COVID-19 has put a hold on singer David Lee Roth’s solo Las Vegas residency and his gig as the opening act to KISS’s End of the Road arena tour, but that hasn’t stopped the on-and-off-again Van Halen frontman from expressing himself creatively. Variety (opens in new tab) reports for the …
Read More »Best Shots review: King in Black #1 “an exciting continuation of Donny Cates symbiote story”
Hot on the heels of Empyre (opens in new tab) and ‘X of Swords,’ (opens in new tab) the Marvel publishing line is plunged into another event. King in Black #1 (opens in new tab) sees Donny Cates continue the symbiotic saga he began with his Venom run as Knull …
Read More »Patton Oswalt & Jordan Blum play Head Games with Marvel villain M.O.D.O.K.
Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. is the perfect example of a comic book villain. With a strange visual design, godlike intellect, and talent for nefarious schemes, the Kirby/Lee-created baddie is a perfect foil for the varied heroes of the Marvel Universe. But who is M.O.D.O.K. when he’s not a villain? What’s he like …
Read More »New on comiXology Unlimited (December 2020): All the comics and manga arriving
Marvel Comics, DC, Boom! Studios, IDW Publishing, and more have added a slew of new comics to the flat-rate digital comics reading service comiXology Unlimited for December, and we’ve got a full rundown of what’s arrived. With the Playstation game Miles Morales: Spider-Man out now, Marvel has added the first …
Read More »The best X-Men creators of all time
Although they’ve had their ups and downs, the X-Men will always remain one of Marvel’s premier franchises. Over the decades, dozens of writers and artists have added their spin to the famous mutant line-up, and this list represents just the tip of that genetically-elevated iceberg. This week marks the conclusion …
Read More »Ann Nocenti reveals how she chased her obsessions for The Seeds
Ann Nocenti and David Aja’s The Seeds (opens in new tab) is about dire changes on Earth and humanity, and the comic book series itself went through several changes as well in its development. But as Aja said in The Seeds afterword Newsarama published earlier this week, it evolved – …
Read More »Jason Todd forced to face his internal demons in new Red Hood arc
A new era begins in this week’s Red Hood #51 – the first following the departure of writer Scott Lobdell, who had been writing the series since 2011. In this two-issue arc, writer Shawn Martinbrough and artist Tony Akins takes Jason Todd in for what is described as one part …
Read More »The Phoenix Force comes to Earth in Avengers #40
Marvel has released a preview of Javier Garron’s interior pages from Avengers #40 (opens in new tab), in which the Phoenix Force returns to Earth this December to find a new host. In fact, it’ll find a whole host of hosts, recruiting the Avengers, some X-Men, and more into a tournament to be …
Read More »A traitor inside X-Men revealed, and more mutants die in this weeks X of Swords – spoilers
‘X of Swords’ continues with three chapters in the penultimate week of the line-wide X-Men crossover, and as in previous weeks things only get more dire for the X-Men with more losses, deaths, and only a few key victories. Here’s where things stand ahead of the final week of ‘X …
Read More »Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok are planning a Three Jokers sequel
Hot on the heels of the finale of DC’s Batman: Three Jokers limited series, writer Geoff Johns says there’s talk of a sequel. (Image credit: DC) (opens in new tab) “[Jason Fabok] and I do have a story that we want to tell that springs off one of the many …
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