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Your Head Canon Regarding Gods in the Marvel Universe

Jeff's recent "Venus" conversation got me to thinking about various theories regarding the nature of "gods" in the Marvel Universe that I've heard over the years. I have my own thoughts about which one I like, and I'm curious to  see what other peopl

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List of comics shipping week of May 13, 2024

MARVEL COMICS

ALIEN: BLACK AND WHITE BLOOD #4

ALIENS: WHAT IF #3

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #256 FACSIMILE EDITION

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: BLOOD HUNT #1

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION: ASSASSIN NATION TP

ASTONISHING ICEMAN: OUT COLD TP

CAPTAIN AMERICA EPIC C

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Comics shipping week of May 6, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #49

AVENGERS #14

BLOOD HUNTERS #1

CAPTAIN AMERICA #9

CAPTAIN AMERICA BY J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI VOL 1: STAND TP

CAPTAIN MARVEL #8

CAPTAIN MARVEL BY ALYSSA WONG VOL 1: THE OMEN TP

CONTEST OF CHAOS TP

DAR

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FCBD 2024

What did you get?

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What's 'Blood Hunt'? Marvel's PR gives away a lot

Marvel's next big crossover begins May 1, a linewide battle with the MU's vampires called "Blood Hunt." I've gotten so many press releases on Blood Hunt #1 (of 5) that I'm not even going to try to condense them. Here are the ones I didn't hold for la

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Comics shipping week of April 29, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

BLOOD HUNT #1

CABLE #4

CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC NEW PTG

CARNAGE VOL 1: BORN AGAIN tp

DEADPOOL WOLVERINE WWIII #1

GET FURY #1

IMMORTAL THOR #10

INCREDIBLE HULK #12

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #18

MIGHTY MMW DAREDEVIL VOL

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Comics on sale week of April 22, 2024

MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #48

AVENGERS #13

AVENGERS INC.: ACTION! MYSTERY! ADVENTURE! TP

AVENGERS TWILIGHT #4 2ND PTG ALEX ROSS VAR

AVENGERS WEST COAST EPIC COLLECTION VOL 7: ULTRON UNBOUND TP

BLADE #10

DAREDEVIL #8

GHOST RIDER FINAL VENGEANCE

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Comics on sale week of April 15, 2024

MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 255 FACSIMILE EDITION

AVENGERS TWILIGHT #1 3RD PTG ALEX ROSS VAR

AVENGERS TWILIGHT #2 3RD PTG ALEX ROSS VAR

AVENGERS TWILIGHT #5

BEWARE THE PLANET OF THE APES #4

BLACK WIDOW AND HAWKEYE #2

CAPTAIN AMERICA EPIC COLLECT

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X-Men: The Hidden Years

With the advent of "Hereos Return," Avengers once again became my favorite title, a status it maintained right up until the launch of X-Men: The Hidden Years a year later. the premise of the series is that it would fill the gap from #67-93 when X-Men

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Trina Robbins Dies At 85

Trina Robbins of Wonder Woman, Vampirella & Joni Mitchell, Dies At 85

STORY

 

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Homage: Action Comics #1

Post your homage covers below.

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Bob Layton's 1980s Hercules

The first issue of the first mini-series sets the tone: light and humouous. As the story opens, Hercules returns to Olympus "after years of wandering and adventure upon the world of men" and disturbs Zeus's "Day of Reflective Silence." In a fit of ra

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Comics shipping week of April 8, 2024

MARVEL COMICS

ALIENS: WHAT IF #2

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #47

BLACK WIDOW MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECT VOL 3: CHAOS TP

CARNAGE #6

DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS VOL 3 HC

EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #3

FANTASTIC FOUR #19

INCREDIBLE HULK #11

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #17

MS MARVEL: MUTANT

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Roy Thomas---Co-Creator of Wolverine (?)

The news recently broke that ROY THOMAS has been added by Marvel as a co-creator of Wolverine along with the late LEN WEIN and the late JOHN ROMITA SR. not to mention the late HERB TRIMPE. Thomas was the editor of Incredible Hulk #181 (N'74), the fir

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The Black Panther

There was a time when Black Panther was my favorite character. But I can't tell you exactly how he became my favorite character. Unlike the way John Byrne's Fantastic Four and Walt Simonson's Thor led me directly to the Lee/Kirby runs, my path to Bla

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John Byrne's Doom Patrol

I have been considering a comprehensive overview of the Doom Patrol, from 1963 (Drake/Premiani) through 1993 (Grant Morrison), for a long time now. I've avoided such exhaustive discussions since finishing Adam Strange, but the John Byrne series (18 i

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Full list of comics shipping week of April 1, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

ALIEN: BLACK WHITE & BLOOD #3

ALIEN BY SHALVEY BROCCARDO VOL 2: DESCENDANT TP

AVENGERS #12

AVENGERS: TWILIGHT #3 2ND PTG ALEX ROSS VAR

CAPTAIN AMERICA #8

DAREDEVIL EPIC COLLECT VOL 7: THE CONCRETE JUNGLE TP

DEADPOOL #1

DE

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Full list of comics shipping week of March 25, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #46

CABLE #3

DAREDEVIL #7

DEADPOOL VS WOLVERINE TP

EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #2

GHOST RIDER VOL 4: RITE OF PASSAGE TP

GODS #6

IMMORTAL X-MEN BY KIERON GILLEN VOL 4 TP

INCREDIBLE HULK #10

JACKPOT AND BLACK CA

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Today's Surprise Reveal

Today's Justice Society of America #9 with the surprise return of a character that was first seen in Adventure Comics #369. Thinking about it, I probably should have seen it coming, but I did not.

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What's your response to the 'X-Men: From the Ashes' announcement?

Probably for most of you, "meh." But indulge me.

Marvel announced some of its post-Krakoa plans for the X-Men at SXSW, which promptly made it all over the Internet. Here's a Bleeding Cool article about it, from which I'm going to liberally swipe.

I'l

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