Tag: Avengers

  • The Heroic Age: Secret Avengers #1 Review

    The Heroic Age: Secret Avengers #1 Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Story: Ed Brubaker Art: Mike Deodato Colours: Rain Beredo If you’ve been in a coma for the past five years and are wondering what the ugly Heroic Age banner is all about, it’s simply Marvel’s way of saying “here we go all over again!” with another batch of new titles and super-team configurations…

  • Dominic Cooper Confirms Captain America

    SuperHeroHype has confirmed that Dominic Cooper will play Howard Stark, Iron Man’s father, in Joe Johnston’s 2011 superhero flick Captain America: The First Avenger. Howard Stark recently made an appearance in Iron Man 2, played by John Slattery. Cooper will portray the pioneer some thirty years before Slattery’s Stark Expo footage, in the film’s World…

  • Strange #1 Review

    Strange #1 Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Story: Mark Waid Art: Emma Rios, Christina Strain After Brian K. Vaughan’s excellent miniseries and a recent stint in New Avengers that saw him lose his powers, Steven Strange is a doctor no more, hence the abbreviated title. Given the gravitas of Strange’s previous position in the Marvel Universe and his recent dismissal…

  • Dark Reign: The List: Avengers Review

    Dark Reign: The List: Avengers Review

    Marvel Writer: Brian Michel Bendis Pencils: Marko Djurdjevic Inks: Mark Morales Colours: Marte Gracia This one-shot commencing the next stage in Norman Osborn’s Dark Reign, ‘The List’, left me somewhat peeved for two reasons. Firstly, this seemingly thick $3.99 special actually contains 15 pages of “preview pages” from the upcoming Daredevil and X-men one-shots, which…

  • Samuel Jackson Nick Fury unlikely for Avengers Film

    Samuel Jackson Nick Fury unlikely for Avengers Film

    When Marvel announced its plans for the Avengers movie tie-in event, comic book fanboys, pseudo cinephiles, unemployed journalists and their grandmothers all simultaneously entered a stage of zealous crystal ball polishing. Will the Hulk be a member? How will they integrate Thor? Surely Robert Downey Junior will be back? And so on… Well, it seems…

  • Iron Man Movie Review

    Iron Man Movie Review

    2008 Dir: Jon Favreau Script: John August, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Arthur Marcum, Matthew Hollaway Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges Like an off-course stealth missile, Iron Man hits multiplexes with a fraction of the anticipation that preceded the third instalments of the Spider-Man and X-Men series. Jon Favreau’s fourth directorial…

  • Avengers: The Initiative: Basic Training TPB Review

    Avengers: The Initiative: Basic Training TPB Review

    2008, Marvel Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Steve Uy Colours: Daniele Rudoni, Steve Uy With the Civil War over, Captain America dead, and World War Hulk swept neatly under a large rug, Stark’s vision of a superheroe in every state is fully underway with Avengers: The Initiative, in which we join a group of…

  • New Avengers vol. 2: Sentry TPB Review

    New Avengers vol. 2: Sentry TPB Review

    2006, Marvel Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Pencils: Steve McNiven Inks: Mark Morales, John Dell Colours: Morry Hollowell, Laura Martin Fans anticipating Marvel’s New Avengers were left strangely confused after the initial story arc failed to include two members pictured in the promotional material; the Sentry (Marvel’s Superman) and Ronin (at this point, identity undisclosed). Volume…