Is it just me, or does anybody else hate it when masked superheroes spend huge chunks of the movie (and appear on movie posters like the new poster for The Avengers above) without their masks? I know why they do it – what studio executive wants to pay big bucks to hire movie stars who keep their faces covered up all the time? – but whenever I see a superhero [...]

This isn’t a movie – yet – but this new Marvel production should be of interest to X-Men fans and to anyone who has been following the roll out of Marvel superhero movies such as Iron Man and Captain America, all done in anticipation of the May 4 release of Marvel’s The Avengers movie. Marvel Comics is getting ready to unleash Avengers vs. X-Men, a 12-issue comic book miniseries that [...]

Here is the new trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers, one of next year’s big superhero movies. The Avengers opens in theaters May 4. Most of Marvel’s big superhero movies up until now have been origin stories, with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) popping up in the end to recruit the newly minted superhero for his secret organization. Now it turns out that next year’s The Avenger’s will be an origin [...]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the upcoming Avengers movie is likely to be the worst major superhero movie ever? I’m dreading it. And I say this as someone who grew up loving the Marvel comic book. I eagerly awaited every issue of The Avengers and even bought and framed original copies of pages drawn by John Buscema and inked by Tom Palmer. I had letters published [...]