RICK REMENDER On AVENGERS: RAGE OF ULTRON

Avengers: Rage of Ultron courtesy Marvel
Avengers: Rage of Ultron courtesy Marvel

After taking on Apocalypse, Kang and the Red Skull, writer Rick Remender tackles what many consider the ultimate Avengers enemy in an original graphic novel.

 

Announced at San Diego Comic Con, Avengers: Rage of Ultron reunites Remender with his Uncanny X-Force collaborator, artist Jerome Opena. The in continuity story includes a story from Ultron’s past and flashes to the present as a new Avengers team must stop the evil artificial intelligence who’s taken over Titan, the home of Thanos! Continue reading RICK REMENDER On AVENGERS: RAGE OF ULTRON

AVENGERS: RAGE OF ULTRON Announced at MARVEL AXIS SDCC

Avengers: Rage of Ultron courtesy Marvel
Avengers: Rage of Ultron courtesy Marvel

The Marvel Avengers & X-Men: AXIS panel was packed with anxious fans at San Diego Comic Con but it was Ultron that stole the show. More on that surprise coming up!

 

In AXIS Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Children of the Atom unite against the power of the Red Skull armed with Professor Xavier’s mutant mind. The major event will come just after major status quo changes for three of Avenging icons: a new female Thor, Sam Wilson as the new Captain America and Tony Stark in new silver armor with a new mission and base of operations. Continue reading AVENGERS: RAGE OF ULTRON Announced at MARVEL AXIS SDCC

JOSS WHEDON On AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Villains

Avengers #22 courtesy Marvel
Avengers #22 courtesy Marvel

Joss Whedon is talking about the evil artificial intelligence Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will fight in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

 

“I’m having a blast with Ultron. He’s not a creature of logic — he’s a robot who’s genuinely disturbed. We’re finding out what makes him menacing and at the same time endearing and funny and strange and unexpected, and everything a robot never is,” the director says in an upcoming 300th issue of Empire Magazine.

 

Ultron (played by James Spader) is just one of the villains the Avengers will take on in the sequel. Continue reading JOSS WHEDON On AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Villains

Mark Ruffalo On AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Story

Marvel's Avengers The Hulk courtesy Marvel Studios
Marvel’s Avengers The Hulk courtesy Marvel Studios

Mark Ruffalo joins Scarlett Johansson in praising the script for Avengers: Age of Ultron. The actor who plays Bruce Banner says to expect a darker story and more Hulk moments.

 

“I would say that it’s better, it’s cooler, it’s more awesomer,” he tells MTV News. “It’s a little bit darker, but also really has Joss Whedon’s incredibly, witty and sly sense of humor.” Continue reading Mark Ruffalo On AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Story

Don Cheadle in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

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courtesy Marvel

Don Cheadle will reprise his role as James Rhodes in Avengers: Age of Ultron according to Hitfix. Will Rhodes armor up to take the place of an Iron Man gone wrong?

 

Cheadle wore the War Machine armor in Iron Man 2 then the Iron Patriot armor in Iron Man 3.

 

Director Joss Whedon says he’s going with a origin for Ultron that differs from the comic book. Ultron is an artificial intelligence who downloads into an armored body and becomes one of the Avengers’ greatest enemies. Continue reading Don Cheadle in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON