One of the many questions raised by The Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox’s film and TV assets is how Disney and its subsidiary Marvel Studios will handle Fox’s X-Men and Fantastic Four properties. The main assumption is that Marvel will simply reboot the properties as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, […]
Disney’s acquisition of Fox is good for the MCU, but bad for the movie industry
Tom Beasley looks at the positives and negatives of Disney buying up the assets of 20th Century Fox, and what that means for cinema… After weeks of speculation, it has finally happened. Disney has acquired Fox’s entertainment assets, including its film and television studios. The massive deal, which is certainly one of the biggest in […]
Marvel’s Avengers: No Surrender third month covers revealed
Marvel’s epic weekly crossover event continues in February with the third month of Avengers: No Surrender, and we’ve got a look at the covers to issues #683 – #686 by Mark Brooks, along with the interlocking variant covers by Nick Bradshaw. Take a look here… AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #683 Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB […]
Avengers: No Surrender second month covers revealed
Marvel’s epic weekly takeover continues this February when Kim Jacinto takes the reigns to draw the second month of Marvel’s biggest team adventure Avengers: No Surrender, and you can check out the covers for issues #679 – #682 here… “In month two of NO SURRENDER, the rubber hits the road as we learn what’s really going on […]
Marvel teases the end of the Avengers with trailer for Avengers: No Surrender
The end of the Avengers Era as we know it is arriving, as Marvel launches its new Marvel Legacy event Avengers: No Surrender, a weekly epic which it set to get underway in January with the release of Avengers #675. Watch the trailer here or over on our YouTube channel… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Bv_DcWJ2A Co-written by Mark Waid, […]
Marvel launches its Avengers Variant Cover Program this January
This January, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are set to unite for Avengers No Surrender, a crossover event between Marvel’s three Avengers titles, and to mark the occasion the publisher is set to launch the Avengers Variant Cover Program, showcasing different eras of the Avengers across twenty-one of its titles. Here’s a look at the first five […]
Marvel’s Murder Problem
Ben Robins on Marvel’s murder problem… With the most celebrated of all the cinematic universes very much knocking on the door of its 10th anniversary, there’s all sorts of retrospective business going round. And something that becomes more and more glaringly obvious within the Marvel world, especially moving forward, is its attitude towards death. Well, […]
How Deadpool Could Bridge the Gap Between the MCU and Fox’s X-Men Universe
Ben Robins on how Deadpool could bridge the gap between the MCU and Fox’s X-Men Universe… Forgive me if we’ve all already had this thought (and I’m fairly sure we all, at some stage, have) but, this whole ‘different universes’ world-building business is a bit of a ball-ache isn’t it? Most casual superhero fans seem […]
Why Thanos will make or break Avengers: Infinity War
Anghus Houvouras on Thanos’ role in Avengers: Infinity War… My ambivalence with Marvel movies has been well documented. As I state in all my Marvel related rants, I may be the most consistently critical columnist writing about the mediocrity of Marvel movies online. If we lived in a world where business cards were still a […]
Up Up and Pret-a-Porter: Why are superhero movie costume designs so boring?
Anghus Houvourus on superhero movie costumes… Be warned: This is going to be some epic level nitpicking right here. By now my laundry list of complaints about the Marvel Cinematic Universe are well known. It’s safe to say that I may be the most vocal critic of the Marvel movies in terms of consistency and […]
