Some fans may say it’s too soon but I’m excited to swing into a theater on July 3rd for the Amazing Spider-Man reboot by director Marc Webb. Spinoff Onlineshared these two new posters showing Spidey – one standing defiantly and one swinging into action!
The Easter Bunny shared the spotlight with some of Marvel’s most famous heroes at the 134th Annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Marvel.com revealed this photo of Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor and Iron Man at The White House for the April 9th event.
Can you imagine the kids seeing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes?
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War comes to Utopia. Scott’s Extinction team faces the Avengers for custody of Hope as the Phoenix Force speeds towards Earth. How will Uncanny X-Men writer Kieron Gillen weave his title into the Avengers Vs. X-Men epic. I wanted to share part of a new interview from Marvel.com.
“The Marvel events are enormous landmarks in the topography of the Marvel Universe. With my Uncanny X-Men run, I’ve been building towards [Avengers Vs. X-Men] for as long as I’ve been doing the book. I’ve been making a situation where a confrontation between Avengers and X-men isn’t just logic, it’s kinda necessary. So, when I’m taking part of the event, this is basically lighting all the fuses to the fireworks I’ve been laying down, and sitting back and hoping everyone goes “cool!” at the explosions in the sky.”
Fights in AvX will spill into a second “all fights” book: AvX:VS. Gillen tells why and how we will chronicle Spider-Man vs. Colossus in AvX:Vs #2.
“The twist is really the opposite of that. There’s not an enormous amount of personal history between the pair. The history is between Spider-Man and Juggernaut, whose powers Colossus has borrowed. So the story’s emotional aspects are really about playing with that resonance. And “playing” is probably the word. I do a Colossus/Red Hulk brawl in Uncanny X-Men #11, which is dark, serious, character-motivated stuff. The VS [book is], as the preview art perhaps [tells], all about the spectacle of super beings going for each other.
Why did I pick it? Well, editor Nick Lowe called me up and asked if I’d be interested in writing it. And because I never wrote Spider-Man, I figured it could be fun to do. And it was. I immediately descended to walking around the house, improvising really bad Parker-esque wise-cracks.
During the Uncanny X-Men tie-in to Fear Itself Colossus became the Juggernaut and this will play into the showdown with Spidey.
“Peter actually talks about this mid-fight, in terms of the traditional axis. It’s a “What happens is I tire myself out punching you eight million of times, you get angry trying to hit me eight million times and never connecting and then I drop you into a concrete vat” situation. That’s how Juggernaut fights go. The difference is Piotr. He’s not exactly a superbrain, but he’s a damn sight smarter than Cain Marko. That nudges a traditional Spider-Man advantage away.”
How will AvX affect his Uncanny title and change the status quo of Utopia:
“Basically, Uncanny focuses in hard on the mutant-centric Utopia-focused side. While the core book will be about both Avengers and X-Men, mine is primarily interested in what this means to mutantkind, both now, and looking towards whatever comes next. The Avengers are antagonists in my book. I’m interested in them as enemies. I shamelessly don’t give them a fair shake. I get inside my characters’ heads. I write some secret history. I look at how the events of AvX shake up the already volatile internal politics of the Extinction Team.
I mean, you want some examples? For the former, you ever wondered why Namor’s on the mutants’ side? I do that in issue #11. For the middle aspect, the mystery of the Lights has been a bubbling plot for the mutants’ corner of the universe. I deal with it in #13. And for the latter…well, for that you’ll have to wait. Thinking about it, there is an exception to the “X-Men over Avengers” focus I mentioned above. That’s issue #12, where I go to Tabula Rasa. It’s ended up as something tonally separate to the vast majority of my X-Men run. Its primary focus is on Namor and The Thing, and it’s something of a diversion from my relatively serious approach. I mean, it’s still high stakes, but I think people will laugh a lot. It’s a return to the scene of Namor/Tapeworm Queen intimacy, after all.
Oh, I also throw some villains into the mix. Sinister returns in an enormous way. And, from his perspective, AvX is basically called “Mister Sinister presents…Avengers Vs. X-Men.” In fact, from Sinister’s perspective, it’s “Mister Sinister presents…the whole Marvel Universe, ever.” He’s nothing if not an egotist, as issue #14 will make clear.
And there’s more there too. I don’t want to say anything, but I manage to throw another curve ball into the whole mess with my last issue before AvX. It’s sneaksie, to say the least.”
For the entire interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
AvX Vs #2 will be Gillen’s first time working with Invincible Iron Man artist Salvador Larroca.
A new clue revealed in the mystery of the Spider-Men. Marvel is releasing a Spider-Men series by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Sara Pichelli this June. Today Marvel revealed one of the Spider-Men…sort of. It sure looks like the Peter Parker we know from the Marvel Universe.
Given the creative team (that created the new Ultimate Spider-Man) on board this title, I suspect Miles Morales is the other Spider-Men to be revealed.
Mary Jane may be Spidey’s main movie squeeze in the Sam Raimi films but true believers know Gwen Stacy is Peter Parker’s first true love from the comics. Emma Stone talked with The Hollywood Reporter about preparing to play Gwen.
“There was a fair amount of research for me to do because I didn’t read the comic books growing up, so of course I had a lot to brush up on. But for the most part, the definitive part of Gwen Stacy, more than anything, more than the different incarnations of her personality – because she was a hippie, she had twins with Norman Osborne, there were a lot of things we didn’t really touch on quite as much, and there were some updates to Gwen as well, because it’s present day – I think that Gwen’s underlying factor remains incredibly sad, until what happens, which is incredibly tragic. Her father faces death every single day, her boyfriend faces death every single day, so she is constantly surrounded by an undercurrent of mortality. So she is in control and she is valedictorian and she is confident and smart because she has to be; she’s constantly in the face of something, so that’s why her end is so much more tragic.”
For the entire interview here’s THR link. Peter fell for MJ but Gwen fell for Peter Parker.
Do you think this movie Gwen Stacy will share the same fate as her comic book counterpart?
Amazing Spider-Man #682 Doctor Octopus holds the planet hostage in part one of Ends of the Earth. Spidey’s old foe unleashes a new Sinister Six but Peter Parker calls in the Avengers for backup!
Batman #7 Batman barely survived with his life and sanity after The Court of Owls first attack. The secret society is plotting their next assault. Secrets exposed in this issue will change Bruce’s world.
Last of the Greats Volume 1 Humanity’s last hope hates us. He’s the lone survivor of a superhero family and the only force that can save Earth from destruction but he despises humans. This is the Zanadu Book of the Month our group is reading.
Supercrooks #1 From the creative force behind Kick Ass and Marvel’s Civil War and Old Man Logan comes a a team of supervillains out to pull off one last big score in Europe.
Uncanny X-Men #9 An outer space prison break unleashes an army of alien criminals on Earth. The mastermind is a wicked cross between CP-3O and Hannibal Lecter. A disaster like this brings the X-Men and Avengers together for their last teamup before the Avengers Vs. X-Men war erupts.
The Lizard (Rhys Ifans) will torment Andrew Garfield in the big screen reboot Amazing Spider-Man this summer. Dan Slott will unleash the Lizard in Amazing Spider-Man #688 with art by Giuseppe Camucolo. Marvel revealed the upcoming arc at Wondercon this past weekend. No Going Back will feature a battle between Spidey and his reptilian foe.
“We’ve had funny stories, crime stories, team-up stories, summer blockbuster stories, personal stories—this time, we’re going for horror,” Slott tells Marvel.com. “This summer we’re giving you a chiller; we’re going from wall-crawling to skin crawling.”
For the entire interview here’s the Marvel .com link.
The Ends of the Earth arc starts this week.
More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/news/story/18305/wondercon_2012_amazing_spider-man#ixzz1paEoMWgz
A new tangle in the web of mystery surrounding Marvel’s Spider-Men teaser from last month. Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli have been announced as the creative team for a new Spider-Men series launching in June. Bendis & Pichelli are the team that launched the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man starring Miles Morales. Thanks to Comics Newsarama.
Miles Morales seems a definite for this series but who will join him? Peter Parker, Ben Reilly aka the Scarlet Spider, the Ultimate Peter Parker back from the dead or maybe a brand new Spider-Man?