Tag: Iron Man

  • 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…

  • Marvel’s Siege #2 Review

    Marvel’s Siege #2 Review

    Marvel, 3.99 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Pencils: Olivier Coipel Inks: Mark Morales Colours: Laura Martin Now that Siege is halfway through, is it an epic “seven years in the making” or yet another oversized crossover that is more likely to bore me off the Marvel Universe for good than lengthen my pull list? A return…

  • Siege: Embedded #2 Review

    Siege: Embedded #2 Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Writer: Brian Reed Artist: Chris Samnee Colours: Matthew Wilson While the Civil War crossover event a few years back turned out to be a big fuss over nothing, one of several highlights was the Front Line miniseries, which detailed the unfolding events post-Stamford from journalist Ben Urich’s perspective. And with Siege looking to…

  • Iron Man: Virus Competition – 3 Copies to Give Away

    Iron Man: Virus Competition – 3 Copies to Give Away

    Titan Books have been kind enough to provide shelfabuse.com with 3 copies of the new Iron man prose novel by Alex Irvine, ‘Virus,’ which fills in the blanks between the first movie and the upcoming sequel. More info at Titan Books. Hopefully this synopsis should whet thine appetite: Iron Man: Virus In the clear blue…

  • Iron Man vs. Whiplash #1 (of 4) Review

    Iron Man vs. Whiplash #1 (of 4) Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Story: Marc Guggenheim, Brannon Braga Art: Phillipe Briones, Matt Milla Okay, let’s not beat around the bush: Iron Man vs. Whiplash is a shameless cash-in on the impending Iron Man movie sequel. There’s no reason for this plot existing outside of the regular series, other than Marvel seeing an opportunity to cram another…

  • Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Xbox 360 Review

    Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Xbox 360 Review

    Punch. Blast. Level up. Repeat. Ultimate Alliance 2, the latest in Activision’s series of button–bashing Marvel “RPG ‘em ups,” would make for a very interesting study on the change in brain activity over the course of a game. Its single player story mode is capable of invoking such incredibly contrasting responses, ranging from delight to…

  • Black Widow for Iron Man 2 Movie, Watchmen Comic Movie survives March Release

    Black Widow for Iron Man 2 Movie, Watchmen Comic Movie survives March Release

    Things I learnt today from crawling prone through the digital shrubbery of the World Wide Web like the wind-up soldier toy my dog mauled to bits when I was but 5 years old: Emily Blunt as Black Widow Following the news that Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell will be playing the undermined antagonists in the…

  • Iron Man 2 Movie Gets Villains, The Thor Movie Hits Earth

    Iron Man 2 Movie Gets Villains, The Thor Movie Hits Earth

    Tiny drops of speculation I inhaled while swimming the vast oceans of the web this week: Iron Man 2 Villains The Iron Man 2 rumour currently spreading across the internet like wildfire, courtesy of THR.com is that comeback kid Mickey Rourke and the excellent Sam Rockwell are in talks to play Stark’s dual antagonists. People…