Sony Loses Fight To Keep Marvel Suit Secret The judge in the Marvel/Sony Spider-Man lawsuit has ruled that the filings in the suit would be made public…so expect to read a lot more about this lawsuit that may determine the fate of future Spider-Man movies. We’ll do our best to link to the news as…

Nicolas Juzda has a quibble with yesterday’s announcement about the NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –Marvel solicitations. Seems Thor reached #500 years ago…BUT the book did not become Thor until issue #83, whereas the Fantastic Four debuted in FF #1. Is this a nit or a major dispute? Why not weigh in?

Comics Continuum has posted the Marvel solitications for July, including word that Fantastic Four will return to their old numbering in time to make an even #500 (the first Marvel comic to do so).

DRUDGE REPORT has just broke the news that Marvel is suing to revoke Spider-Man’s license from Sony! Now, don’t ask me why Spidey’s license is so contested. It would seem to me that having a hot #1 movie after 14 years of previous legal wrassling would have sent the message “Shut up, make a movie…

Marvel announced today that a Newsarama columnist will be writing a comic book for the new Epic line.

CHUD – Cinematic Happenings Under Development has snagged the new X2 poster, and I love it.

Ain’t It Cool News has a tiny bite of info relayed from a reader in England. Ian McKellen has said on BBC radio 2 that the heads of Fox are so impressed by X2 that they are gung ho for a third movie in the series. He also makes a humorous remark about working with…

Trenchman has a cool site featuring 78 early Captain America covers, with analysis and comment on their propagandist aspects as well as general silliness. Thanks to National Review’s Jonah Goldberg for this link! (I guess you all know which site I’ve been reading this morning. What can I say? “The Corner” was somewhat influential in…

Michael Medved discusses the last year’s worth of Captain America stories and the decidedly “America = bad” tilt that they’ve taken. I can’t say that I disagree with it much aside from Medved’s thinking that the comic books are aimed at kids and teens when in reality it’s teens and adults who will read it.…

To follow up on Phil’s post below…this thing about Maguire’s back pain keeping him from being in the sequel appears to be just a rumor. As Sarah “Scribbler” Beach points out over on the Dixonverse board, if he were off of the sequel to one of the year’s biggest blockbusters, it would be much bigger…