Newsarama is fawning over an alleged satire of corporatism titled Roxxon Presents: Thor #1, that's written by a certain SJW: April 17's Roxxon Presents: Thor #1 is a tongue-in-cheek satire that offers up an exacting look at what the absolute worst case scenario of corporate comics can be, with the evil Roxxon Corporation, led by the vicious minotaur Dario Agger and powered by the Asgardian ..read more

Superhero Hype talks about a character from the Marvel movies making her debut in the Marvel comics as well, though here, it appears to be an issue from a modern volume of the What If? anthology, combined with Venom: From Agent Colson to Darcy Lewis, there are many MCU creations who were later officially introduced into the comics. Madisynn, the party-girl who befriended Wong in She-Hulk ..read more

Entertainment Weekly reports Marvel's producing a crossover between Avengers and Aliens, in another example of too many needless combinations between comics and movie franchises that've since been coming way too late to matter, and written this time by one of the most overrated writers to work for Marvel: Over the course of the Alien franchise, the fearsome creatures known as Xenomorphs have ..read more

Sometimes, I've thought, and I'm sure with much accuracy, that DC's done much worse than Marvel in terms of going out of their way to write up company wide crossovers that leave no room for stand-alone storytelling. Now, Newsarama's reporting without any objectivity that DC's got a "massive" one coming in the summer called "Absolute Power", and it appears to put an anti-heroine created by John ..read more

Around the time the issue of Roy Thomas giving the assignment of creating Wolverine in the Bronze Age first came up, Forbes also interviewed Christine Valada, Len Wein's widow, who doesn't approve of Thomas' wish to get his own credit as the editor who oversaw development of Logan. And what's odd here is that she seems to be claiming it's not about money, in a bizarre "reflection" of what Thomas ..read more

Entertainment Weekly tells that the fishy TV and film scriptwriter Beau deMayo broke his silence after being fired from X-Men 97, to tell why he wrote an episode that gets rid of Gambit, a direction which I decidedly am not pleased with, based on how it reeks of the illogical dislike for a fictional character that was common at the time Chris Claremont created him, and the thinking is doubtless ..read more

North Jersey has some history of the Heathcliff comic strip's late creator, George Gately, who created the rowdy kitty 5 years before Jim Davis did Garfield (and the latter's popularity soon overtook the former's): Two rows of fresh fish chill on ice outside the Elite Fish Market in the colorful port town of Westfinster. From behind the counter, the fishmonger, Mr. Schultz, looks on incredulously ..read more

Gamespot has an interesting list of manga and graphic novels based on video games that're on sale at sites like Amazon: A huge list of Halo novels are up for grabs, including the first three entries in the original Halo book series Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, and Halo: First Strike. In total, there are 20 Halo books eligible for the B2G1 offer, including various other sub-series ..read more

Collect Space announced there's a comic book that's been prepared about the history of Vulcan rockets, drawn by employees of United Launch Alliance: Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of having to flee an exploding planet, being exposed to gamma rays or even surviving the bite of a radioactive spider, but it does have an origin story compelling enough ..read more

Kidscreen's got more coverage of what analysts predict is the direction Hollywood will be taking, with video games as opposed to comic books:To track what it calls “popularity score,” Ampere uses a metric that’s based on average global consumer search volumes on the internet for both film and TV projects. The new report assessed the top 10 most popular newly-released projects in 2023 and found ..read more