DEADPOOL’S BIRTHDAY & More From MARVEL FEBRUARY 2016

Avengers: Standoff courtesy Marvel
Avengers: Standoff courtesy Marvel

The first crossover of the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now, Deadpool turns 25 and four new number one issues arrive in the Marvel February 2016 books.

The previously announced Avengers: Standoff event begins with an “Alpha” book.

Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill #1 by Nick Spencer before launching in the Avengers titles and Captain America: Sam Wilson #6 hailed as “The Road to Standoff starts here.”

There’s a rift between old friends Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson as seen in the current Captain America book that will build and engulf as the teams leading up to the 75th Anniversary of Captain America. Continue reading DEADPOOL’S BIRTHDAY & More From MARVEL FEBRUARY 2016

Our Favorite ANT-MAN Easter Eggs

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang in Ant-Man courtesy Marvel
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang in Ant-Man courtesy Marvel

Ant-Man is big at the box-office.

Marvel’s latest adventure starring Paul Rudd as the titular hero won the weekend in a film filled with Easter Eggs, references and homages to Marvel’s cinematic and comic book history.

We’re working on a whole post devoted to that post-credit sequence but for now here our favorite Easter Eggs in Ant-Man. Continue reading Our Favorite ANT-MAN Easter Eggs

BRIDE OF ULTRON In Future AVENGERS Movie?

Jocasta courtesy Marvel
Jocasta courtesy Marvel

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes meet their most relentless enemy in Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015.

 

The teaser trailer gives us a first look at the evil A.I.and his expanding army of robot bodies and we hear the voice of James Spader (The Blacklist) giving malevolent menace to what many fans call the greatest Avengers villain.

 

What we did not see what the Vision. Paul Bettany (voice of Tony Stark’s AI “butler” Jarvis from the Iron Man films) will play the android. In comics Ultron creates the Vision to infiltrate and destroy the team but Vision turns on his master and becomes a member of the team.

 

Will she ever see the Bride of Ultron? Continue reading BRIDE OF ULTRON In Future AVENGERS Movie?

EVANGELINE LILLY New Hair Inspires WASP COSPLAY

The geek world starting buzzing (pardon the obvious pun) after Evangeline Lilly (Lost, The Hobbit) showed off her new hair style on Instagram.

Lilly is playing Hope Van Dyne in Marvel’s upcoming Ant-Man movie which started shooting in San Francisco this week.

In the film Hope is the daughter of original Ant-Man inventor Hank Pym (Michael Douglas.) Paul Rudd is playing Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man. Continue reading EVANGELINE LILLY New Hair Inspires WASP COSPLAY

WASP Double Cosplay at GeekGirlCon

GeekGirlCon 2013 photo by ComicsBlend
GeekGirlCon 2013 photo by ComicsBlend

Janet Van Dyne is famous for her fashion sense and ever-changing uniforms. The mighty and mighty chic Avenger is currently serving on the Uncanny Avengers Unity Squad after coming back from the microverse in the previous Avengers volume.

 

I had a double take this weekend at GeekGirlCon 2013 in Seattle – the third annual celebration of women in geek culture.

 

You have to admire the dedication of a cosplayer who works not one but two looks for the hero they love. I salute this geek girl I met at GeekGirlCon. On Saturday she sported the retro Wasp look complete with headpiece and visor seen here with a woman with great taste in an Avenging Archer! Continue reading WASP Double Cosplay at GeekGirlCon