ComicList Week In Review: Volume 18, Issue 18

The past week's posts and tweets from ComicList!

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ComicList Week In Review: Volume 18, Issue 18

The past week's posts and tweets from ComicList!

Every girl's crazy about a sharp-dressed hero on HeroUp.com!

Surprising absolutely no one, The Avengers has Hulk smashed the weekend box office. The movie made $18.7 million at the midnight premiere and an estimated $80.5 million on the opening day alone. As of the writing of the article the [...]

thorverine, No Surprise: Avengers Is A Box Office Juggernaut

Surprising absolutely no one, The Avengers has Hulk smashed the weekend box office. The movie made $18.7 million at the midnight premiere and an estimated $80.5 million on the opening day alone. As of the writing of the article the Saturday returns aren’t in. The feat is only second to the $91 million the last Harry Potter flick brought in. It is the highest amount of money brought in for a superhero movie at midnight.

As for the weekend as a whole, The Avengers are set to give the boy wizard a run for his money for the all-time weekend box office race. Avengers has a tough road, but with overwhelmingly positive fan and critics reactions, the word of mouth traffic could easily push Avengers into the All-Time Weekend Box Office slot. Potter has the record with $169.1 million.If you haven’t seen it go right now, and if you have go see it again. The Avengers, which has been out overseas for a while, pulled in $304 million internationally. The Avengers will easily pass $500 million worldwide by the close of Sunday.

The Avengers had a slightly harder battle, because Harry Potter was the last film in the acclaimed series. It had a built in audience, but so does The Avengers. 3D ticket prices do give Avengers a slight boost, but that doesn’t take anything away from its success.

The handy little box office report is from Box Office Mojo, you can see the top ten movies for Friday. If Avengers indeed finishes off Potter this weekend we will be letting you know.  So of course a sequel is a no brainer. Marvel I demand you back up a truck of money to Whedon’s house and let him do whatever he wants. Do your part to make that possible and Assemble at the theater near you.

thorverine, No Surprise: Avengers Is A Box Office Juggernaut

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Avengers fans, if you loved the movie like we did(check our reviews for the movie), you will now be even more excited. If you loved watching the movie, you probably wanted to live that too, but unfortunately there wasn’t a [...]

Lucas Silva M., A Video Game For The Avengers May Be On Its Way After All!

Avengers fans, if you loved the movie like we did(check our reviews for the movie), you will now be even more excited. If you loved watching the movie, you probably wanted to live that too, but unfortunately there wasn’t a tie-in console video game coinciding with the film’s release, because well, the THQ Australian studio, which was responsible for bringing it, was shut down before the game could see the light of the day. But no worries! Good news, no, excellent news surfaced today via Fusible.

The Avengers video game looks to have a title — Avengers: Battle for Earth.

On May 3, 2012, a day before the film was released in the United States, the domain name avengersbattleforearth.com (Whois) was registered through the brand protection company MarkMonitor.

The name was registered by Marvel Characters, Inc. and is currently listed on Ubisoft’s nameservers: nic1.ubisoft.com and nic2.ubisoft.com.

Apparently the same video game studio responsible for successful games such as the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Assassin’s Creed and the Prince Of Persia franchises will be working on the upcoming video game, which now may have a chance to be a great hit. Stay tuned on CBT to more news on Avengers: Battle for Earth.

Lucas Silva M., A Video Game For The Avengers May Be On Its Way After All!

(W) Simon Furman
(A/CA) Andrew Wildman
The wait is over - after a 20-year hiatus, IDW proudly returns to the original Transformers comic book universe, picking up right where 1991's Transformers #80 left off! Optimus Prime, Grimlock, Kup, Hot Rod and all your favorite Generation One Transformers characters charge into the future as fan-favorite writer Simon Furman and legendary Transformers artist Andrew Wildman present Transformers #80.5! Reflecting back on the dizzying highs and the terrifying lows of the original run of Transformers comics, Optimus Prime watches over a Cybertron that hasn't faced Megatron for decades. But that peace shudders to an end, as we dive headlong into July's Transformers #81!

Because the Fans demanded it! Thousand of Transformers fans signed petitions urging us to make this book - and IDW listened!

Created by the same writer, penciler, and inker of Transformer #80 in 1991!

Bonus features make clear IDW's current Transformers line of comics, as well as our extensive reprint program!

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