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Jarvis Awards |
Presenting the
WINNERS
of the
Jarvis Awards |
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A Young Avengers retrospective? You bet!
"Nutcase65" has
reviewed all twelve issues of YA on the Forum,
one issue at a time-- so tell us what you thought!
* Bob Wolniak contributes a massive
undertaking: the
Avengers chronology in real-world release order [in PDF].
It goes
well with Bob Fronczak's updated
Avengers Chronology in
Marvel-time [now in PDF, too]. Enjoy!
* The COMPLETE AVENGERS 1963-PRESENT Trading Card Set
is now available, created by Rittenhouse Archives, with tons of new,
original art-- and card text written by Van!
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Order
it here or learn more
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Avengers
Comics News |
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Coming this fall
from
"Back Issue"
magazine and
TwoMorrows
Publishing:
IRON
MAN in the 80s!
Dig that Layton-ish
goodness... |
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Greg Horn is now doing covers for Ms. Marvel. Carol
looks nice!
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Newsarama is running
interviews with the Ms. Marvel editor, writer, and artist. |
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* Mark
Bagley will draw the next story arc for
Mighty Avengers instead of Angel Medina,
beginning with #7, according to
Newsarama. |
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* Love it? Hate it?
You make the call!
* Alex Ross
and Ed Brubaker
talk with
Newsarama about the new Cap.
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Talk back on the AA! Message Board! |
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Sentinels |
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* If
you like the Avengers, check out the
Sentinels novels, now published by
Swarm Press! And join the
Sentinels discussion on the
AvengersAssemble Message Board... or on
the
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Adrian
Watts gives us summaries and commentary about other
Avengers-related series, beginning with Iron Man (vol.
3). Also see his similar treatment of New
Avengers and the animated
series.
* Iron Man
gets some licks in about his role in Civil War
in the latest "Shortpacked"
Web comic! Preach it, Shellhead!!
* Jack Kirby: King of
Comics -- an
awesome-looking biography coming soon from
his longtime assistant, Mark Evanier.
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Interviews |
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Six Questions with... #3: Tom
Brevoort
#2:
Kurt Busiek
#1: Fabian
Nicieza
* ComicBookResources has a Fabian
Nicieza interview. And: Discuss the
'Bolts and Civil War on the AA
Message Board.
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* Kurt Busiek has a podcast
interview up on Newsarama, that includes talk of Avengers/JLA...
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* An
interview
with George Perez at ComicsContinuum. |
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The
Avengers
DVD-ROM is now out! It contains PDFs of every
issue and annual, covering 40+ years of Avengers history, in a nice,
well-produced package on one disk. Highly recommended.
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The
Featured Cover of the Month is back,
thanks to DefDave!
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Ultimate Avengers:
The Movie DVD and
Ultimate Avengers 2 are both now in stores. Read
my first thoughts about it-- or read my full-blown
review article for
RevolutionSF.com-- with no real spoilers.
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Convention Reports |
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* Several Jarvis Heads
were
at DragonCon in
Atlanta from August 31 - Sept. 3, 2007. Check out
reports
from the
Avengers panel
discussing both the Avengers in general and the new Assembled!
book, plus the ninth year of
Marvel vs DC Jeopardy.
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Photos from DragonCon: Marvel vs DC Jeopardy
and the Avengers / Assembled panel
here.
Congrats
to Mike Stewart, back-to-back Marvel vs DC Jeopardy Champion!
* Trinoc-Con
8 in Raleigh, NC, is in the history books now. A fine time was
had by all, as usual. This is a great little convention with wonderful
folks running it. Thanks to all for the invitation and for the stellar
treatment while there. We sold a stack of
Assembled! and a sizeable pile of
Sentinels
books as well!
* The
Windy City Pulp
Con in Chicago was May 4-6, 2007, and provided the opportunity to meet
Ron Fortier and Rob Davis of the Pulp Factory, along with Gary Gianni
(illustrator of the Conan-related books for Del Rey) among others. Thanks to all
who purchased my books there.
* ShowmeCon 5 in St. Louis
(April 20-22, 2007) was a lot of fun and I appreciated the invitation. It was
great to meet Marvel artist Jeremy Haun (Civil War: Choosing Sides).
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IRON MAN!! IRON MAN!! IRON MAN!!
The movie is finally upon us, and it is GOOOOOOOOOD!!!
The best reviewed comics movie
ever?!
Discuss on the Message Board HERE!
* RevolutionSF.com gives it a
9/10
starred review.
* TONS of GREAT reviews at
RottenTomatoes.com!
* Joe Crowe on the
best moments
in Iron Man history. *
10 "Classically Cool"
Iron Man toys
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A second ongoing series for Shellhead!
Marvel announces The Invincible Iron Man!
Matt Fraction writes and Salvador Larroca draws.
Stane is involved. Don't suppose this has anything to do with a certain
movie coming out, do ya?
* Matt
Fraction
talks about the new Invincible Iron Man series.
* Bob Almond announces the Inkwell Awards for excellence in comics
inking! Visit their site to learn more:
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ASSEMBLED! |
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AvengersAssemble.net to
donate profits from
ASSEMBLED! book to HERO Initiative charity at HeroesCon!
More details available on the
HeroesCon schedule.
(Scroll down to 3 pm Friday listing.) We hope to see some of you there!
* Silver Bullet Comics
interviews Van about ASSEMBLED!
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* ASSEMBLED! Five Decades of Earth's Mightiest!
"A fine read for any Avengers aficionado, and an overall
handsome package."
--Tom Brevoort, Executive Editor, Marvel Comics
This is the brand new, definitive, unauthorized guide to the
Avengers--written by the Jarvis Heads of AvengersAssemble.net!
Chapters cover and analyze every major "era" of the book's history,
plus everything from the Ultimates to the Thunderbolts to those
bad '80s Captain America movies!
Includes a look at the "Civil War" and the death of Captain
America, as well as "What Makes a Great Avengers Villain," "The Kree-Skrull
War" retrospective, and much more!
Available now from Amazon.com!
All publisher profits will go to
the HERO Initiative.
Oversized trade paperback-- 248 pgs.--
only $19.95 --
ORDER HERE! (Then
talk about it on the AA! Message Board!)
The book
was
officially unveiled at special panel
discussions at:
August 3-5 -
Raleigh, NC
and then at
Dragon*Con in Atlanta
on Labor Day weekend
Our thanks to
both conventions for spotlighting this book!! |
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Featured Items |
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A fan-made
trailer for a non-existent Iron Man TV show-- with Nick
Fury, Black Widow, and... Ms. Marvel!
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Iron Man video game
screenshots at Marvel.com!
* The Iron Man movie site
has been updated with some spiffy stuff.
* Jim Cheung will draw two upcoming issues of New Avengers.
Woohoo! * Peter David will write the novelization
of the Iron Man motion picture, according to Marvel reports.
* The upcoming "Teen Avengers"
direct - to - DVD movie has been
retitled "Avengers Reborn." Looks
like it's skewed more toward the younger fans.
Oh well.
More info here.
* Mar-Vell!
Carol! Together! It's 1979 all over again! At
least in Van's head... Discuss the current runs of both books on the
Message Board!
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MTV breaks the news that Hillary
Swank is doing a cameo in the Iron Man
movie, possibly setting up something
Marvel- related for her, down the line.
Black Widow, anyone??
(There's also more info on Samuel Jackson
as Nick Fury.) |
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Movie News |
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* The Iron
Man movie site
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Other Movie News: |
* David Self (Thirteen
Days; Road to Perdition) is writing a CAPTAIN
AMERICA script.
* Mark Protosevich (Poseidon) is
writing a THOR script.
* And, believe it or not, Edgar Wright (Shaun
of the Dead) is working on ANT MAN. |
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