Iron Man’s New Duds

Overnight at Marvel.com, the House of Ideas showed off their latest: an all-new armor for the metal Avenger, Iron Man.
This newest iteration of ‘ole Shellhead’s battle-dress features the familiar Red and Gold color scheme, but a streamlined look and redistribution of colors gives it a unique style.
According to Marvel’s piece, the look was [...]

The news from HitFix.com
“After the recent news of dissent between director Sam Raimi and Sony Pictures over the direction of “Spider-Man 4,” it’s now somewhat official that the film won’t make its original May 6, 2011 release date.
Sources tell HitFix that Paramount Pictures will announce that Marvel Studios’ “Thor” will move from its original May [...]

From Marvel.com – Russo to play opposite Anthony Hopkins.  Very tasty decision in my opinion.
Marvel Studios welcomes new royalty to cast of the “Thor” film, as Rene Russo has been tapped to play Frigga, the Queen of Asgard, wife of almighty Odin and the mother to both Thor and Loki!

From Marvel.com – Are you waiting for the hammer to fall on the big screen (Mjolnir, that is)?! Of course you are and so are we!
When Thor makes his big screen debut on May 20, 2011, he’ll have some company with him—as reported today by Variety.com!
Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg, longtime friends and fellow Asgardians who [...]

This is a pretty decent trailer with the last frame or two being the spoiler – is that Asgard falling? – from Marvel.com – SIEGE is coming! It’s all been leading up to this universe shattering four issue limited series from the superstar team of Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel! Following the events of Dark Reign: [...]

First Marvel went from the end of the Secret Invasion right into Dark Reign without so much as a month transition and now here comes the big next MU-event… The Siege – which will bring Captain America (Steve Rogers), Iron Man and Thor all together again on the same team! – This cover and write-up [...]

Set those DVRs or get out of bed early on September 19th to catch the new Marvel toon, The Super Hero Squad!  Going along with the Hasbro tradition of making cartoons to support their toy lines, they have a gathered Marvel’s heavy hitters and put them on the same team.  But how Falcon and Silver [...]

A press release from Marvel lets us know that multiple geek-film alumni Natilie Portman will be filling the scrubs of Jane Foster.  I know there is no Dr. Donald Blake for the film, which begs the question of what roll Jane Foster will fill for Thor.  Will we see a love triangle between Thor, Jane, [...]

Thor #602 ( Marvel – Stracynski / Djurdjevic / Miki / Mounts )
“The cataclysmic, catastrophic events of THOR #600 have rocked Asgard. What unexpected way do his true friends figure out to help him? And what could possibly be the next step in the devious Loki’s sinister schemes and machinations? “.
First and for most I [...]

There’s been a great deal of mighty Marvel movie news exploding out in the blogosphere, here’s the summary…
* Iron Man 2 (release date – May, 2010) has just signed Mickey Rourke as the sadistic (if not obscure) villain Whiplash and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow
* Spider-Man 4 has a release date of May, 2011 – [...]

Avengers: The Initiative #22 (Marvel – Gage / Ramos)
“The Initiative Disassembled” continues as Counter-Force–the original New Warriors–return to join the battle against Ragnarok! But will they save Camp Hammond–or destroy it? Be here as events set in motion in our very first issue rocket towards their devastating conclusion…we’re not kidding when we say the [...]

Thor #600 (Marvel – Straczynski / Coipel / Giarrusso/ Aja / Lee)
Heavy Book for a heavy Hitter. That what I was thinking when I picked this one up. And while I wasn’t disappointed with the main story, I could have done without the $5 price tag to include a marginally funny, but [...]