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Matt Wagner has written and drawn comic book characters of all shapes and sizes at many publishers, but he’s still most closely associated with two of his own creations: Mage and Grendel. While the Grendel saga has certainly generated the higher number of pages, it’s Mage that is clearly the more personal of the two. And now, Wagner has begun the third and final 15-issue series in his comic book trilogy with Mage: The Hero Denied #1, as his protagonist faces the most dangerous and deadly challenge of his life. Namely, a family. RELATED: Matt Wagner Ends Mage Saga with Final Chapter The Hero Denied The first two entries in the trilogy (Mage: The Hero Discovered and Mage: The Hero Defined) introduced us to Kevin Matchstick, the reincarnation of Arthur Pendragon himself. Wielding a magical baseball bat with the powers of Excalibur, Kevin fights off dark spirits and mythic creatures with the aid of a mystical advisor with the title of the World-Mage (Mirth in the first volume, Wally Ut

Many were surprised last week by the announcement of the departure of Alex Alonso from Marvel Comics, to be replaced as editor-in-chief by company veteran C.B. Cebulski. Before Alonso’s promotion in 2011, that position was held by Joe Quesada, who for the past seven years has served as chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, focusing primarily on televisions and other Disney divisions. But Quesada now plans to make a shift back toward comics. RELATED: C.B. Cebulski Named Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief He told Newsarama the change in focus began last month, with him telling Marvel “I want to shift some more of my focus so I can do a little bit more in publishing, as I want to be there to help C.B. land with both feet running and be there for him in any way he needs me to be.” “We have a young editorial crew and these kids are super-bright and eager to learn as much about Marvel and the industry as possible,” he explained, “so I started d

The upcoming Spider-Geddon event from Marvel will bring together all the remaining Spider-heroes, but one of them, the mech-based hero known as Sp//dr, won’t see their original creator come along for the ride. Jake Wyatt, the artist who originally created Peni Parker and her Sp//dr mech, was slated to do the art for Edge of Spider-Geddon #2 (which focuses on the duo), but now will be replaced by Alberto Albuquerque. Created in 2014 for the Edge of Spider-Verse event by Wyatt and Gerard Way, Sp//dr is actually Peni Parker, a young woman adopted by Uncle Ben and Aunt May after her parents died. Hailing from Earth-14512, Peni controls the Sp//dr mech powered by a psychic connection and a radioactive spider. Peni managed to be one of the many Spider-heroes who survived the events of Spider-Verse, and her Spider-Geddon focused issue is a response to fans demanding her return in comics. She’ll be one of

The panel featured C.B. Cebulski in conversation with fan-favorite creator Skottie Young. “This is my first panel as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics,” Cebulski said in opening, while kicking things off. Young then joked, “We don’t have any note, we don’t have any talking points, we’re just going to do this podcast style.” Young kicked things off officially by prompting Cebulski into an anecdote about his first experience with comics as a very young child. Not to be out done, Young jumped in to relate his own childhood anecdotes, shouting out old issues of Mad Magazine and and a specific issue of Daredevil during Ann Nocenti’s run where Typhoid Mary nearly killed Matt Murdock by pushing him off a bridge. “That’s when I first realized that these stories were part of something bigger,” Young said. The panel continued on with both Young and Cebulski relating their inside jokes and childhoo

Marvel has announced that a weekly Man Without Fear series will deal with the fallout of the upcoming “Death of Daredevil” arc. During the Marvel – True Believers panel at New York Comic Con, creative executive Ryan Penagos revealed that writer Jed MacKay and artist Danilo S. Beyruth will produce The Man Without Fear, a weekly book that will center around the aftermath of Daredevil’s upcoming death. It’s unknown who will appear in the title, which is expected to hit shelves in January. The length of the series is also currently unknown. RELATED: Marvel’s ‘Death of Daredevil’ Arc to Mark Charles Soule’s Farewell This suggests the death of Matt Murdock will carry the same kind of weight around the Marvel Universe that Captain America’s and Wolverine’s deaths did. Both of those characters also received a series showing how the rest of the world responded to their deaths, which