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[BEST & WORST '12] Melissa Grey’s List of the Best Comics 2012!

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Posted by Lonmonster on December 25, 2012 @ 10:53am
Category: Comics / News

2012 was a big year for comics, with the major publishers trying to outdo each other with one major crossover/reboot after the other, but the real gems of this year were the slew of incredible #1’s that graced shelves over the past twelve months. Over the course of the year, we were lucky enough to be gifted with more than our fair share of noteworthy premiere issues, from both established creators and upcoming talent. Quantifying the subjective is always a tricky business, so take the following numerical order with a healthy grain of salt, while recalling the #1 issues you’ve enjoyed over the past year and perhaps discovering a few new gems along the way. READ MORE

Comics Holiday Gift Guide

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Posted by Lonmonster on December 18, 2012 @ 5:00pm
Category: Comics / Editorials

The big day is just a week away, and I know a lot of you have yet to complete your holiday shopping. Lucky for you, we’ve sifted through all the comics, trades, toys, and collectables so you don’t have to. The BD Comic Book Crew (as we are henceforth to be known) has put together a naughty list of (mostly new) gift ideas for the comic lovers in your life. It ranges from Christmas tree ornaments to compendiums to charitable donations. Without further adieu, The 2012 Comics Gift Guide. READ MORE

New Motion Poster For ‘The Wolverine’ Movie Looks Like It Was Made On A Computer

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Posted by Lonmonster on December 13, 2012 @ 1:08pm
Category: Comics / News

Well, duh! Obviously it was made on a computer, but it looks particularly computer-generated (look at his claws!). Anyway, my quips aside, check out the new poster for Marvel’s The Wolverine, opening July 26. The Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima and Brian Tee. READ MORE

Free Comic Book Day 2013 Announcements Include ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Star Wars’, And ‘R.I.P.D.’

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Posted by Lonmonster on December 06, 2012 @ 12:24pm
Category: Comics / News

Ah, the glorious day that is Free Comic Book Day! Publishers have begun announces their titles for FCBD 2013 and the lineup this year includes some pretty stellar books so far. Below you can take a look at the first round of announcements from DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, and more. READ MORE

Nightcrawler Returns In “X-Termination”

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Posted by Lonmonster on November 26, 2012 @ 3:41pm
Category: Comics / News

Nightcrawler has always been my favorite “X-Men” character, and I’ve missed him so over the past few years. Today, Marvel released the teaser image below of the teleporting mutant duking it out with Wolverine. The image came with the words, “World’s Collide,” which leads me to believe we won’t be getting the classic version of Nightcrawler. As CBR points out, “In recent years, teases for the character’s return yielded the return instead of the “Age of Apocalypse” universe”. Marvel said very little so it’s unsure whether Nightcrawler will show up in AoA, or something else entirely. Chances are it’s going to piss someone off anyway. READ MORE

Preview: ‘Punisher War Zone’ #1

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Posted by Lonmonster on October 22, 2012 @ 12:28pm
Category: Comics / News

Rucka’s run on “The Punisher” might be over, but now he begins a new adventure with Frank Castle, Punisher War Zone. Don’t worry, he’s still rocking the eye patch. As the teaser images from the past few months have shown, Castle will be taking on members of The Avengers in an all out war. See the preview for issue #1 below, set for release on October 24th, 2012. READ MORE

George A. Romero Is Working On A Secret Zombie Project For Marvel Comics

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Posted by Lonmonster on October 15, 2012 @ 12:26pm
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Zombie film legend, George A. Romero was interviewed at the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden by Twitchfilm, where he mentioned a little tid-bit about writing a secret book for Marvel Comics. Apparently the book does not involve any of their superheroes, so “Marvel Zombies” is off the list, but he promises it will involve zombies. He refused to comment any more on the project, but you can bet we’ll be digging. Check out the quotes after the jump. READ MORE

Preview: ‘Marvel Zombies Halloween’ #1

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Posted by Lonmonster on October 15, 2012 @ 12:03pm
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Marvel keeps kicking out their alternate undead universe, this issue lands just in time for Halloween. Fred Van Lente returns with artist lessandro Vitti for a special holiday one-shot issue bringing back you all your favorite bright-tight-wearing costumed heroes and their disgusting, rotting faces. Check the preview for Marvel Zombies Halloween below, which is set for release on October 17th. READ MORE

[NYCC '12] Marvel Prose Panel: Hawkeye and Black Widow Do The Dirty

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Posted by Lonmonster on October 12, 2012 @ 4:10pm
Category: Comics / News

For a room that seats a few hundred people, the Marvel Prose panel was quite empty; apparently without the pictures, you lose the fans. Already out from the Marvel Prose line is “Civil War” from Moore, and Whedon’s “Astonishing X-Men” by Peter David. Coming in 2013 are “New Avengers” in January, which will be followed by “Iron Man Extremis” by Marie Javins in April. The panel spoke about the liberties taken when adapting a comic to prose form and the new character relationships that have spawned out of that. Details follow. READ MORE

[NYCC '12] Marvel To Release New ‘Season One’ Graphic Novel Line in 2013

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Posted by Lonmonster on October 12, 2012 @ 11:18am
Category: Comics / News

In summer of 2013, Marvel plans to release a new wave of “Season One” books that work to explore the earliy days of Marvel’s most beloved heroes. Announced today were “Wolverine: Season One,” written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker with art by Salva Espin, and “Iron Man: Season One” from writer Howard Chaykin and artist Gerald Parel. Details and pictures below. READ MORE

[NYCC '12] Marvel Announces ‘Deadpool Killustrated’ From Cullen Bunn

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Posted by Lonmonster on October 11, 2012 @ 11:16am
Category: Comics / News

Marvel announced today at NYCC that in the wake of “Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe”, Cullen Bunn is to return to the Merc with a Mouth alongside Matteo Lolli for a new Deadpool mini-series, “Deadpool Killustrated”. Deadpool will be taking on figures in literary classics such as Moby Dick. READ MORE

Marvel Brings ‘Amazing Spider-Man’, ‘Wolverine’, & ‘Captain America And…’ To An End

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Posted by Lonmonster on September 19, 2012 @ 3:35pm
Category: Comics / News

With Marvel NOW! fast approaching, it’s no surprise that Marvel is putting a stop to some of their longest running series, prepping for new versions of the books in the coming year. With the release of their December solicitations, Marvel declares that “Amazing Spider-Man,” “Wolverine,” and “Captain America And…” will all come to a close with 2012.

Don’t worry. There’s no doubt that both “Spider-Man” and “Wolverine” titles will be back on the shelves in January, they just might wear a shiny #1 instead of a #701. Either way, you’d do well to pick up “Amazing Spider-Man” #700 as it is a landmark issue for the hero. As CBR points out, the only real question is whether or not the book will still carry “Amazing” in the title, or if it will be dropped for something a little more hip. READ MORE

Take A Look At The Villains From ‘Thor: The Dark World’

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Posted by Lonmonster on September 17, 2012 @ 12:11pm
Category: Comics / News

Comic Book Movie posted a slew of nice images from the set of Thor: The Dark World. The film is looking quite Lord of the Rings, complete with Uruk-Hai villains and even a baddie that bares a particular resemblance to Lurtz (LOTR villain). The pictures offer a pretty good like at the epic set pieces as well as the supernatural bad guys Chris Hemsworth will be destroying.

The Thor sequel sees the God of Thunder visit The Nine Realms to battle his brother and some other foes. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston, among others. It is directed by Kenneth Branagh and is set for release November 8th, 2013. Take a look below. READ MORE

Marvel Rips Off ‘Battle Royale’ With ‘Avengers Arena’

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Posted by Lonmonster on September 13, 2012 @ 1:56pm
Category: Comics / News

Marvel was heavy on the blood with the teaser this week for a new series by Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker for Marvel NOW! Revealed today on Marvel.com, they announced that the book will be called Avengers Arena. The series takes 16 young heroes from the Marvel Universe and pits them against one another in a Battle Royale-esque setting, organized by the villain, Arcade. Taking off the popularity of The Hunger Games, Marvel brings a bit of teenage fights to the death in “Avengers Arena”. The book will pull characters from books such as “Avengers Academy’s”, “Annihilation’s”, “Runaways’”, plus a bunch of new characters that will have to fight to survive. More on the scoop after the jump. READ MORE

Marvel’s ‘Dexter’ Comic Series Pushed Until 2013

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Posted by Lonmonster on September 10, 2012 @ 9:57am
Category: Comics / News

Last year, Marvel excitedly announced that Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Dexter, would write a comic series set in the same world as his novels. The series was originally set to begin October 2012 in time for Halloween. Since the announcement, we haven’t seen a single piece of preview art or any details on the series so it’s not much of a shock that the publisher is now pushing the series for a 2013 date.

It’s a mystery as to what Dexter will look like or where the plot will take off, and we won’t find out until early 2013. READ MORE

[Fan Expo Canada] Marvel NOW! Panel

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 25, 2012 @ 7:33pm
Category: Comics / News

Yet another big panel at Fan Expo Canada was the Marvel NOW! Panel. All kinds of gooey Marvel NOW! teasers were shown. On the panel were Axel Alonso, Stephen Wacker, Nick Lowe, Ryan Penagos, and Arune Singh. While no big news was released due to “AvX” still being under way, some insight was shared with promise of a big announcement at tomorrow’s Marvel panel. There was some Deadpool news, lots of creative team details, and, as always, lots about Spidey (2099?). READ MORE

[Fan Expo Canada] ‘Morbius The Living Vampire’ From Marvel!

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 25, 2012 @ 6:57pm
Category: Comics / News

Spidey writer, Dan Slott, manned Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man Panel at Fan Expo earlier today. Most of the panel was focused on Slott’s current work leading up to issue #700, and expectations for Marvel NOW! There was word of something to do with a costume change for Spidey that will follow from issue #700, and a special new book that you horror-heads may enjoy. READ MORE

Preview: ‘Venom’ #23

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 17, 2012 @ 9:01am
Category: Comics / Images

Rick Remender is officially done spinning his tale of Flash Thompson, and he hands over the reigns to long-time collaborator, Cullen Bunn, for good. This is the start of a new era for Venom, and if you haven’t been keeping up with the black space goo, this is your chance to jump in the fray. Knowing Bunn’s work, he should have no problems stepping into Remender’s big shoes. Check out the preview for “Venom” #23 inside. READ MORE

Preview: ‘Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe’ #4

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 17, 2012 @ 8:48am
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Cullen Bunn is telling one of the wildest Deadpool tales in years, tearing down the 4th wall like nobodies business. Deadpool no longer gives a f*ck, and he’s going to kill every single hero and villain in the Marvel Universe. This issue, Deadpool’s got the Punisher in his sightline. READ MORE

Joe Carnahan’s ‘Daredevil’ Reel For The Movie That Will Not Be

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 15, 2012 @ 2:20pm
Category: Comics / News

Twentieth Century Fox has been trying hard to maintain the rights to the Daredevil film property in order to avoid returning the rights to Marvel Studios in October. If Fox does not have a new film in production stages in October, the rights go back to Marvel, and this seems to be the case. Director Joe Carnahan was on board to reboot Daredevil as a gritty, 70s style thriller. Unfortunately, the project has been shut down. Taking to Twitter, Carnahan posted that the project “went up in smoke.”

But, Carnahan released the pitch reel he put together for his re-envisioning of the hero. The short clip shows a darker world for Daredevil that uses Robert De Niro’s voice for King Pin in order to show the 70s crime world. Watch the NC-17 version of Carnahan’s Daredevil below. READ MORE

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Review: ‘Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe’ #2

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 10, 2012 @ 5:09pm
Category: Comics / Reviews

This alternate universe is so outrageous, and I don’t think its possible not enjoy watching a wise-cracking assassin slaughter all your favourite heroes, villains and anti-heroes. The pace is non-stop go, go, go with a hefty amount of gruesome gore to add to absurdity. Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Daliber Talajić hit the nail on the head with issue #2 of ‘Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe’. READ MORE

Preview: ‘Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe’ #3

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 10, 2012 @ 9:53am
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The loudest and craziest mouth in the Marvel Universe is killing everyone, no regrets, no remorse, no filters. Deadpool kills all the heroes you love, what more could you ask for? READ MORE

Review: ‘Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe’ #1

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Posted by Lonmonster on August 03, 2012 @ 9:02am
Category: Comics / Reviews

Your friendly neighbourhood assassin kick-starts a new chapter in his life with a blood-gushing slaughter fest that will rewrite the annals of Marvel history in “Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe”. My fellow writers and I here at BD rarely review Marvel books (they don’t offer much horror) but Cullen Bunn’s new book is far too good to let it slip through the cracks! Hilarious scenes of your favourite heroes being killed, and a fast paced first issue makes this one of the most shocking reads in a long time. READ MORE

First Look: ‘Venom’ #23

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Posted by Lonmonster on July 27, 2012 @ 5:24pm
Category: Comics / News

Rick Remender’s current “Venom” series has come to an end, and next month begins with a with the brand new creative team of Cullen Bunn on writing duties and Thony Silas on art. Take a first look at the unlettered art for issue #23 below. READ MORE