Wanting to go to next month’s big show but didn’t grab a ticket? You’re in luck! This coming Monday, June 28, Comic Con International will offer a limited number of 4 day passes if you book a hotel package deal. Full details can be found at this link, but needless to say it’s not cheap. If you are considering going, this is probably your best option. Dane and I will both be at San Diego this year and we’d love to see you there as well!

According to Slashfilm, Jonah Hex, Inglourious Basterds, and 300 actor Michael Fassbender has been cast in Fox’s ‘X-Men: First Class’ as none other than Magneto aka Erik Lensherr. Slashfilm also reports that Fassbender was being considered to play the villain in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot movie, but chose First Class over Spider-Man.

Fassbender joins James McAvoy and Benjamin Walker (who will be playing Beast) as official members of the cast.  Rumors are circulating that Pineapple Express‘ Amber Heard will be playing a young Mystique along with Rosamund Pike playing Moira McTaggert. Needless to say, the cast will be quite large and will hopefully be filled with talent.

I think Fassbender is a pretty solid actor, but I had never considered him for Magneto until now. Stay tuned as more casting announcements come down the pipe.

On last night’s edition of G4TV’s ‘Fresh Ink’ host Blair Butler announced the return of Hercules to lead a new team of heroes in an event called ‘Chaos War’. The event is a five issue mini series written by the long running creative team of Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak, with art by Khoi Pham. The event starts this October.

The event will focus on an attack on Earth by the Chaos King and his army of alien slave gods.  Hercules will lead a team of gods and cosmic beings consisting of Thor, Galactus (!), Sersi, Silver Surfer, and Venus.  It’s also worth noting that Amadeus Cho appears in some of the preview art.  Butler also stated that the Incredible Hulk will unite the “the surviving members’ of his family to combat this new threat.

This story seems like it will play off some of the events that occurred the ‘Scared Invasion’ story line that happened early on in Pak and Van Lente’s Incredible Hercules series.  I’m just so incredibly happy that I’ll get to see the return of one of my favorite Marvel characters. Check out the video after the page jump to see some great preview art from the series and get the full details.

Dane’s got Spider-Man fever as he covers 3 Spidey books this week and William covers the finale issue of The Shield and Jeph Loeb’s Ultimate X #3.

You can stream the episode here or subscribe in iTunes.

Books covered for this week are:

Amazing Spider-Man #633
Amazing Spider-Man #634
Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Black Cat #1
The Spirit #3
The Shield #10
Darkwing Duck #1
Ultimate X #3

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