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Welcome the new Iron Man… Riri Williams

YES!! I’m ALL IN for the new Iron Man Riri Williams! So today Marvel Comics released big news today about the future of Iron Man. Seems that Tony Stark will take a backseat post Civil War II and 15 year old Riri Williams, a new character that’s been introduced in the current Invincible Iron Man comic series will be the next Iron Man. Riri has been introduced as a genius-level 15 year-old working on her own Iron Man suit at MIT. This news ties into the solicitations of Civil War II issue 7 where there’s the big question if Iron Man / Tony Stark dies (which you can read about here).

Marvel will relaunched Invincible Iron Man #1 will be by current writer Brian Bendis and artist Stefano Caselli.

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Does Iron Man die in Civil War II?

Is THIS the big end of Tony Stark as Iron Man, as we see from the upcoming cover teaser for Marvel Comics Civil War II issue 7? Is Captain Marvel under some evil control (check her eyes)? Is this why Dr. Doom is holding an Iron Man mask in the new “Divided We Stand” poster? Is this why the Marvel Now logo is so shattered and broken?
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What do I think?! I think it’s a tasty teaser & maybe something that Bendis has been leading to in his Iron Man run. Have Tony taken out of the armor for a while and believed to be “dead”. Heck, Bruce Banner was thought to be dead for over half a year now, right?

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The Great Lake Avengers Return

I’m very Ho-Hum on this series, as much as I like that Marvel does silly, fun comic books but do we REALLY NEED a The Great Lake Avengers series vs a serious ALPHA FLIGHT regular series?! With No Squirrel Girl? NO. We don’t but here it is. Meh. The Great Lake Avengers was created by John Byrne during his run on the West Coast Avengers series. Written by ZAC GORMAN, Penciled by WILL ROBSON, Cover by WILL ROBSON & Variant cover by MICHAEL ALLRED.

Here’s the variant cover by MICHAEL ALLRED…
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Marvel Champions returns

Well looks like all the upcoming “I Quit!” teasers has lead to this new series, Champions, which I guess is the new New Warriors type of comic book where the young heroes of the Marvel Universe have had enough of the adult heroes and decided to be on their own super hero team. Glad that Marvel is able to use Champions title again, a great series of the late 70’s / 80’s. Now the comic will be written by Mark Waid & illustrated by Humberto Ramos. The team looks like it’s starting with Ms Marvel, Miles Morales’ Spider-Man, Nova, Amadeus Cho’s The Hulk, Viv Vision and Tykelops (Cyclops new name?). As I was always a fan of Teen Titans & New Warriors, I’m VERY excited about this series!!

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Talking Comics for 07.06.16 – Justice League Rebirth #1, Flintstones #1, Bounty #1 & More!

Talking Comics this week July 6th, 2016 stars Chris Hunter & Randy “the SAVAGE BEAST” Young and they’re talking about comics for this week: Talking Comics for 07.06.16 – Justice League Rebirth #1, Flintstones #1, Bounty #1 & more like their upcoming GEEK’D CON at their Excalibur Comics Cards and Games store on August 19th – 21st with guests like George Perez, Tara Reid & Elvira herself! More info here on the Geek’D Con website:
http://geekdcon.com/

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ℙ𝕆𝕎! 𝕎ℍ𝔸𝕄! 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐒 – Maple Edition (June 29th)

This week on Pow! Wham! Comics as a mysterious extra week in June has caused a bit of a lull in the release schedule. Granted, there’s still some Civil War books and Apocalypse War is still a thing but this week is pretty light on DC side as annuals pop up for Grayson, Teen Titans and Deathstroke.

While this episode is pretty short in length, the Apocalypse War is explained in further detail, a brief run down for Bloodshot and 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank as the Maple edition for Pow! Wham! Comics is available right below.

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Young Marvel Heroes Cry “I QUIT!”

So it seems like there’s a big “I QUIT!” movement in Marvel Comics starting next week, July 5th!. Started with Nova, Ms. Marvel and Miles Spider-Man from All-New All-Different Avengers to Amadeus Cho as the new Awesome Hulk. I’m betting this is the build up to the recently announced “Divided We Stand” Fall event. I’m excited if the kids like Nova, Ms. Marvel, Miles Spider-Man, Amadeus Cho Hulk, Gwenpool and other young capes push for more respect among the Marvel heroes.

Here are the comic covers in question…

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Marvel NOW – Divided We Stand

Marvel Comics has just come out with it’s new “Divided We Stand” Fall event. So it seems like these are the heroes who will be focused upon after the current Civil War II event series. I’m guessing that some heroes (aka Iron Man, She-Hulk and Hulk) don’t make it out of Civil War II unscathed which is nice if this is to be true for more than 1 year of comics. Also note some missing heroes / characters are Iron Man, Sam Wilson Cap, Black Widow, ANY other Inhumans, the X-Men — and of course Deadpool and the Fantastic Four. Yes, I skipped that Marvel released some jigsaw puzzle pieces of this poster because seemed like no one cared. Here are the two groups in the photo above are the following.

Left side: Black Panther, Steve Rogers, Jessica Jones, Elektra, Punisher, Gamora (not She-Hulk… RIP), Cable, Odinson aka the original Thor, Captain Marvel, Fin Fang Foom, Slapstick, Foolkiller & some new man in a suit holding Iron Man’s helmet – perhaps Dr. Doom.

Right side: Doctor Strange, War Machine, Mosaic (new Inhuman), Squirrel Girl, Moon Girl, Gwenpool, the new Wasp, Mile Morales Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, Amadeus Cho Hulk, the Prowler, new Hawkeye and Ms. America.

Click below to see a larger version of this teaser poster for “Divided We Stand”.

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More information on Fast Company about this new “Divided We Stand” Fall event from Axel Alonso here:
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3061358/marvel-comics-editor-in-chief-axel-alonso-announces-divided-we-stand-for-the-fall/1

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Stranger Things Trailer

Coming to Netflix on July 15th is Stranger Things which looks like a wonderful new series that mixes the best of a Steven Spielberg 80’s movie like ET with some Close Encounters and maybe Alien? Check it out the awesome 80s painted style poster below!

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“Sledgehammer” by Rihanna featuring the Star Trek Beyond Trailer

Um… okay, I didn’t need a new single “Sledgehammer” by Rihanna on the latest trailer for Star Trek Beyond but okay, sure. Cross promotions and what not, if it helps with movie / record sales, fine. Enjoy the latest trailer with the Star Trek Beyond movie to be coming out later on July 22nd, 2016.

I really enjoy the new Star Trek movies despite all the haters. Glad the series can move on past JJ Abrams directing. Hoping for new the new villains to be Cardassians and the female hero to be Bajoran in this alternate universe Star Trek movie series.