Napalm Riot

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There's no way of getting around it: this is both an incredibly slow week for new comics releases, and also an incredibly busy week... just not until the weekend. This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day 2008 (when all manner of books are released for the price of zero dollars exactly in the hope of luring new readers into stores to be tempted by much more expensive items) but I'll wait until Friday before I tell you what you should be picking up for that. But everyone's preparing for Saturday, beca . . . Read more

It's been almost 20 months since Superhero Hype! first talked with actor/writer/director Jon Favreau about his take on Marvel Comics' Iron Man, and there's something cool about being Jon Favreau's last interview of the day on a very busy junket day in New York, where he's been talking non-stop about his fourth and biggest movie as a director.

After all, Superhero Hype! was one of the first people to talk to Favreau about the movie way back at Comic-Con International in San Diego in 2006 (whic . . . Read more

When Marvel's "Secret Invasion" was announced last year, I thought DC's big crossover, "Final Crisis," would eclipse it by far.

Why? Because "Final Crisis" looked to be an epic, multiverse-spanning saga that promises to affect the most iconic, popular superheroes in the world.

Compared with the somewhat cliche "aliens among us" theme for "Secret Invasion," I just didn't see much of a contest between the two.

But after only one issue, Marvel has served notice to DC that it had better bri . . . Read more

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