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Continuing the week-long announcements/confirmations of last week's Marvel NOW! teases, Matt Fraction has been confirmed as the new man in charge of Marvel's First Family, writing relaunches of both Fantastic Four and spin-off title FF.USA Today had the details about Fraction's plans for the two series, with the writer saying that "it's very easy to say, 'I want to stay true to what Stan an

What's that you say? The four teasers for Marvel's relaunched Marvel NOW! titles so far this week haven't been enough for you? How about four more to round out the weekend? This time around, Marvel's creators are all thinking Legacy, Soldier, Extended and Family...

Jonathan Hickman is a comics writer known to his peers, collaborators and hardcore fans as a methodical plotter. The creator of The Nightly News and Pax Romana and writer of Secret Warriors is indeed so diligent in his preparations that his series outlines eschew the standard text-based format and take the form of intricate charts or graphs that delineate precisely what and when something will occ

Marvel Comics has confirmed that writer Jonathan Hickman will conclude his work on the publisher's Fantastic Four and FF titles later this year. As demonstrated by David Uzumeri's ongoing annotations, Hickman and his artistic collaborators' work with the characters created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee has been especially rich and compelling, and the writer's penchant for epic and meticulously plott

Upcoming: The Power Pack will return to, how you say, the core Marvel universe in FF #15. Gaming: DC Universe Online's ninth update, "Assemble for Battle," is now live. Movies: Jane Goldman of X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass fame will pen the script adapting Nate Simpson's Nonplayer series for the big screen...

This week saw the release of Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting's Fantastic Four #600, celebrating not only six hundred issues of the seminal title but also more than fifty years since the book's debut. Hickman's run on Fantastic Four has been a definite highlight of the past few years of superhero comics, embracing the cosmic scope and incorporating elements of almost every era of Fantastic Four h

On sale this week from Marvel Comics is FF #8. Written by Jonathan Hickman with artwork by Steve Epting and Paul Mounts, the issue finds Sue Richards (aka the Invisible Woman) in conversation with her father-in-law, Nathanial Richards, who's recruited her husband Reed (aka Mr...

Marvel closed out a week of tantalizing teaser imagery with confirmation that not only will Fantastic Four return for its 600th issue, but its spinoff book, FF, will also continue. Both series are written by Jonathan Hickman and are part of a mega-plot he's been constructing since he took over Fantastic Four in 2009 (one that our own David Uzumeri has been annotating prodigiously)...

Marvel Comics has been having a good time this week teasing a number of new publishing events to take place later this year. So far we've seen artwork in support of a relaunched Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine and the X-Men and what we strongly suspect will be the publication of Fantastic Four #600...

In typically cryptic fashion, Marvel Comics released Tuesday a new pair of teaser images designed to make us talk about future publishing events -- and, as was the case with yesterday's Uncanny X-Men and Four teasers, it worked! The first image hypes Wolverine and the X-Men, a new series from writer Jason Aaron and artist Chris Bachalo...