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Ten years ago, superhero films and video-game films were both minor genres. You had your Batman Forever and your Mortal Kombat, but not much else. Both genres blew up in the 2000s, but superhero films won much bigger. For now.
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Officially ignoring recent allegations of sexism, Marvel Comics is nonetheless making 2010 their Year of Women with new Marvel Women branding and — announced today — a special series untouched by male hands, called Girl Comics. Yay?
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A fan of the Iron Man movie and wondering where to start with the comics? Marvel has come up with a low cost way of introducing new readers to their books with the Marvel's Greatest Comics imprint.
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Wondering how long it'd take for the events of September 11th to go from real life tragedy to thoughtless plot McGuffin? Marvel's new mega-event Siege demonstrates that the answer is "eight years, and we can kill even more people."
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The busier you get, the more stuff you forget, and navigating that mental clutter can be worse than steering through an asteroid field. Luckily, lots of intrepid galactic heroes have faced faulty memories, and created some handy techniques for remembering.
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Have superhero comics outgrown a pre-adolescent fear of women? Not in the slightest, argues critic Abhay Khosla. In fact, he argues, Marvel Comics' last few linewide storylines have been all about why women are terrifying and need to be destroyed.
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Today's release of Siege: The Cabal marks the beginning of the end of Norman Osborn's Dark Reign over the Marvel Universe. Let's reminisce over the on-again, off-again Green Goblin's stranger moments of murder, mayhem, and flagrant disregard for contraceptives.
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Even Marvel Comics can't resist the lure of Twilight. No, they're not producing comics based on Stephenie Meyer's hit series (someone else had beaten them to it), but offering up their own take on moonlit bloodsucking teenage angst. Well, kinda.
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Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the creative team behind Criminal and Sleeper, have done it again. The newly collected miniseries Incognito, released this week by Marvel's Icon imprint, is a brutal exploration of the thin line between villainy and anti-villainy.
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When it comes to superhero fiction, there are certain iconic archetypes; Superman is the iconic whitebread hero, Batman the iconic OCD loner. But did you realize that Iron Man's James Rhodes is the accidental iconic black superhero? We'll explain.
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Marvel's getting back into the Monkey Business. The above image was sent out on Friday in an email asking "Who Is One Of The Most Exciting New Comic Characters of The Century?" Start your suggesting engines now!
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Have all Marvel's comics for the last five years been leading up to one massive event? If so, is said event an Avengers reunion, or dropping a mythical city on a real-life American one? A new trailer teases both outcomes.
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It's a week where Wonder Woman gets her ass kicked, Hercules recruits superheroes for some assaultin', and dinosaurs migrate south for the winter. Oh, and a Portland detective agency opens its doors for business. Oh, comics! How we're cravin' you.
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If you were explaining Hallowe'en to someone unfamiliar with the concept, don't use comic books as a visual aid. As these 50 covers show, All Hallow's Eve is apparently about pumpkins, cleavage and monsters. Then again, maybe they are right...
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Killer puppets and wily foxes offer the best thrills in this week's new comic releases, but there's also a nice taster for curious potential Hellboy fans and even the seventh issue of a six issue mini-series. Hello, Comics We Crave!
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Ahead of next week's public screening of their new Astonishing X-Men motion comic, Marvel have released the oddest trailer for the Joss Whedon-written project yet. Click through for details.
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You can tell that we're getting closer to Hallowe'en, just by looking at this week's new comic releases: Vampires! Zombie plagues! Frankenstein's Monster! Nikolai Tesla! Okay, maybe not that last one. But these are still Comics We Crave.
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The Decade That Superhero Movies Beat Video-Game Movies
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Does Iron Man 2 = Spider-Man 3?
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Even Marvel Comics can't resist the lure of Twilight. No, they're not producing comics based on Stephenie Meyer's hit series (someone else had beaten them to it), but offering up their own take on moonlit bloodsucking teenage angst. Well, kinda. More »Supervillains Vs. Bastards, In Sick, Twisted "Incognito"
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the creative team behind Criminal and Sleeper, have done it again. The newly collected miniseries Incognito, released this week by Marvel's Icon imprint, is a brutal exploration of the thin line between villainy and anti-villainy. More »Why James Rhodes Is Comics' Ideal Black Hero
This Is One Of The Most Exciting New Comic Characters Of The Century?
Marvel's getting back into the Monkey Business. The above image was sent out on Friday in an email asking "Who Is One Of The Most Exciting New Comic Characters of The Century?" Start your suggesting engines now! More »Bombs, Cities Drop On Marvel Universe In New Siege Trailer
Have all Marvel's comics for the last five years been leading up to one massive event? If so, is said event an Avengers reunion, or dropping a mythical city on a real-life American one? A new trailer teases both outcomes. More »Epic God-On-Dinosaur Action In This Week's Comics
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