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Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios’ President, certainly is a busy man. Four years and five different movies worth of world-building will eventually be paying off in a few weeks when Joss Whedon’s Avengers finally hits our screens. But that’s just the beginning, as the superhero-palooza smash-up will be setting the scene for all future Marvel movies. Feige has been doing the …

With all the attention currently being focused on The Avengers, which is slowly being released in dribs and drabs before the actual film even debuts, it’s easy to forget that there are other movies based on Marvel comics that are in the pipeline. Iron Man 3 may have a director in the form of Shane Black, and the return of …

You would think that with all the marketing Marvel is doing for the Avengers that there would actually not be a single unseen scene left in the movie. On closer inspection though, you realize that they have actually been cleverly avoiding any real story elements in all the promos. One aspect of that story that has remained clouded in mystery …

Oh dear lord… Marvel, have you no shame? This new Hasbro/Marvel toys commercial is easily one of the worst things I’ve seen in ages. Its what might be called “incredibad”. Because you know what should be used to sell Avengers stuff? A cheesy rap video done by a guy who sounds like he has no idea that it’s no longer …

Yeah I know, I know. It was just the other day that a whole other bunch of Avengers images got released, but clearly Marvel has absolutely zero intention of allowing this film to slip from people’s consciousness. So here are this week’s batch to dribble your geeky drool all over. Last Updated: March 28, 2012

I’m a child of the 80’s who had a medically certified unhealthy obsession with video games, so pretty much anytime “8” and “bit” is mentioned in close proximity together, my Pavlovian instincts kick in and I start to insta-drool. And now artist Eric Palmer has gone and taken that neurosis and blended it with my other not quite sane love …

With The Avengers pretty much wrapped up and awaiting release in a months or so, it’s time to once again focus on films that don’t require titanic team-ups. With pre-production having started on Iron Man 3, fans can once again expect to see more of Robert Downey Jrs burgeoning alcoholic performance of Tony Stark, the one hero who happens to …