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Comic Book Preview – Star Wars: The High Republic #4

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Marvel Comics releases Star Wars: The High Republic #4 on Wednesday, and you can check out the official preview of the issue below… INTO THE NIHIL OCCLUSION ZONE! JEDI MASTER KEEVE TRENNIS has disobeyed direct orders from CORUSCANT and entered NIHIL space. Her mission: to find and save a soul who was thought lost. Familiar […]

Comic Book Preview – Ultimate X-Men #1

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Marvel Comics releases Peach Momoko’s Ultimate X-Men #1 on Wednesday, and we have the official preview for you below; check it out… Visionary creator PEACH MOMOKO (DEMON DAYS, STAR WARS) creates a new generation of X-Men for an all-new universe! Hisako Ichiki is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal life – […]

Comic Book Preview – Weapon X-Men #1

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Marvel Comics enters the WolverVerse (?!) this week with the release of Weapon X-Men #1, and you can check out the official preview below… A MULTIVERSE OF LOGANS BANDS TOGETHER! In Original X-Men, you saw the Phoenix recruit the young X-Men to fix yet another time-displaced disaster. But now the threat is deadlier than ever… […]

Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?

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Has the mainstream audience outgrown comic book movies? We ponder whether comic book movies have enough audience to warrant such big budgets now… Remember a time when short of being one of the big two of Batman or Superman, comic book adaptations were seen as a sure-fire money pit? We saw failed Punisher, Phantom, Shadow […]

Comic Book Preview – Giant-Size Spider-Gwen #1

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Giant-Size Spider-Gwen #1 swings into local comic shops and digital retailers on Wednesday, and you can check out the Swinging from the pages of SPIDER-GWEN: SMASH, GWEN STACY has finally found some balance in her home dimension. But when the remnants of the CARNAGE symbiote resurface in Gwen’s bandmate MARY JANE, they attract the attention […]

Alan Ritchson reveals he lost out on Thor role as he didn’t take the audition seriously

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Alan Ritchson may be one of the hot action actors working today, but his career could’ve been much different if he landed one significant role. Speaking to Men’s Health recently, Ritchson revealed he was in the running to play Thor in the character’s 2011 Marvel Studios debut. It seems like the actor, then best known […]

Iron Studios launches X-Men ’97 line with Cyclops, Rogue and Gambit statues

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Sideshow and Iron Studios have revealed three limited edition statues for Cyclops, Rogue and Gambit which are inspired by the appearances of the characters in the highly-anticipated Marvel Studios animated series X-Men ’97. They are available to pre-order now, priced at $125 each; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Mondo unveils Rogue and Gambit X-Men: […]

Comic Book Preview – Women of Marvel #1

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Women of Marvel #1 is out this Wednesday, and you can get yourself a sneak peek at the issue below with the official preview from Marvel Comics… Because they worked hard for this and they deserve it! But who you callin’ “doll?!” Marvel’s most powerful heroines take center stage in an anthology that will inspire, […]

Marvel to expand Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace with 25th anniversary special

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Every saga has a beginning, and with 2024 marking a quarter of a century since George Lucas began exploring the first chapter of his Skywalker Saga with Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Marvel Comics has announced that it will celebrate the occasion with a 25th anniversary one-shot comic featuring an all-new story […]