1. Ricochet appears in a contemporary Marvel comic book.
... yeah, I'm surprised, too. But this two page spread from Avengers Academy #21, coming out this Wednesday, has proved that Marvel hasn't forgotten Ricochet (and his teammates from the Loners) exists ( Read more... )

Quick Hiatus Update: I'm still on it. Honest. But I think I might be upgrading to a semiatus, or even a slowatus, after this weekend. Possibly. Details to follow sometime Saturday afternoon ( Read more... )

Fear Itself has been one of the latest Marvel events*, and while it hasn't actually been... well, very good, it has had some cool moments. Like, say, Thor summoning his hammer THROUGH SOMEONE'S TORSO.

But that moment of ridiculous badassery (or just ridiculousness, depending on your tastes) has come with a price...
( Spoilers... )

Issue #5 of the Asgard-centric Marvel event Fear Itself comes out next week, and CBR has an exclusive preview.

So for reference, if you and the Hulk get possessed by evil magical sledgehammers that look like meat tenderizers and in the process you get turned into a glow-y lavamonster and attack Thor, just remember...the hammer always comes back.

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So... the Thor movie came out last week. Unsurprisingly, I really, really liked it. And if anybody wants to talk about it--whether for clarifications on the differences between movie!Thor and comics!Thor, or to share thoughts on the merits of either or both, or to just generally join me in geeking out--feel free to drop me a line here. Even though ( Read more... )

Comics, Everybody: The History of Thor Explained

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The movie's out on Friday. Have I mentioned that lately?

Okay, look. I know I've been spamming this journal pretty hard with stuff about Marvel Comics in general and Thor in particular, riding the wave of publicity of first the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 release and now the upcoming movies. And I get that that might not be everyone's cuppa, so I've been meaning to tone it down ( Read more... )

It's a weekday. Time to post something about comic books, just in case people want to read it.

( Wonders Await Within! )

Well, if Marvel had to pick one book to semi-awkwardly animate and widely release as a motion comic in the media blitz building up to the Big Damn Thor Movie, they really couldn't have chosen a better one than this. An unfortunate casualty of that aforementioned media blitz is the title, since the original graphic novel (and this is one of the rare ( Read more... )

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So... yeah. There's this guy. Good thing we've got, y'know, Ryu on the team.

Event
Marvel has started making noise about their next Big Comics Event (TM), Fear Itself, which I normally wouldn't care about except that they're using an awful lot of Thor-related imagery to promote it. I don't know much about the premise aside from it involving the ( Read more... )