Marvel Comics Thread

[number8]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=40326

Again, take the concept back to center. Hulk is about what happens to us when we lose control -- or when we try to exercise too much control. The stories we'll be telling treat the Hulk less like a time bomb and more like a targeted WMD -- and he'll be moving throughout the Marvel Universe, exploring (on Banner's behalf, for reasons you'll see in issue #1) certain corners of the universe -- Jotunheim, The Negative Zone, Lemuria. Hulk and Banner have a mission -- and it will take them far and wide.

Maria Hill and Bruce Banner are the main players in the series, and their Byzantine relationship is both funny and dark and they're a blast to write as a quasi-partnership. And Banner will be in a lab again and will have a band of assistants who all have two things in common: they're all brilliant in their fields, and they have nothing to lose should they suddenly find they're sharing close quarters with an angry jade behemoth.

More or less like Mark Ruffalo's version then.

[number8]

Posehn: And then the voices in his head, you'll see, are a little more organic. There's a reason for them – not that there wasn't before, but in ours, he gets a head injury in the first book. Somebody talks to him, but it's not his voice. How should I say this? One of the founding fathers comes in to help him. We don't know in the beginning if he's hallucinating or if it's part of his break with sanity or if this guy is really with him.

IGN: Another conflict Deadpool has been dealing with these last couple years is this quest for legitimacy. He wants to be seen as a valid superhero alongside everyone else. Even though this is a fresh start, is that an element that will be continuing forward in this book?

Posehn: Oh, absolutely. We have several guest stars already in the first couple issues, and we have other guest stars planned. Basically, these guys are famous heroes that will be telling Deadpool, “We don't want your help. You are not part of us. You're on your own, friend.”

Duggan: “And leave my name out of it when you tell this story.”

Posehn: Yeah, yeah. “I'm helping you now, but this is not a team-up.” And there will be very famous Marvel guys saying that in different ways. One guy uses a lot of “ye's” and has a funny hat.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/...c-with-a-mouth

[number8]

Hmmm, so Fraction's FF is going to be a radically different concept.

FF will get a new look and a new replacement Fantastic Four squad, with Ant-Man heading up Reed's Future Foundation and teaming with She-Hulk, the Inhumans' Medusa and Miss Thing, an all-new female character clad in a Thing suit of armor.

"This is the place to be wildly inventive, and I would like to put as many things down on the page as humanly possible and offer up another dose next issue."

The Big Bang happened in less than a second, though, so four minutes is an eternity for the big brain of Reed Richards. He makes it a point for them to choose the people they want to carry on their legacy just in case something goes awry since the Earth will still need protection.

Ant-Man and his group stand guard for the four minutes, but nothing happens. Three weeks later, a one-eyed, one-legged, long-haired, half-insane, bearded Johnny Storm walks through the time gateway, shuts it behind him and says, "We can never open this door again."

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/...ies/56911846/1

Reed builds a ship that will take his team and his children across time and space for an epic historical lesson, the writer says. "If they're studying ancient Rome, then by God let's go have lunch with Caesar on the Ides of March. If they're looking at the Big Bang, they're going to watch it from the front row."

They'll be gone for a year — which will only be four minutes in regular Earth time — and while there will be continuing plot threads, each issue will be a new adventure and new situation.

In doing so, Fraction aims for the title to be entertaining for all ages, from his kids to the older comic fan.

"I feel that one of the best Fantastic Four stories was The Incredibles, and I want to take that back. It's so arrogant to say but it should have been us. We should have done that," Fraction says, laughing.

"If this could be the Pixar version of the Fantastic Four, something that everyone can enjoy, not just our medium 30-year-old white-dude reader, I'd be happy."

GODDAMMIT TOO MANY BOOKS.

[Ezee E]

When are these all being released?

[number8]

The relaunch starts in November, I think. Avengers might be earlier.

[Ezee E]

The relaunch starts in November, I think. Avengers might be earlier.

Good to know. Some characters I'll check out regardless, Fraction Four is one that has my attention though.

[sevenarts]

Somehow every book that Mike Allred draws just sounds like it has to be a Mike Allred book, even if he had nothing to do with writing it. Can't wait for what sounds like a very bizarre, interesting new FF concept.

[number8]

http://ifanboy.com/articles/intervie...om-marvel-now/

Well, it is what I would like to do for sure. It’s the stuff that when I thought what character do I want, before I made a decision I was trying to figure out with each one of them, where I would fit and what I would do with it. I immediately had ideas. Tonally, it’s very different. It’s a hostile takeover. It’s a complete shift from what Ed was doing and I loved what Ed was doing, but if I were to try and emulate that or to continue that tone, it would be Ed light. It wouldn’t be the same thing. So I’m leaning in to what I like to do, which is high adventure, sci-fi, with spy fantasy, with a heavy focus on the man under the suit. It’s very character-focused conflict stuff.

At the end of the day, it was more frightening to do that, but I felt like it fit the Marvel NOW! What they’re looking for is something that very much is hostile takeovers of the books, and creative juices flowing, giant shifts. This is definitely going to be a big change from what Ed had been doing.

One of the mandates I have to myself is, I don’t want to touch the World War II stuff. I think that that has been done, now, and it’s been done perfectly. To go back and to keep focusing on Cap in World War II at this point, again, would be following too closely to what Ed has already done. What I’m doing is spending a lot of time in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 20s and 30s, showing Steve grow up. The first arc is 10 issues, and it’s called “Dimension Z.”

I don’t want to give away too much, but a big portion of it is Cap dealing with Arnim Zola in Dimension Z. I’m trying to take Zola and do with him, what we did with Apocalypse over in Uncanny X-Force. Where we take what’s there, re-imagine it, build a new mythology and really expand Zola, and try and build Zola into a very, very big and important character.

The other half of it is going to be a lot of flashbacks to a young Steve Rogers growing up in Depression-era Lower East Side, and getting to know his family and his friends, and how this 98-pound weakling became such a tenacious, strong person; focus on the fiber and the integrity of who he is, and really develop that for the first time.

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Variant cover for Deadpool by Chris Bachalo. It's no Geoff Darrow:



Mark Bagley's variant joining cover for Fantastic Four and FF:



Bendis' time-traveling X-Men series gets a cover:

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"The story will focus on him questioning things about himself and trying to find out exactly how the universe ticks, what’s this all about and why he does this anyway. It’s going to be one of the major themes of the book going forward. For as long as I’m on the book it will be one of the two major themes I’m working on, like on Uncanny X-Men [with] the theme of power and the corruption thereof."

As for that second theme? It's all, or mostly, about the ladies.

"I’m going to explore Tony and his relationship with women. I’m interested in Tony’s selection of women in everything, from his mom, to Pepper, to the random people he’s sleeping with and everything that relates to them. He’s a complicated guy and he does bad things occasionally without thinking."

In contrast to the way he (mis)behaves with women, however, Gillen wants to send Tony Stark on a "Grail Knight" kind of arc. He'll be out in the world, and wearing the Iron Man armor quite a bit. In the first five issues of the relaunched title, in fact, Tony will be in different armor, and facing new villains in one-and-done stories connected more by motif than a strict multi-part storyline.

"Each issue will illuminate something about Tony and they’re all very different," said Gillen. "Issue two is a lot like the Bruce Lee Kung-Fu Island story; it’s like a joust, it’s all about the knight imagery, essentially going to a tournament. Issue three is like a ninja story, Tony Stark trying to be a full-on stealth master, issue four is a horror story and issue five is something a little more romantic and scientific but I’m going to keep that one under wraps."

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Here you go, all the new #1s in November:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=40453

[Sven]

Uncanny Avengers #2 variant cover by... Milo Manara??

[Sven]

Haha. Gillen already has Tony in England by issue 2. I love that man.

[number8]

Uncanny Avengers #2 variant cover by... Milo Manara??

I didn't even notice that. Shit I wanna see it now.

[number8]

I'd also forgotten that he did an X-Men miniseries written by Claremont a couple of years ago. Never did check that one out.

[Sven]

I'd also forgotten that he did an X-Men miniseries written by Claremont a couple of years ago. Never did check that one out.

At the comic shop I used to work at, one of our customers is German and he brought in a big German hardcover of this one. Astounding.

[Grouchy]

I'd also forgotten that he did an X-Men miniseries written by Claremont a couple of years ago. Never did check that one out.

Oh yeah, I remember oggling that one at a comic book shop.

[ledfloyd]

avengers vs. x-men ruined wolverine & the x-men for me. which i assume is now going to be cancelled?

what about uncanny x-force?

[Sven]

avengers vs. x-men ruined wolverine & the x-men for me. which i assume is now going to be cancelled?

How was it ruined? Aaron says it's not going to be cancelled.

what about uncanny x-force?

Remender says it's continuing.

[Sven]

Can't wait to see how it's going to be colored by White.

[ledfloyd]

How was it ruined? Aaron says it's not going to be cancelled.

i just lost interest because i couldn't care less about the crossover.

[Sven]

i just lost interest because i couldn't care less about the crossover.

Ah. Gotcha. Yeah, I dropped that title after Quint and Wolverine pulled off a space casino heist. It was fun, but a guy's gotta stop somewhere. Consistently some of my favorite artwork, though.

[Sven]

I didn't even notice that. Shit I wanna see it now.

[number8]

That's his art, all right.