In this week’s Powetcast, we discuss how the character Thor translated from myth to comic to screen, and how this film fairs as the 4th chapter in the Avengers saga. We’ll also rehash our disappointment in the finale of Smallville, and preview the Marvel Anime universe coming to the states later this year.
Tomorrow, May 7, 2011, is the annual Free Comic Book Day (FCBD). For those of you not familiar with Free Comic Book Day, on the first Saturday in May comic shops give out free comic book produced just for FCBD by the publishers. Just how many free comics you can get depends on your local shop, so be sure to ask.
To find a participating comic shop near you click here.
Last night at a press event Marvel announced a free to play Marvel Universe MMO developed by Secret Identity Studios. The game is being written by award winning Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis. There is no release date set for the game yet, and currently it is only announced for PC with consoles TBD.
Not a lot of details are available yet, but it was revealed that players will be able to play as existing Marvel characters, instead of new characters that players create like in DC’s recently released DCU Online. It was also revealed that the main villain of the game will be Dr. Doom.
Fox has just released the Theatrical Trailer for X-Men: First Class, which comes out on June 3, 2011.
X-MEN FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.
Marvel’s The Avengers started production this week, and Marvel has posted the first production photo from the set. The Avengers is being directed by Joss Whedon and stars Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and Chris Evans as Captain America who all starred in their character’s respective movies.
by FakeTrout, filed in Comics, Games on Apr.04, 2011
It was only a week ago that Edge Of Time was announced, now we have a look at the (early) game in motion.
They’re going to need to tighten the graphics on level 3, but at the very least Beenox has trimmed the game to the 2 most important Spider-man variations from Shattered Dimensions: Amazing and 2099. The time line jumping details haven’t been discolosed, but that last shot (see the image to the left) shows that at least one portion of the game will have Miguel O’Hara and Peter Parker meeting (morbidly).
Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.
In a universe full of Super Soldiers, gods, mutants, monsters, robots, and just about everything else you can imagine, there is one organization that we can rely upon to keep tabs on all the madness and keep everything, and everyone, in line. That’s the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Division, more commonly known as S.H.I.E.L.D. And for the longest time, one man has been at the center of it all: Nicholas Fury. Nick has been many things during his lifetime: an amateur boxer, a WWII hero, a CIA agent, and a super spy. His most notable job was the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. While he may not shoot beams out of his eyes, have adamantium claws, wear a suit of armor, or have the proportionate strength of a spider, he is just as vital, if not more vital to the Marvel Universe, as any of its greatest meta-human champions. [Read the rest of this entry…]
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X-MEN FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.
