Showing posts with label Marvel Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marvel Comics. Show all posts
A BIG Galactus Marvel Legends action figure is on his way
Watch out, planets! Hasbro is releasing a new, collectors edition Galactus figure that will dwarf other plastic denizens of the Marvel Universe. It will only set you back $400 or so. More info here.
Coming up: "All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told"
Out Oct. 5. Order now from Amazon.
Details:
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, as Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date, and still growing. The Marvel story is a gigantic mountain smack in the middle of contemporary culture. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. Yet not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing—nobody’s supposed to. So, of course, that’s what Wolk did: he read all 27,000+ comics that make up the Marvel Universe thus far, from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown.
And then he made sense of it—seeing into the ever-expanding story, in its parts and as a whole, and seeing through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In Wolk’s hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty years, from the atomic night terrors of the Cold War to the technocracy and political division of the present day—a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders.
As a work of cultural exegesis, this is sneakily significant, even a landmark; it’s also ludicrously fun. Wolk sees fascinating patterns—the rise and fall of particular cultural aspirations, and of the storytelling modes that conveyed them. He observes the Marvel story’s progressive visions and its painful stereotypes, its patches of woeful hackwork and stretches of luminous creativity, and the way it all feeds into a potent cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. This is a huge treat for Marvel fans, but it’s also a revelation for readers who don’t know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.
Cover gallery: Marvel Comics' U.S. Doctor Who series
Marvel brought the Doctor to comics in the 1980s - a time when the show played in very few U.S. markets but was starting to get attention via American versions of the British paperback novelizations of the show's stories (the way I got into the Doctor - it was years before I ever saw the show on screen).
The comics series featured reprints of stories originally published in Marvel UK's Doctor Who Weekly magazine.
There are some great Brian Bolland covers featured here.
Watch: New teaser trailer for Marvel's "Eternals"
Marvel's new film based on Jack Kirby's "The Eternals" is due out in November.
Marvel provides first look at "The Eternals" in "movie celebration" video - plus list of upcoming "Phase 4" films
"The Eternals," based on the Marvel Comics series created by Jack Kirby is due out Nov. 5 and is directed by Chloé Zhao, who just won an Oscar for Nomadland. Cast members include Gemma Chan as Sersei, along with Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Don Lee, and Kit Harington.
The "Marvel Celebrates the Movies" video includes footage from past and upcoming films with narration by the late Stan Lee.
The upcoming slate of Marvel films includes:
- Black Widow July 9
- Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings Sep. 3
- Spider-Man: No Way Home Dec. 17.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness March 25
- Thor: Love and Thunder May 6
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever July 8
- The Marvels Nov. 11
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Feb. 17, 2023
- Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3May 5, 2023.
First trailer and poster for Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"
The first film starring Marvel's martial arts master is out Sept. 3. Actor Simu Liu is in the lead role. Other in the cast include Awkwafina as Shang-Chi's friend Katie, and Tony Leung as the Mandarin, and Michelle Yeoh as Nan.
Vintage promo poster for Marvel Comics blacklight posters
So cool to switch on the black light and look
New poster for Marvel's Black Widow, out July 9 on theaters and on Disney+
In Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger. Directed by Cate Shortland and produced by Kevin Feige, the movie stars Scarlett Johansson reprising her role as Natasha Romanoff. Florence Pugh stars as Yelena Belova, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian, and Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff.
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