Inside SPIDER-WOMAN #1

Spider-Woman #1 courtesy Marvel
Spider-Woman #1 courtesy Marvel

The original Spider-Woman takes the newest web-spinning hero under her protection as a new era begins for Jessica Drew.

 

Marvel shared a look inside the new Spider-Woman #1.

 

Announced at New York Comic Con – Dennis Hopeless and Greg Land launch a brand new series starring Jessica Drew spinning out of Spider-Verse.

 

Drew has been an Agent of Hydra, S.H.I.E.LD. and S.W.O.R.D. and an Avenger. She’ll need all that experience in a war across the dimensions. Continue reading Inside SPIDER-WOMAN #1

Casting DOCTOR STRANGE Update 3

Doctor Strange: The Oath courtesy Marvel
Doctor Strange: The Oath courtesy Marvel

Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange?

 

We picked the Sherlock star as our runner-up when speculation began stirring for Marvel’s Master of the Mystic Arts. We even suggested the villain from Star Trek: Into Darkness would make a sinister Mephisto!

 

Then when it looked Johnny Depp was in the running we chose Cumberbatch as one of Strange’s villains.

 

As the Doctor Strange movie news is on the fast track here are the allies and enemies who should be summon for his big screen debut.

 

For Your Consideration: Continue reading Casting DOCTOR STRANGE Update 3

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH As DOCTOR STRANGE?

New Avengers #14 courtesy Marvel
New Avengers #14 courtesy Marvel

Has Marvel conjured the perfect actor to play the Master of the Mystic Arts?

 

Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) will play the title hero in Doctor Strange according to Deadline.

 

Scott Derrickson is directing. No official release date is set yet.

 

Stephen Strange was name dropped by Hydra operatives in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Continue reading BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH As DOCTOR STRANGE?

ULTIMATE UNIVERSE SURVIVORS

Ultimate Universe: The End #1 courtesy Marvel
Ultimate Universe: The End #1 courtesy Marvel

The End is coming for the Ultimate Universe.

 

After Ultimatum and Cataclysm claimed the lives of so many heroes is this 2015 event the end of the line for this line?

 

Marvel launched the Ultimate Universe in 2000 with modern takes on iconic characters and where dead meant dead and Nick Fury was Samuel L. Jackson.

 

If this is truly the end of an era will some heroes survive and move into the Marvel 616 universe?

 

Here are our favorite Ultimate characters that should make the move. Continue reading ULTIMATE UNIVERSE SURVIVORS

DEATHLOK Begins Again

Deathlok #1 courtesy Marvel
Deathlok #1 courtesy Marvel

New Hero. Classic concept.

Half-Man, Half-Machine – All Killer.

 

Nathan Edmondson (Black Widow, Punisher) and Mike Perkins (Captain America) launch a brand new Deathlok series this week.

 

It’s the culmination of a major Deathlok comeback.

 

After appearing in Uncanny X-Force, Wolverine and the X-Men and on the television in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the cyborg soldier will star in his own solo series but with a new man connected to the machine. Continue reading DEATHLOK Begins Again

DEATH OF WOLVERINE, AXEL ALONSO’s Afterthoughts

Death of Wolverine #1 courtesy Marvel
Death of Wolverine #1 courtesy Marvel

Wolverine is dead.

Was it the end Logan deserved?

Fans are feeling the Logan Legacy.

 

Charles Soule and Steve McNiven brought us the story but who plotted the Death of Wolverine. How did the powers at Marvel decide how the fan-favorite X-Man would meet his maker?

 

“It was Charles (Soule) and (X-Men Group Editor) Mike Marts that decided the specifics on how Logan would die. Continue reading DEATH OF WOLVERINE, AXEL ALONSO’s Afterthoughts

THE END OF ULTIMATE COMICS

Ultimate Universe: The End #1 courtesy Marvel
Ultimate Universe: The End #1 courtesy Marvel

Is Marvel putting an end to the Ultimate Universe and comics imprint?

 

After a series of teasers suggesting new versions of classic stories like Civil War, and Planet Hulk coming in 2015 – this teaser is for a brand new event that no one from Earth 1610 will survive.

 

Ultimate Comics was born in 2000 with reimagined and modern takes on classic Marvel heroes and villains. Ultimate Spider-Man (by Brian Michael Bendis) and Ultimate X-Men (by Mark Millar) were the first titles followed by the Ultimates, which became the inspiration for The Avengers movie and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Continue reading THE END OF ULTIMATE COMICS

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Teaser Trailer

Avengers: Age of Ultron courtesy Marvel
Avengers: Age of Ultron courtesy Marvel

Ultron arrives early!

Marvel promised to reveal the first official teaser trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron in next week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode but after a leak today it’s officially unleashed along with a first teaser poster.

Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Bruce Banner are back together again in the follow-up directed by Joss Whedon.

One of the all-time favorite Avengers villains makes his horrific on screen debut in the super sequel.

Watch and enjoy: Continue reading AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Teaser Trailer