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Marvel made a splash at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival by offering a free Marvel #1 digital download (via app) for two days only. Unfortunately, the offer was “paused” due to server overload. The adventures, new and old, of the X-Men, Spider-Man and the Avengers would be available free, and the first issues would [...]
As many of you might already know, Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man (along with Steve Ditko) recently turned 90 years-old. Spider-Man was introduced around 1962, which means Stan Lee himself was around 40 years-old when he created, or at least introduced to the world, one of the most commercially successful comic book heroes of our [...]
Yesterday CNN reported that Peter Parker is being killed off by Marvel Comics in the final issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Dan Slott, writer for the comic book series, explains that killing Peter off and starting a new franchise “Superior Spider-Man” will allow them to create more drama. This new “drama” will emerge by making long-time [...]
Even though New York Comic Con has no affiliation with San Diego’s all great Comic Con, it’s still exciting to have a comic convention of this magnitude on the east coast. New York Comic Con is the East Coast’s biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. The show floor plays host to the latest and [...]
After Disney’s and Marvel’s incredible success with The Avengers, it’s no wonder DC Entertainment is discussing a Justice League movie. The Avengers is the third highest-grossing film in North America, the highest-grossing 2012 film, the highest grossing film distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the highest-grossing superhero film and the highest-grossing film based on comics. DC [...]
Yep. That’s right. A hero in the Marvel Universe called Ant-Man is slated to get his very own movie in 2014. Ant-Man sounds lame you say? If a story revolving around an original and FOUNDING member of the Avengers who can drastically alter his size and also communicate and control insects sounds lame, then maybe [...]
At SXSW, Marvel announced a partnership with Aurasma, an augmented reality company that created technology allowing mobile phones to recognize images, symbols and objects rather than bar codes or QR codes and delivering relevant content in real time, including videos, animations, audio or webpages. It sounds like an intriguing clash between comics and the digital [...]
My grandfather had comics stored away, but like most men in his time, his mother threw them away once he joined the military. A man in Dallas was fortunate to find a treasure. When his great aunt died, Michael Rorrer found stacks of comic books that originally belonged to his great uncle, Billy Wright, that [...]
We cover movies based on comics here at PrintReady, and I collected The Amazing Spider-Man comics as a kid, so yes I MUST write up my thoughts concerning the new movie The Amazing Spider-Man by Marc Webb in response to the latest released trailer via YouTube by Sony. What I like so far… First, I’m [...]
Holy crap, this was a very disappointing film. These days, with a newborn, I’m forced to take advantages of new releases on my Apple TV, and Captain America: The First Avenger was my latest watch and frankly its a dud. Director Joe Johnston screwed this movie up royally. What’s worse is that I wasn’t even [...]
In what was described internally as a cost-cutting move, Marvel Comics laid off 11 employees last week, including three editors, four in production, two in the collections department and two from digital compositing. Only two weeks ago Jim Sokolowski, Marvel’s COO was laid off for similar reasons, and earlier in the summer director of publishing [...]
Big crowds and the growing transition to digital delivery were the big stories coming out of New York Comic Con, held this past weekend at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Although official figures have not yet been released, in his blog, ReedPop v-p and show organizer Lance Fensterman said the 2011 [...]
Marvel studios has been working diligently on building up anticipation for 2012′s release of The Avengers. I would love to shake the hand of whoever thought of making individual hero movies to eventually spin off into a epic movie bonanza. Years in the making, The Avengers will be one of the biggest movies of 2012 [...]
Sure, this is a little late, but I had to wait until I actually saw the movie. In the end, if you’re an X-Men fan like me, then you’re going to like this movie. Its reminiscent of the original X-Men and X2 rather than Brett Ratner’s dumb-downed X-Men: Last Stand, which isn’t surprising since Bryan [...]
The story After crossing his father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), in a fit of youthful pique, Thor is stripped of his powers and is sent through a wormhole, which crash-lands him in the New Mexico desert where he meets a human team of scientists. The review We watched Thor this weekend, and it was pretty darn [...]
The first trailer for Marvel’s Thor has some moments, but I think the newest trailer now available at Apple is looking more promising. Its amazing how recently Oscar awarded Natalie Portman is everywhere these days. Other actors in the movie include Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Anthony Hopkins (Odin), Renee Russo (Frigga), Ray Stevenson (Volstagg) and many [...]
When I first heard that they were making a Captain America movie, I was skeptical. Then they casted Chris Evans, and I was pretty sure it was a paradox move since he had already played The Human Torch in Marvel’s 2005 rendition of Fantastic Four. To make matters worse, Entertainment Weekly showed off the new [...]
