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Anti-Gay Group Slams Gay Comic Book Superheroes

Posted 05.25.2012

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There's seemingly no end to One Million Moms' anti-gay wrath, as the notoriously right-wing group is now condemning both DC Comics and Marvel Superher...

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An Occupy Wall Street-eyed Review of The Avengers Movie and the Future of Movies

Rob Kall | Posted 05.23.2012

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I had to go see the movie, The Avengers. But the past year's Occupy Wall Street experience gave me new eyes and it brought me to an epiphany. Superheroes serve the 1%. They serve the top down powers that are waging a massive war with the 99% -- we on the bottom.

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PHOTOS: Marvel Comics Create Superhero For Hearing-Impaired Boy

The Huffington Post | Ileana Llorens | Posted 05.23.2012

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Anthony Smith, a 4-year-old hearing-impaired New Hampshire boy, was confident superheroes didn't wear hearing aids. So when his mother, Christina D...

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Marvel Comics Announces First Gay Wedding!

AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 05.22.2012

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PHILADELPHIA — Wedding bells will ring this summer for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero, super speedster Northstar, and his longtime boyfrie...

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How Much Would An 'Avengers'-Like Destruction Cost The City?

Posted 05.11.2012

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From the catastrophic meteor shower in "Armageddon" to the city-swallowing fire in "Independence Day," destroying New York is good for business for a...

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Marvel Moves Further Toward Digital Comics

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.10.2012

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It's been quite a month for Marvel Comics. Last weekend, they watched their beloved "Avengers" franchise provide the biggest opening weekend for a fil...

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Joss Whedon On His 'Insanely Massive Ego'

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 05.08.2012

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Audiences assembled in record-breaking numbers to see "Marvel's The Avengers" in theaters last weekend, and while some might see this as evidence of w...

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Zaki's Review: Marvel's The Avengers

Zaki Hasan | Posted 05.04.2012

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The Avengers shatters the last barrier separating the printed page and the celluloid image, fully wresting the superhero genre away from the medium that birthed it.

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ReThink Review: The Avengers - Assemble and Be Amazed

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.04.2012

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With so much at stake, the studio instinct would be to make The Avengers as big, stupid, and loud as possible. This is called "broadening the appeal," which is a polite term for dumbing a movie down.

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SMASH: 'The Avengers' Sets Midnight Box Office Record For Superhero Movies

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 05.04.2012

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"Marvel's The Avengers" is the biggest superhero movie of all time. At least in one regard. According to figures just released by Disney, "The Aven...

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Movie Review: The Avengers

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.04.2012

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The Avengers is veined with wit, even as it offers exactly the kind of action that fanboys and normal movie-goers alike want out of something like this.

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Review: The Avengers Delivers!

Bryan Young | Posted 05.02.2012

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The Avengers is going to be the biggest movie of the summer. There's really no question about that.

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Is 'The Avengers' Symbolic Of America?

HuffingtonPost.com | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.30.2012

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Since his creation in 1941, Captain America has represented everything we want our superheroes to be: brave, generous and seemingly indestructible. Ho...

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Stan Lee: 'I’ve Never Stopped Feeling Like A Kid'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 04.28.2012

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Stan Lee is not only the co-creater of Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and Iron Man (to name a few), but he is also a true ...

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Universal Soldiers: Conversations With Donovan and Tommy Roe

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.06.2012

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"The Beatles and I went to India for ourselves at first because fame had become extraordinarily overwhelming. We turned to ourselves in a way by going to the ashram, learning about ourselves, de-stressing our incredible nervous systems that had been shocked by enormous fame."

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Marvel Characters Coming To Disney Parks

Posted 03.20.2012

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Mickey and Minnie might soon be getting new friends at Disney parks. The Walt Disney Co. President and CEO Bob Iger announced early plans to add Marve...

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Mike Ballard - The Evolution of a Street Artist (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.19.2012

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Mike Ballard is a hard artist to categorise. Having started out in graffiti and street art, Ballard also dabbled in music production, often citing the...

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Like/Dislike: Obama, Ghostbusters III, Lindsay Lohan and More

Kris LoPresto | Posted 05.02.2012

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Dislike: Lindsay Lohan is making a comeback. This is not the LINsanity I signed up for.

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Creator of Ghost Rider Feels Marvel's Vengeance

Dave Scheidt | Posted 04.14.2012

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People who read comics are part of a huge community. We care about what happens to one another and should try our hardest to help out those who have provided us with countless hours of entertainment.

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'Fantastic Four' Gets Modernized In New Installment

AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 04.08.2012

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PHILADELPHIA — It's a familiar tale: Science genius, smart girlfriend, her hot-shot brother, and a football-player-turned-accomplished-pilot tra...

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With Great Power... Ultimate Comics Spider-Man

Sean Campbell | Posted 03.27.2012

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Aside from my own personal investment in Miles Morales becoming the new Ultimate universe Spider-Man, I had concerns.

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Silver Age Amazing Spider-Man #1 On 'Pawn Stars'

Posted 03.18.2012

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There are certain key books that will always be sought after in the world of comic books. For Spider-Man, it generally comes down to two separate book...

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Digital Comics Are a Neat Upgrade, Not a Replacement

Dave Scheidt | Posted 02.27.2012

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I like holding a comic in my hands, I like the smell. I like having a huge box of them to browse through. I like having a huge bookshelf of comics that people can browse and open and inspect. I like to lend people books.

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Does Continuity Exist In Modern Comics?

Gary Roszko | Posted 02.18.2012

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Taken with a sense of disbelief, superheroes live in a world of constant danger. A day off is always just out of reach. Even a day at the beach brings up bad memories of a Sandman/Hydroman team-up. And the Waynes couldn't even enjoy a quiet night at the theater.

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Captain America Co-Creator Dead At 98

AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 02.14.2012

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry's most revered writers, a...

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