Archive for the ‘Avengers’ Category
If you haven’t been keeping tabs of Sillof and what he’s doing in the custom action figure arena, you’ve already missed out on his Justice League by Gaslight. For a while now, he’s been working on the Avengers, and he’s completed both Thor and Iron Man.
This was designed as a companion piece of sorts to my Gaslight Justice League. I am actually more of a Marvel fan then a DC fan. The line is Victorian in nature, with slight industrial elements, and a flair of the American West of the 1800’s. It is all designed to be a little more realistic and little less “superhero-ish” then my Gaslight figures.
Both of these look great, and I look forward to seeing the first Victorian meetup between JLA and Avengers.
Or – “Wasn’t There Another Reviewer At Major Spoilers? Some Old Dude?”
It’s a little known fact that the month of December contains space-time anomalies that keep you from ever completing anything on time. Add to that a new paradigm at my office, wherein my team load has doubled and my patience halved, a tendency to want to spend time with my friends around the holidays, a scanner that works about half the time and my recent birthday, and I admit it… I may have been neglecting my reviews. Still, t’is nobler in the mind to beg forgiveness than it is to ask permission, so I’m back with a new batch of things you may have already read, but forgot to ask for my opinion on the first time.
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Want a free comic book? Of course you do. Want a free Avengers comic book?
Marvel has announced it will release The Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis and Jim Cheung on Free Comic Book Day coming up May 2, 2009. The FCBD edition will feature a new story that ties into the goings on in the rest of the Marvel Universe.
Take the jump for the full cover shot.
Or – “I Honestly Have NO Idea When These Books Came Out…”
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends… much like the harassment you get when you wear the pizza suit and dance on the corner in front of a Cici’s. Even when you’re cutting back on comics purchases, like I have, the urge to review more comics than there is time to review them is strong. Makes me with there were 8 days a week, actually. Thus, we at Stately Spoilers Manor have created this handy, dandy method of touching upon things going on at Penny Lane, down the long and winding road, even across the universe. So why don’t we do it in the road, throw some Norwegian wood on the fire, cause it’s a helter skelter ride through a day in the life of comics!
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Yellow submarine.
Or – “Three Weeks Of Comics In Handy Bite-Sized Servings!”
A side-effect of reading as many comics as I do comes when, after a particulary heavy week of reads, you find all the stories kind of blurring together into one. It makes for some pretty entertaining nightmares as well, like the one where Wonder Woman was guarding the galaxy against marauding zombies who wanted to shape-shift into teenagers and make out while simultaneously refitting all of our cars to fly and emit fire, and also giving our grandparents cyborg limbs that glow in the dark. So, I got that going for me… which is nice.
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That’s the battle cry heard over at Film Roman, the animation house famous for The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Rugrats and others, as Marvel Animation announced it is beginning production of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
The animated television series is the latest from the House of Ideas, who has previously announced Wolverine and the X-Men, and Iron Man: Armored Adventures. The 26 episode Avengers series is expected to debut in 2011, at or around the same time as Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers movies hit theaters.
“(This) continues our plan to complement each of our tentpole live-action features with an animated series,” said Marvel president of animation Eric Rollman, who is exec producing with Simon Philips. “This new ensemble series tracks perfectly with our ‘Road to the Avengers’ strategy.”
The good news from all of this is Film Roman isn’t a company to dick around on an animated series, and should deliver something that is quite good, unlike that god-awful Fantastic Four series that ran a few years ago.
UPDATE: Complete Press Release After The Jump
Or – “The Avengers Title That Actually Features An Avenger.”
I guess one of the biggest surprises about Secret Invasion is how well Marvel has held to their crossover guns, making sure that the story in the main title is (essentially) self-contained, and the crossover issues are designed to heighten that story, and add depth and background. This is all well and good, but it has had the effect of turning New and Mighty Avengers into “Skrullapalooza Flashback Theatre.” Since the first few issues of the mini (released over a period of several months) have taken place in the space of half a day, we’re stalling for time across the M.U. as the characters catch up to themselves and where they were at the beginning of Secret Invasion #1 at last summer… But, lo and behold, here comes Avengers: The Initiative with not only a story set in the more or less current time, but a story with forward momentum and some nice character bits, and one that actually shows us what’s going on at home while Spider-Man and company cavort about the Savage Land…
Eva Longoria was seen leaving Marvel Studios with a stack of reading material. Is she being prepped to play the Wasp in the upcoming Avengers movie?
Or – “THE 3-D MAAAAAN!”
The Marvel Universe has a lot of dark corners, filled with characters that somebody thought were awesome at one time, but have become somewhat embarassing in retrospect. The Texas Twister. The Collective Man. Hammer and Anvil. Deathlok Mark II. But my favorite heroes are the ones with no chance of being considered mainstream cool, guys like The Mimic, It the Living Colossus, and the breakout star of the Initiative. With a costume so ugly that Crazy Quilt isn’t sure about it, The 3-D Man’s only real moment of glory came against the alien Skrulls back in the ’50s. With the You-Know-Whos invading secretly, this may be the 3-D Man’s chance to prove himself once again relevant and awesome. If you’re smirking to yourself right now, you may want to remember this: until a couple of years ago, my list of lovable, unsalable losers included both Nova and Star-Lord…
At the Diamond Comic Distributors’ retail summit, Marvel announced the next major event will be titled Dark Reign. The series announced by Brian Bendis will follow the after effects of Secret Invasion that will feature a complete change to the Avengers titles. Bendis will leave Mighty Avengers with issue #20 and launch the new Dark Avengers. No team replacement for Mighty Avengers has been announced.
Marvel also announced Ultimate Avengers by Mark Millar for release in early 2009, Amazing Spider-Man #600 that will ask the question, “What really happened at Spider-Man’s wedding?”, and Marvel Noir, a new black and white line that will feature the X-Men, followed by Spider-Man and other Marvel characters.
More news on these series when we get our daily e-mail from Marvel.
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Or – “When They Said, ‘Get A Life,’ I Should Have Said ‘&$@$ YOU!”
So, for those of y’all who were not aware I DO have things on my weekly schedule that are NOT comic-related. Not many of them, granted, but they do exist. One of them is my day job, overlooking (I almost typed overworking) twelve awesome telephone service representatives in their day-to-day quest to resolve issues for our beloved customers. August was a rough month for my guys (nicknamed “Team Ramrod”) and has required me to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about AHT, IR, BP, SV, and other meaningless initials. In any case, I’m officially back to let you know I can really shake ‘em down, with another smorgasboard-orgasbord-orgasbord of comicky goodness, all wrapped up in heavy weapons and pop-culture references. Yeah, I missed youse guys, too.
Or – “I Think We Can Be Certain It’s Not Really Final…”
I started to try and write a big clever open, but y’know what?
RACCOON WITH A HEAVY MACHINE GUN!!!!!
How am I s’pose to top that?
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Or – “I’m Not Going To Make a ‘Kiss Me!’ Joke… But I Probably Should.”
The Marvel Universe is in chaos, under seige by an alien race, and (depending on what order you’re reading the books in) gearing up for or fully engaged in an all-out war with the Skrull Empire. It’s one of those ideas that sounds great in theory, tying all the company’s project together into an overarching plot, but the actual execution has been leaving me less than satisfied. This issue promises to examine the mysterious return of Captain America (who, as of last report, is, as you might have heard, still dead) and possibly continue explaining things that happened in the very first issues of this series, four or five years ago…
Even if Matthew is not a big fan of all the Secret Invasion tie-ins, the complete Skrull invasion can’t be told without spilling into “a few” additional issues.
Marvel has sent Major Spoilers two sneak peeks that tie directly into Secret Invasion – Avengers: The Initiative #16 and Black Panther #40.
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We already know the Avengers movie is scheduled from Marvel Entertainment in the coming years as he culmination of years of individual character titles. The big question on every fanboys lips has been, “Will the individual movie actors appear in the team movie?”
According to Den of Geek and Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier, the answer is yes.
Leterrier is reported to have said that 2011 will definitely bring Jackson, Downey Jr., Hulk actor Ed Norton and two other ‘A-list actors’ – presumably whichever A-listers get cast as Thor and Captain America in their respective upcoming movies that Marvel is also producing – together for the Avengers movie.
Could those other two be Brad Pitt and Leonardo DeCaprio? Those are the rumors of who would play Thor and Cap respectively. Of course with nothing announced, this story will have to be filed in the Rumor Mill, but it makes perfect sense; if you are going to build a franchise of films that lead to the big enchillada, you better be able to bring the original actors back to the flick. As cool as the Avengers cast sounds, I know there are those that say it will never happen because of the big names attached to the project. I would respond by saying watch Ocean’s 11.
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