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FOUR Reasons FANTASTIC FOUR Should Go MARVEL

Fantastic Four #16 courtesy Marvel
Fantastic Four #16 courtesy Marvel

You’ve read enough about the latest version of the Fantastic Four.

Here’s where we start talking about the future of Marvel’s First Family. Yes, I don’t want to give up on the team that launched the Marvel Age.

Sony and Marvel reached an agreement that Spider-Man’s cinematic future will better by working together. Spidey will be swinging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe then his own film again. Is it time for Fox to let Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny go home?

It’s too soon for another movie reboot. You might be saying the same thing about Spidey. What about a television series that weaves the FF into the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Continue reading FOUR Reasons FANTASTIC FOUR Should Go MARVEL

UNCANNY INHUMANS Gets FANTASTIC JOHNNY STORM

Uncanny Inhumans courtesy Marvel via Wired
Uncanny Inhumans courtesy Marvel via Wired

The final member of Uncanny Inhumans is Fantastic!

A big week for Marvel as they revealed the rosters for the All-New, All-Different Avengers and Uncanny Inhumans. Both teams will star in Free Comic Book Day books on May 2nd and give us a preview of the post-Secret Wars Marvel Universe.

Fantastic Four may be ending in comics but the Human Torch will flame on with a new team.

Queen Medusa, Triton with NuHumans Inferno, Iso, Naja will be joined by…Johnny Storm? Wired revealed the final members. Continue reading UNCANNY INHUMANS Gets FANTASTIC JOHNNY STORM

Four Characters for MARVEL’S AGENT CARTER Season Two

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

Fans are breathing a sigh of relief after the finale of Marvel’s Agent Carter.

Hayley Atwell reprised her role as Peggy Carter in an action-packed adventure filled with Marvel Easter Eggs. Peggy and Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy) teamed up for a covert mission to clear Howard Stark’s good name and recover his inventions from Leviathan.

During Peggy’s adventure she reunited with the Howling Commandos, explored the Black Widow program and went up against villains who would become part of Iron Man’s future rogues gallery.

When not if Peggy returns for a second season here are four characters from the early days of Marvel Comics history that would be perfect for a second season and thrilling adventure for Peggy Carter: Continue reading Four Characters for MARVEL’S AGENT CARTER Season Two

FANTASTIC FOUR #2 Fallen Heroes…in Red

 

Fantastic Four #2 courtesy Marvel
Fantastic Four #2 courtesy Marvel

Marvel shared a look inside Fantastic Four #2. Writer James Robinson and artist Leonard Kirk are new team on Marvel’s First Family. Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny are sporting red instead of their signature blue as the new series blasts off.

 

Robinson has said he’s plotting the Fall of the Fantastic Four and this second issue shows the Richards family may have paid the price for saving New York City from alien invaders.

 

Fantastic Four #1 hits next week. Continue reading FANTASTIC FOUR #2 Fallen Heroes…in Red

ALL-NEW INVADERS #1 Review

All-New Invaders #1 courtesy Marvel
All-New Invaders #1 courtesy Marvel

Writer James Robinson takes Marvel’s oldest superhero team (at least chronologically) and make them exciting, fresh and fun in All-New Invaders #1.

 

Captain America, Bucky, Namor the Sub-Mariner and the original Human Torch fought Nazis and Hitler’s super soldiers in World War II. The heroes have dramatically changed except for Steve Rogers. The enemy is more powerful than the Third Reich but like Hitler – the Kree are looking for lost mythological treasures on Earth. Continue reading ALL-NEW INVADERS #1 Review

James Robinson on the Fall of the FANTASTIC FOUR

Fantastic Four art by Leonard Kirk courtesy Marvel
Fantastic Four art by Leonard Kirk courtesy Marvel

Writer James Robinson and artist Leonard Kirk are the new creative team on Marvel’s First Family. An all-new Fantastic Four #1 arrives in February, 2014. The acclaimed writer tells Marvel.com he’s orchestrating the Fall of the Fantastic Four:

 

“I think it was Grant Morrison that said a gentleman writer comes on a book, duly messes everything up for the characters, but then puts it back together again at the end the way he left it. So absolutely I intend to put the team through hell Continue reading James Robinson on the Fall of the FANTASTIC FOUR