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How Marvel Is Ensuring Marvel NOW Will Dominate Sales
Here's a breakdown. The most interesting points are the AVX: Consequences variant getting exponentially rarer with each issue, Joe Quesada drawing plenty of variants, and the amount of limited variants in many cases meaning that the retailers will, after selling them, basically have their stock of the comic for free, so sell or dispose of as[...]
Friday Runaround – Giving Up Prudishness
I mean, I was a prudish kind of guy as a younger man, but I gave up my prudishness, you know. The Technology That Turned Joe Quesada into a Legendary Comic Book Artist Kyle, a bit of a history lesson, in the 90's Marvel was publishing well over 100 plus titles While I don't have the actual[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 23rd July 2012
The new Rocket Raccoon, as drawn by Joe Quesada. The jet lag has gone (mostly) The Olympics are here (almost) And I seem to brought the West Coast USA weather back to London with me (just about) Tomorrow I wake early with the girls to go to Kingston to see the Olympic Torch pass by, All[...]
Joe Quesada And Jimmy Palmiotti On Marvel Knights From 1998
Here's the latest dip into the magazine's archive, a classic feature looking at Marvel's Marvel Knights line, which includes quotes from now-famous creators like Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti and Paul Jenkins, taken from TRIPWIRE way back in 1998… JOE QUESADA and JIMMY PALMIOTTI have been given the enviable task of relaunching five of Marvel's classic characters:[...]
Entertainment Weekly Finally Makes Marvel NOW! Official
Bleeding Cool have had parts of them since February, of course, and a bunch last week but that's the way things go. Here's the proper visual showing off a number of character redesigns for Marvel NOW! from Joe Quesada, which he describes as "the tip of the iceberg" And the EW article, finally online, has a bunch[...]
The Boy Who Hated Ultimate Spider-Man
He has also deleted his Twitter account) who seems to have started a one man covert war against the show and Marvel Animation. Since Ultimate Spider-Man began running, every Sunday he's tweeted to Joe Quesada about how so many fans hate the show and wanted Spectacular back. It was enough for Joe to take the bait[...]
Ninjak – Third Time Lucky
Created by Joe Quesada and Mark Moretti in 1993 for Valiant, the first series was about a British millionaire playboy secret agent Colin King who had trained as a super ninja The second series a few years later, reinvented by Kurt Busiek for Acclaim, saw a teenager gain ninja powers from a video console, only[...]
Joe Quesada, Joss Whedon And Colossus
Joe Quesada, on defending his decision to publish Spider-Men, when previously he'd said such an Ultimate/616 crossover would mean Marvel was officially out of ideas. Look, one of the things that used to get thrown back at me all the time is, "Dead is dead You said dead is dead." No, that wasn't the entire quote[...]
Swipe File: Wolverine And The Wolf Gift
Anne Rice Vs Joe Quesada Who'll win? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself.  If you are unable to do so, please return[...]
Wednesday Runaround: Joe Quesada And Chris Staros Will School You About Comics
The fools. [VIDEO] Disney XD channel hosts Joe Quesada's marvelous Marvel 'Master Class' – USATODAY.com As part of its "Marvel Universe" programming block beginning Sunday, Disney XD is rolling out a series of short films titled Master Class, which features Quesada showing what exactly goes into creating comic-book characters such as the Hulk, Spider-Man and Iron Man. Sneak[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: The Quesada Code, The Pandora Code
A couple of interesting mysteries emerged on the net today: one having to do with the New 52 character Pandora, the other having to do with Marvel Entertainment COO Joe Quesada Based on nothing more than a hunch, I wonder if Joe's infinite mystery (I see he's said he'll have a new twitter icon on[...]
Joe Quesada Looks To The Infinite Future Of Marvel
This is Joe Quesada's new Twitter icon It is labelled Infinite.jpg and shows the sign for Infinity He tweets; The future of storytelling is ∞ The possibilities are ∞ The future is ∞ I understand that whatever this is in reference to, it it all about Marvel's plans for the future With SXSW round the corner, could this be[...]
The Ray, Volume III, #1
Harris and young artist Joe Quesada decided it was time for an all-new Ray This time, it would be one that was actually more than a generic hero with a catchy name. Key Issues: Smash Comics #14 – the Ray's first appearance Our Price: $4,500 Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 – cameos with all of Quality's heroes Our Price:[...]
Joe Quesada Covers Avengers: X-Sanction #1
Making it the big launch of the month, and telling everyone that it's the beginning of the 2012 Big Events at Marvel. And now getting their Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada to take time out of his weekend drawing the cover… It has an incredibly clumsy title. It's by a team that didn't exactly get a great[...]
Joe Quesada Commissioned By President Obama
In Joe Quesada's Cup of Joe column for Comic Book Resources, he reveals that back in February he began working on a personal commission for President Barack Obama. Sometime in mid-February, I was contacted by someone from the White House asking if I had time to chat with one of the President's aides When[...]
Joe Quesada's Hyper-Detailed Fantastic Four 50th Anniversary Artwork Tutorial
Marvel Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada just gave us a fascinating glimpse of his artwork development process step by step on twitter, featuring how he created a piece for the upcoming Fantastic Four 50th anniversary: [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98815685370720256"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98815981576663041"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98816177249337348"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98816826355625985"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98817062125846528"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98817391345143808"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98817713597714432"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98818221909618688"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98818376863981568"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98818816599011329"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98819150650146816"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98819421220519936"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98819625646702592"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98820410082205697"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98820481452490756"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98820785526947840"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98821044546179073"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98821223894618112"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/JoeQuesada/status/98821573779275776"] [blackbirdpie[...]
Marvel Vs 30 Rock
Marvel's rebuttal to Avengers Academy #8 being destroyed in  last week's episode of 30 Rock with Joe Quesada and Tom Brevoort… Just so you know, Scott Adsit was quite the table hopper at NYCC last year, buying lots of comics. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SprQf2VccWU[/youtube] We thought something like this was coming and here it is[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Was Your Weekend Marvelous, or Wonderful?
As C2E2 came to a close a few hours ago, Joe Quesada tweeted "Thanks all for making it a great con Because of your support, Marvel, once again, dominates." And just as I was pondering the validity of that statement, a BCer took us to task in the forums for Marvel-centric coverage of the show[...]
Marvel Make Axel Alonso Editor In Chief And Promote Tom Brevoort
  Joe Quesada has been rising and rising in terms of responsibility at Marvel, with Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort taking on more day-to-day control of editorial duties that some have predicted that things may shift around at some point And with DC having fun promoting all their people, it was only a matter of time[...]
Did John Byrne Create New Marvel?
John Byrne left Marvel in the earlier days of what is now called New Marvel, when Joe Quesada was made editor-in-chief The cancellation of X-Men: Hidden Years was the cause Ostensibly due to trying to focus the X-Men titles on a few books, Byrne says he was told many reasons A phone call between Byrne[...]
Joe Quesada's Unpublished Cover To X-Factor #87
So I was just talking about my love for Peter David and Joe Quesada's X-Factor #87, the issue in which the new team are psychoanalysed by Doc Samson It not only introduced us all the the team really efficiently but also gave us insight and backstory to characters we didn't know – and of characters[...]
So Spider-Man, Joe Quesada And Mayor Bloomberg Walk Into A Comic Shop
From the confusingly titles Midtown Comics Downtown in New York at noon today, New York Mayor Bloomberg, Spider-Man and Joe Quesada campaigning on the unemployment measures coming out from the city and highlighted in the Spider-Man propoganda sheet inserted free into copies of the New York Daily today. Sadly, the comic chose not to tackle the[...]