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16 Apr 2021

Marvel pulls off massive The Falcon and the Winter Soldier cameo

The Marvel Studios team are great at keeping secrets but when it comes to casting, snippets of news tend to find a way of leaking out.

16 Apr 2021

ComicConnect Marketplace Report: Venus #19 Record Sale

ComicConnect sells a copy of Venus #19 CGC 8.5 for a record price of $52,500 in their comic book marketplace.

16 Apr 2021

Warfare And Vendetta: V For Vendetta From Grey Pages To Silver Screen

Though the film and the graphic novel share the identical name, the same basic storyline, and an ordinary vigilante, Moore and Lloyd's book and the Wachowskis' movie could not be more different ...

15 Apr 2021

The Many Captain Americas Of Marvel

John Walker's appearance on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has us diving into the history of Captain America turnovers, from Isaiah Bradley to Clark Kent.

15 Apr 2021

Lives of transgender authors captured in graphic novels

Two trans Korean authors, who go by the aliases Cheyenne and Mallang, first came into contact with each other two years ago after Mallang discovered Cheyenne's comics depicting a visual journey of the ...

12 Apr 2021

Pressuring pop culture creators can help fight racism in America

Across American media, creators retreated from depicting Black characters at all for fear of stirring negative attention. Outside of some limited examples in television, Black characters vanished from ...

11 Apr 2021

Leppington writer becomes first Australian woman to pen The Phantom

"If other women comic book writers are inspired by the publication of this story to start pitching their own Phantom stories, then that is added value for me and absolutely terrific." Ms Ditrich said ...

11 Apr 2021

The Coolest Star Wars, Marvel, and Transformers Reveals From Hasbro's Fanfest, and More Toy News

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo's usual round up of the latest and greatest in plastic collecting. This week: Hasbro's all but taken over for its Fanfest of Transformers, Star Wars, and Marvel ...

10 Apr 2021

Check, Please is the feel-good queer hockey / baking comic you didn't know you needed

Comics have never been bigger: with Marvel TV shows, DC movies, and indie adaptations growing by the day, comic books have never been more prominent in pop culture. This biweekly Verge column ...

10 Apr 2021

Hasbro unveils self-transforming Optimus Prime and new Transformers: Generations War for Cybertron figures

The figures also comes with a brand-new comic book, IDW Shattered Glass Issue #1. Shattered Glass isn't your average TRANSFORMERS tale ''Shards'' is the story of the ongoing battle between the ...

10 Apr 2021

Comic Book Preview - Batman: Urban Legends #2

DC Comics releases Batman: Urban Legends #2 this Tuesday, and you can get yourself a sneak peek at the issue here. The new Batman anthology series continues! In part two of Chip Zdarsky and Eddy ...

9 Apr 2021

DCEU Steals Marvel's Most Precious Possession Iron Man

Though Robert Downey Jr has left the MCU (despite multiple rumours of a possible return), would he be willing to get back in the super suit of a DC hero after his long run as Iron Man?

9 Apr 2021

Doris Slater Titus, a forgotten Canadian artist, gets the exhibition she deserves

The painter and cartoonist, who was killed in a car crash in 1964, is the subject of a retrospective at a Brantford, Ont. gallery ...

9 Apr 2021

Farhan Akhtar: Bollywood star shooting for secret Marvel project in Thailand, reports say

Indian actor and director Farhan Akhtar is said to have flown to Bangkok to work on a new Marvel Studios project, according to local media reports. The details of the project or of Akhtar's role in it ...

8 Apr 2021

She was the 'secret' Wonder Woman writer in the 1940s. Here's how she finally got her due at 94.

Joye Murchison Kelly got hired by the Wonder Woman studio at 19. She was rediscovered in recent years, before she died Monday at age 97.

8 Apr 2021

Jordan Peterson reacts to Captain America villain 'parodying' 12 Rules for Life in Marvel comic: 'What the hell?'

In the latest Captain America comic written by Ta-Nehisi Coates ... The latter words were judged to be a reference to the controversial psychologist's self-help book 12 Rules for Life, which was ...

8 Apr 2021

ComicConnect Notches Sixth World Record

A high-grade copy of Action Comics #1, the comic that introduced Superman, sold for a world record-breaking $3,250,000 to a private collector.

7 Apr 2021

Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #8 review

And I really wish I could say I liked it. It has so many elements of what could make a fantastic comic book. The art, for example, is by far at its best here. Jason Badower handles the first half ...

7 Apr 2021

The Batman's Robert Pattinson Explains The Pressure From DC Fans

We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. It's no secret that comic book movies are everywhere. And given how popular certain heroes like Batman are, there's been ...

7 Apr 2021

Marc Spector Returns in Marvel's New Moon Knight Series

Marvel has announced that writer Jed MacKay and artist Alessandro Cappuccio are taking the reins of Marc Spector's new comic book adventures. The re-launched Moon Knight series picks up where the ''Age ...