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The Largest Mega-Sentients In The Entire Universe
Are you ashamed of your size? You should be! Compared to Ego The Living Planet or Unicron the planet who turns into a giant robot, you're not only puny and tiny, you're kind of dumb as well. If there's one thing that science fiction teaches us, it's that you need a sun-sized brain to think truly cosmic thoughts. (And to eat other planets for lunch, too.) But which life form in scifi is the hugest (and therefore the smartest)? We've got the answer. More »
iron man
Meet The Secret Brain Trust Behind Iron Man
If you liked the Iron Man movie and thought that some of it seemed remarkably true to the comic books, there's a good reason for that... Marvel Comics' writers were secretly involved with the writing of the movie and had to hold their silence until the movie's release. Now that it's a smash hit, beans are being spilled about the movie's "secret brain trust" and phrases like "Braggy McBraggy" are being used. More »
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Summer Movie Madness Hits This Week's Comics
You'd be forgiven for thinking that the comics industry has gone movie mad this week, judging by the books hitting stores tomorrow. Well, more movie mad than usual, perhaps. If it's not Marvel capitalizing on the success of Iron Man with two new Iron Man series and many other books starring the chrome crusader, it's a sequel to one of last year's summer blockbusters, and the long-awaited conclusion to a story by one of Hollywood's one-time top directors. Celluloid craziness and more, under the jump. More »
9:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Latest by JohnnyZito: Maybe now that the action comics annual is dropping someone will be allowed to do something with the kid. more »
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Who Should Be The Next Marvel Movie Star?
Now that Iron Man is officially the most successful movie with a character called "Tony" in it in the history of cinema or something like that, the movie industry's collective eyes have moved to what's next for Marvel Comics' production house. And not The Incredible Hulk, either - The Hollywood Reporter is already asking what they've got up their sleeves for 2010 and beyond. While rumors are suggesting that Ant-Man, Thor and Avengers are likely candidates for celluloid treatment, we've got five lesser-known candidates that are ready to make the jump to a theater near you. More »
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Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can
Sure, so this Wednesday was kind of a weak one for comics, but that's because everyone was saving the awesome up for tomorrow. What's so special about tomorrow, you may ask yourself (beside it being Saturday, and therefore requiring no work for the majority of you)? Well, it's Free Comic Book Day 2008, where stores across the nation are giving away a lot of free books, many of which are worth your attention. Want to know which ones? Click that "more" button. More »
machine man
Find Out What Drives Robots To Drink
He's the sole survivor of a secret military program to create robotic super soldiers who became an alcoholic perverted government operative, and in between worked as an insurance adjustor and mutant-hunting hacked machine. It's been a long, strange road for Jack Kirby's Machine Man. The one-time pacifist robot that spun out of Marvel Comics' short-lived spin-off from 2001: A Space Odyssey gets a new chance at stardom in this week's issue of Marvel Comics Presents, giving you the chance to look inside his head and find out what makes him tick - literally. More »
iron man
Look Beneath The Armor To See Iron Man's Embarrassing Past
For new fans who'll head straight from seeing Iron Man in theaters to their local bookstore to learn more about the character, Andy Mangels' tie-in book Iron Man: Beneath The Armor is exactly what they need to be picking up. Not just because it goes through each and every era of the history of Tony Stark's armored alter ego in detail, but also because it lets everyone realize just how bad some of Iron Man's comics have actually been. More »
marvel apes
According to reports from out of NYCC, the suspicions of comic fans across the internet have finally, officially, been confirmed: Marvel have admitted that they're just monkeying around with their characters. Or, at least, they will when new series Marvel Apes debuts, bringing a new level of banana worship to the heroes of the House of Ideas. Is the world ready for the first appearance of Spider-Monkey?
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Hey Hey They're The (Marvel) Monkeys
According to reports from out of NYCC, the suspicions of comic fans across the internet have finally, officially, been confirmed: Marvel have admitted that they're just monkeying around with their characters. Or, at least, they will when new series Marvel Apes debuts, bringing a new level of banana worship to the heroes of the House of Ideas. Is the world ready for the first appearance of Spider-Monkey?
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What's Coming After Marvel's Skrull Massacre?
Spider-Man's Aunt May not only hooked up with a shapeshifting alien Skrull pretending to be the Avengers' butler Jarvis — she's also pregnant with a half-Skrull baby! Or maybe not. Luckily, fake spoilers weren't all the Marvel editors and creators let slip during today's New York Comic-Con panels. They also teased some upcoming projects, both during and after the Secret Invasion story about the Skrulls impersonating the heroes (and villains) of the Marvel Universe. Find out how the Avengers will make you rich, and what classic hero may soon return. More »
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Scifi Lego Heroes of the 1970s
The idea was so simple, and yet it took toymakers until 1976 to come up with a line that mixed the build-em-up concept of Lego, the characterization of action figures and the ability to lose teeny-tiny pieces around the house of, well, any small toy you've ever lost as a kid. I'm talking, of course, about Acroyear, Pharoid ("with time chamber") and Time Traveler: The Micronauts. More »
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Space Missions to the Solar System's Great Wall
A standout in Marvel's solicitations for comics coming in July has to be the American publication of Universal War One, Denis Bajram's story of a solar system cut in two by a structure called The Wall. The series follows what happens to the team of human soldiers that try to investigate the mysterious structure.More »
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Post-Patriots and Other Fakers In This Week's Comics
Here's hoping that you guys are ready to read about Tony Stark this week, as an incredible amount of Marvel Comics' output has some kind of role for the soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture Iron Man. In comparison, DC only have three Batman-related books out, showing once again how willing they are to lose their market share in this competitive, movie-led environment. Will they never learn? More »
9:00 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Iron Man Armor Now Comes With Proprietary Software
Iron Man! He's not just the kinda guy who saves the world from supervillains and Jeff Bridges with a shaved head anymore! No, now he's the kind of guy who's off crusading against... Linux? Wait, that can't be right. The latest interview promoting movie tie-in comic The Invincible Iron Man seems to suggest a more software-based approach to the character than ever before, however. More »
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Learn the Rules of Crossover Comic Perfection
With Marvel's Secret Invasion in full swing and DC's Final Crisis mere weeks away, it's worth looking at just what it is about superhero comics' crossover summer events that make them the four-color equivalent of your first sexual experience. They're something you get all excited about ahead of time before the actual incident goes by quickly and leaves you ultimately unfulfilled. Or maybe that's just me. Experience has taught us that there are some easy steps to follow when creating a superhero crossover involving many fan-favorite characters that will, inevitably, lead to sales success. Utilizing them can take you from near obscurity to something approaching success or, at least, your own soon-to-be-cancelled spin-off from the Avengers. More »
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Atlantis' Lost Son Saves This Week's Comics
Every now and again you find something with such a wonderful, perfect, title that it throws every other story in the world into sharp relief. "Why," you think to yourself, "does every other story in the world not have a title so ideal to crystalize its content and intent into one small, simple phrase that touches my heart so?" And then you weep the tears of the unfulfilled, knowing that such perfection is so rare. All of which is my way of saying that this week sees the release of a comic called Jesus Hates Zombies. Absolutely nothing more about that particular graphic novel needs to be said, but the rest of this week's comics? Under the jump. More »
9:00 AM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Latest by njudahchronicles: I have a great update of the Dan Dare series, called "Dare: the Unauthorized Biography of Dan Dare" and it is one of the most amazing, smart, and well written redos/updates with a big dose of political insight, and was more »
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Alien Shapechangers Invade The Internet
Scared of the idea of having to find a comic store to buy Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion series? You're in luck — Marvel has created an alternative for people like you, as well as those who like to find free things online. Secret Invasion: Home Invasion is the name of the online comic addition to the publisher's alien invasion event, spinning out of a marketing campaign so viral, no-one in comics seemed to know it existed until this week. More »
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