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Falcon can soar as Captain America, but Tom Brevoort crashes and burns as a...

Marvel has taken a lot of heat in recent days for its shameless She-Thor publicity stunt, but the announcement that Sam Wilson will be the new Captain America does not deserve similar scorn. While its...

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Robert Downey Jr. ready for ‘Captain America 3′: Marvel’s Iron Man better...

Marvel’s Iron Man is apparently suiting up for Captain America 3, which is great news, but someone better tell Robert Downey Jr. to read the script very closely. If he’s not careful, then there’s a...

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Tom Brevoort: OMD’s devil deal was ‘medicine’ for fans — and my hubris knows...

Peter Parker fans often wonder where it all went wrong. Marvel’s flagship character has, more or less, been an inconsistent performer in his own book for years. With each passing season there are...

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Dan Slott: Peter Parker should be like Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne — and...

Marvel has a “new” idea for Peter Parker: Make him sort of like Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne — and have him stuck in love triangles because Dan Slott liked that as a kid. MTV reported Tuesday: Move over,...

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Steve Ditko saga exposes industry bias: Liberal writers call artist ‘mad’

Marvel’s upcoming Dr. Strange movie will undoubtedly attract mountains of media attention — and cash — for the company. What is not likely to get much traction, however, is the story of co-creator...

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Batman v Superman: Jesse Eisenberg’s Turd Luthor almost destroys film

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has arrived. Fans finally get to see the two titans of D.C. Comics square up against on another while simultaneously setting up numerous other movies. Was it good?...

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Dan Slott’s Peter Parker: ‘I’m an idiot’ (Fans wonder when recurring theme...

Readers of The Amazing Spider-Man know that a recurring theme under writer Dan Slott’s watch has been Peter Parker’s Sudden Onset Idiocy (we’ll call it SOI), such as forgiving multiple women in his...

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Doctor Strange trailer: Marvel goes mystical for the win

Marvel just released its first trailer for Doctor Strange, and once again the world has been reminded just how laughable it was for Steven Spielberg to say superhero movies are primed to go “the way...

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‘The White Donkey’: Iraq War veteran’s graphic novel a powerful read

For  years this blog has tried to make the case that a comic book can be much more than “just” a comic book. For years this blog has tried to make the case that the industry would benefit if it...

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Mystique ‘choke’ ads upset Rose McGowan, Fox weirdly apologizes to the world

This blog argued on May 21st that modern feminism “is a congeries of contradictory rules and regulations, which allow elites to wallow in self-congratulation for behavior that would earn others...

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Frank Cho pushed off Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka’s ‘weird political agenda’

Anyone who has ever doubted that modern social-justice activists have a lot in common with the Puritans of the 1600s needs to look no further than the career trajectory of artist Frank Cho. Comic book...

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Dan Slott’s Spider-Man: ‘White Privilege’ is having Peter Parker resort to...

Your friendly neighborhood blogger said less than one month ago that Marvel writer Dan Slott’s setup for “Dead No More” was worth buying, but that all the warning signs were there “for another round...

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Spider-Man #7: Bendis writes strong tie-in to Civil War II

Brian Michael Bendis’ Civil War II has taken its lumps in terms of fan interest and sales, but the story is helping to define Miles Morales. Spider-Man #7 features the young man trying to determine...

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Douglas Ernst Blog Welcomes New Contributor — our old pal from ‘Colossus of...

This blog stumbled across a rarity years ago: A digital oasis that mixed comic book news with conservative and libertarian thought. The website was called Colossus of Rhodey. Its run went of over a...

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With apologies to Jeremiah Wright, Marvel’s ‘chickens come home to roost’

Fans have been scorned, taunted, and belittled by comicbook creators on social media for — politely now, mind you — daring to ask questions about altering long-time characters and stories all for...

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J. Michael Straczynski: Partisan writer hits the block button because...

Regular readers of this blog know that on any given day there will be an honest comic book review or a post that exposes the hypocrisy of partisan writers within the industry. If a book is good — like...

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Marvel’s ‘America’ by Gabby Rivera: Sales VP David Gabriel’s ‘diversity’ lie...

Marvel comics made quite a bit of news this week after its Vice President of Sales, David Gabriel, gave an interview with ICv2 on sluggish sales. He completely distorted the cold hard reality that fans...

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Secret Empire #0: Nick Spencer pens love letter to postmodernism

Marvel’s next big event, Secret Empire, has arrived with issue #0. For those who wondered over the last year if writer Nick Spencer could craft an interesting Hydra-Cap tale, the answer appears to be...

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Iron Man #6: Brian Michael Bendis’ Riri sadly no Jessica Cruz

Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis recently gave an interview with Marvel on his approach to writing, and during the exchange he took time to discuss Invincible Iron Man’s Riri Williams. He said...

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Scarlet Spider #1: Peter David gives Ben Reilly his own Tyler Durden

Imagine you were a Marvel editor not too long ago and someone said, “We should totally bring back Ben Reilly from the infamous Clone Saga days. That would be cool. People liked him and his fans will...

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