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Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso teased the series with the following image: Marvel hasn't revealed a creative team for the book, though the art is drawn by Dave Johnson, who is not Olivier Coipel or Steve McNiven, and therefore probably cannot "move the needle" according to Alonso The book also doesn't have a release date[...]

According to a statement by Marvel Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel at a recent retailer summit as reported by ICv2, the best selling trade, continuously, of the last two or three years is none other than Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe by Cullen Bunn and Dalibor Talajic some artist who Axel Alonso doesn't[...]

The latest candid Marvel moment came when Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso revealed his thoughts on artists these days, as reported by ICv2. There are fewer artists that impact sales than there are writers, Alonso said, and they're harder to promote.  "It's harder to pop artists these days," he said.  "There is no apparatus out there[...]

Axel Alonso One thing that is often a cause for much discussion among comic fans, retailers and publishers are events comics And at the Marvel Retailer Summit, there was a great deal of frank discussion surrounding those concerns. It's only natural Marvel has become an event churning machine in recent years, and 2017 alone is seeing about[...]

Marvel Senior VP of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel joined EIC Axel Alonso for Day One of a Marvel Retailers Summit today, and all kinds of things have been coming out of that and they are being refreshingly candid over the Marvel sales slump as of late As a retailer myself, quite a bit of[...]

For the past few years, whenever Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso scores a profile in a mainstream magazine, the basic theme is always the same Alonso is a champion of diversity who wants the Marvel Universe to represent "the world outside your window," and his push to make Marvel comics more diverse has revolutionized the business[...]

We've also heard Gabriel's thoughts on how to spike sales with number one issue relaunches and ten dollar books, and Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso's thoughts on the difference in opportunities for creators at Marvel and Image. But there's even more juicy news coming out of the retailer summit For instance, David Gabriel confirmed what we've all suspected[...]

So let's engage in some fun speculation, eh, and in July we can all look back and see how right we may have been. Making the big last announcement with much more information, from Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso and Astonishing X-Men writer (and also co-writer on Inhumans vs X-Men, which you can see my review of[...]

In the video below Stine, along with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, editor Mark Paniccia and assistant editor Christina Harrington talk about the origins of the character and where the new series is going Issue one is on sale now. https://youtu.be/3CPBzIGpkj8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Go Behind the Scenes of MAN-THING #1 in New[...]

Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso may no longer be doing his weekly Axel-in-Charge column at CBR, but he did stop by the Eisner award winning website for an end-of-the-year interview to look back at Marvel's 2016 and forward to 2017 Interviews with comics execs on major websites are always delicate, fluff-oriented affairs, but if you get[...]

In a recent interview with Eisner Award winning Comic Book Resources, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso dropped some exciting teases for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther… yes, Black Panther According to Alonso, while Coates is already signed on for a second year of Black Panther stories (as we already knew), he may even have a[...]

When they did have books, in the form of Hercules and Angela: Queen of Hel, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso in his regular CBR hosted interviews, distanced said books and characters from any LGBTQ identification: he denied the former was LGBTQ in the Marvel Universe at all, and the latter he didn't want to 'label'. That's not[...]

On hand for the ceremony was hostess Lorraine Cink, Marvel EiC Axel Alonso, and Borough President of Brooklyn Eric Adams. The statue will only remain in the park for a short amount of time before moving on to Barclay Center and then through out Brooklyn Weighing in at close to a ton, that's a heavy statue[...]

The covers will run through September and October. "The response to our first set of Cosplay Variants was so incredible, we simply had to do a second wave," says Axel Alonso, Marvel Editor-in-Chief "And, of course, we were able to find a great crop of cosplayers with some truly fantastic costumes We're thrilled to shine a[...]

The website Fuse.tv asked Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso about Civil War II spoilers. How does it feel when stories like major deaths and developments show up online before people can even buy the issue? It's happened at least a few times with Civil War II already. He answered, This is an industry in which there will always be predatory[...]

By Joe Glass One of the first panel's of the day on Friday at San Diego Comic Con 2016, which has proved a popular panel, with the large room filling up well before the panel start time. Everyone is here to see what Marvel intend to reveal next about their current Civil War II event. Panellists include G[...]

The other three are not. I know Axel Alonso likes dismiss the conspiracy theories, but when not even the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are all mutants, you have to wonder. At least they aren't Inhumans though… maybe it's time to grow up. Okay, that is a spoiler. We are about to get a new Apocalypse Wars crossover[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran the story that the solicited issues of Miracleman: The Silver Age, reprinting and then finishing the second arc from Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham on the Miracleman series, first begun in the late eighties, has been pulled from the schedules. Issues 1,2 and 3 had been solicited for 2016 but the[...]

In the latest Ask Marvel, fans query the Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso about the best part about working for Marvel, which hero he'd team up with and if the Maestro could heat up a burrito so hot that he couldn't eat it What questions got rejected? [youtube]https://youtu.be/w-wataTYVFQ[/youtube] In the latest Ask Marvel, fans query[...]

He attended, alongside G Willow Wilson, Brian Bendis, Dan Slott, James Robinson, Tom Brevoort, Dan Buckley, Sam Humphries, Nick Spencer,  Emily Shaw, Sana Amanat and EIC Axel Alonso. And a breakdown on what Civil War II will be about. "A mysterious new Marvel character comes to the attention of the world, one who has the power to calculate[...]

I was wrong in that it isn't something that is connected and spins out of the Avengers: Stand Off event as such, but it is a real thing. But what could it be about? The original Civil War, by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, and to a great extent the aforementioned movie, were about the Superhuman[...]

By Joe Glass Oh, Axel Alonso….why couldn't you just say 'Yes'? Axel and Marvel have come under fire a fair bit in the last few months, given repeated attempts to skirt the topic of if/when Marvel would have a lead queer character book, or even outright saying they don't believe the time is right, to closeting a[...]

Or simply, it could be what happens when something truly life-changing happens to you, how does the world react to you? How do you learn to cope or understand your new life and capabilities? Of course, we have recently been promised at NYCC by Nick Lowe and Axel Alonso that what we have seen about the[...]

And their work, and influence within Marvel, along with creative department heads such as Feige, Head of TV Jeph Loeb and Marvel EIC Axel Alonso been supported by wholeheartedly Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter, because they have led to great success and – more importantly – profitability. I've heard conflicting reports that for, some say six months, others a year to two[...]

In his weekly spot of PR with CBR, Marvel EIC Axel Alonso talked about a number of Marvel projects announced this week, including Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder and Natacha Bustos. He pointed out that Bustos' first interior Marvel work would be in the next issue of Spider-Woman and then let us know[...]

Amanda Conner, G Willow Wilson, Medeith Finch, Gail Simone, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Babs Tarr, Kate Perkins, Tara Butters, Sana Amanat, Marguerite Bennett, Shelley Bond, Michele Fazekas, Hayley Atwell, Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa Benoist are joined by Grant Morrison, Axel Alonso, Jim Lee, Dan DiDio and more to talk about the rise of the female superhero for Yahoo[...]

By Joe Glass This week saw Marvel EiC, Axel Alonso, spend another week of his weekly CBR interview, Axel-in-Charge, discussing Marvel and their commitment to diversity This is something he's had to do a fair bit recently, as Marvel seems to be making some pretty big missteps in regards to showing that commitment to diversity…one of which[...]

The image retweeted by Alex Alonso... and then unretweeted. I dunno, I thought that was quite funny too. But anyway. I'm seeing Fantastic Four on

From Marvel Editor-In-Chief's Axel Alonso's weekly interview on CBR, he mentioned, Throughout the "All-New, All-Different Marvel" [initiative] that continues through February I am very excited about the stuff we have planned — especially "The Totally Awesome Hulk" and "Black Panther." Which does confirm what previous previews suggested, of a Black Panther ongoing series. He also tackled the controversy earlier[...]

A Civil War and Ant-Man video though, so we learn that Scott Lang is a 'good' criminal, robbing from a rich corporation to give it back to the customers. Panelists include Robbie Thompson, Chip Zdarsky, Axel Alonso, Wil Moss and Sana Amanat. The Amazing Spider-Man reboot comes up, coming out October 7th Peter Parker going global, as[...]