WWE superstar CM Punk, a noted comic book fan who often makes appearances on behalf of the league at comic book conventions, will write the introduction to the upcoming Avengers vs. X-Men hardcover from Marvel Comics, according to USA Today. “Who understands the theatrical nuances of a good smack down...
Marvel’s first panel of Friday was set to cover their upcoming social media and digital strategies. Arune Singh, Marvel’s Director of Communications, moderated the panel with Mark Waid, Matt Kindt, Senior VP of Sales David Gabriel, Director of Product Strategy Kristen Vincent, Executive Editorial Director of Digital Ryan “Agent M”...
Could Avengers vs. X-Men be coming soon to a theater near you? It’s not likely, but a smaller-scale co-mingling of the Fox X-Men franchise and Walt Disney Studios’s Avengers films might be in the offing, after Laura Shuler Donner–producer on the X-Men movies–told Crave Online that she would like to...
Man, Cyclops just can’t catch a break. While Aquaman, one of the most maligned characters down the street at DC Comics, has a top-tier creative team working on his book and recently starred in a Robot Chicken special, all of which seems geared at enhancing the value of the character...
Comic book fans, our long national nightmare is over–at least until the inevitable hardcover edition. Avengers vs. X-Men is not a series for which we’ve had much enthusiasm here at ComicBook.com–it toggled between being brainless and impenetrable, sometimes within the same issue, and had characterization problems that dated all the...
Marvel Comics has released a three-page preview of the upcoming Avengers vs. X-Men #12, the conclusion to this summer’s massive, rock ‘em-sock ‘em crossover event. In the pages, The Avengers seem to be plotting how to finally take down the Phoenix-infested Cyclops while The Scarlet Witch, in an attempt to...
When the cover for Avengers Vs. X-Men: Consequences #1 was released yesterday, I couldn’t help but look at the image and think, “the original is better.” Now, obviously I’m not saying that AvX: Consequences cover artist Tom Zircher actually copied the iconic image from the cover of Adventures of Superman #498...
Following on the heels of yesterday’s shoc,ing plot twist in their massive crossover event Avengers vs. X-Men, Marvel Comics today announced Avengers vs. X-Men: Consequences, a miniseries written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by a variety of Marvel artists that examines the aftereffects of the battles fans have been reading...
The New York Daily News has the exclusive this morning, folks–and of course, everyone was right. We’ll give some room for spoilers here by explaining what we mean by that. Ever since Brian Michael Bendis told ComicBook.com in a June interview that Avengers vs. X-Men #11, out today, would feature...
Marvel Comics has released a brief, action-packed preview of Avengers #30 by Brian Michael bendis and Walter Simonson. The legendary comics talents come together to bring to a close the Avengers’ tie-in with Avengers vs. X-Men, a series on which Bendis is a co-writer, and which will ship a reportedly...
Marvel Comics has released a new video trailer for the upcoming hardcover collected edition of Avengers vs. X-Men, which they describe as “the most anticipated collection of 2012.” Between the existing AR features and new material and backmatter created specifically for the collected edition, the title may be the most...
Marvel Comics has released a two-page preview of Avengers vs. X-Men #11, out next month from the creative team of Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Copiel. When ComicBook.com spoke to Bendis back in June, he told us that there was an event in this story–implied to be a death–that would...
As mentioned in a previous article here, Marvel rolled out quite the roster of new games yesterday in their game panel, and while there were some pretty big surprises, another game that got a lot of attention and announcements was the wildly popular Facebook game Avengers Alliance. The game now...
Joe Quesada continued on an annual tradition today at Comic-Con, hosting the annual Cup O’ Joe panel, where Marvel rolls out some of its freshest, newest and upcoming ideas for soon and on down the road. C.B. Cebulski was on hand along with Jeph Loeb, as well as Editor-In-Chief Axel...
A lot of panels at comic book conventions these days have gotten very good at controlling spoilers, being cagey in responses to pointed fan inquires, and teasing out just enough information to make you feel like you may have gained some insight when, it may turn out later, you didn’t...