But in the Marvel Universe, when we’re at our worst, that’s when the hero comes forward.”
Marvel is betting big on their space-faring heroes. Guardians of the Galaxy will be a movie and new series by Brian Michael Bendis and Steve McNiven.
“The relationship between Nova and the Guardians of the Galaxy is very important to where we’re going. Brian Bendis and I have talked about it since the beginning. It’s on the first page of the first issue. It’s really cool to see Ed drawing the Guardians.”
The humor and horror of war is captured in the sketchbooks of the young man who would become one of DC Comics’ most renowned artists. Before Nick Cardy’s runs on Aquaman and Teen Titans he served his country in World War Two. Cardy carried a sketchbook to document his time in the great conflict from basic training to battlefields across Europe Continue reading Nick Cardy: The Artist At War
As geeks in Northwest America count down to Emerald City Comicon I look forward to seeing my favorite X-Men couple! Yes, Kitty Pryde and Colossus have broken up in the comic books. Peter was possessed by a demon, then the Phoenix go give the guy a break. Kitty is taking a cue from the movie and moving on Continue reading Kitty Pryde & Colossus! Emerald City Comicon Flashback
Marvel revealed a new poster for Iron Man 3 starring Guy Pearce. The actor who played the founder of the “company” in the Alien movie mythology (Prometheus) will make scientist Aldrich Killian come of life on the big screen. Killian is a rival of Tony Stark created in the comic book classic: Iron Man: Extremis. I’m excited to see the scenes between Killian and Stark. Rebecca Hall plays Maya Hansen, another scientist on the frightening science project from nanotech hell.
Robert Downey, Jr will face Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin. Plus, we’ll see Don Cheadle reprise his role as James Rhodes but wearing the Iron Patriot armor in the sequel.
Marvel launches a brand new NOVA series into the Marvel Now with a superstar team but there’s a new kid under the helmet. Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuiness tell how teenager Sam Alexander became the new Human Rocket. Fans will now see the beginnings of the kid who debuted in Avengers vs. X-Men.
Nova #1 courtesy Marvel
“We’ll be seeing the origin of Nova and how he is learning what it’s like to be a super hero,” Loeb shares. “He’s first got to learn Continue reading NOVA Ready to Blast Off!
Justice League of America #1 by Geoff Johns and David Finch arrives this week.
Steve Trevor, Green Arrow, Catwoman, Katana, Hawkman, Stargirl, Martian Manhunter, Vibe and Green Lantern (Simon Baz) form a powerful alliance of unlikely heroes in the fight against a new Secret Society of Super Villains!
The first arc will be called World’s Most Dangerous and hailed Martian Manhunter as the most dangerous of all. Vibe will become one of the most powerful heroes in The New 52! Yes, you read right. Vibe is back!
Geoff Johns will co-write (with Andrew Kreisberg and Pete Woods on art) a new Justice League of America: Vibe #1. How will Johns and company reboot the Justice League Detroit era character into one of the most powerful and important heroes of the New 52?
“We’ve made him a really grounded person and a very realistic person,” Kreisberg explained to IGN about the series’ protagonist. “In some ways, there’s sort of a wish fulfillment for comic book fans because he’s a teenage kid that’s suddenly given superpowers and suddenly he’s in the Justice League of America working alongside the heroes that he, as a kid, had worshipped. In some ways, he’s teenage me or teenage you, and suddenly he gets to be with the Justice League. And he reacts in what we hope is a very realistic way. He has a lot of questions and he’s got a lot of fears. The DC Universe is populated with a lot of god-like characters like Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and a lot of inscrutable characters like Batman. What was most exciting for us was the opportunity to create almost a real person who gets thrust into this world that the audience can really relate to and that we can really dig into as a person.”
Justice League of America: Vibe #1 courtesy DC Comics
“One of the smartest things Geoff said early on was, ‘It’s really important we come up with a franchise for him, and it can’t just be that he has powers,”’ Kreisberg continued with NEWSARAMA.
“So we hit upon the idea that, since the Darkseid invasion began in Detroit, this is where the membrane is weakest between the dimensions, because this is where they punched through. And this left a crack in the fabric of reality between all the dimensions of all the Earths. Things kind of fall through, and people sneak through, and if there’s going to be another invasion, this is where it will begin. Since Cisco draws his powers from the energy of these vibrational cracks, he’s also able to sense these incursions. He knows when things are here that shouldn’t be, or when things come through. And he says, with some irony, that he’s essentially become an inter-dimensional border cop. I think that gives a strong franchise to the book. He’s here to clean up Detroit from these incursions, but the people he’s working for — Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S. — don’t always, necessarily, have his best interest at heart, or the best interest of some of the innocent people who come through. So it’s going to lead to a lot of interesting conflicts.”
