Suicide Squad and the Banana Splits?! The beloved Saturday morning favorites and DC’s most infamous villains? It’s gonna be a crazy week at the comic book shop!
It’s an overstuffed new comics picks of the week as two Marvel franchises relaunch with big Prime time issues plus DC heroes and villains teaming up with Hanna Barbera cartoon classics. Continue reading New Comic Book Picks for March 29, 2017
Big issues for new and fan-favorites super groups but let’s kick off this week’s new comic book picks with the Daredevil femme fatale striking out in her own new book.
Elektra #1
Viva Las Elektra! The former assassin heads to Las Vegas for an escape but she is caught up in a deadly new game. Elektra vs Arcade in a new book by writer Matt Owens. Continue reading New Comic Picks for February 22, 2017
A new conspiracy revealed that sets the stage for major Marvel events and comebacks of lost heroes and villains in Avengers: Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill.
The first big crossover of the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now is set to explode in the Avengers books and the match is lit in this week’s one-shot by Nick Spencer and Mark Bagley.
Marvel already revealed estranged friends Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson will be drawn into the mystery of Pleasant Hill but the story will strike all of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
This week we learned about where some MIA heroes are villains are and the secret of Pleasant Hill. Before we hear from Spencer and the revelations could mean for the Marvel Universe here’s a SPOILER ALERT! Continue reading AVENGERS STANDOFF SURPRISE COMEBACKS
The Thunderbolts are coming back. Cable and Deadpool are headlining a new buddy book again. The Dark Riders are on the attack in the Uncanny X-Men. Is a Nineties resurgence on?
Winter Soldier will be leading the newest volume of the T-Bolts with original members from it’s original incarnation. Is the announcement making you nostalgic for the ’90s?
If the T-bolts can go back to their roots for a comeback, here are four Marvel comics from the era of big guns, big shoulders and gun pouches we would want to see again. Continue reading MORE MARVEL ’90s COMICS COMEBACKS For Your Consideration
The Thunderbolts strike back. Marvel’s team of villains turned “heroes” are back with a new leader, Bucky Barnes.
After a week of teasers Marvel revealed a brand new Thunderbolts book is coming in the crossover Avengers: Standoff.
Winter Soldier will lead the new squad featuring original members Moonstone, Mach-V, Fixer and Atlas in a new book by Jim Zub and Jon Malin.
The original Thunderbolts were villains masquerading as heroes including then leader Baron Zemo. The team evolved over the years as the government’s secret weapon of villains. The T-bolts were even ordered to bring in unregistered heroes during the first Civil War.
The creators told Marvel.com their take on the new version goes back to what the original concept a fan-favorite: Continue reading WINTER SOLDIER LEADS NEW THUNDERBOLTS
Filming of Captain America: Civil War is underway. Chris Evans as Steve Rogers leads an all-star cast in the follow-up to Age of Ultron.
We knew Robert Downey Jr. return would return as Tony Stark. Now we know the super sequel could be hailed as an Avengers 2.5.
The film will include Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Paul Bettany as The Vision, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes/War Machine, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa/Black Panther and Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter/Agent 13. This film could be the first time we see the new Spider-Man born from the Marvel/Sony partnership.
Based on the comics storyline, when the government passes the Superhero Registration Act – it fractures the Avengers and a Civil War among the costumed heroes doesn’t stay civil.
While the cast is packed with fan-favorites and new characters here are more characters we hope to see in the next feature: Continue reading MORE MARVEL HEROES For CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
Magneto, Sinestro, Lobo.
Cullen Bunn is writing acclaimed series starring iconic villains along with anti-hero Deadpool.
Which other unusual suspects does Bunn want to take on next?
“I’ve often said that Namor is one of the most fun characters to write. There’s pure joy in channeling that level of self-confidence. But writing Sinestro, Magneto and Namor might be too much narcissism for me to handle. There are many villainous characters I’d love to see in their own book. Continue reading CULLEN BUNN’S Villain Hit List
Guardians of the Galaxy opens next week. The success of this film could cinematic launch a more down to earth Marvel team.
Director James Gunn is on board for one more Marvel movie but it may not be Guardians 2.
It may be Thunderbolts?
“Thunderbolts? I will tell you, one time I was saying to Kevin [Feige], we were sitting on set together on one of the days he visited and I said, ‘You know, I really want to make Thunderbolts,’ and he said, ‘James, if Guardians does well you’ll be able to do whatever you want so we’ll see what happens,” Gunn told Screen Rant.
Which version could make it to the big screen?
Like the Guardians, the Thunderbolts have been though many rosters and twists on the concept. Continue reading GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Director on THUNDERBOLTS