Tag Archives: Avengers
Avengers vs. X-Men #0
Frank Cho blows my mind with this Avengers vs. X-Men cover featuring crazy balls Scarlet Witch and tough as nails Hope Summers! We can’t wait for next year!!!
AvX #0 by Frank Cho
Weekly Anticipation: The Tortoise on Crusade
(Cover by Jim Cheung, Marvel Comics)
Children’s Crusade 7 is here and will it be perfect or too perfect? What’s more to say than that? This will be a fun, beautiful comic; no other outcome is possible. I am mighty curious to see how this fits into the Marvel continuity though, once it all shakes out. Must-buy for everyone!
(Art by Cliff Chiang, DC Comics)
Wonder Woman 1 kicks off the bizarre but promising pairing of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang on a horror-themed Wondy book!(???) If the promise of a powerful, compassionate warrior goddess kicking ass and taking names isn’t enough to get you into this then PLEASE check out the preview art and get in line to buy it at your local shop! (Oh and the official cover has her in the bathing suit outfit but I prefer the pants in this one image.)
(Cover by Mike Choi, Marvel Comics)
Cloak & Dagger 2 continues the practically perfect (in every way except cover art, sorry Mike Choi!) series that pairs Nick Spencer and Emma Rios on a madcap adventure featuring the unnoticed duo of Cloak and Dagger! Danger abounds during the Spider-Island infection and these two are just trying to live through it. I won’t spoil issue 1 now because I need you to rush out (or online) and get it then this one. I’ll wait. Ignore the cover, love the book!
(My other reads this week are Generation Hope 11, Batman 1, Birds of Prey 1, Blue Beetle 1, Captain Atom 1, Catwoman 1, DCU Presents 1, Green Lantern Corps 1, Nightwing 1, Red Hood and the Outlaws 1, Supergirl 1, Ultimate Comics Hawkeye 2, Ultimate Comics X-Men 1, X-Factor 225 and X-Men: Schism 4)
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Marvel + 50 Years = Classic Variant Cover!
Marvel will be releasing variant covers that will put a new twist on some classic covers to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Some of the titles that will receive this treatment are The Mighty Thor #7, Avengers #8, New Avengers #17, Hulk #42, Uncanny X-Force, Deadpool #45 and X-23 #15. Also featured will be this amazing cover for X-Men #19 pictured below.
-Aaron M
Image by Leinil Yu
Beastly Variants; Secret Avengers 13
Beast has a special place in hearts [especially Windiebird's!] and thats why we LOVE this Variant cover for Secret Avengers 13 by Lee Weeks. It’s a part of a series of character progression covers that is currently running on various titles in the Marvel Universe! Also checkout the beautiful original cover as well by Adi Granov.
Variant cover by Lee Weeks
Cover by Adi Granov
Avengers Assemble to Cuteness!
Check out these super cute Avengers Cosbabies, which Hot Toys will be releasing in celebration of the Avengers movie.
-Aaron M
Image from Hottoys.com
I Am A White Flash!
(Cover by John Romita, Jr., Marvel Comics)
I’ve got a hell and a half of comics to read this week so it’s time for some quick reviews of the previews (as I do…es)! Avengers 7 make Hulk festive and red? To a non-Hulk-reader this is neither enticing or uninviting. It’s been a fun ride up to this point so why not, right? Pretty as ever.
(Cover by David Finch, DC Comics)
Look at that GQ mofo on the cover of Brightest Day 14! Could Bats be the White Knight? J’onn is out of his mind on Mars, the Firestorm(s) are playing catchup to Deathstorm and the Hawks are getting intimate with their past lives! Still worth it.
(Cover by Jesus Saiz, DC Comics)
Zatanna 7 is penned by Adam Beechen and has our Mistress of Magic attending the grand opening of the Magic Museum! We learn more about her father and Zatanna tackles some angry clothing as only she can.
(Cover by Doug Mahnke & Christian Alamy, DC Comics)
Green Lantern 59 stars my favorite Corps as we finally learn where they went with the guy who started the Blackest Night! Windiebird loves an answer, y’all!
(Cover by Tyler Kirkham & BATT, DC Comics)
Green Lantern Corps 54 gets some aggression out as Sinestro and Kyle punch each other around the block! All in the name of rescuing Soranik, I guess…
(Cover by Francis Manapul, DC Comics)
Francis Manapul drew a comic, you guys! The Flash 6 is that comic and if you need any further inspiration to pick up your copy, we’re getting closer and closer to Captain Boomerang’s White Lantern task and the much-hyped Flashpoint event!
(Cover by Dan Jurgens & Jerry Ordway, DC Comics)
Superman meets Doomsday in DCU Legacies 7 and his coma/death marks another milestone in the ongoing history of my favorite fictional universe. Simply a great time if you’re a DC fan. Maybe not the most consistent for a newcomer since a lot of the joy comes from recognizing and reliving events but well worth the money.
(Cover by Mark Bagley & Rob Hunter, DC Comics)
Justice League of America 51 continues the brawl between the JLA and the Crime Syndicate! They don’t do it for everyone but I LOVE this incarnation of the JLA and am especially glad to see Starman and Congorilla get so much love. Good times, great oldies as they say!
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Uncanny Greenvengers
(Cover by Mauro Cascioli, DC Comics)
What’s that sound you hear? Would that be the pure, unadulterated joy of my heartstrings stringin? WHY YES IT WOULD BE! Because we have an actual, awesome Green Arrow series going on RIGHT NOW! Green Arrow 5 continues the wonderful as Oliver Queen finds himself battling the dead in Star Forest, the super-de-duper creepy Nix & the encroachment of the Queen on his domain. If you’re still on a J.T. Krul hate-train I will personally build you a replica of the Star City Bridge so you can get over it.
(Cover by Terry Dodson, Marvel Comics)
Uncanny X-Men 529 brings us the fourth and final installment in Hope’s Five Lights arc and it focuses on the Fourth light in the Ukraine! One of these lights is supposed to end up being made up of pure villain extract but who’s it gonna be? We also get some more of Emma Frost’s plans for Sebastian Shaw. Will uglies be bumped? Will ponytails be tied with ribbons? We’ll see today!
(Cover by John Romita, Jr., Marvel Comics)
Avengers has been a big ball of fun so far and Avengers 6 will surely continue the pattern. Kang vs. Ultron vs. the Avengers from every time period? Yeah, it’s going to be another action-focused book alright! A new threat is slated to appear and it’s anyone’s guess how the Avengers will ultimately set time right. The art is a fine piece of work and the writing has been completely enjoyable. Get it!
(Cover by Stephane Roux, DC Comics)
Zatanna 6 puts our heroine in mortal danger as her soul is vulnerable for the taking! For someone so magickally potent and capable, that’s quite a scary statement. It’s up to the other living Zatara to get her back in the fight but let’s just hope Zachary is up to the task!
(Cover by Don Kramer and Michael Babinski, DC Comics)
Wonder Woman 604 pits Diana against the shadowy leader of the paramilitary organization who killed her mother! Say what you will about the costume but JMS is writing a great story with an interesting way to sell it to us. She’s still a badass, she’s just making a pit stop so that new readers like myself can jump on the Amazon Express. Don’t make the mistake of skipping this!
(Cover by Shane Davis and Sandra Hope, DC Comics)
We’re getting a new creative team on Justice Society with JSA 44 and I’m looking forward to it. While I haven’t read anything of Marc Guggenheim’s I have always enjoyed Scott Kollins’ pencils! It’s the JSA against an escaped government experiment gone wrong…in Washington, D.C.! If that’s not the setup for an awesome Society story, I don’t know what is!
(Cover by Cliff Chiang, DC Comics)
Another stellar cover to an exciting title, Justice League: Generation Lost 12 has Ice unleashing her inner elemental against the crazed Metal Men! Can Fire melt this new leap in Ice’s powers with her lesbian kisses hot, hot heat or will a new Ice Age dawn?
(Cover by Felipe Massafera, DC Comics)
Rueben brought The 99 to my attention last year and I’ve tried to keep the name on my radar since then. I haven’t had a chance to check them out yet. However, with the release of the JLA/The 99 1 I can happily get a taste of these Teshkeel Comics heroes alongside a few of my other favorites! What better way to get the whole world involved but a planetary invasion? I’m crossing my fingers that this gets some real love in the comic stores, get out there and give it a go!
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Avenging Lights!
(Cover by John Romita, Jr., Marvel Comics)
Time is broken in this week’s Avengers #3 and it’s up to the original A’s to make it right! While Kang came back with a warning for the Avengers, he’s not know for his helpful assists. If the last panels from issue 2 were any indication, he’s being bullied into working for the evil new gen Avengers from the future. Mystery abounds but how will this broken timeline affect the Marvel U, even if the Avengers can make it right once more?
New Avengers #2 puts the other big team in mystical danger as Brother Voodoo is under attack! Magic is changing once again and the Sorcerer Supreme has entrusted one of the most important artifacts to the NA before they can even set up shop. Just another day in the life, right? Maybe not my favorite of the new Avengers titles but it could very well start to wow me with this issue!
(Cover by David Yardin, Marvel Comics)
That’s not Lady Loki on the cover of X-Factor #207, right? I don’t think it is but X-Factor is back to its own storyline with a new green client! Babies, Shatterstar and the band all together once again! It’s high times for the mercenary mutants if they can survive this issue!
(Cover by Leinil Francis Yu, Marvel Comics)
Pretty sure that’s a bad touch, Magneto. He’s like caressing her ovaries or something, GEEZ. X-Men Legacy #238 puts Rogue and Magneto on a path to Mumbai as Indra’s parents request his return to India. All is not as it seems when they arrive. Unexplained earthquakes and storm cells abound, could it be a connection to the Five Lights or something else? It’s nice to see the only Jain mutant get a little page-time regardless!
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Back to the X-Future
(Cover by Adi Granov, Marvel Comics)
X-Men Legacy #237 is our Second Coming installment this week! It’s Chapter 12 and the mutants are on their last leg in our current timeline AND in the future. It’s all coming down to Cypher and the X-Force to put a halt to the unending assault of Bastion’s Sentinel forces. Couldn’t be a darker time for our hapless heroes, I’m on pins and needles with this one!
X-Factor #206 is the third and final X-Factor tie-in for Second Coming. It’s Trask and the Mutant Response Division against the fully assembled team of X-Factor! The first two issues of this convinced me to begin picking up the series after the dust settles, if that tells you anything! Some mayhem-for-hire is sure to go down and we could all use a little more gay mutant in the world.
(Cover by John Romita, Jr., Marvel Comics)
It’s Wonder Man vs. the Avengers in Avengers #2 this week! With Kang’s shocking revelation last month and one Avenger still to join the team, it’s anybody’s guess as to how this will play out. Let’s hope those evil Avengers Jr. don’t ruin it for the rest of us!
The women of Marvel have the safety of the universe in their hands this week in Heralds #4! We have an all-star cast of the best and brightest women in the 616 against an old herald of Galactus!
The marvelous aqua lady gets some one-shot attention with Namora #1 and this princess packs a mean punch! She has found a wayward clan of Atlanteans but before she can get them to their new home, she has to go through The Kraken!
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