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The ten rings wielded by classic Iron Man foe The Mandarin have become a hot button topic for Marvel fans in recent years, as the MCU redefined the artifacts to fit the story of the film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. And just as Marvel Comics is …

Did you know there are superhero universes other than the DC and Marvel Comics ones? With the continued multimedia domination of heroes from the ‘Big Two’ – think Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Batman, Moon Knight, and Morbius – it’s easy to forget not all superheroes get to pal around …

Marvel ‘Stormbreaker’ artist Peach Momoko is returning to her Japanese folklore-inspired ‘Demon Days’ continuity this summer (which Marvel is now calling the ‘Momoko-verse’) for a four-issue limited series which adapts one of Marvel’s most famous modern stories into her style: Civil War. Demon Wars: The Iron Samurai #1 cover (Image …

The next Marvel mutant era ‘Destiny of X’ is in full gear now and on April 6 the newest ongoing title in the X-Men line debuts, X-Men Red, by writer Al Ewing and artist Stefano Caselli. X-Men Red #1 cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) If you …

Todd McFarlane may have co-founded Image Comics and created Spawn 30 years ago – and not looked back since. But there’s still a generation of fans who fondly recall his years as a Marvel Comics-Spider-Man superstar. Now IDW Publishing will help fan those flames with Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man Artist’s Edition, …

Marvel Comics is bringing the Eternals to the forefront of the Marvel Universe for the publisher’s big summer event story AXE: Judgment Day.  The ‘AXE’ prefix stands for Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals, the three teams that will find themselves at odds in Judgment Day, starting with a serious ideological clash …

IDW Publishing is offering a new collection of Berkeley Breathed’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip Bloom County this fall. This September, IDW will release Bloom County Library: Book One, the first of five editions collecting the original run of Breathed’s daily strips, published globally in over 1,200 newspapers from December 8, 1980, to August …

Zestworld, a new digital publishing platform, wants to put creators in charge of their own comi In a March 21st press announcement, Zestworld revealed its plans to “provide comic writers and artists a centralized platform” tailored to the “idiosyncrasies of the comics format and industry,” and “fracture the Marvel and …

Comic book characters have been crossing over and meeting up almost since the earliest days of the medium. But not every team-up is as straightforward as a World’s Finest-style Superman/Batman pairing.  Sometimes a comic book crossover transcends the bounds of genres, publishers, legality – and even reality when real people …

Compared to the thunder gods and Gamma-powered monsters he hangs out with on the Avengers, Tony Stark’s super-science seems almost down-to-earth (at least in relative superhero terms). But in recent issues of the Iron Man ongoing title, Tony’s been caught up in a cosmic conundrum. After being inundated with the …