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While we have had our own theories about Shazam being a likely candidate as the DC Comics superhero that will be re-introduced as gay, the most popular choice by far online appears to be Alan Scott, who is the Earth 2 Green Lantern. The rumors ...  

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The suits have knocked off the superheroes at the box office. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' sequel "Men in Black 3" debuted as the No. 1 movie over Memorial Day weekend with $55 million domestically from Friday to Sunday. That bumps Disney's "The Avengers" into second-place a  

This is a critical moment for Earth's Mightiest Heroes. "The Avengers" have pretty much coasted through three weekends as the most dominant force at the box office, easily handling the likes of "Dark Shadows," "Battleship," "The Dictator," and "LOL" (lolz!), but now it faces real competition from another property inside Marvel Comics. Early box office [...]  

There's seemingly no end to One Million Moms' anti-gay wrath, as the notoriously right-wing group is now condemning both DC Comics and Marvel Superheroes for introducing gay characters into their phenomenally popular comic book titles. "Children desire to be just like superheroes," members of the "online activism campaign," which is a division of the American Family Association, write on their website. "Children mimic superhero actions and...  

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has turned to pop culture to promote clean energy. He put up this picture and Facebook post on the new box office smash The Avengers: I can rarely find the time to make it to the movies, but my staff is buzzing about The Avengers, which focuses on a new, limitless clean energy source [...]  

One Million Moms wants DC Comics to keep its heroes in the closet. DC Comics announced earlier this week that one of its "iconic" superheroes is gay. Which one? That won't be revealed until sometime in June (my money's on Flash), which gives the ...  

Despite what seemed like overwhelmingly good news for Marvel Enterprises lately — including the record-breaking success of The Avengers as it remained the best-selling movie three weekends in a row and Avengers vs. X-Men topping the comic book charts — the skies above the self-styled House of Ideas aren’t entirely clear of clouds: While everyone [...]  

This morning, the ladies of ABC’s The View were talking about a celebrity wedding. Happens all the time, right? But the celebrities in question were the X-Men, not the Kardashians. And the wedding? It’s going to be super-fast adventurer Northstar marrying his longtime boyfriend Kyle. Definitely not your typical talk-show fare.  

Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk to star [Posted 10 May 2012 by Mark E. Johnson] Ubisoft and Marvel have announced that they're bringing the Avengers to Kinect and the Wii U the Autumn. Yes. Kinect and Wii U. No mention of the PS3 or any handhelds in there. Dubbed Avengers: Battle for Earth, the game will be based on Secret Invasion, a story written by Brian Michael Bendis, drawn ... click to read full item  

Comicbook.com (blog)Spartan Torch: The Avengers: character and sequel spoilersmy.hsj.orgIn the first thirteen days The Avengers made $1.016 billion and is still going strong, which put the film ahead of one of the most-anticipated movies in history, The Dark Knight, in 2008, which grossed $1.001 billion. Based upon its gross, ...Avengers Movie: Five Agent Coulson TheoriesComicbook.com (blog)all 2 news articles »  

The Avengers, the first of a series of superhero flicks to be released over the summer, broke box-office records with its opening weekend which grossed $207.4 million at domestic theaters and a whopping $654.8 million across the globe.  

So people are seeing this movie again and again, as if it would never be released on DVD or home video and this was there only chance to see this thing (this ain ... are stating that this is (ahem) the greatest comic book movie ever.  

Starting with the 7/4/12 On-sale items, all 32 page Marvel Universe comics ... job they had to do to change the Hal Jordan Green Lantern to a new unidentified black Green Lantern. Having been moved to the verge of a standing ovation by Mark ...  

The folks at Close Encounters, a comic shop in Northampton, England, are organising a comic convention for later in the year, possibly around September time, the Northants International Comics Expo. They will confirm ... At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for...  

Aside from Nick Fury, we see deputy director, Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders ... America when Dr. Erskine (Stan Tucci) told Steve Rogers: “Promise me you’ll remain the same. Not a Super Soldier, but a Good Man.” This is where the audience really begins ...