Spidey got billboard

It looks like the web head is now doing it's marketing and promotional activities. It might be early but I can this is a good move for the whole team of spider-man. According to SuperHeroHype, they spotted a new billboard for the return of the The Amazing Spider-Man right in the Sony Picture's lot.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 swings into theaters on May 2, 2014!

Iron Fist

I just wanna share to you one of my favorite hero in the marvel universe, Iron fist. Iron Fist (Daniel "Danny" Rand-K'ai) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe, and a practitioner ofmartial arts. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, he first appeared in Marvel Premiere #15 (May 1974).

Plunging his fists into the molten heart of the dragon Shou-Lao the Undying infused the dragon's superhuman energy into Rand; this along with training by Lei Kung the Thunderer gave Rand the power of the Iron Fist, it allows him to summon and focus his chi (or natural energy) and enhance his natural abilities to extraordinary levels. His strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, reflexes and senses can all be greatly intensified, making his already formidable martial arts skills even more so.

Here's a brief history of Iron Fist,

Sad to say Marvel cancelled his solo series way back then. It was a good start and many readers are amazed about the story line and revelations. But Marvel has a bad habit of cancelling good series without any reason. I hope to see him more often in other books of marvek

Rocket Cooper!

Marvel Cinematic Universe and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy crew has added another star to their roster from of Hangover star Bradley Cooper. Marvel has announced that the actor will be lending his voice to the Guardian member, Rocket Raccoon.

Cooper will be joining Chris Pratt (Peter Quill/ Starlord), Dave Bautista aka Batista (Drax the Destroyer), Zoe Saldana (Gamorra) and Michael Rooker (Yondu) as well as Karen Gillian (Nebula), Benicio Del Toro (The Collector), Lee Pace (Ronan the Accuser), John C. Reilly and Glen Close.

Iron Man 3 now on DVD/ Blu-ray

Marvel now brought us a home video of the favorite avenger of all, Iron Man. It features a new scene wherein,  Sir Ben Kingsley as the mysterious Mandarin, the new Marvel hero sequel featuring Robert Downey Jr.'s latest return as billionaire industrialist playboy Tony Stark/ Iron Man is the first film to commence "Phase Two" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and originally premiered in theaters last May 3, 2013.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: New TV Series

A new poster has gone online for ABC and Joss Whedon's small screen Marvel series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D". The show is said to air by September and also the return of Marvel Cinematic Universe fan favorite S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson,. Focusing on the world peace keeping task force and it's cast of secret operatives dedicated to helping humanity and keeping watch over superhuman activity across the globe. Most of the fanboys are asking how the hell did Phil Coulson survived the attack of loki? or is that only a life model decoy? Let's find out next month, agents :D

New theatrical poster for Thor: The Dark World

As the day comes by, Marvel Cinematic Universe "Phase 2" is starting to hit the cinemas. After the successful movie, "Iron Man 3", Marvel is now ready to present for the second time the mighty avenger, Thor. Marvel's facebook page released a new poster for the upcoming movie Thor: The Dark World.

The movie is set one year after the events of Avengers movie. Chris Hemsworth will wield once again the mighty hammer Mjolnir as Thor. The new poster now presents the new villain, Malekith. Jane Foster, Loki, Odin, Sif and the warriors three are also in the new poster. 

Marvel teasers for X-men and Guardians of Galaxy

As Marvel movies continues to give us a lot teasers regarding their upcoming movies next year, I think fans are more excited to see the movie. Who do you think will be the teaser as of now?

I saw this post from Tim Villasor's blog. From the first picture, it looks like Drax which will be played by WWE superstar, Dave "Batista" Bautista, is having an extensive exercise or shoot from underwater. Also from the upcoming movie X-men: Days of Future Past, we can see Mystique holding someone with her leg. What do you think will happen? Let's find out when the movie comes out.

X-Men: Days of Future past hits on May 23, 2014, while Guardians of the Galaxy comes out on August 1st, 2014

Thor: The Dark World, new trailer

Marvel unveils another new trailer for their Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 - "Thor: The Dark World". For the second time, Chris Hemsworth is back to play as the God of Thunder. The story is set one year after the events of The Avengers. Thor returns to Earth to fulfill his promise to Jane Foster ( Natalie Portman). Thor battles a race led by (oooops SPOILER ALERT) "Malekith", who is out for revenge, and intends to plunge the nine realms into darkness. You can also spot the return of Tom Hiddleston as the God of mischief, Loki and Anthony Hopkins as the All Father himself, Odin. Can Thor save the nine realms and ready to make the ultimate sacrifice?

Here's the trailer

Watch out Thor as he swings again his hammer at November 8, 2013.

Venom Signing event

Another awesome artist is coming to town as they welcome KIM JACINTO to the COMICX HUB Warehouse as he signs copies of VENOM #37 and #38!

Plus ONE DAY SALE on the following!

ALL GRAPHIC NOVELS!
MARVEL VARIANTS!
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MARVEL COMICS!

And for every P500 purchase entitles you to win great prizes including MARVEl SHIRTS, and SIGNED BOOKS!

So what can you expect? It's a geek day for all of us. Happening this SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, at the COMICX HUB Warehouse!

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The best there is!

Snikt! Last Thursday I watched another Marvel's movie for 2013, The Wolverine. Seriously I waited years for this movie because Wolverine is my favorite Marvel character. To give you a head's up, the movie was set after X-men 3: The last stand. Logan faces anxiety or somehow nightmare due to what he did to Jean Grey that's why if you watched the movie you can see Jean pops out every time Logan is depress. He goes on wild and tend to go alone but destiny seeks out when he met Yukio and blah blah blah.

Okay, in the film, Logan travels to Japan, where he engages an old acquaintance in a struggle that has lasting consequences. Stripped of his immortality, Wolverine must battle deadly samurai as well as his inner demons. I observed many things regarding the movie (Good and Bad)

1. Stripping out the healing factor - It's a good plot for the movie to do this so we can see what is the real power of the character when he is vulnerable. I read many articles that on the comic book side they were able to also do this. ( Check out Wolverine# 7).

2. Yukio - through out the film whenever I see Yukio I always tell to my girlfriend " si Charice oh cosplayer na!" hahaha. She looks nice and probably she will appear in the comics too due to the hype.

3. Wolverine is not that intelligent in this film- seriously? In the comics, Wolverine is fluent in many languages including English, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Cheyenne, Lakota, and Spanish; he has some knowledge of French, German, Thai, Vietnamese, Farsi and Portuguese. Ogun taught him Japanese ideograms. You can see in the movie that he ask yukio what does it mean whenever he doesn't understand something.

4. Less talk less mistake? - kinda boring but if you watch just to see fight scenes it might satisfy your movie urge.

5. Silver Samurai- I remember my gf asked who was the robot, " Si iron man ba yan or transformers?". Why make it robot? I wish they do the original concept in comics wherein Silver Samurai is a real samurai not just another piece of junk in a suit. ( But the fight scenes are awesome)

WATCH IT OR WOLVERINE WILL SLASH YOU, BUB. 

Comicx Hub Weekly Newsletter

Every good business needs to stay close to their customer because if you don't keep in touch might as well they might go to the other one. Earlier when I'm browsing and checking my comic book group ( Marvel and DC Universe Philippines), I saw one post from Sir Lawrence Sol Cruz, owner of Comicx Hub so I decided to go the page to check their offerings. Then after some scroll downs, I saw one post regarding "Newsletter".

I quickly sign up for the newsletter to get updated with all the News, Promos, Events and Sale Schedules about Comicx Hub. It's a good to strategy for the Comicx Hub and a benefit for us so we can directly receive updates from them. Basically I can't find no words to explain their marketing efforts in the internet (They are the best!) but adding newsletter will make them more cool. What are you waiting for? SIGN UP NOW

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The skrulls are back!

SKRULLS!

Skrulls will return on Avengers #18 this coming August, written by Jonathan Hickman and art by our Pinoy artist Leinil Yu! Oh my! One of my dream team! Seriously I will save more money to buy this book. Currently, Infinity is the spotlight but what do you think will happen at the end? Skrulls invading again? hmmm let's see

"They are, in fact, one of the first races to encounter the cosmic threat as it heads toward the milky way galaxy," says Hickman of how the Skrulls get drawn into the conflict.

However, these days the race of malevolent shape-shifters barely resembles the universal powerhouse those who have followed the Marvel Universe would find familiar.

"After their crushing defeat in Secret Invasion, what we knew as the Skrull Empire was reduced to a series of fragmented, feuding territories run by regional warlords," Hickman says. "One of those more prominent warlords is Kl'rt, the Super-Skrull, who features prominently in INFINITY."

With the Builders rocketing not just in the direction of Earth but every surrounding solar system, strange alliances will come into play, perhaps none more awkward than between the Avengers and Skrulls, as Hickman notes:

"Some [Avengers] will look at [working with the Skrulls] as a necessity, the enemy of my enemy and all that. Others are much less accepting, like Spider-Woman."

Going back during the Secret Invasion of the Skrulls, Jessica drew was held captive at the hands of the Skrulls and their Queen took her form to play mind games with the people of Earth. Do you think she will play a vital role in this event? Is it the time for a little revenge after what she experienced? Let's hope and mark the date. Watch out for Avengers #18 to be release on August 21.

look at those strokes by Leinil Yu!
Proud pinoy fan here :)

Source: Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/news/story/20948/prepare_for_infinity_with_an_exclusive_first_look_at_avengers_18#ixzz2aYZHxx3D

Superior Costume!

As we continue Marvel’s Spider-Month, I would like to feature in this post about the new costume of the so-called The Superior Spider-man. The costume has a resemblance with the previous costumes of spider-man specifically the scarlet spider-man costume because of the big spider insignia. The blue parts are now colored black even the lenses are colored black which I think dull tho it triggers some futuristic style most specially with the added watch like web shooter at the arms. The new costume also features four spider arms, which has a big resemblance with Dr. Octopus ( Otto Octavius’ previous life). About the current issue, Spider-man infiltrates shadowland to free the people that reside near the Hell’s kitchen in which Kingpin’s empire of Hand Ninjas are located.

New Costume and his Spider Patrol

Another interesting in this story is robots and minions are added. Not the despicable minions but Spider-man’s Spider patrol. Each one of are armed with guns which I find it usual. I thought they possessed some king of semi- spider-like abilities. This issue shows me that giving a new twist to Marvel’s most popular super hero is good. Seriously, I am digging this issue! Can you imagine that? Spider-man is now commanding and with added cool stuffs. But despite the cool stuff, I still prefer Peter Parker as Spider-man. I miss his habit of cracking of jokes while crime fighting. 

Anyway to give you some other information (SPOILER ALERT), there is one spider- bot which is controlled by Green Goblin. Did I say Green Goblin? Oh fvck! He’s back with his own gang and ready to conquer the land of New York. My verdict about the costume 7/10. Added features are good but on the artistic side, plain and boring. For the issue, my verdict is 9/10. Superior Spider-man 14 is good book to pick. Actions and jam packed of excitement are seen in every page of the book. The best place to pick comic books? 

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Marvel Now Week 34 pick!

As we continue the on going series books of Marvel, let me share to you some of my thoughts regarding this week's issues.
For the Uncanny X-men, I thought this cover art will bring a twist in the current story of Uncanny X-men written by Brian Michael Bendis and art by Chris Bachalo. This book is now on its 8th issue and Cyke's team of X-men is tearing apart as Fabio left out the team. On the other hand, another mutants pops out the globe. David who I think can control cars try to use his powers along with his girl. But as he try to control it,, police come over the place and his girl sell him out telling that David is a mutant. The police shot him down and Magik and the other uncanny X-men came to rescue the life of David. Meanwhile the cover art is a just a teaser and it did not happen. Magneto and Scott just talk about the future of their mutant race. They discuss that even though their powers are power they should not give up and train themselves to provide protection for the other mutants. I'll rate this issue 3.5/5. Not too much excitement except for David's part which I find his powers way too cool. Let's just hope that this book continue to give us chills and goosebumps. "Mutant and Proud!"

And for the conclusion for this spider-slayer arc, Mayor J. Jonah Jameson asked Spider-man to supervise the execution of Alistair Smythe a.k.a. the Spider- slayer. Moments before the said execution, an escape has occurred and other villains like Vulture, Scorpion and Boomerang were upgraded and help to defeat Spider-man. Without their knowledge Spider-man already thought all the possible things Alistair might do. He even try to do the same thing on what Otto did to Peter yet he failed to do and Spider-man finally end Alistair Smythe's life. At the end of the issue it shows that there will be a Spider- Island version 2.0 as a prison and a new costume for the Superior Spider-man.


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Guardians of the Galaxy

Marvel's cinematic universe "phase 2" is approaching but the question is, are you ready? If you watched the post credits of the Avengers, you can see a purple alien appears and that gruesome weirdo is Thanos. So my speculations at that time is "Guardians of the Galaxy" will appear at Avengers 2. It was like a dream come true for a Marvel fan boy like me. But as SDCC 2013 reveals more and more, we can say that the Guardians of the Galaxy movie is on its own way of showing what they got. 

I'm not that fan of the Gotg but since 2013 I managed to back read and gather some information about the team. It consists of Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the destroyer, Rocket Raccoon and Groot. For this movie all I know is Drax the Destroyer will be portray by David "Batista" Bautista. OH MY BATISTA BOMB!

Earlier I saw one photo of Batista holding a raccoon which I think Rocket Raccoon. Pumping excitement runs through my vein as actor Djimon Hounsou on the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy‘ panel slip out saying that he was close allies with Ronan the Accuser ( Main antagonist) and Thanos. Everybody was shocked even Kevin Feige shared a "Whoops" look. Also at the panel we can see a member of the Nova Corps standing at the side. I will definitely watch this film and I can wait just to satisfy myself. Marvel is on its way to movie industry.

A member of Nova Corps

A short glimpse of the future

As SDCC 2013 (San Diego Comic Con) finally unveiled teasers from upcoming Marvel products and movies, fans go wildly with the good news they bring to us. For this post I would like to focus first on "X-men: Days of Future Past".

X-Men: Days of Future Past is an upcoming American superhero film co-written, produced and directed by Bryan Singer and featuring the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. It is intended to be the seventh installment in the X-Men film series. The screenplay is written by Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, and Jane Goldman, with Singer writing the story. The movie is based on the 1981 Uncanny X-Men story line "Days of Future Past" by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. It is the third X-Men film directed by Singer after 2000's X-Men and 2003's X2.

Meet cast from Days of the Future Past.

Future Wolverine (of upcoming Wolverine movie) who travels in the past for his mission 70s.Wolverine who just escaped from Stryker's Island in X-Men Origins. Professor X and Magneto in future and Omer Sy as Bishop and Daniel Cudmore as Colossus. 

Halle Berry as Storm

 Lineup looks amazing what do you think?

Personally this sentinel head is what I am waiting for. For the past X-men movies, it's only a shadow figure and broken sentinel head that appears in X-men: the last stand. I dunno for the other fans but an X-men movie should compose of mutants and of course sentinels! I can't wait to watch this awesome movie.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2014.

Wolverine's claw is coming to town!

The clock's ticking and a few more sleeps another claw movie pops out. The Wolverine is an upcoming American-Australian superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine. It is intended to be the sixth installment in the X-Men film series and follows the events of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). It's a good move that Hugh Jackman reprise his role and the movie is expected to hit in cinemas in July 25,2013 here at the Philippines.

So what's the commotion? Have you heard the " Be the Wolverine Kinect experience"? It's a good way of promoting the movie by adding Xbox360 kinect and act like the berserker hero. With the help of Robinsons Mall, every movie goers can experience popping and slashing evil doers in town. As a Wolverine fan boy, I'm expecting to catch a glimpse of this experience so I'll be waiting the activity here at Manila.

Let's hope for the best for this movie. Remember the date or else my claws are coming (kidding)

Marvel's teaser poster for Cap. America: Winter Soldier

2013 San Diego Comic Con is coming to town, Walt Disney along with Marvel Studios released a new teaser poster for their 2014 "Phase 2" for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So what's the teaser poster?

A minimal poster with different meaning. I can say many speculations and rumors are made after the released of the poster. I guess it would be difficult for Steve Rogers ( played by Chris Evans) to adjust with the modern era after to what happened to him during world war 2. 

*SPOILER ALERT*

For those who have read forums regarding the plot of this movie it would be Winter Soldier a.k.a. ........ Bucky Barnes ( Captain America's sidekick) will act as the antagonist for this sequel. If you can remember from the first movie he fell from the train and presumed dead.

SDCC have lots of surprises for sure it could be a trailer or anything but let's hope for the best. I can say Marvel inc. is doing their job to satisfy all of us not just for comics but as well as for movies. 

Catch the return of the star spangled avenger, "Captain America: Winter Soldier" on April 4, 2014.

Pick of the week? X-men! (Product)

It's been a while since I read some comic books. So for this week my Marvel picks are Uncanny X-men and All-New X-men. As you can see both of them are X-men. Kinda confused??? There are many X-men teams and it has been divided from Wolverine's X-men team and Cyclops' X-men team. I love X-men since I was a child and my favorite is... SNIKT! Wolverine off course! Going back to my pick of the week here are some of my observation on both books.

In this issue of Uncanny X-men #7, Magik (Sister of Colossus) ended limbo. I'm a bit confused how can she control her powers right now. She took it to herself and ask for the help of Dr. Stephen Strange. As for the Cyclops' team, Magik send them back to reality and they are facing a change in the roster because Fabio wants to go back home. For the next issue, it teases readers with its cover featuring Magneto punching Cyke's face.

Next one is the All new X-men featuring Wolverine's X-men team together with Kitty Pryde and the young 1st X-men ( w/o Angel). For the first part, the book show us the phoenix which will also be the end. Next one is a flashback on how Wolverine track down Mystique and her own team. Mystique, Saber tooth and Lady Mastermind are using the young X-men identities for a massive robberies. Mystique wants to buy madripoor from Madame Hydra. After some chit chat between madame hydra and mystique, Wolverine enters the scene and you know what he does (Slashing). The others also follow Wolverine and fight the other Hydra soldiers. For the next issue Lady mastermind talks to Jean grey and do some stuff and that's the reason why the phoenix appears from the first part of the book.

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Marvel Avengers Alliance (Product)

Obviously I'm a big fan of Marvel. So everytime I saw another new Marvel product or even game I always check it out. One of the existing game of Marvel that I'm currently playing is the Marvel Avengers Alliance (Sounds Awesome right?). The good thing here is it is free to play and you can get access it from Facebook.

As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., your job is to assemble and lead a team of heroes to keep New York City safe from an unknown threat. Recruit your friends as Allies to increase your power and save the world from super villains in the newest Facebook RPG, Marvel: Avengers Alliance. So basically you can choose different heroes from different Marvel teams like the Avengers, X-men, Fantastic 4 and many more.

You can also customize your agent by adding weapons, adding iso-8 to increase the agent's stats, changing the uniform class and other. Here in the Philippines there are many MAA players and we even managed to go up to top 10 players. MAA is worth a try guys. If you have idle time you can check this awesome game and experience fighting with the coolest heroes.