These days, one of the most well-worn and well-respected tropes in superhero comics is the high school hero – the coming of age tale that melds superpowered themes of self discovery with heaps of adolescent angst. Yet, considering how many wise-cracking teenage superhero comics are on the stands...

Welcome back for another installment of CUP O' JOE! Exclusively here at CBR, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada answers questions posed by you, the readers, in CBR's Marvel Universe forum as well as CBR staff. For a great heaping helping of the former, be sure to check out last Friday's CUP O...

That's right, the publisher's solicitations preview lists the series finales of The New Avengers, Dark Avengers, The Mighty Avengers and Avengers: The Initiative. It also solves the mystery of what comic writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Bryan Hitch have been collaborating on: It's a 64-page one...

Off the coast of the Galapagos Islands, something hideous, something so deliciously amoral has vanquished the tranquility and shattered the peace - DEADPOOL! The legend no one can forget has been missing for years...yes, we're talking about It! The Living Colossus, the 30-foot-tall stone statue...

With a four-issue mini-series, you've got a limited amount of time to grab your reader's attention. Move too slowly or don't offer up enough of a hook, and there's a good chance the reader  will just drop the story mid-stream. After all, if it's not an ongoing series, there isn't a chance for things...