Category: Marvel Comics

  • X-Men produce comic for children with burn injuries

    The driving message of X-Men has always been the acceptance of people who are different, and now a new comic will help children who face life recovering from burn injuries. Marvel and STARBRIGHT Create X-Men Comic Book For Children With Burn Injuries If this comic book had been done years ago, Victor Von Doom and…

  • Marvel: We’re Doing Very Well

    FOXNews.com reports that Marvel has posted a first-quarter profit and seen its stock rise 11%. Licensing revenue has jumped fivefold due to the Spider-Man, X-Men and Daredevil franchises. Is it any wonder that Marvel seems to have a fire under its collective bottom about getting good movies made for so many of its characters? This…

  • Don’t Make Me Angry…

    I wasn’t aware that the The Incredible Hulk TV Pilot and The Incredible Hulk Returns / The Trial of the Incredible Hulk are out on DVD!

  • XMen 2 Movie Clips Online!

    The Apple QuickTime Movie Trailers page now has FIVE clips from the X-Men 2 movie! And yeah, this is probably totally uninteresting to the lot of you, having all seen it twice by now.

  • New Hulk Trailer!

    The latest Hulk trailer is the best yet. Some great SFX shots, true, but also much more of a hint at the passionate and personal story behind The Hulk. Finally, I can believe Ang Lee did this movie.

  • No escape – not even in movie reviews!

    I noticed this in Roger Ebert’s review, too. Sometimes you just can’t escape politics when talking comics, but it’s X2 Day and this is very on topic, as it has to do with the movie’s reviews. Kathryn Jean Lopez is collecting quotes from the movie critics who are using their reviews of X2 as an…

  • Today’s the day!

    Oh yeah! X2 baby! It opens today!!! (Yeah, yeah, like anyone considers this a news item. News is supposed to inform you of something you don’t know.) Stan Lee and Bryan Singer pose for this photo (© REUTERS/Jim Ruymen)

  • More on Captain America’s slant

    Back on April 4th I posted about Michael Medved’s article about Captain America. Yesterday he released a policy paper on the subject. This time he has a co-writer, a comic book collector who I think helps Medved with the specifics of the Marvel Universe, and this 8-page paper is eye-opening. They contacted Joe Quesada for…

  • First photo of movie Punisher

    Superhero Hype has the first photos of Thomas Jane as Punisher At least this time the guy has a skull on his shirt.

  • Stormy Weather

    Comics Continuum reports that beginning Monday they will have tie-ins with “Storm” of the X-Men (Halle Berry) as a promotion for X2. Just when I didn’t think anything would ever get me to watch the Weather Channel…