Marvel Vs. Capcom 3′s biggest achievement doesn’t come in the graphics department, though the visuals are stunning. Nor is it in gameplay, despite the fact that it sports a sharp and well-tuned fighting engine.
If fighting games have taught us anything, it’s that any dispute can solved with a roundhouse kick.
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about The Invincible Iron Man #500, Supergirl #60 and Wolverine and Jubilee #1.
This week, The Invincible Iron Man #500 comes out from Marvel Comics; here’s a little history of the series’ previous anniversary issues.
The one constant of the Marvel movies to date – well, except The Incredible Hulk, but I think Marvel would rather forget that one existed, in many ways – has been Clark Gregg’s SHIELD Agent Coulson, who’s gone from being a background character in the first Iron Man to taking center stage in Thor and [...]
If you enjoyed the quirky, fast talking Iron Man, don’t expect that same tone with Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. “It’s how you dance pretty close to the edge to get the sort of modernity and the edge that ‘Iron Man’ has and the real sharp comic sensibility of those two men,” he said to Hero Complex. “So it’s [...]
In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we were lucky enough to talk to Bob Layton–a writer, artist and editor with a very long and impressive history in the business, including several fondly-remembered runs on Iron Man, as well as a series of Hercules projects at Marvel.
Here’s a worrying possibility: What if Paramount’s reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise is actually good? Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the studio is taking the idea very seriously, as they’re hoping to turn the pizza-loving martial-arts-loving mutated reptiles into “the next Transformers.”
There are a couple of curious things about Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca’s The Invincible Iron Man #29, which came out this week–one of them obvious on a first reading, one less so. The one that’s not immediately evident is that this is a Marvel superhero comic with barely a hint of an action scene. [...]
G4 has announced that it will be the home for four brand-new anime series from Marvel, animated by respected animation studio Madhouse and masterminded by Warren Ellis, beginning next year.
You’ve always wanted to know if Chun Li’s massive thighs could take down Tony Stark’s hi-tech armor, right? Now you’ll get the chance to do exactly that at Comic-Con.
