It has been known for months that at the end of writer Jonathan Hickman’s “Three” story arc in Fantastic Four, one member of the classic Marvel team would die. Despite efforts to keep the news secret by shipping the issues in black polybags featuring the “Three” logo and shipping the comic a day early, several major news outlets spilled the news hours before any comic shops were open to sell the issue. Marvel themselves issued a press release with the news this morning.

Find out who dies and see preview pages from this issue after the break.
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An image of the cast from the forth-coming film, X-Men: First Class surfaced the other day online. It was a pretty horribly photoshopped image that caused quite a bit of anxiety among fans. In an attempt to make up for it, Fox released three new stills from film the next day. I thought the most interesting of the stills featured Kevin Bacon and January Jones, playing Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost, the White Queen, respectively.

  

In a seeming fit of rage, Director Matthew Vaughn released two additional stills to settle some of his anger over the initial poor image’s release two days earlier.

 

And finally, we got our first look at the teaser poster for the movie.

Earlier today MSN premiered the first photo of the cast from the X-Men First Class movie, but later took the page down. Bleeding Cool News was able to save the picture before it went offline.

Left to right we see: Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne), Emma Frost (January Jones), Azazel (Jason Flemyng), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Havoc (Lucas Till), Angel Salvadore (Zoe Kravitz), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), and Charles Xavier (James McAvoy).

It looks like two more characters are entering the fray. No stranger to the Marvel vs Capcom franchise, Akuma will be an unlockable player at 2000 Player Points (which is said to be about a single play through of the Arcade mode). Newcomer Taskmaster will also be an unlockable player at 8000 Player Points. Taskmaster is a Marvel comics character that has the ability to duplicate the fighting style of anyone he has ever watched or fought.

Supposedly there are still two more characters we have not seen yet. Feel free to speculate in the comments!

Taskmaster:

Akuma:

Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

When Steve Rogers was forced to either blindly serve the government or give up his identity as Captain America, he chose the later, and was replaced by John Walker. When Bruce Wayne’s back was broken by the villain Bane, leaving him unable to continue being Batman, he handpicked Jean Paul Valley, previously known as Azarel, to take over the cape and cowl. When Tony Stark succumbed to his alcoholism, he asked long time friend Jim Rhodes to take over his role as Iron Man. When Superman perished in battle with Doomsday, no less than 4 successors showed up, each either claiming to be him or wanting to pick up where he left off.

If there is one thing comics teaches us, it’s that no one is anybody until they’ve been killed, crippled, or forced to retire under dubious circumstances, only to be replaced by a younger, cooler, sexier, more badass version of themselves. However, there is another side of the coin as well. Usually this replacement doesn’t last very long, maybe a year or two, until the successor is killed, goes insane, or is revealed to be a pawn of a sinister plot, and the original hero is either resurrected (or revealed to not have been dead at all), recovered from their ‘crippling injury’, or is forced to come back out of retirement and resume their identity. Indeed, John Walker’s stint as Captain America was revealed to be a plot by the Red Skull, and soon Steve Rogers resumed his identity as Captain America. Jean Paul Valley had gone off the deep end, forcing Bruce Wayne (whose spine was miraculously healed) to retake his identity of Batman. Iron Man recovered from his alcoholism to battle Obadiah Stane after Rhodes was injured by the villain, while Superman recovered in the Fortress of Solitude and reclaimed his identity after the Eradicator sacrificed himself to restore his powers.
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Entertainment Weekly has posted the first picture of Chris Evans in full Captain America costume from the upcoming Captain America movie. The design of the costume was leaked several months ago, and Evans appeared in costume without the helmet on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, but this is the first picture of Evans wearing the full costume in the movie.

Sony pictures has released the first picture of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man from the new Spider-Man reboot currently in production. Pictures were released earlier this month of Garfield as Peter Parker, but this is the first look at the design of the new Spider-Man costume.

Jean Grey, the original Marvel Girl, is Phoenix once again in Marvel Vs Capcom 3.

And Mayor of Metro City Mike Haggar has joined the fight as well!

Marvel Vs Capcom 3: Fate Of Two Worlds will be out on February 15. Pre-Order the Special Edition now to get one month of Marvel Digital Comics, 12 Art book, 12 page prologue comic, and access to the first DLC pack of Jill Valentine and Shuma Gorath a month before other players.