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Avengers Movie Already Made!

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  • August 10, 2010

Attention, all you Marvel Zombies. No, not the actual flesh eating Marvel Zombies from that alternative earth where the super heroes all became mutant zombies who ate most of humanity except for Black Panther… I mean all you crazed Marvelites who bought every issue of Secret Invasion (including the Great Lake Avenger Tie In), and memorized the Super Human Registration Act word for word. I bet you’re getting excited for that swank new Avengers picture set to debut in 2012.

Yeah you know the one. Directed by Joss Whedon. That one boring guy from 13 Going On 30 is the Hulk… it got a big hullabaloo at the San Diego Comic Con a few weeks back… you with me? Good.

It seems year ago, Marvel (still Timely Comics at the time) tried it’s hand at the moving picture show… and gave birth to the first Avengers movie. I could go into detail here kiddos, but frankly… you should just check the trailer out below, and bask in it’s glory. Cause Whedon ain’t gonna top this:

October Comics Sales Soften

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  • November 20, 2008

secret-invasion-7-2-6303333As the economy went into free fall, ICv2 notes that October sales have shown some slippage. From their just released list of the top 25 titles, just two showed signs of improvement over September sales. One was Amazing Spider-Man #573 which featured the faux-Stephen Colbert for President cover while the other was Batman #680, the penultimate chapter to Batman RIP.

Despite somewhat stagnant sales, the dollars sold in to comic stores were up a “robust” 9% compared with a year ago, according to the industry watchdog. September and October were the first positive months for comic sales since January.  Of course, more titles were retailing last month at $3.99, rapidly becoming a standard, as opposed to last October. ICv2 did note that the unit sales for the title charting in the 300th position was 4200 compared with 3000 just twelve months ago which they interpret as a sign of overall industry strength.

Graphic novel sales showed an increase of just 5% compared with last October.  Combined with comic book sales, that creates an 8% total increase.

The site notes that the company crossovers, Secret Invasion #7 (154,675 copies) and Final Crisis #4 (115,666 copies) took the first two spots on the list. Marvel had seven of the top 10 and 17 of the first 25 with DC taking the balance. IDW’s G.I. Joe relaunch  and Angel: After the Fall were the first non-Top Two titles to crack the top 100 list coming in at 65th and 66th place. This further cements IDW’s fourth place standing among comic book publishers, after Dark Horse and now ahead of Image.

In graphic novels, DC’s Joker by Brian Azzarello, took first place with an estimated 17,000 copies sold, also nabbing the top spot for dollars earned. Marvel’s best seller for the month was the Marvel Zombies trade paperback, which likely hit the top Marvel spot given its three variant covers. Wile Watchmen slipped from first place to sixth, its 6000 copies remains impressive given its age.
 

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Baltimore: Bendis Vs. Kirkman

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  • September 29, 2008

Over a month ago, Robert Kirkman (Invincible, Walking Dead) posted a video mission statement on the idea that many who work at DC and Marvel are there because they do not realize that creator-owned books can provide a stable living with healthy profit and that such titles are the way to enhance the industy.

Brian Michael Bendis immediately responded by saying that things weren’t that easy and that it was irresponsible to tell people that, speaking as a man who works on many Marvel titles and has had success with his creator-owned Powers series.

The two sides of the argument have been tackled, discussed and disected across the board on message boards, in comic stores, in bars, possibly even in secret lairs hidden beneath wealthy manors.

And so, at Baltimore Comic-Con, Bendis and Kirkman met to continue their debate and elaborate on their points before an interested audience. (more…)

‘Marvel Apes’ Covers Debut

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  • June 25, 2008

I have to admit, I’m a bit torn about the upcoming, four-issue Marvel Apes miniseries. On one hand, it’s nice to envision a post-Marvel Zombies world. Even though I enjoyed the original Zombies stories (and a few of the dozen-or-so subsequent spin-offs, tie-ins and one-shots), it’s long past time to put the living dead back in their graves and move the heck on.

So I’m glad to see the Merry Marvel Marketing crew find a new shtick.

On the other hand… it’s monkeys. Marvel Apes, in fact.

Well, regardless of how you feel about the notion, EW.com recently posted several cover images from the series and the variant covers that will be popping up on other Marvel titles throughout the Apes run, depicting a variety of simian-styled Marvel characters. Pictured here is one of my favorites, the variant cover to Punisher: War Journal #3, due out September 3 (I’ve posted a larger version of the image after the jump). Be sure to check out the Rob Liefeld ape-ified variant cover to Cable #6, too. Words fail me.

Here’s the synopsis of the Marvel Apes "epic," according to EW:

It begins when Marty ”The Gibbon” Blank, a mutant chump with chimp-like powers, is ensnared in a science experiment gone wrong. He’s jettisoned into a sinister alternate reality devoid of humans; here, all of our crime-fighters are now hirsute anthropoids. Joined by the fetching human scientist Dr. Fiona Fitzhugh, this wannabe villain (the Gibbon founded the Spider-Man hating/baiting Legion of Losers) is, in fact, recruited by the seemingly upright Ape-Vengers as he searches for a way back home.

The first issue of Marvel Apes is scheduled for a September 3 release. You’ve been warned. (more…)

Marvel Zombies: The Movie?

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  • March 22, 2008

Audiences love superhero movies. They also love zombie movies. What if… What if Marvel Studios decided to greenlight Marvel Zombies: The Movie?

Sadly, this is not reality. But Ojala Productions created a fan made, not-for-profit trailer for the popular comic book that gives us a peak and what could be. Similar to Batman: Dead End, the famous internet short where the Dark Knight squared off against Joker, an Alien and a Predator, Marvel Zombies was filmed  as a calling card to show studios Ojala Productions’ capabilities.

Click here to see the trailer. Warning: graphic portrayals of violence and gore

 

BIG BROADCAST: A Day Without Hoosiers Is Like…

oneyrind-2666515Ever think that there are at least parts of your life that would make an interesting comic? Artist Kurt Dinse did and from there he added a little drama and created One Year In Indiana, an intriguing indy comic  spotlighted today on THE BIG BROADCAST!

Plus: What is the deal on all those Marvel Zombie variants? How about Princess Bride coming to the game market? The new Tintin trilogy? And today, we fondly remember Mrs. Hart.

Let us entertain you while you read the all-new, all-free Black Ice… PRESS THE BUTTON!

Fantastic Four Takes On Marvel Zombies!

bp-28-cov-6499569Well, here’s a crossover for you. According to a Marvel press release:

The New Fantastic Four (Black Panther, Storm, Human Torch and The Thing) have faced Galactus and the Silver Surfer, but now they face an even larger threat in Black Panther #28: The Marvel Zombies! Imbued with the power of Galactus from their recent tussle – they say he tasted like chicken – the Marvel Zombies are intent on devouring the Skrull home planet. Our heroes have two problems: they’ve landed on that same planet…and they’re in an alternate dimension with no way home! Writer Reginald Hudlin and artist Francis Portela invite you to jumponboard for the beginning of the latest New Fantastic Four adventure, as T’Challa confronts an enemy even he may not be able to defeat!

The story was written by Reginald Hudlin, penciled by Francis Portela with a cover by Marvel Zombies‘ Arthur Suydam and goes on sale at the end of this month. Sound to me like a fun story, the sort we haven’t seen too much of in superhero comics lately.

Artwork copyright 2007 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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