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The All-CG ‘Avengers’ End Title Sequence

The All-CG ‘Avengers’ End Title Sequence

Coolness! Visual effects house Method Studios created the “main-on-end” title sequence that plays immediately after The Avengers ends (but right before the much-discussed prologue). And they’ve posted their work online, in its entirety, so you can truly appreciate their painstaking attention to detail. (Note: this post contains no spoilers.) Read more »

Eight Obscure Avengers You Probably Never Heard Of

Hmm, maybe we haven't employed enough villains?

The membership of the world’s mightiest heroes has been fluid over the years, once upon a time peaking around two dozen at once. Those heady years of challenging the roster of even the Legion of Super-Heroes has long gone however, in favour of smaller separate teams as the franchise reaches even greater heights. Silverclaw When it comes to the Avengers, it’s a very small world. Who would have thought that Jarvis could have sponsored a child in another country and she turns out to be some form of super-powered individual. Swordsman II & Magdelena This pair never really got the exposure that they deserved. Arriving as alternate reality Avengers and Read more »

Avengers Through The Ages

The original team.

Or at least through the age, considering that their centennial anniversary still lies in the future. Nevertheless, in celebration of the release of Avengers movie (finally!), I thought we could examine at the many looks of the core characters over the years. Now for many of us life-long fans, this movie is a dream come true; and way beyond time, too. It is nice to see that the first movie is in plot very similar to the original beginning of the Avengers, something to satisfy the purists among us. However, we cannot expect another six hundred-odd movies to follow the original history (more’s the pity), so I thought we could Read more »

Personality Clashes

Step aside, Ewing family, this is better than Dallas ever was.

So, now we are firmly entrenched in Marvel’s summer crossover of their greatest two super-teams at each other’s throats. Isn’t it a little early for summer? When I first heard of this particular ‘Event’, I must confess that my eyes raised heavenward, thinking that Marvel were rather scraping the bottom of the barrel. After a couple of months of advance solicitations, my enthusiasm for the whole Avengers Versus X-Men was raised by a sum total of zero (that’s zero) percent. Now that we are two issues in and the storyline is spreading though the Marvel titles like a potent virus in a small town, I have one startling admission to Read more »

Marvel Soap That Will Get Anyone Wanting to Clean Up

Marvel Soap

Have a kid who is averse to cleaning up? When I say kid, I am not just referring to the age – you know what I mean? I remember someone saying before that women wash their hands after going to the loo less than men do. While I am not sure about the veracity of that statement, I know for sure that this set of Marvel soap will get anyone wanting to keep washing their hands. Or taking a shower. Or anything that will be a good excuse to use the soap. I have to admit that I am a sucker for liquid hand soap more than solid soap, but Read more »

Challenging The Status Quo

A bold new era? Hopefully a fun read at the very least.

Taking the opportunity of the Christmas period to catch upon my comics reading (and supplementing this with fanfic when I reached the bottom of the stack), I must confess that I re-read Jonathon Hickman’s Fantastic Four and FF (Future Foundation) numerous times. Although I have raved bout this particular run of the FF numerous times already, and enthused about the quality of story-telling that has gone into the title, it is hardly a dramatic revamp of our favourite Foursome and their family. Cleverly weaving in all of the traditional facets of FF lore, I am finding myself wanting to know where Lyja is (considering the manner of Johnny’s resurrection), or Read more »