Author: James Hadden

So far we have seen the early concept art for a lot of the characters featured in Captain America: Civil War including Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye and Black Widow, but now we get a glimpse at one of the film’s biggest stars – Spider-Man. Read on to see just what could have been. The images come courtesy of the recently released, Captain America: Civil War Art of the Movie book and gives us a look at everybody’s favorite wallcrawler during his appearance in the spectacular airport battle sequence. While it’s difficult to make out many clear details due to the quality…

Next month will see the debut of the DCEU take of longtime Batman nemesis, The Joker, in Suicide Squad where he is set to be played by Dallas Buyers Club actor Jared Leto. But where the character will pop up after that is currently unknown, although some recent evidence seems to point to him appearing as early as next year. Read on to find out where. On his official Twitter last week, Leto revealed that he was currently visiting the city of London, and while this could simply be a case of an actor taking a much needed break from…

One of the most reassuring aspects of comic books are that thankfully we’ll never see anybody nearly as diabolical as the villains featured in real life, at least that’s what we thought. Now Marvel has revealed that one of it’s classic villains is getting an all too familiar redesign. The character set to receive the redesign is longtime Captain America foe, Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing or M.O.D.O.K as he prefers to be called. The character will debut on the pages of Spider-Gwen Annual #1, but a preview for the issue has been released, giving us our first look…

If an actor or actress is looking to place themselves on the list for the highest grossing, the easiest way to do it is to either appear in a Marvel film, a Star Wars film or appear as some form of talking animal. In Scarlett Johnansson’s case, do two out of three and seeing as that has led to her being named the highest grossing actress in Hollywood, it’s clearly working. This revelation comes via Box Office Mojo‘s updated list of top-earning actors which places the actress, who has portrayed Black Widow in five films in Marvel Cinematic Universe,…

Scientists predict that by the year 2022, every actor and actress in Hollywood would have starred in at least one comic book film. In order for this to happen though, studios will need to develop every comic property available to them, no matter how silly the premise. One such character is Squirrel Girl, and luckily the studio may already have a willing volunteer to take the role. Pitch Perfect actress Anna Kendrick was recently asked by the site Net-A-Porter whether she would be interested in Taking on a superhero role. Her response? Yes as long as it’s Squirrel Girl. She…

Earlier this week we were treated to a look at Andy Park’s early concept art for Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye in Captain America: Civil War which let us see just how different the character could have been. Now the concept artist has released another early design for the film, this time featuring a member of Team Cap’s side. Read on to find out who. Taking taking to his Twitter, Park treated his followers to a look at the early concept art for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow and it looks…….almost identical to the final product. While the character has never had an…

This fall sees the debut of a brand new Avengers line up, and keeping in line with the spirit of the weekend, it’s steeped in patriotism. The new series from Al Ewing and artist Paco Medina, who are currently working on the New Avengers books, will be titled U.S. Avengers and features the team of the same name focusing on  defending the homeland whilst all those other commie Avengers teams deal with the rest of the world. The team is set to be led by Sunspot aka Roberto Da Costa, who is ironically Brazillian. He will then be supported by Cannonball, Squirrel Girl,…

Back when it was released in December, most fans agreed that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a great addition the legendary science fiction franchise. Well it seems that opinion wasn’t shared by everyone as another master of the genre has come out to express his disapproval of the latest film. In a recent interview, Aliens and The Terminator director James Cameron revealed his thoughts on Disney’s first entry to the Star Wars universe. Whilst making sure not to offend either George Lucas or J.J. Abrams, Cameron revealed to the interviewer : “I have to say that I felt that…

When it comes to being cast as a superhero some actors are able to keep it under wraps until an official announcement whilst others seem to be just so excited that they can’t help but spill the beans. Now it looks as though we can add The Walking Dead actor, Justin Kucsulain to the latter after he revealed his interest in a powerful Marvel character. Kucsulain, who had a short role as  Hilltop turncoat Ethan in the latest season of the hit AMC show before being despatched by Rick Grimes, took to his Instagram page to show off the collection of…

When it comes to comic book costumes, the MCU know how create a look that is both wholly recognizable but at the same time practical. However there is one character with which they often seem to miss the mark and that is Jeremy Renner’s master archer, Hawkeye. But now thanks to some recently released concept art, we can see just what the character could look like. While the character early version of the costume in The Avengers clearly takes inspiration from  the pages of Ultimate Hawkeye, many fans were disappointed that it didn’t borrow more from the mainstream 616 incarnation,…