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Thor God of Thunder #4 A Thunder God Wishes for Death
Thor God Of Thunder #4 Story By: Jason Aaron Art By; Esad Ribic Jason Aarons work on Thor thus far has been great. Focusing on Thor in three different points in his life has provided a very unique and fresh take on the character. The God Butcher arc this far has been pretty bleak for
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Tales From the Water Cooler: Holiday Special
Welcome to Tales From the Water Cooler! It’s the Tales From the Water Cooler Holiday Special! Listen in as Santa Claus and Krampus go over their picks Thor God of Thunder #3, Locke & Key Omega #2, Saga #8 and the Howard the Duck Holiday Special!!!!!! And don’t forget to LIKE us on Facebook! Tales
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #694 – The 50th Anniversary story arc concludes!
Amazing Spider-Man #694 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Humberto Ramos [Pencils], Victor Olazaba [Inks], and Edgar Delgado [Colors] If Amazing Spider-Man #692 and 693 were about introducing Alpha, then this week’s #694 is all about setting the character up for his next chapter–whenever that may be. Deciding to take a break from his research at Horizon
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Marvel’s Phase One Boxset will let you own your very own Tesseract!!
Mike DeVivo here, For those of you wondering to yourselves “Where the hell is the Super Awesome Special Edition of Avengers?” Here’s your answer. This could be the coolest Box Set I’ve ever seen. Though its going to set you back well over $150 now it looks to have everything you could ever want from
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Secret Avengers #28 The Fate of the Kree lies in the hands of the Secret Avengers
Secret Avengers #28 Written By: Rick Remender Art By: Renato Guedes Rick Remender sets things into motion this issue with Ms. Marvel acting as the narrator to the events that unfold. The Kree and Captain Marvel have finally had their minds restored after Minister Marvel and his son had manipulated everyone to stay put as
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #687 – As the World Burns
Amazing Spider-Man #687 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Color Art] HEY! WAIT A MINUTE! If you haven’t read the rest of this story arc, this review will spoil a few plot developments, and we wouldn’t want that, would we? The end of this issue isn’t spoiled, though, so you’re safe there.
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #686 – Something You Expected, and Something You Didn’t
Amazing Spider-Man #686 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Color Art] [SIMPERIN' SPOILER ALERT: Reading this rollicking review might spoil certain exciting elements of this book's pulse-pounding plot for you, oh consummate Comic Vault reader! You've been warned!] An entire hemisphere of Earth, including Silver Sable’s native Symkaria, has been destroyed at
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Animated Storyboards from Marvel’s The Avengers by Jane Wu
Jane Wu published two sets of animated storyboards from Marvel’s “The Avengers.” The first set of storyboards show the Black Widow stealing a speeder-bike, then second set of storyboards show Hulk and Thor taking down the giant metal dragon with the infamous Hulk/Thor punch. “The Avengers” continued the box office tear when it earned $55
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Product of Society #5 – Review
Issue: Product of Society #5 Creators: Jon Michael Lennon, Leo Perez, Chris Newman, B. Alan Hubbard, Lauren Burke, Andrew Dimitt, Don Hills, Kyle Lawler, Donovan Klingal, Josh Filer, Mat Festa, Thor Fjalarsson and Sarah Hollings Publisher: CheeseLord Comics Release Date: March 2012 Price: $5.00 “Synopsis An anthology of Earth’s most disturbed persons. Product of Society
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The Avengers film: Whedon strikes out when it counts
This will go down as one of the most hated movie reviews in comic book geek-land, but Joss Whedon’s Avengers was a beautiful film in the same way that James Cameron’s Avatar was an amazing film. Both films had great visuals but no substance. The biggest criticism of the Marvel films so far is that
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Avengers Vs. X-Men #2 – Cyclops has lost his mind
Avengers Vs. X-Men #2 Writer: Jason Aaron Art: John Romita Jr. [Pencils], Scott Hanna [Inks], Laura Martin [Colors] [We've tried our best to be as spoiler-free as possible here, but nobody's perfect. Read at your own risk.] Defying Captain America’s request to take Hope Summers into custody last issue, Cyclops fired the first shot in
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #684 – Saharan Sandman!
Amazing Spider-Man #684 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Humberto Ramos, Victor Olazaba [Inks], Edgar Delgado [Colors] Certain that he had thought of everything possible while preparing to fight the latest incarnation of the Sinister Six (Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, Mysterio, Rhino, and Chameleon), there was one thing Spider-Man didn’t account for–Doc Ock doing the same thing
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #683 – Spider-Man punches Al Gore!
Amazing Spider-Man #683 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Colors] [SPOILER ALERT: Reading this review might spoil certain plot points for you, oh noble Chicago Comic Vault reader.] Close to death, Doctor Octopus has–with the help of the latest incarnation of the Sinister Six–set his final master plan in motion, developing technology
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Review: Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 – ‘Nuff Said
Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Art: John Romita Jr. [Pencils], Scott Hanna [Inks], Laura Martin [Colors] After what has felt like an eternity of build-up (but was really more like just over six months), the event to end all Marvel events has finally arrived on shelves–but was all of the hype worth
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #682 – ‘Ends of the Earth’ Begins!
Amazing Spider-Man #682 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Colors] On the verge of death, Dr. Otto Octavius has initiated his final diabolical plan. Using a towering structure that rises from his base beneath the sea (Where do these guys get the funding and materials for these things?), he has positioned an
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AMC Theaters is Bringing you the Ultimate Marvel Movie Marathon !
I just stumbled upon this awesome bit of info today and had to get it out into the world. Apparently there has been a meeting of the minds between Marvel Comics and AMC theaters and they decided that it would be a great idea to show all of Marvels films that lead into the Avengers
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Second Trailer for Marvel’s “The Avengers” Hits the Web
Marvel unveiled the second trailer for The Avengers Wednesday, derailing all activity in the Comic Vault offices with a single, collective nerdgasm. The trailer still doesn’t reveal the identity of Loki’s mystery army, but we (and by “we,” I mean “I”) are still holding out hope that it’s the Skrulls. Regardless, the trailer does tease
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A Power Packed 5-page preview of FF #15
Marvel Comics Thursday morning released a five-page preview of FF #15 written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Nick Dragotta. In this issue Power Pack guest stars with giant Celestials in the back ground and Doom went bye-bye. Dragotta’s art on the Celestials is gorgeous and reminded me of 70′s Thor action. FF #15 will
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Avengers Teaser – Is this our first look at Skrulls on Rocket Bikes?
Here’s a teaser for the full Avenger’s trailer that will be featured during the Super Bowl this Sunday. Is this our first look at Skrulls on rocket bikes? How will mainstream audiences react to super-powered alien doppelgangers? Joss Whedon said today during the Avengers twitter chat: “It’s a combo platter: classic, Ultimate, plus a little
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