There are plenty of female heroes in the Marvel Universe–including Captain Marvel, who’s getting her own series soon–but when Joss Whedon told Entertainment Weekly recently that he wanted to have more female heroes in the Avengers 2, everyone at a roundtable discussion of the film agreed it was a good idea. So what’s the holdup? “A lot of the female superhero movies just suck really badly,” says The Avengers‘ lone...
So, now that all of DC’s August solicitations are out, we can see that it’s only Justice League International which will end with its twelfth issue. Given previous statements by DC brass that they’d like to keep 52 monthly titles...
The Oscorp Industries website that’s running as part of a viral marketing campaign for Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man has a new blog post today, inviting fans to engage in their Intern Initiative program. So far it’s just a blog post at...
Justice League International will end with issue 12, according to solicitation text released by DC Comics today. Given rumors of a linewide series of zero issues in September, it wouldn’t be surprising to learn that there are more cancellations to...
Remember when The Avengers was released and, thanks to week-early international releases, many Americans had seen the film before it ever hit the theaters? Well, get ready for those same friends to spoil The Amazing Spider-Man for you, too, because...
Apparently the First X-Men launch isn’t the only thing Marvel has up their skintight sleeves for today; they’ve just released a preview of Dark Avengers #175, in stores on June 6, by Jeff Parker and Declan Shalvey with a terrific...
Matt Kindt has been around comics for a while now, and has written a number of award-winning graphic novels…but for many fans, their first exposure to the writer/artist will be this month and next when he launches a creator-owned series...
In his letter thanking his fans for The Avengers opening weekend box office, Joss Whedon downplayed the competition between The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. Whedon even offered up praise for Christopher Nolan calling him one of the inventors...
In a video interview with Bloomberg earlier today, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said that the studio plans to make two movies a year for the foreseeable future, and that shortly after Captain America begins filming they will start shooting...
NBC announced at its upfront presentation today that fan-favorite sitcom Community will move to Fridays next season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The move brings the show to a day that’s typically considered a ratings wasteland, but where it will...
The networks are starting to officially announce which shows they have picked up for their new seasons, and there are of course plenty of Lost connections. We’ve already mentioned ABC’s 666 Park Avenue with Terry O’Quinn, and now NBC has...
Marvel’s The Avengers is a force of nature in film right now, crossing over $300 million domestically this week and projected to take #1 at the box office for the second week in a row. Disney is reporting that it...
Kicking off their New 52 trade program, DC Comics has collected a small number of its recently-relaunched superhero titles already. The first pair that I was able to dig into–Animal Man: The Hunt and Justice League: Origin–provided a few surprises...
A series of new images have hit the web this weekend, giving fans yet more eye candy in advance of Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Alien prequel sci-fi epic Prometheus. While you get some looks at the actors, the scenes here are mostly...
Marvel’s The Avengers is expected to pass the $1 billion mark globally today, according to a press release from Walt Disney Studios, the film’s distributor. Doing so in only 19 days, The Avengers appears to have beaten out Harry Potter...