News You Already Know

* It is official, Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle are both signed for Iron Man 2 and The Avengers. Jon Favreau will be directing Iron Man 2 and will serve as the Executive Producer of The Avengers.

* The Tony award winning, David Lindsay-Abaire is in final negations to write Spider-Man 4. Many were under the idea that the movie was already written. Hopefully this will hurt the chances of the film coming out in 2011.

* J. Michael Straczynski is working on a the screenplay for a remake of Forbidden Planet. Straczynski is known for his work on Thor, Amazing Spider-man, and The Twelve.

* In typical fashion, Marvel has pushed back the release of the final part of "Secret Invasion" by two weeks.

Crazy Ass Rumors

* "The Incredible Hulk" DVD will be coming in October. It is rumored that there is an alternate ending to the film that will be on the DVD. The alternate ending sees Bruce Banner traveling to the Antartic, seeking a place to die. When Banner gets to the his final resting place he finds a frozen Captain America.

* "Secret Invasion" is coming to an end soon and the rumored ending is...the good guys win and skrulls go home, after a giant death toll of humans and skrulls take place. I know it's not all that radical of an ending, but who knows.

* Spinning out of "Secret Invasion" will be new line-ups for the various Avengers team. There is speculation right now that Dr.Strange, Echo, and Iron Fist are leaving the New Avengers. Joining the team will be the new Captain America.

* The Dark Illuminati is set to appear soon. The line-up is rumored to be, Loki, Dr.Doom, Vulcan, Namor, Emma Frost, and Norman Osborn. Others are speculating that Purple Man and or The Hood would be in that group.

* Ultimate Black Panther is Nick Fury.

Crazy Ass Rumors

* The newest Batman movie rumor to surface has Cher, yep Cher, playing Catwoman in the next Batman film.

* Iron Man 2 and Thor are coming up in 2010. As of now we have no idea who will play Thor, but a new rumor is going around about Captain America. It is being reported that Will Smith has been offered the role of Steve Rogers. I had no problem with a black Kingpin, and I enjoy the black Nick Fury, but no way am I going for this idea. Some things you don't change.

* Marvel Comics are going to be seeing a lot of green in the coming years. No we're not talking about cash, we're talking about Skrulls. An early rumor going around is that the Skrulls may not win the "Secret Invasion" but will be calling Earth home after the series ends.

* We have been talking about "Spider-Man 4 and 5" for a few months now. The scripts are done, and word is that Sam Raimi and Tobey "Billion dollars" Maguire are signed to do the next two films about the web crawler. As usual, early word as Lizard as appearing in the new Spider-Man film.

* Marvel Studios is still toying with the idea of doing the proposed Edgar Wright "Ant-Man" film. One rumor suggest that the title will be "Ant-Man: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." Geeks are still hoping the movie will get the green light and have Simon Pegg casted as the lead.

* Issue one of "Secret Six" saw the first new addition to the team. Just as we called it, Bane was added to the team. There's still one person left to add, and our official guess is Harley Quinn.

Holy Shit We're Under Attack!

Years of planning by Marvel Comics and award winning writer Brian Bendis (New Avengers, Mighty Avengers) have started to pay off as Secret Invasion issue 1 hit newsstands this past Wednesday. Bendis is once again teamed up with artist Leinil Yu (New Avengers) to bring us eight issues of Skrully goodness.

Here's what you need to know so far. The Skrulls are the shapesfiting aliens of the Marvel Universe. Not to long ago the Skrulls home planet was destroyed. The survivors of this tragedy decided that Earth should be their new home, and for years have been planning a very hostile takeover. In the past Skrulls were identifiable to the heroes of the Marvel Universe, now not so much. Last year the tag line for "Civil War" was "Whose Side Are You On?", this year fans are presented with a new question, "Who Do You Trust?"

Every week we plan on taking a look at what's going in the Marvel Universe as the Secret Invasion goes very public. We will recap who has been outed as a Skrull and how might still be in the green closet. Here are a few of the facts that we know already.

* Elektra was the first hidden Skrull to be found by the New Avengers while in Japan.

* Black Bolt was the second to be outed as a Skrull at the end of World War Hulk.

* During issue one it was revealed that "Dum Dum" Duggan, Jarvis, and Hank Pym have all been skrulls for some time now.

* The prison doors of the Raft and the Cube are now open to cause complete chaos.

* Either Captain Marvel or Captain Marvel Skrull has attacked The Thunderbolts.

* Tony Stark is completely screwed by a virus that has effected everything on Earth.

* A ship has crash landed in the Savage Land. The people who have emerged from the ship seem to be heroes from Marvel's 70's era that include, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Ms.Marvel, Spider-Man, Jean Grey, Beast, Emma Frost, Mockingbird, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and more.

* One last thing to keep in mind. With the people that have been revealed as Skrulls so far we can now state that for some amount of time the Skrulls have led ninja clan known as The Hand. Ruled the Kingdom of the Inhumans. Worked inside S.H.E.I.L.D. as a senior officer. Helped establish The Initiative. And most importantly did the laundry for the Mighty Avengers. The Marvel Universe is so screwed.

More details will be spilling out of the pages of New Avengers and Mighty Avengers in the coming weeks. For speculations and rumors, keep an eye open for "Crazy Ass Rumors" later this week.