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NY ComicCon 2012

So, last weekend (as I write this) I attended the New York Comic Con and well, not only did I have a greet weekend (I hung out with a couple of new-found friends Bill Baker & Joel Meadows (Publisher/Editor of Tripwire Magazine). Turns out we were three Journalists, comicbook fans, and cinephiles having something of a great weekend together. Anyway, here are just some of the pics that I took over the weekend.

First up are The Avengers and some Patriotic Babes

This was the only Spider-Woman I saw

Spidey recently turned 50, and this is the birthday card that Marvel got him.

It was signed by numerous Spidey-Fans, with the hope of getting it into the Guinness Book of World Records (and of course, I signed it too!).

Naturally enough there were also a bunch of Spideys on hand (this one brought a friend)

This one stopped by Fay Felix’s Bronx Heroes Con table

Then he had to fight off none other than Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin!

Eventually though Spidey was apparently defeated by...who is this, Zero of the GI Joes?

Lastly, there was at least one Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly) on hand to carry on!

And of course an Ultimate Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Spider-Woman, the Motion Comic (for FREE!)

So, you say you just love your iPhone, especially because you can do wicked-cool stuff like download Spider-Woman The Motion Comic. Well, bad news for all of you folk who paid to download it. Now that the first season is over, it is now being posted on Hulu for free.

Who says things don’t come to those who wait? Eh?

However, there is a “catch” of sorts. Seems that Spider-Woman is a “mature” feature and thus you need to have a Hulu account (all you have to do is sign up for one and your in, so it is no big deal).

Oh, the motion comic follows the comic, and is pretty cool, at least as far I’ve read thus far.

Undead Again

Not like it is any surprise to anyone who understands marketing, but it has just been revealed that Steve Rogers (the “real” Captain America) is no longer dead (or will soon no longer be dead). As revealed by Tom Brevoort on Newsarama, and elsewhere, the real Cap is back (like we always knew he would be).



The above panel came to us courtesy of The Initiative #1 (released the same day as Captain America #25, where cap “died”).

Hey, I wasn’t surprised when Superman died and came back a decade-and-and-a-half back (1992), so the fact that Marvel “suddenly” got the idea to recycle this tired old storyline was obviously no surprise to those of us who have been reading comics longer than the past couple of weeks.

Here is how CNN reported the story:

Perhaps he should be called Captain Phoenix?

Rising from the dead after being killed off over two years ago, Captain America is being resurrected by Marvel Comics.

Though the circumstances of his return are being closely shielded, the star-spangled superhero returns July 1 in a five-comic-book series, "Captain America Reborn."

A big-budget movie in development by Marvel is also expected in 2011.

After close to 60 years in print, Marvel Comics killed off Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in 2007, one of its most famous and beloved superheroes, amid a controversial story line.

He fought and triumphed over Hitler, Tojo, international Communism and a host of super-villains, but a sniper's bullet cut Captain America down in 2007, a move that shocked many of his fans.

Get the rest of that story, here.

I’ll probably pick up at least some of the comics revolving around this story (Captain America #600 — they are combining all the various runs of his various comics, to get that number), as well as the five-issue mini-series (Captain America Reborn). However, I’m still upset over the fact that the week that Cap was shot, every English newspaper in the free world reported it, but six real live U.S. Soldiers died in Iraq and not one newspaper mentioned their names.

Some days it is just embarrassing to be a comicbook fan, other days it is so uncomfortable you just want to hide. That day I was both.