The official site for the Marc Webb-Emma-Stone-Oh-Yeah-Andrew-Garfield powered Amazing Spider-Man flick has opened, and it has bestowed upon us the geeky masses some new images.

Read the rest of this entry »

When it rains comic book movie content, it pours. Here, have a new poster for the Andrew Garfield-powered Spidey reboot.

Read the rest of this entry »

When Brian Marvel Bendis began his run on Avengers, he was the Apple of my Comics Eye. These days I’ve cast aside his nineteen Avengers titles, convinced that he’s spread too thin. Too many witty quips to pen. Too many cute repartees. Bendis may be sensing the same thing, and he’s going to wrap-up his eight fucking year  run next year. Jesus I feel old. He’s ending it, and man he’s making claims.

Read the rest of this entry »

Enlarge. | Via.

Marvel’s dropped next year’s Smash Pow Wham! event in the pages of USA Today, and it’s got Super Played Out Team 1 throwing down with the various contingents of Super Played Out Team 2.

Read the rest of this entry »

Marvel is set to reveal the fuckin’ Phoenix Force and whatever sort of event in hand for it this upcoming Wednesday during an live event. Ya’ll know how I feel about Phoenix, Jeanie, and gorgeous telekinetic forces of destruction. Here’s hoping it involves her resurrection, and the utter vaporization of Emma Frost. Yeah, I’m still going there.

Read the rest of this entry »

There’s! There’s! There’s comic books dropping this week. As per every week, lest the Good Lords strike me dead. I can’t fathom living in a world without the weekly comic book shuffle. Snag the rags, dissect the diegesis and party until my pants come off. This is Variant Covers, the column where I blather about the funny books dropping this week that are keeping my sanity afloat.

Read the rest of this entry »

Forsooth! Where hast my food bowl gone? Mead and kibbles!

Via.

If you’re an X-Men fan and you haven’t read The Dark Phoenix Saga, shame on you. Integral. A page from it sold for a lot of money this week. A lot.

Read the rest of this entry »

Marvel hast dropped new banners for the Avengers flick coming up. Nothing spectacular. Just Ruffalo looking awkward, Rogers looking brooding, and the Black Widow as objectified as ever.

Hit the jump for the glory.

Read the rest of this entry »

In the dismal dusk that accompanies every earlier falling light comes the opportunity to snuggle up with a comic book. Pull the blankets over yourself, dust the Chez-It crumbs off your chest and get your funnies on. As the Earth tilts slightly, ever so slightly, the temperature here on the Eastern seaboard dips. Not even climate change can prevent that. With the dip and the tilt comes the desire to over-analyze panels of Iron Man’s remarkably phallic repulsor rays rocketing off Thor’s  chiseled  chest. By myself. With you. Don’t matter.

Variant Covers. My pull-list for the week.

Read the rest of this entry »