With Marvel Studios making all of their comic book icons into films after a while, the pool starts to run a little low with choices. We’ve had amazing movies made for Iron Man and the X-Men and some spectacular failures with projects like Elektra. However, there are still some more, obscure, characters that can be [...]
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Cover of the Week: Daken Dark Wolverine #9
Giuseppe Camuncoli brings his serious skills to our COW column with this great cover for Daken Dark Wolverine #9. It was only a matter of time before Wolverine’s son and clone would meet claw to claw and the outcome did not disappoint. Camuncoli draws a very aggressive portrait for the reader with this piece [...]
Cover of the Week: Amazing Spider-Man #658
Stefano Caselli brings it hard with this cover for Amazing Spider-Man #658. I think that this new costume of Spider-Man’s could be really tough as a black and white ensemble, but Caselli has made it dynamic. The shadowing paired with that crazy design in the background really work. I’m interested in how future covers can [...]
Cover of the Week: Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #7 Plus What The?
RODOLFO MIGLIARI depicts one of Fanboy Jeffs most feared situations and it’s not dinner with the in-laws. “Why did it have to be snakes?” The line made famous by Indiana Jones seems to be the way that our heroic Green Lanterns are feeling right at this moment. Migliari pulls all the stops in creating this [...]
Who’s Who? THOR Movie Trailer
Now that the Marvel Studios THOR movie trailer has debuted I have been getting many questions about this lesser known Marvel icon. Sure the fan boys of the world know who the Norse God of Thunder is in the Marvel Universe, but there are movie goers everywhere who aren’t as familiar with the son of [...]
Rhys Ifans to be Villain in SPIDER-MAN Reboot
With the anticipation of the new SPIDER-MAN film looming in the air it’s nice to get tidbits of main cast info. Deadline is reporting that Rhys Ifans (pronounced Reese Ee-vans) has been cast as the films villain. Right now, it is speculation on exactly which villain that Ifans will portray, but there have been some [...]
Cover of the Week: Shadowland: Moon Knight #2
Francesco Mattina brings his particular brand of awesome over from DC Comics to Marvel with this cover for Shadowland: Moon Knight #2. Then man should always do covers for characters that have capes. The way he makes a cape look scary is, in its own right, a thing of artistic beauty. I would be curious [...]
Cover of the Week: Deadpool Merc With a Mouth #10, X-Factor #204
See this weeks COW after the jump.
Movie Review: KICK-ASS
“How come nobody’s ever tried to be a superhero?” Something that fanboys everywhere ask themselves on a weekly basis. Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) dared to ask that very question in KICK-ASS. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, KICK-ASS take us on the quest of one comic book nerds dream of becoming a real life superhero. Dave buys [...]
New IRON MAN 2 Clip
Yay! A new clip has showed itself online for the highly anticipated IRON MAN 2. This TV spot debuted at the Kid’s Choice Awards on Nickelodeon and shows us a few new scenes that we have not witnessed before. For a short clip, it added some more humor, action and robots that I needed to [...]
New KICK-ASS Trailer and Clip
The first comic book movie of the year is just around the corner. KICK -ASS will really kick start my personal movie season. I can barely wait. Thankfully, we have a new trailer and a new clip to get us going, or what I like to call “Movie Appetizers” This will be the third or [...]
Sweet Swag: Bishoujo Phoenix & Dark Phoenix
Hello Fanboyz and girlz! Welcome to our Sweet Swag column. In this section we will showcase hot items in pop culture whether they be old or new. Anything that we come across be it prop replicas, posters, statues, shirts, busts etc. Also, if we can find a good sale price on the item we will [...]
Will Liev Schreiber be in Wolverine 2?
At the beginning of the month we reported that a script for a Wolverine sequel had been finished and was set to start shooting in 2011. The film is supposed to pull from Chris Claremont’s and Frank Miller’s comic that takes place in Japan and, as I recall, doesn’t have Sabretooth in it. io9 reports [...]
Check Out These Images for Marvel’s Secret Avengers
A friend of mine pointed these images out to me this weekend. Who are the Secret Avengers? This comic book fan wants to know. Marvel Comics released six images that show the silhouette of six “Secret” Avengers with very enticing quotes. I had heard whispers about such a project but figured they were just rumor [...]
Web Crawler: Disney/ Marvel
The news that Disney had bought Marvel for $4 billion dollars has sent many comic book fans into a state of shock. This is the cover for the latest issue of Wizard Magazine. It embodies what many people believe to be the fate of the comic book power house. Really, I just think that is [...]
Disney Buys Marvel Comics
Big news today, the Walt Disney Company is going to purchase Marvel Entertainment Inc. for approximatly $4 billion dollars for its 5000 characters. These characters do include Spiderman, Iron Man and the X-Men. If you do the math that is about $800,000 per character. That’s a lot of moolah. In my talks today with many [...]
Goodbye Ultimates… Hello Ultimate Comics Avengers!
Fans of the Ultimate Marvel Universe can take a collective breath of relief. Marvel Comics may be calling it quits on certain titles and killing fan favorites in Ultimatum, but take some comfort in the fact that titles will re-launch under, slightly, different names. Most notably political thriller The Ultimates will be re-named and re-launched [...]
