Marvel held a live broadcast from Midtown Comics today at noon to announce next Summer’s Fear Itself event beginning in April. Joe Quesada was on hand to set the scene describing a world in an economic downturn, pundits telling you who to be afraid of, and people dealing in fear. It seems this is true in our world and in the Marvel Universe, making fear a great motivator with many taking advantage of it.

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A Marvel press release on Friday provided an advance preview of Marvel’s X-Men #7 from the new series by Victor Gischler. I’m not sure why the preview was released now since #6 hasn’t shipped yet, but I have a pretty good guess as Spider-Man joins the X-Men for this story arc. Many fans have been critical of the current X-Men vs. Vampires story currently featured in the title (and let’s face it they’ve been critical of Amazing Spider-Man lately as well), but this might be a way to showcase the change in focus that’s to come.

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Thank you, Ikea. Your selection of which stuffed animals to place in the giant bins near the exit brought back this fuzzy memory:

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant.

The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Deep Thoughts
by Jack Handey

Earlier this week Marvel released the artwork for two different cover images for Age of X: Alpha, the kick off to next year’s Age of X event by Mike Carey. The cover images were drawn by Oliver Coipel and Chris Bachalo respectively and give some new glimpses into what’s to come.

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While reading this week’s Generation Hope #2 from Marvel, I came across the Age of X advertisement that has been running for the past few weeks. This time, thing’s were a little different as the image now contained the tag line “What You Know Is Wrong!” along with a QR (quick response) bar code with the text:

“Download a QR reader to your smartphone for access to exclusive Age of X Historical Logs – Historical Log 1A”

Not that Generation Hope #2 wasn’t riveting, but I had to stop right there and see what this was all about.

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