*Sunday UPDATE* SDCC ’15 Exclusive Funko Toy Announcements
By Nick Eskey Thanks for tuning in geeky guys and gals to this Sunday update of SDCC ’15 Funko toy release. Better known for their “POP!” line, Funko strives to “cover as many beloved licenses and...
View ArticleThe All-New, All-Different Marvel Rundown Week Thirteen: Rocketing into The...
It’s time for an early/late addition of the All-New, All-New Different Marvel Rundown. Marvel shipped a select few comics early including Rocket Raccoon and Groot #1, this week’s exclusive #1! This...
View ArticleIs Nilah Magruder the first African-American woman to write for Marvel?
There was a lot of buzz a few months ago when it was announced that esteemed writer Roxane Gay and poet Yona Harvey would be writing World of Wakanda, a spin-off of the Black Panther universe. Both...
View ArticleThe Marvel Rundown: Jennifer Walters is in a Post-CIVIL WAR II State of Mind
Civil War II has concluded and we’ve got our thoughts and two brand new ongoings in the post-Civil War II Marvel Universe. Marvel NOW! 2.0 has begun in final days of 2016 but what comics are worth your...
View ArticleReview: There goes Rhymin’ Brian (Michael Bendis) in the whimsical,...
Guardians of the Galaxy #16 STORY: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS ART: VALERIO SCHITI COLORS: RICHARD ISANOVE PUBLISHER: MARVEL A quick note on my reasoning for writing this review the way I did. I decided to...
View ArticleREVIEW: With Only 5 Issues, Is it Already the End for Deadpool the Duck?
When comic creators decide on doing a crossover, it’s pretty much guaranteed that shenanigans will ensue. When Marvel deemed that Deadpool and Howard the Duck should “join forces,” they might have...
View ArticleRocket and Groot star in their own series of animated shorts
There's probably a whole marketing treatise to be written about how Disney identified Rocket Raccoon and his tree buddy Groot as the breakout stars of Guardians of the Galaxy and leveraged them all...
View ArticleMilking the last drops, Marvel releases a final Rocket and Groot variant for...
This November’s Marvel comics will include a ton of Rocket Raccoon and Groot variant covers, making this officially the Year of An Awful Lot of Rocket and Groot, but as a waffer-thin nod towards...
View ArticleMy MCU Rewatch: Guardians of the Galaxy Vols. 1 & 2 – When We Love Too Much
Although I like watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies as they were made, not in “story order,” I made an exception for the two Guardians of the Galaxy films since the second takes place soon...
View ArticleNYCC ’18: Inside the Marvel True Believers Panel
The Marvel True Believers panel is invite only. It is limited only to members of the Marvel Unlimited Plus subscribers and Marvel Mastercard cardholders. Luckily for you, I am a Plus member and...
View ArticleCelebrating Fifty Years Of Guarding The Galaxy
The Guardians Of The Galaxy debuted fifty years ago today in Marvel Super-Heroes #18, though they bear little resemblance to today’s team. Maybe you’d recognize founding member Yondu, on the far right?...
View ArticleHitchhiking Hulk and Rocket Raccoon SDCC Hot Wheels Mattel exclusive revealed
Last year Mattel unveiled its SDCC exclusive Hot Wheels Spider Machine GP-7. The year before that, it was the Thanos Copter. Both were among the sought after SDCC exclusives and unsurprisingly quickly...
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