Every Wednesday I’m granted a brief reprieve from the quiet of my own mind. Every Wednesday in the form of images and words I’m given a myriad of different Universes to momentarily inhabit. Bulging muscles and metaphysical pontifications. Heroics and psychological demons. Every week. What a gift.

This is Variant Covers. Comic book column. The comics I’m snagging on a given week, or stoked upon. What are you reading? I’m interested.

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This is a big old piggy of a week here in Variant Covers. The comic books column that serves as a soap-box for spouting off on what me and you are interested in the world of funny books this week. There’s a good amount of sequential art tickling the old taint this week, so let’s have at it.

Don’t forget to show me yours.

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Marvel has released a trailer for their first ‘One Shot’ that is being packaged in with the DVD release of Thor. It’s called ‘The Consultant’ and it features  Clark Gregg once again as Agent Coulson. If the teaser is anything to be judged by, I’m going to go ahead and predict it fucking sucks.

Hit the jump for the teaser.

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Shh! There are spoilers afoot. Would you like to know who the new Ultimate Spider-Man is? Hit the jump. But be forewarned, nothing is sacred after this here jump.

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The teaser trailer for ‘The Avengers’ that followed Captain America was short, insubstantial, and arousing. Marvel has released a teaser trailer  online for that teaser trailer. A bit maddening, no? Do yourself a fucking favor and just go see Captain America. It’s fun enough. Should you decline, you can check it out this teaser for the teaser after break. But be foreworned: the clip they’ve included it in also has the last minute or so  of First Avenger. However, this clip also contains no spoilers for anyone who has ever heard Captain America’s story.

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Now that Thor and Captain America have graced the big screen and pumped our nerd glands, all attention can turn to the upcoming Avengers flick. I want it, I want it so desperately. Heaving chest, panting, pained. The wild card of the flick is the Hulk, being played for the first time by Marky Ruffalo. Is third time a charm? What the funk is he going to look like?

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Another week, another batch of Variant Covers. The comic book column where I give a cursory glance at release lists and tell you what I’m interested in. I encourage you to share your own most desired of picks, cause I have poor taste, a limited attention span, and I’m always looking to try something new.

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Marvel is bringing back their Comics for Comics campaign, this time waging war against Flashpoint. Retailers can strip covers from unsold copies of Flashpoint and exchange them fora  wowie-kazowie rare Fear Itself #6 variant by Ed  McGuinness.

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As you probably already know, Marvel released a bunch of concept art this weekend for The Avengers flick, which culminates in a pretty righteous looking panorama. Should you have been daft enough to miss it, hit the jump to check it out, as well as the individual pieces.

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Everyone just needs to calm the fuck down. We got DC and Marvel renumbering the shit out of everything. We got the DCnU. We got DC last year launching a line of graphic novels that would be “retellings” of their characterss origins in modern society. Which sounded a lot like Marvel’s Ultimate universe. Well now Marvel, who created the Ultimate universe to do such a thing is…following DC’s lead. How about a line of graphic novels for the youngins’ to snag and be able to understand the universe right away. Right? Meh!

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