In Real Life

Assembling The Lego Avengers

With the phenomenal success of the Avengers still vibrating in the world’s collective consciousness, the folks at Lego sent a set of Avengers-themed Lego Marvel Super Heroes bricks my way. So I spent several hours putting together a stop-motion video of the assembly of Earth’s mightiest minifigs.


May 9, 2012
In Real Life

5 Comics That Will Make You Leave Your Humanity Behind This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of digital comics. Whichever it is, you’re still interested in the good stuff.


May 8, 2012
Nintendo

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Also Wonders Why The Avengers Need An Archer

“There is always the risk that you will run out of arrows. There is never a risk that The Incredible Hulk will run out of Hulk.” Hawkeye from the Avengers suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous Nintendo president in the latest instalment of Nintendo Gamer‘s lost Iwata Asks files.


In Real Life

Three Cheers For Joss Whedon: King Of The Geeks, King Of The World

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Joss Whedon rules. This truth is celebrated in many disparate swaths of the internet, from Buffytown to Fireflyville to Dr Horribleopolis.


April 13, 2012
In Real Life

When Chiptunes And Beaded Sprites Meet, An Awesome Stop-Motion Video Is Formed

Two friends put their hobbies — creating beaded sprites and making chiptunes tracks — together to form this awesome stop motion video inspired by some of their favourite games and graphic novel characters.


February 23, 2012
PC

Assemble Your Own Oddball Avengers Team On Facebook

Cyclops! Black Cat! Invisible Woman! Facebook Avengers Assemble! Facebook’s Marvel: Avengers Alliance cares not for comic book continuity, focusing instead on giving players some sweet choices, and then making them pay for them.


February 10, 2012
In Real Life

The Sub-Mariner And The Thing Face Off In Uncanny X-Men #12

We already previewed the first few pages of Avengers vs. X-Men #1 this morning and now we’ve got an exclusive reveal of one of the grudge matches that’ll be coming out of that miniseries.


In Real Life

Preview Of Avengers Vs X-Men #1

For all the hoariness of the heroes-vs-heroes trope, the set-up of Marvel Comics’ next big crossover event rotates around an interesting premise: The cosmic power known as the Phoenix Force is coming back to Earth, apparently targeting a young mutant girl called Hope. Once bonded with mutant telepath Jean Grey, the Phoenix Force has been wielded for both salvation and destruction.


January 10, 2012
PC

Assemble Your Very Own Avengers Team On Facebook

Step into the steel-toed boots of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Nick Fury and recruit a team of super-powered friends to save the world from Marvel’s most wanted in Marvel: Avengers Alliance, coming soon to Facebook.


September 19, 2011
News

A Three-Minute Look At THQ’s Avengers, Disassembled

THQ’s big-time bloodletting back in August meant the end of its Brisbane, Australia studio and scuttled the publisher’s planned video game adaptation of The Avengers. Footage of the game in its pre-alpha state released last week and was immediately smashed by YouTube. Now another video has leaked out.