Articles for December, 2016
Avengers: The Bigger They Are…
by Marvel Comic Book News | December 30, 2016 at 1:31 am
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In AVENGERS #1.MU, out January 25, you’ll find Earth’s Mightiest Heroes hard at work fighting giant monsters. More known for combating menaces they’re able to look in the eye, the Avengers nonetheless can count several battles throughout their storied career with opponents on a much, much larger scale. AVENGERS #17
Working with his so-called “Kooky Quartet,” Captain America initiated a search for The Hulk that barrel-rolled into a confrontation with the Mole Man and his monstrous Minotaur. AVENGERS ANNUAL #1
With a bevy of baddies led by The Mandarin attacking cities around the globe, the Avengers split up to tackle the tasks. In Africa, Thor and Hawkeye ran up against the towering Ultimo, who popped out of a volcano to give the heroes a hotfoot until they ultimately defeated him. AVENGERS #61
The Sons of Satannish cast spells that allowed the frost giant Ymir and the fire giant Surtur to trod the Earth, causing mayhem. The Avengers rushed in to drive the goliaths back, but it came down to Doctor Strange to break the evil spell. AVENGERS #124
The giant alien lizard known as the Star-Stalker proved more than a match for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes until the mysterious Mantis deduced the creature’s vulnerability to heat and directed The Vision to deliver a mortal strike with his solar eyebeams. AVENGERS ANNUAL #6
When the Avengers encountered Nuklo, the son of Golden Age hero The Whizzer, at an army base, they never imagined he’d grow to gigantic proportions and threaten to explode in a burst of deadly energy. Alas, it’s all in a day’s work for our heroes… AVENGERS #180
On a far-off South Pacific island, the Avengers tussled with Monolith, a hulking rock monster controlled by a strange native totem. While Thor and Vision wrestled with Monolith, Beast figured things out and the creature wound up in space. AVENGERS #257
Titanic Terminus, the ravager of entire worlds, threatened the Savage Land’s atmospheric controls, but the Avengers swooped in to topple the towering titan and divined the secret of not only his true identity, but his shocking weakness. AVENGERS #292
Namor the Sub-Mariner clashed with the Avengers in an attempt to curtail their battle against Leviathan, a giant sea creature on a rampage. As it turned out, the beast stood revealed as a transformed Marrina, a member of Alpha Flight and Namor’s beloved. AVENGERS (1998) #40
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes found their hands full with a multitude of Diablo’s pseudo-Hulks, but recoiled in horror when a giant-size emerald imitator took the stage and demanded destruction. The tide finally turned when Bruce Banner, the original Hulk, took control of the strange situation as only he could. MIGHTY AVENGERS #1
Our list begins and ends with the Mole Man. A collection of heroes fought valiantly against a huge horde of the subterranean psychopath’s giant monsters, but it turned out to be merely a prologue to an even greater threat: a new Ultron. AVENGERS #1.MU tackles giant beasts as part of Monsters Unleashed on January 25 under the guidance of Jim Zub and Sean Izaakse!
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DOWNLOAD EPISODE 270 OF THIS WEEK IN MARVEL
by Marvel Comic Book News | December 29, 2016 at 11:58 pm
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True Believers, we’ve got the very last episode of This Week in Marvel, EVER…of 2016! Brought to you by Loot Crate, we’ve got everything Marvel for you to end the year on a high note! The full team of Agent M, Ben, Marc, and Christine gather to talk this week’s comics releases, including BLACK WIDOW, HULK, and SPIDER-MAN/DEADPOOL, as well as celebrate the best of 2016! Loot Crate is launching its second Marvel Gear & Goods crate. They are serving up some of your favorite minds from the Marvel Universe to outfit your lab (aka Kitchen) in true heroic fashion! This crate will be filled with home goods and unique apparel featuring Hulk, Iron Man, Ant Man Spider-Man and Black Panther and is over an $80 value for just $39.99. Give your kitchen the Marvel upgrade at lootcrate.com/marvel and use promo code “marvelpod” to save $3 off your first Marvel Gears and Good subscription today. Download episode #270 of This Week in Marvel from Marvel.com, check out Marvel Podcast Central, grab the TWiM RSS feed and subscribe to This Week in Marvel on iTunes, so you never miss an episode! We are now also on Soundcloud! Head over now to our new hub to listen to the full run of This Week in Marvel including our latest episode!
This Week in Marvel will focus on delivering all the Marvel info on news and new releases–from comics to video games to toys to TV to film and beyond! New episodes will be released every Thursday (or so) and TWiM is co-hosted by Marvel VP & Executive Editor of Digital Media Ryan “Agent M” Penagos and Marvel Editorial Director of Digital Media Ben Morse, along with Marvel.com Editor Marc Strom, Marvel.com Assistant Editor Christine Dinh, and Manager of Video & Content Production Blake Garris. We also want your feedback, as well as questions for us to answer on future episodes! Tweet your questions, comments and thoughts about TWiM to @AgentM, @BenJMorse, @chrissypedia or @Marvel with the hashtag #ThisWeekinMarvel! See you on the other side!
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BBTS Sponsor News: Predator, Star Wars, Transformers, Power Rangers, DC, NECA, Spawn & More!
by Daniel Pickett | December 29, 2016 at 11:12 pm
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ULTIMATE JUNGLE HUNTER ACTION FIGURE The Ultimate Hunter has received the Ultimate Neca treatment! This articulated 7-inch figure comes with an opening gauntlet, interchangeable heads and hands, spine, mask, cannon blast effect, human skull, and removable backpack. MEGA MAN 66 ACTION TRADING FIGURES Finally, Mega Man joins the lineup of 66 Action series! This series...
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Ultimates: A Brief History of Order and Chaos
by Marvel Comic Book News | December 29, 2016 at 11:02 pm
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In ULTIMATES SQUARED #3 on January 18, Lord Chaos and Master Order get down to the business of saving the whole known and unknown universe. And if they have to destroy everything to do it? Well, so be it. Before this cosmic pair renders you, me, everyone we know, everything we’ve ever seen, and everything we haven’t into so much space dust, we thought you might like to get to know the duo about to hit reset all of creation, and turned to series writer Al Ewing for the introduction. Partners, Not Enemies
“In the past, they’ve been a fairly stable pair; one of the things I liked about Marvel’s interpretation of these forces was that they were a team, rather than enemies,” Ewing reveals. “Without Order, the universe couldn’t have formed, because it’d just be a roiling sea of endlessly mutating physics; without Chaos, it also couldn’t have formed, as the random spark of change wouldn’t have brought it into being in the first place. Having these fundamentals fight—and especially asking the reader to pick one or the other as ‘the goodie,’ depending on the mores of the time—feels silly.” Still Tremendously Dangerous
Partners or not, the importance of the two remaining concert with each other cannot be understated, nor the consequences overstated. Ewing explains: “If the balance between them fluctuates, things [can] go bad very fast, in the same way that the balance of human forces in our own world could tip into chaos—or a merciless, punitive order—very quickly.” An Arbiter
Aware of their place in the universe and the potential of petty disputes to destroy wide swaths of existence, Master Order and Lord Chaos collaborated to create The In-Betweener. The black and white cosmic entity exists only to maintain the balance between the two and to step in if either side began exerting too much force. They Love a Gathering…
Despite living in the Magick Realm—a place where fact and fiction meld and from which all sorcerers draw their power—the duo never hesitates to take a night off and visit the larger Marvel U. Over the years, they have taken in a chess match between Dormammu and Odin, attended Eon’s funeral, and watched the Trial of Adam Stranger. …And Don’t Mind a Dust Up Either
Unlike a lot of cosmic beings, Chaos and Order do not mind putting their thumbs on the scale to influence events. These times have included plotting against The Beyonder, opposing Thanos, punishing The In-Betweener when he went too far, and resurrecting the Elders of the Universe after Galactus killed them. But How Did We Get Here?
“What motivates anyone to risk destroying the [universe]?” muses Ewing. “Sometimes, it’s because things have changed around them, in ways they feel have threatened or marginalized them, and they’re trying to take control—or maybe, deep down, just lashing out at an enemy they feel has humiliated them somehow. As above, so below. Maybe Order and Chaos want to ‘take their reality back,’ to coin a phrase.” ULTIMATES SQUARED #3 by Al Ewing and Travel Foreman decides the fate of everything on January 18!
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