Avengers Assemble

Books: The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy, a new book detailing Christopher Nolan's series of Batman films, is now available for preorder, with an expected July 28 release. TV: Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes is rumored to have been canceled to make room for a new animated series, Avengers Assemble...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * The realm of the quotidian % The realm of the fantastical * SHOWCASE PRESENTS YOUNG LOVE VOL. 1 Holy wedding dresses, this looks great, even in a week as full of excellent new and old material as this one...

At the Marvel Comic Cup o' Joe panel at New York Comic-Con, which featured both Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada along with a who's who of Marvel executives, writers, and editors, the publisher not only teased the return of Sabretooth and the Phoenix, but also announced Avengers Assemble, a new ongoing series by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, and an ongoing Dexter comic written by Jeff Li

In this relatively golden era where toy aisles simultaneously stock movie-based action figures of The Avengers' most prominent heroes -- Captain America, Iron Man and Thor -- Hasbro has been pretty good about simultaneously keeping the comic book versions of "The Big Three" on store shelves...