Geez, you go away on business for a couple of days and Marvel have the indecency to release a fully fledged teaser trailer for possibly the most anticipated comic book movie of all time; The Avengers. SO please watch the trailer and then join me after the jump for a Sidekick's view:

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So here it is, your first look at the movie version of The Avengers. Underwhelmed? I know I am.

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Link: http://beta.news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-marvels-uncanny-x-men-ending-oct-070621654.html

Uncanny X-Men will end with issue #544 in October. That's it, that's all she wrote, no more Uncanny X-Men. WTF?!

This is all because of the fall out from Jason Aaron's Schism event, which has been described widely by Marvel folk and others as the X-Men's Civil War. Civil War was an event that ran in all the Marvel comics which split the universe straight down the middle based upon the inherent philosophical differences between Tony Stark (Iron Man)and Steve Rogers (Captain America) on how to deal/regulate with Superhumans and Superheroics. This Schism event seems to be based on a difference in opinion between Cyclops and Wolverine on how to move forward with Mutantkind, much like the Magneto/Xavier divide that came before this. What to do with a problem like Mutants eh?

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Link: http://ironmanmovie.marvel.com/

This new Iron Man 2 trailer is very similar to the last one but with some interesting and important additions, that new suit being the main one. From what I can tell it seems to be a portal suit that unfolds from your pocket...that's right I said pocket proving once and for all that Tony Stark is the Ultimate Boy-Scout.

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Ever dropped a comic book series only for it to then get really good, get high critical acclaim and make you look like a tit? No? Just me then. I dropped Eisner Award winning Invincible Iron Man in protest to the outrageous level of photo referencing and inconsistency artist Salvador Larroca was exposing the book too. Well this is me officially flip flopping and trying to atone for the abuse I've handed out. I'm now back on this book and it's looking better than ever, now the quality of the art really is matching up with the outstanding writing by Matt Fraction. The image above is a preview of Patrick Zircher's awesome cover to Invincible Iron Man #20, the beginning of the Stark: Disassembled storyline kicking off in November. The cover seems to be an homage to a scene from the Confession where Tony Stark is talking to a dead Captain America, in this cover Thor is taking the place of Tony and Tony seems to be the dead one. Since Thor's return he has shown nothing but distatse for Tony even though they were close friends founding the Avengers together. Could his apparent 'death' allow Thor to forgive him, is Tony's pennance for his 'crimes' against the superhero community finally over and as he seem's 'dead' does this mean Osborne will win? Stay tuned to find out.