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The Wolverine: Twitter Q&A with Hugh Jackman
Need a break from the Iron Man 3 hysteria of this weekend? Well, here’s a very special question and answer session done via Twitter with Hugh Jackman about the upcoming feature film The Wolverine… Read the rest of this entry
Age of Ultron: Back to the Future
Everything has changed in the Marvel Universe of the Age of Ultron maxi-series. In a bid to save everything, Wolverine has traveled to the past and murdered the Avenger Hank Pym before he can create the artificial intelligence known as Ultron – who in the present has conquered the planet and decimated mankind.
But we all know what happens when you mess with time, don’t we? Yep, that’s right. Biff kills your dad, marries your mom, and makes her get back-breaking breast implants. Things may have gone from bad to worse for Wolverine and his traveling companion, the Invisible Woman. Find out why, in my review of Age of Ultron Book Seven, after the jump…
Age of Ultron: The Ghost of Avengers Future
The worst thing that can happen has happened to the Marvel Comics universe. Ultron, the Avengers’ most dangerous enemy, a machine monster built by one of their own, has conquered and laid waste to the planet, and decimated and enslaved mankind. The few surviving heroes of the world have escaped to the Savage Land where they have come up with a plan to save us all.
With access to Doctor Doom’s Time Platform, half of the heroes have decided to go to the future, from which Ultron has masterminded this conquest, and defeat him once and for all. However, Wolverine has different plans, he will go to the past and kill the Avenger Hank Pym, who created Ultron in the first place, before it happens. Now, enter the two Ages of Ultron, after the jump…
Mighty Marvel March: Age of Ultron Book Three
Age of Ultron is writer Brian Michael Bendis’ swan song on the Avengers franchise. Ultron is the ultimate archenemy of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Beside their destruction all it wants is the eradication of mankind and the coming of a machine age. The story so far – Ultron has won. We all woke up one morning and everything was different – we were living, dying, or worse, in the Age of Ultron.
Check out my reviews of Book One and Book Two here at Biff Bam Pop!, and then check out my new review of Book Three, and more, right after the jump.
Mighty Marvel March: Avengers NOW!
The Brian Michael Bendis era is over. The guiding hand of the Avengers franchise at Marvel Comics has essentially relinquished control of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with the advent of Marvel NOW!. Bendis may have one last devastating word for the team with his “Age of Ultron,” but for the moment, other hands on are the Avengers. Here’s a quick look at recent doings in the Marvel NOW! era, after the jump.
Mighty Marvel March: Enter the Age of Ultron
Ultron hates the Avengers, and he hates mankind. Beyond destroying the Avengers once and for all, he wants to bring about a machine age and rule this planet. He’s been trying for decades, and now, in Age of Ultron Book One by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Bryan Hitch, he gets what he’s after. Ultron wins. It’s Marvel Comics’ big event of 2013, so get ready, to enter the Age of Ultron, after the jump…
Guess Who’s In X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Yesterday, director Bryan Singer announced via Twitter that Peter Dinklage would be joining the already amazing cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past. How amazing is it it – well, we’ve got Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, James McAvoy all reprising their roles from the various X-Men films.
So will Dinklage play? Though he wasn’t in the original story, smart money would be on Alpha Flight’s Puck. Tell us, does this new casting move add to your excitement for X-Men: Days Of Future Past, due out Summer 2014?
Glenn Walker’s Top Fives for 2012
Everybody at Biff Bam Pop! is talking about Top Fives, so I guess it’s my turn. Put on your seat belts, because as the regular readers around here know already, my tastes are not normal. I liked Santa Claus and hated Dark Knight. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Next, after the jump, my top fives in film, music, television, and comic books. Look out.
