Marvel is getting their tease on this week. On top of the couple of “4” promos they’ve dropped, yesterday they also released an Uncanny X-Men #1 teaser. Today Wolvie and his team are getting their deserved time in the teasing spotlight.

Hit the jump and check out the promo. Any guesses on the  silhouettes  would be outstanding, I’m stumped.

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Marvel’s released a second teaser for ‘4’. I’m going to go ahead and throw my coins in with the lot that believes this is all part of a building hype train for Fantastic Four #600. If that is the case, it’s going to be curious to see if they’re going to run F4 in tandem with Future Foundation, fold one into the other, or have FF #600 and then continue on with the regular numbering. Thing I’m pretty certain of: this isn’t going to be the return of J. Storm. Not yet.

Hit the jump to check out the full teaser.

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Marvel dropped a couple of promo pictures for upcoming November titles. First off they have the relaunching Uncanny X-Men, the image featuring an Emma Frost surprisingly with pants on. Who is on her team? Looks like Juggs and Magneto at the very least. Where’s Scott?! Gone to join his Flame Haired Beauty? And then there’s “4”, lead by Hickman and Pacheco. Torch coming back already? Eh? I love the Foundation. We’ll see.

Hit the jump for the promos.

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A brief story. This week I was on Google+ for one of my rare visits. There’s nothing going on in there. Tumbleweeds and picture spam. Browsing, browsing. Eventually on my barren News Feed, something caught my eyes. It was a picture my friend posted of an Ariel from Little Mermaid from a coloring book. Ariel was colored in black. I suppose brown is more precise. My friend said something to the extent of “The majority of Disney’s characters are white, so I do what I can for my daughter”, a daughter who is half-white, half-black. All awesome, given her parents.

I thought to myself, that sucks. A couple days later Marvel dropped on the world Miles Morales. He’s the new Spider-Man for Marvel’s Ultimate universe. He’s also half-black, half-Hispanic and fully pants-shitting for the closeted white people out there in the world who think everyone with a skin tone is coming for our tax money, our educational system, and our hospitals.

I think Miles Morales is awesome.

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Jesus Christ I take an evening to actually read comic books  and go directly to bed and then I miss this. Hathaway. As Catwoman. After the break.

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Forget those pictures of Henry Cavill rockin’ out as Kent (or not according to one poster), WB’s dropped an official picture of Cavill from Man of Steel.

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This is a big old piggy of a week here in Variant Covers. The comic books column that serves as a soap-box for spouting off on what me and you are interested in the world of funny books this week. There’s a good amount of sequential art tickling the old taint this week, so let’s have at it.

Don’t forget to show me yours.

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Zack Snyder continues assembling a motherfuckin’ beast of a cast for his Superman reboot. The latest entrance into the fray is Laurence Fishburne who will be playing the Man in Command at the Daily Planet.

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Marvel has released a trailer for their first ‘One Shot’ that is being packaged in with the DVD release of Thor. It’s called ‘The Consultant’ and it features  Clark Gregg once again as Agent Coulson. If the teaser is anything to be judged by, I’m going to go ahead and predict it fucking sucks.

Hit the jump for the teaser.

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Shh! There are spoilers afoot. Would you like to know who the new Ultimate Spider-Man is? Hit the jump. But be forewarned, nothing is sacred after this here jump.

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