FFD: S.W.O.R.D.

Spinning out of ASTONISHING X-MEN comes a series that will take you places you’ve never been! After Secret Invasion, Agent Brand is no longer the top dog at S.W.O.R.D. Forced to share her leadership post with former Avengers-liaison Henry Gyrich, Brand is less than pleased. Will the arrival of her boyfriend, X-Man Beast, help her […]

FFD: Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk

Even though it took for-freaking-ever to finally finish, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk remains one of the best Ultimate universe stories we’ve been provided.  Written by LOST scribe Damon Lindelof with art by the incomparable Leinil Francis Yu, this series is fraught with twists and turns. I mean, c’mon, the image above is from page 2 […]

FFD: Ultimate Armor Wars

The hard thing about being Tony Stark is that when you own all the cool toys, folks just wanna steal your stuff.  That’s what Ultimate Armor Wars is all about.  Poor Tony. To get your chance at winning all four issues of Ultimate Armor Wars, all you gotta do is tell us in the comments […]

FFD: Avengers vs Atlas, plus The Uranian

We absolutely love the Agents of Atlas here at IoM.  Jake Parker’s hero team is unique in the Marvel universe with a wild, retro feel.  Plus, talking gorilla, which is just awesome. One lucky winner will receive all four issues of the Avengers vs Atlas mini-series and all three issues of The Uranian mini.  All […]

Funnybooks with Aron and Paulie: FCBD 2010 Wrap-Up

After gorging themselves on free comics, Aron, Paul, Wayne, and Tim share their stories from this most sacred of holy days and discuss the books they got for free. Iron Man/Thor Iron Man/Nova War of the Supermen Mouse Guard/Fraggle Rock Atomic Robo Artifacts Doctor Solar/Magnus Robot Fighter Radical GI Joe Free Funnybook Day is Monday, […]

What is Marvel's SHADOWLAND?

I recently dropped out of Marvel’s Daredevil title (currently being written by Andy Diggle), not out of dislike for the current run, which I do think is very interesting (Matt Murdock has taken control of The Hand, and is trying to reform it from within), but just because it seemed like a story in which […]

Low Budget Marvel Flicks on the way?

Because this worked so well with the original Punisher, Captain America, and Fantastic Four movies?  And more recently with Man-Thing and Punisher: War Zone? From CHUD: Marvel Studios is currently taking meetings with writers and directors to work on small scale movies based on some of their third tier characters. The movies would cost in […]

Marvel July Solicits Blow My Mind!

Ya know, it’s not enough that Marvel was the clear winner with C2E2 announcements, but with the release of their solicits, we’re getting some of the newly announced projects off the ground, and some exciting books.  Read the full solicits here, but the big items I wanted to point out are below: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #638 […]

Funnybooks with Aron and Paulie: Funnybooks Swarm!

Aron and Paulie spend an evening talking with the vacationing (other) Paul and Elder from the Bear Swarm Podcast.  The Bear Swarm guys are on their spring tour visiting other shows.  In this episode we establish their funnybook street cred, discuss superhero role playing games, sandbox gaming, and even a little about social combat mechanics. […]