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Join VP & Executive Editor Ryan Penagos as he takes you through the latest on Marvel's Infinite Comics as well as what’s happening on the Marvel Comics App, Marvel Unlimited and MORE in this can’t-miss panel from New York Comic Con 2016! Plus: Executive Producer Mike Jones and Creative Director Bill Rosemann share the latest and greatest news from Marvel Games!

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New Video from ComicsExplained

In this video the folks at ComicsExplained speak about new comics that are filling backstory and caps of things that happen between each new Star Wars films.



Video: Anakin Skywalker's Secret Training (Star Wars: Obi Wan & Anakin Vol 1)

 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in theaters on December 16, 2016 in the USA.

In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves. 

Directed by Gareth Edwards

Produced by

    Kathleen Kennedy

    Allison Shearmur

    Simon Emanuel

Screenplay by   

    Chris Weitz

    Tony Gilroy

Story by              

    John Knoll

    Gary Whitta

Based on Characters by George Lucas

Starring               

    Felicity Jones

    Diego Luna

    Ben Mendelsohn

    Donnie Yen

    Mads Mikkelsen

    Alan Tudyk

    Jiang Wen

    Forest Whitaker

 

Netflix's Luke Cage Preimeres This September!

The right Netflix's members. Starting September 30, Marvel's Luke Cage will begin streaming. You remember Luke from the Jennifer Jones series. He is the unbreakable and non-killable street fighting who battles the criminals of New York.

What's his secret?

According to Marvel's Wiki page, while in prison, a " research scientist Dr. Noah Burstein recruited Luke for experimental cell regeneration based on a variant of the Super-Soldier process he had previously used to empower Warhawk. Burstein immersed Luke in an electrical field conducted by an organic chemical compound.  When he left Lucas unattended, someone readjusted the experiment's controls in the hoping to maim or kill Luke, but instead his treatment was accelerated inducing body-wide enhancements that gave him superhuman strength and durability.

Will  Dr. Noah Burstein and Warhawk.play in the series? watch and find out.

Check Out Gabriel Luna As Robbie Reyes, AKA Ghost Rider

The date set for the return of 'Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' is Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC. 

It has been going around the web for some time now, that  Gabriel Luna, formerly of True Detective,  will be Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D's new nemesis and that he will bring much upset into the lives of  Agent Coulson and the team. Take a look at the photo below of  Robbie Reyes as the fiery spirit of the avenging Ghost Rider and the 'Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D's video teaser.

 https://youtu.be/HaQAHEkgUZU

DC Comics Entertainment: Ecstatic Over Success Of Its Rebirth Series

According to DC Comics Entertainment, back in June of 2016 they issued the first comic books in REBIRTH,  which is the relaunching of all  their  ongoing monthly superhero comic books. Rebirth begin at the end of The New 52 in May 2016. The DC Rebirth is intended to boost DC Universe to its former form much like the Flashpoint storyline while incorporating some new elements  of The New 52, including its continuity. 

Rebirth began at the end of The New 52 in May 2016. However, and after Rebirth launched back in June, DC Comics has reported an increase in  sales numbering 12 million copies.

Below is the press release on Rebirth and  DC Universe future plans for the comics. 

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JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD: DC ANNOUNCES FIRST EVENT OF THE REBIRTH ERA

BURBANK, CA – (September 1, 2016) – With a record-setting 12 million copies sold this summer, DC Entertainment has set the comic book world on fire since REBIRTH launched in June. With 21 of the initial 30 monthly and twice-monthly titles going to press multiple times, comic book fans are already asking, “What’s next?”

The answer arrives this December, as DC announces its first major event of Rebirth: the Justice League facing off against the Suicide Squad. This two-month event will pit DC’s two greatest super-teams against each other in a six-issue weekly miniseries, beginning with a special prelude in the pages of SUICIDE SQUAD #8, and with issues of SUICIDE SQUAD (#9 and #10) and JUSTICE LEAGUE (#12 and #13) serving as tie-ins during January.

The prelude issue sets the stage for issues #1 and #2 of JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD,
written by Joshua Williamson (THE FLASH, Vertigo’s FROSTBITE) with art by Jason Fabok (JUSTICE LEAGUE: DARKSEID WAR) and Tony S. Daniel (JUSTICE LEAGUE,
DEATHSTROKE). Issues #3 through #6 debut weekly throughout January, along with the special tie-in issues of SUICIDE SQUAD written by Rob Williams and JUSTICE LEAGUE by guest writer Tim Seeley (NIGHTWING, GRAYSON).

The day that Amanda Waller has long dreaded has finally come to pass: the Justice League has discovered the existence of Task Force X! America’s paragons of truth and justice won’t take well to a government-sponsored team of black ops super-villains (with bombs implanted in their heads), but before the Justice League can shut down the Suicide Squad, a bigger problem looms: another deadly strike team is lurking in the shadows, one that could expose dark secrets throughout the DC Universe, with ties to the hidden truths of REBIRTH. Longtime enemies such as Batman and Deadshot, the Flash and Boomerang, and Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn will have to put aside their differences when an evil threat once thought lost to the DC Universe makes their return.

“This story is another building block to REBIRTH. With all of our heroes back on the board, it’s the super-villains turn. And the events within will set the stage for REBIRTH Phase 2 as a surprising team emerges and another piece of the puzzle of the future of the DC Universe, and the past, comes into focus,” said Geoff Johns, President and Chief Creative Officer, DC Entertainment.

“I’m really excited about writing this story,” said Williamson. “This is a great opportunity to remind fans that, outside of Batman, the DC Universe isn’t aware that Task Force X or Amanda Waller even exists. To ultimately bring these villains to light for the entire DC Universe to see should make future Suicide Squad stories that much more interesting. And by the end of the story, both teams may discover that they have more in common than they thought, whether they like it or not.”

About DC Entertainment: 
DC Entertainment, home to the iconic brands DC (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating its content across Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is one of the largest English-language publishers of comics in the world.

DC Comics Series Humble Popularity: Would Casting DC Comics TV Series Stars In Their Roles At The Movies Boost TV Viewership?

Stephen Amell

I have been a great fan of The CW from the time they were UPN and The WB before that. I have also been a great fan of DC Comics practically from the time I could read way back in the late 50s (Yes, I was around before man walked on the moon; so don’t bothered counting the decades).  Nevertheless, and to the reason for this post,  off and on during the networks (The CW, NBC, CBS and FOX) deals with DC Comics to air their series,  I have often wondered why the viewership of these series, Smallville, Birds of Prey, Arrow, The Flash Supergirl and DC's Legend of Tomorrow, and many more do not generate more viewers than they do.

Then a possible reason hit me. DC Comics does not make movies using the same actors in the same roles as from in their TV series. 

Yet the Star Trex franchise has proven that such a step could be highly successful. 

Back when Star Trex aired and even after the series ended, each time a movie based on the series was

Melissa Benoist

release, it included one key factor that ensured the success of the films as well as the original series and their spin-offs. Up until the more recent films, that factor was that the producers of the Star Trex series and the films were the original cast from the series.

This casting of the original TV stars in the Star Trex franchise films may have help to endear those series and actors that much more in the minds of the viewers than casting new faces in already familiar roles. Just think. To go to the movies and see your favorite TV series stars on the big screen and then have that star bridge the film almost seamlessly back into the television series was wonderful and ingenious. 

Grant Gustin

To date, and with some success Marvel Comics has done a little of this in the reverse with the characters of Agent Coulson, Agent Carter, and the character of Sif from their roles in Captain America, Thor, The Hulk and the Avengers films to the Marvel's Agents of Shield series.

So why haven't Dc Comics borrowed this idea knowing how successfully it worked for the other franchises?  Has DC Comics entertainment ever thought of it?

 

Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Arthur Darvill, Wentworth Miller, Ciara Renée, Dominic Purcell,  Franz Drameh & Victor Garber

I don’t know why DC Comics hadn't taken their TV series stars to the next step and cast them in their roles on the big screen. It seems to me that  such a move would be a logical undertaken for boosting up popularity to their TV series.