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Jason Aaron On The Architects' Plans
Where one French blog is reporting that he appears to have told the adoring crowd that Marvel's 2012 event will be co-written by the five so-called  "Architects" of the Marvel Universe,  Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Jonathan Hickman and Jason himself, also suggesting that such a book may be drawn by Olivier[...]
Tanarus, The God Of Typo
So we learned that Tanarus is to replace Thor as God Of Thunder in Thor #8 by Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry. But who is Tanarus? Well, there is a Taranus, or Taranis, or Taranuos, Taranucnus, Taranucus or Taranoou. A Celtic god of Thunder, worshipped by natives of the British Isles and Gaul Indeed the Welsh verb[...]
Wednesday Comics Review: Invincible Iron Man 503 And Avengers 12
Pop by and say hello. It's hard not to read Matt Fraction's Iron Man and Brian Bendis' Iron Man as belonging to two generations Just as Bendis was the new generation's take on shell head when he wrote him in Avengers only seven years ago, now he seems to be the grand old man, with[...]
Vertigo Original Graphic Novels Are Walking Dead?
Jack Kirby was awarded the ComicsPRO Industry Memorial Award, accepted by Bob Chapman of Graphitti Designs And in their goodie bags, retailers found this rare Comics Pro Walking Dead #81 variant. Todd McFarlane has issues with what he calls a "computer programmer" cutting up his Spawn into panel bits fior digital consumption, but promises 15 issues[...]
Wednesday Comics Reviews: Superior #4 and Thor #619
I was rather slating of the first issue, but the elements I disliked have rather won me round, and I hope the comic lives up to the promise of the hints it has dropped. Thor #619 by Matt Fraction and Pascual Ferry also gives us the return for a long-lost character, Odin taking his throne And[...]
The Role Of Sin In Fear Itself
Matt Fraction talked to John Siuntres on Word Balloon a couple of days ago about Fear Itself So what do we know? Well, the series will centre on Thor and Captain America, an Eden-like myth in Norse history revolving around the God Of Fear, the serpent cast out by Odin, killed his followers and churches and[...]
Did John Byrne Create New Marvel?
Sublime still exists and is the basis for current X-Men storylines by Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen. Of course, decades earlier, John Byrne had created That Which Endures in West Coast Avengers, a sentient bacteria that has existed etc etc… and also has issues with mutants. And now of course we are faced with a death in[...]
Countdown To Marvel Announcement On December 21st
And that it's Iron Man based, with contributions from the likes of Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Christos Gage and more. Well, at the Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention, Matt Fraction gave a date for the announcement for his next big thing from Marvel. April Depending on whether you follow the international Dateline, a big announcement[...]
Dark Reign: The List By Bendis And Friends
By sending Bullseye in to kill Daredevil. "All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat– All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like _that_" And then Dark Reign: The List – X-Men by Matt Fraction and Alan Davis ties into the fallout from Utopia They're keeping this one even[...]