Make Your Thursday Marvel With More New Digital Releases

This week The House of Ideas brought a mighty marvelous selection of super powered stories to comiXology! Now available across the Comics by comiXology platform, as well as the Marvel Comics App these thrilling tales offer up exactly what Marvel is known for – great stories about iconic characters, and reading them on comiXology only makes it better! Today why not make yours Marvel with these all new digital comics:

Punisher #9: Greg Ruka brings his phenomial run on Punisher to the digital realm this week. The impenetrable tank of the Hijacker lays waste to New York. Frank Castle uncovers the history of his new assistant, Henry, (an origin guaranteed to astonish). Meanwhile, someone digs up the caskets of Castle’s family (that’s got to end badly). Don’t miss this explosive digital debut!

Avengers Assemble #1: Just in time for this Summers Avengers Movie Brian Micheel Bendis and Mark Bagley bring The Earth’s Mightest heros to your digital device with this brand new Avengers series. It’s The Avengers vs. the new Zodiac! One of the greatest Avengers villains gets reinvented for the Modern Age! A perfect jumping-on point featuring the cast of the summer blockbuster in Marvel Universe!

Scarlet Spider #3: This smash hit series is now available on all Comics by comiXology devices on the Same Day as Print. Spider-Man’s dark clone continues his quest for redemption. Kaine discovers not everyone is happy to have a hero in his new home town! Get on board with the “Hero of Houston” as Kaine makes his mark. Download this exciting new issue today!

X-Men: Season One: With more Marvel Trades and Graphic Novels available than ever before comiXology is your one stop shop for all things Marvel: Season One! Welcome to the X-Men’s first year — hope you survive the experience! Professor Charles Xavier has recruited five of the most powerful mutants he’s ever seen to save a world that hates and fears them. But there’s only one problem: They’re teenagers who have to survive hormones and uncontrollable super-powers, all while fighting for their very lives. So right now’s the perfect time for Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants — along with the Sentinels, Unus the Untouchable and more — to make their bids for control of the world, right? The first class of X-Men are forged in the fires of combat in ways you’ve never seen before. You only think you know the story

Incredible Hulk #6: What Dark Price Did Hulk Pay To Separate Himself From Banner, And How Far Will He Go To Keep It That Way? • Hulk Versus Banner’s Newest, Maddest Creations… The Banner Men! • The Biggest, Nastiest Hulk Vs. Banner Fight In Marvel History! Read this battle for the ages on comiXology right now.

Let’s Get Digital: The Digital Comics Report For 10/26

This week comiXology is brining you almost 300 new digital comic books! That’s right it’s another record breaking week for digital comics fans with nearly something for everyone! Here is a look at a few of the books out this week from your favorite digital comic distributor, with everything from classic halloween specials to even more trades and graphic novels, It’s not a trick…Let’s Get Digital!

Same Day as Print

Wolverine and The X-Men #1: Wolverine has taken one half of the X-Men back to Westchester to start over again. SCHISM tore them apart, but can Wolverine lead the new Children of the Atom into the future?

Spaceman #1- The hulking, lonely loser Orson spends his days collecting scrap metal and dreaming of the startrekking life he was promised. But when he finds himself at the center of a celebrity child kidnapping case, he sees a chance to be a hero–but will his actions only cause more heartbreak?

Doctor Who #10-  Bodysnatchers: Part 1 of 2! Finding themselves inside an alien asylum, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory discover that many of the human patients within actually house the minds of some of the Doctor’s most terrifying enemies! As the Doctor tries to work out who has done this hideous body swap, the inmates riot… and two characters will never be the same again!

Green Wake #6- ‘LOST CHILDREN’ The next chapter of the critically acclaimed saga returns and the face of Green Wake has been forever changed. A new threat to the once-quiet shores surfaces when rowboats wash ashore with nothing but fresh blood as a passenger and a new arrival begins a campaign to unite Green Wake’s inhabitants with unknown purpose.

Pilot Season: The Beauty #1- PILOT SEASON RETURNS! TAKE CONTROL! Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could be come more and more beautiful every day? What if it was contagious? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is attainable and while the mass majority of the population has taken advantage of it, Detectives Foster and Vaughn will soon discover it comes with a terrible price. Writer/artist JEREMY HAUN (Detective Comics, ARTIFACTS) and co-writer JASON HURLEY offer up a startling reflection on the cost of looking good in this procedural science fiction tale.

New & Noteworthy in Digital:

Batman Inc. #1-8: Batman begins his international recruitment drive in Japan, with assistance from Catwoman. But when the Bat and Cat arrive in the land of the rising sun, they discover the local hero, Mr. Unknown, has been murdered!

Ghostbusters Holiday Special: What in Samhain Just Happened?- When a media mogul seeks out the Ghostbusters to fix his haunted mansion, the guys decline, assuming it’s a Halloween-themed publicity stunt. However, Janine, angry about her pay, takes the job, claiming she knows as much about ghostbusting as the guys do. She’s soon in over her head, and the Ghostbusters have to race against time to save her before she’s yanked over to the other side forever.

Kill Shakespeare #1-12- This dark take on the Bard pits his greatest heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Othello Falstaff) against his most menacing villains (Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago) in an epic adventure to find and kill a reclusive wizard named William Shakespeare.?

Collections and Graphic Novels:

Moon Lake- From the hilariously demented mind of Tony Award-winning actor Dan Fogler comes Moon Lake! Moon Lake isn’t just any normal body of water – it’s a mysterious portal into the weird, drawing all manner of macabre mysteries to its shores. In the spirit of classic horror tales from EC Comics, Moon Lake combines comedy, horror and adventure into a fantastic anthology, with each story centered on the strange happenings

Syndrome- When a rogue neuropathologist makes a startling breakthrough – literally isolating the root of all evil in the recesses of the human brain – he’ll stop at nothing to advance his theory. With the help of a naive Hollywood actress, a tormented motion picture director and a condemned serial killer, Dr. Wolfe Brunswick launches a bold experiment in the Nevada desert, the outcome of which could transform humanity forever.

Grab all these books and so much more this week from comiXology. Buy ‘em once read them anywhere, on iOS, Android and The Web! Keep an eye out for more cool comics to come from the coolest digital comic apps around and don’t forget comiXology makes it easy to gift any comic purchased through the store, now that’s a real treat!

Marvel Monday 6/6 50% off Ultimate X-Men #1-12

The world stands on the brink of genetic war. Mankind makes the first move, launching an army of giant, cybernetic executioners called Sentinels-programmed to target and eliminate mutants. The only force preventing total annihilation: the X-Men!

With X-Men: First Class dominating the box office, we’re continuing our celebration with all things X this week! On sale today we’ve got the first twelve issues of the groundbreaking Ultimate X-Men series at half-off the normal price.

Magneto and his mutant terrorist cell are preparing to follow through on their threats of Homo Sapien genocide. Are the X-Men up to the task of stopping them?

The only mutant to ever make it outside the walls of Weapon X has been the Adamantium-clawed Wolverine…until now! Get a look inside the Ultimate Universe’s Weapon X program and see what is in store for the mutants!

Find out what happens in these stellar stories from Mark Millar and Andy Kubert, add them to your digital collection today and keep an eye out for more totally awesome deals down the road.

X-Men Phoenix Warsong and Endsong $0.99 sale!

Industry superstar Greg Land and rising star Greg Pak begin their amazing X-Men work here! The mysterious and powerful PHOENIX FORCE is life incarnate, and yet it consumes whole worlds in a moment. Its long history with the X-Men is fraught with tragedy…especially concerning one of the most beloved of their number, JEAN GREY. What will happen when the Phoenix returns to Earth in search of the one mortal who could ever contain its power…only to find her dead?

It’s Friday, start the weekend off right by downloading two amazing story arcs for half their normal price. The Phoenix is back! But where has it been reborn? Fire and pain await the X-Men. Can they handle what’s to come?!

Find out by adding both X-Men: Phoenix Warsong and Endsong to your digital library today. This is one red hot sale you don’t want to miss out on so don’t wait download these ten issues in the Comics by comiXology app or Marvel comics app  today!

Marvel Monday Half-Off Astonishing X-Men Sale April 18th

This Marvel Monday comiXology is pulling out all the stops to deliver twleve totally awesome X-Men issues for only $0.99 a piece.

Dream-team creators Joss Whedon (creator of TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and fan-favorite film Serenity) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) bring you an explosive  all-new flagship X-Men series! As part of X-men: Reload, the first issue marks a return to classic greatness, the beginning of a brand-new era for the X-Men and is avialble along with the rest of this astonishing partnerships run for half off the normal price!

Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the X-Men with the express purpose of astonishing the world. But when breaking news about the mutant gene unexpectedly hits the airwaves, will it derail their new plans before they even get started? Find out today!

Marvel Monday Half-Off Sale of X-Men #1-7 for $.99!

Marvel Monday mixes it up with some merry mutant mayhem this week as the now classic first seven issues of Chris Claremont’s and Jim Lee’s run on the  iconic 90′s X-Men series comes at you for only $0.99 cents a piece! Nuff’ said.

With the X-Men’s greatest enemy back and deadlier than ever. It’s up to an all new team of Xavier’s finest to bring him down in a battle among the stars! Then as if things weren’t bad enough a new threat emerges from the shadows of Wolverine’s past. That’s right included in the sale this week is the landmark issue marking the debut of Omega Red, one of the biggest and baddest villains the X-Men have ever faced.

The X-Men secret past collides with the teams uncertain future in these awesome issues! It’s all here and available for half-off all day long. So you better hurry this is one Marvel Monday you don’t want to miss!

A warmly beating heart on ice

Uncanny X-Men #527: Matt Fraction focuses on the White Queen

An advertisement appearing across many Marvel comics a little while ago – what it was for I’m hard pressed to remember, but I’m thinking T-shirts — included Captain America, Thor, and Wolverine with the subtitles Soldier, God, and Weapon respectively. The beauty of the image was how it summarized the cores of these characters in one word: Cap is the ultimate soldier with America’s best interest at heart, Thor a warrior god defined by power and honor, and Wolverine a living weapon always teetering on the edge of losing his soul. The best superhero characters can be broken down like this, and then layered with further depth.

Emma Frost is a perfect character for this reason. Her word is probably Enchantress and like Wolverine there is a sophisticated duality that makes her so captivating. Is she a selfish and ambitious business women taking advantage of everyone around, or a woman fighting to survive in a world that would take advantage of her? Is she a cold, uncaring bitch or an insecure woman desperate not to show her weaknesses. Is she amoral or merely jaded and cynical? Playing on this duality is a crucial task for a writer using the character and unfortunately Matt Fraction gets a “just okay” for this Frost-centric issue of Uncanny X-men.

To further the point, a hit and a miss from the actual issue:

Hit: Tony Iron Man Stark invites the fair Ms. Frost to dinner to discuss the future since, as Cyclops is a dutiful soldier to Captain America’s  leader, Iron Man and Emma are the big picture business people.

Miss (More like missed opportunity): When Emma uses her psychic powers to grant a trapped Shadowcat words with her love Collosus, Fraction captures Emma’s prickly condescension well. But once the lovers had shared their sweet moment, it would’ve been nice to see Emma betray a smile that nobody but us sees or some similar gesture.

More or less the issue is that Emma isn’t just stuck up jerk; she’s a scary woman, one people shouldn’t feel comfortable around because she might just be controlling them. As a reader, I should root for her, and believe that she means the best, but always be a little bit afraid that I’m being taken along with everyone else. In this way, Fraction doesn’t quite hit the mark. On the plus side, Fraction is planting seeds of a fissure in the relationship between Emma and Cyclops, which is wonderful. They worked because he was the good boy and she was the bad girl and they both felt good getting dragged closer to the middle. Now that he’s become colder and less idealistic, can he still be that for her, or will she slip back into the darkness where she used to hide her true injured self? Only time will tell.

In other Frost news, January Jones of Mad Men fame was announced as Emma in the upcoming X-men film. On her TV show, she plays a housewife forced into the stilted life of a living jewel slowly fighting to find a voice and vehicle for her desires. It’ll be interesting to see her play the opposite, a woman struggling to hide her true desires by covering herself in barely-there white silk and diamond skin. I’m betting she’ll rock it, it’ll be a cool performance, and a real bit of frosting on top of a hopefully great movie. Pardon my puns.