Marvel Comics Highlights for January
October 18th 2006 12:24
It's Marvel Solicitation Time! It doesn't involve actual solicitation, but it does involve upcoming comics. Hooray! (Why do I feel like at least half of my audience just walked out?)
CIVIL WAR: THE RETURN
Written by PAUL JENKINS
Penciled by TOM RANEY
As the Civil War rages, two of the universe's greatest heroes are confronted with pasts they can't leave behind in two heart-rendering tales. On Earth, the Sentry confronts his inner demons as the shadows of past and future battles tear him apart. Within The Negative Zone, the walls of 42, are pulled back to reveal the return of one of the Marveldom's greatest heroes... now face-to-face with a Universe they no longer recognize.
Dear lord, would they? Would Marvel dare to resurrect their first Captain Marvel? All signs point to yes. Captain Marvel's death was one of those defining moments of comics. He died not in battle, but of cancer, in a bed surrounded by his greatest friends. I'm of the opinion that this death should never be reversed, but then again I'm of the opinion that any meaningful character death should never be reversed. So would Marvel dare? Yeah, I think they would. They've revealed Wolverine's origin, resurrected Bucky, and shown Gwen Stacy getting drilled by the Green Goblin. At this point I'd be surprised if they didn't overturn one of the few remaining untouched classic Marvel moments. Still, the signs are just a bit TOO obvious...
Oh, and heart-rendering.
ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM CRISIS (FEATURING WOLVER-HAM) #1
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Penciled by MIKE WIERINGO, MIKE ALLRED, JOHN SEVERIN, NICK DRAGOTTA, ARIEL OLIVETTI and JIM MAHFOOD
Cover by MIKE WIERINGO
You asked for it, you got it! Quite possibly the most important comic ever! A life-changing event that will change the way you look at yourself and the world around you! Spinning out of the page of CIVIL WAR -- and every other top-selling comic crossover event you can think of -- it’s ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM CRISIS (FEATURING WOLVER-HAM)!!! He's little, he's pink, he knows how to bring home the bacon. He’s Spider-Ham -- and he’s about to embark a kaleidoscopic, time-spanning, universe-shifting journey that will prove just how big a pig he really is. Guest-starring: Iron Ham, Deviled Ham, Fantastic Ham, Green Ham, Ant-Ham, Ultimate Captain Ham, Hambit, Hamneto, and everyone’s favorite Sorcerer Supreme -- whathisface? You know, the guy with the blue tights and red cape... Mustache... Man-servant named Wong? -- anyway, you know who I'm talking about. He's in it, too. And Wolver-Ham -- did I mention him?
Take one Marvel character. Season with a dash of Straczynski. Under no circumstances add research - it does not mix well with Straczynski. In just one month, you'll have a Spider-Ham comic with no resemblance to the original take. Sure, it's Spider-Ham, an absurd comedy character - BUT NOT EVERYONE IN HIS WORLD WAS A FRIGGIN' PIG!!!! What about the villainy of Ducktor Doom, huh? What about J. Jonah Jackass? No, now they're all pigs, which kind of undermines the whole fun of Spider-Ham, which was guessing what characters and animals would be mixed. I can't believe Straczynski ever worked on Masters of the Universe..
ALL-NEW OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z: UPDATE #1 (of 4)
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, STUART VANDAL, RONALD BYRD, SEAN MCQUAID, MARK O’ENGLISH, MIKE FICHERA, ANTHONY FLAMINI, ERIC J. MOREELS, MICHAEL HOSKIN, CHRIS BIGGS, MADISON CARTER, RICH GREEN & AL SJOERDSMA
Cover by TOM RANEY
What's the origin of M-11 the Human Robot? Who are the members of the Circus of Crime? What are the powers of Spider-Man 2099? Who are Digitek and Garko the Man-Frog? Who was Cage's first costumed foe? Find the answers to all these questions and many more here, as the Official Handbook continues to visit not just the Marvel Universe proper, but all related universes beyond! This one has something for everyone! New characters getting their first Handbook coverage? Freedom Ring, Death's Head 3.0, Nextwave and more -- CHECK! Older characters not covered in 2000s Handbooks? Arcade, Circus of Crime, Graviton, Ikaris, Impossible Man, In-Betweener, Tiger Shark and more -- CHECK! Older characters that never had a Handbook entry before? Bug-Eyed Voice, Human Robot, Thundersword and more -- CHECK! Major characters getting massive expansions and updates to reflect their new status? Norman Osborn, Quasar, Storm and more -- CHECK! Entries for major events, technology, pantheons and alien races -- and for characters from different countries, deepest space, other realities, dimensions, and past and future eras -- covering more of Marvel's universes than ever before? Contest of Champions, Digitek, Badoon, MC2's Fantastic Five, New Universe's Mark Hazzard, Japanese Gods, the M'kraan Crystal, Spider-Man 2099 and more -- CHECK! These updates will ship quarterly in 2007!
Nice, especially as a quarterly. This is all the Official Handbook we should ever need from this point on. Just print four of these issues a year, and eventually we'll have every Marvel character covered. One day I hope they collate all of the entries, including those from the 60s and 70s Handbook, and print 'em all up in one big volume.
GHOST RIDER FINALE
Written by IVAN VELEZ
Art by JAVIER SALTARES & MARK TEXEIRA
Cover by JAVIER SALTARES
The original creative team unites to complete an issue eight years in the making! In early 1998, GHOST RIDER #93 ended with a shocking cliffhanger: the death of Dan Ketch, the Ghost Rider's human host! But the book was canceled prematurely, prior to the release of the series finale in GHOST RIDER #94 -- which had already been written and was almost entirely penciled. Now, the final fate of Dan Ketch is revealed at last! With Blackheart deposed, the Ghost Rider is now lord of the Nether Realm. What does he intend to do with his power? And will the other Dark Lords -- like Belasco, Pluto and Hela -- allow him to keep it? This special edition also includes GHOST RIDER #93 and other bonus material!
I'm not much of a Ghost Rider fan past the awesome visual, but this is a fantastic idea. I'm not certain if it can possibly be canon, since I've heard that most of Ivan Velez's run got retconned by Howard Mackie in an issue of Spider-Man, but it must be a wonderful relief for long-time fans, who will finally get real closure to the character of Dan Ketch. Kudos to Marvel, even if all they did was dust off a story that's been moldering in the vaults.
IRON MAN: HYPERVELOCITY #1 (of 6)
Written by ADAM WARREN
Penciled by BRIAN DENHAM
Cover by ADAM WARREN
A single, grueling night of high-speed, mechanized mayhem finds Tony Stark and a new, uniquely improved version of the Iron Man armor caught in the crossfire between the bleeding-edge technology of an insurgent mecha subculture and the massed hardware of an elite "cape-killing" paramilitary force. Besieged by ballistic missiles, supersonic jihadi LMDs, seductive viral avatars and cyberdrug-addled roboravers, Iron Man must push himself far beyond his technological and biological limits to survive the onslaught of ultra-tech war machinery...
Writer Adam Warren (Livewires) delivers the fast-paced, tech-laced narrative, and artist Brian Denham renders the action in high-contrast "technoir" realism, with Guru eFX adding vibrant colors to the mix.
I don't know Adam Warren from... um... Adam, I suppose... But Iron Man is really intriguing at the moment - his status post Civil War is up in the air with his current near-villainous acts, which is a very different place for a hero with his own title to be in. Anyway, more intriguing are the words 'cyberdrug addled roboravers'. Less intriguing are the description of the visuals, which bring to mind the faux-CGI look of Adi Granov. Is it too much to ask for an Iron Man comic drawn with a pencil?
MYTHOS: GHOST RIDER
Written by PAUL JENKINS
Paints and Cover by PAOLO RIVERA
A fully-painted recounting of the origins of Johnny Blaze, the man the world knows as the Ghost Rider! What would cause a man to barter his soul with Satan, becoming an unholy Spirit of Vengeance in the process?
Ah, I think this explains the other GR project above - this must be about when the movie comes out. Which, let's face it, is going to be crap unless Nic Cage can pull off something awesome. The Mythos projects were supposed to be attempts to mesh a character's comic origins with their movie origin, though they haven't really held to that. The X-Men one did a retread of X-Men #1, with some more mutant-human stuff thrown in. The Hulk one did Hulk's comic origin with some more of Betty (as I vaguely remember it...) I suppose the GR origin will still be Johnny Blaze selling his soul to save his mentor from cancer, but that depends on where the movie's going.
MS. MARVEL SPECIAL
Written by BRIAN REED
Pencils and Cover by GUISEPPE CAMUNCOLI
Once upon a time, Carol Danvers was a novelist. This morning, at the New York Public Library, a child with the ability to turn anything he imagines into reality has begun to read Carol's sci-fi epic "Binary," based loosely on her own life amongst the stars. Within minutes, the library is overrun with visions from Carol's book and soon all of New York City is threatened! Brian Reed (Ms. Marvel, New Avengers: Illuminati) and Giuseppe Camuncoli (Captain Atom: Armageddon) team up for this one-shot special guest-starring Simon "Wonder Man" Williams and re-introducing one of Ms. Marvel's oldest threats!
I don't get Marvel. Why wouldn't they just publish this as an issue of the Ms. Marvel series? It has the same writer. One shots like this almost always sell less than issues of the main series. It's mind-boggling, honestly.
NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E. #12
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Pencils and Cover by
STUART IMMONEN
To all those who HAVEN'T been buying NEXTWAVE -- Thanks a lot, jerks! This is the last issue! To all those who HAVE been buying NEXTWAVE -- YOU RULE!! Do not miss this pulse-pounding conclusion to the greatest work of western literature EVER! Hamlet? Horrible. War and Peace? What-a-joke! The Great Gatsby? The Great Lame-by, maybe. Those works are going to be moved to the Bad Section of your local bookstores after this issue comes out. Don't miss this or you won’t know what your children's children are reading in school.
NOOOOOOO!!!! Apologies to my fiancee, but my life has now lost all meaning. People at Marvel must be kicked. And exploded.
Plus, according to Nextwave I RULE, which automatically makes it the best comic ever.
SILENT WAR #1 (of 6)
Written by DAVID HINE
Penciled by ROY ALLAN MARTINEZ
Cover by JOHN WATSON
SON OF M told how Quicksilver stole the precious Terrigen Mists from the Inhumans and how Black Bolt retaliated by declaring war on humanity. Now that war is about to break loose as Gorgon leads a terrorist attack on New York. Old friends become deadly enemies when the Fantastic Four are forced to defend their city against the Inhumans.
This is the sequel to Son of M, where the Inhumans (a race of hidden, genetically engineered humans) declared war on the human race. I'd kind of assumed that the whole thing got dropped when Civil War hit, so it's nice to see that it's being picked up. I'm not so sure David Hine is the guy I want to see writing a human/Inhuman war, but Grant Morrison is DC exclusive so I'll have to make do.
SQUADRON SUPREME: HYPERION VS. NIGHTHAWK #1 (of 4)
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Pencils and Cover by PAUL GULACY
It had to happen: The ultimate throw-down between the two stars of the smash hits "Supreme Power" and "Squadron Supreme:" Hyperion and Nighthawk.
But what could draw these two heroes into the biggest of all smackdowns? Nothing less than genocide. In this ripped from the headlines story, Marc Guggenheim (Wolverine, Blade) and comic book legend Paul Gulacy (Master of Kung Fu) explore the real-world tragedy that is going on right now in Darfur, Africa. The most thought-provoking and action-packed book you'll read all year!
A book entitled "Hyperion vs. Nighthawk" has no right to declare itself thought-provoking. Nevertheless, it could be good, but I seriously doubt that the Supreme Power/Squadron Supreme title has enough legs to support spin-offs. Especially ones that aren't by the main series writer. Shouldn't these events be, like, significant? How can they be in a miniseries by a fill-in writer?
EXILES #90
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Pencils and Cover by
PAUL PELLETIER
A new era for EXILES begins here! Legend Chris Claremont (UNCANNY X-MEN) starts a run that will have Exiles fans talking for years to come. And he's not the only one joining up, as X-Woman PSYLOCKE joins the team as well. What is she doing there? How will the team deal with her arrival? And what new villains plan on destroying every world in existence?!
Looks like Chris Claremont has recovered from his health scare, and is back at the writing game. I personally question the wisdom of placing him on this particular title. Exiles has been rock-solid in terms of sales for years. Nothing has been able to shake it out of its sales range. But Claremont has acquired an idiosyncratic reputation, and a whole lot of readers simply hate his work these days. Something tells me he won't mesh well with Exiles. Then again, not even Chuck Austen could destroy it. We shall see.
CIVIL WAR: THE RETURN
Written by PAUL JENKINS
Penciled by TOM RANEY
As the Civil War rages, two of the universe's greatest heroes are confronted with pasts they can't leave behind in two heart-rendering tales. On Earth, the Sentry confronts his inner demons as the shadows of past and future battles tear him apart. Within The Negative Zone, the walls of 42, are pulled back to reveal the return of one of the Marveldom's greatest heroes... now face-to-face with a Universe they no longer recognize.
Dear lord, would they? Would Marvel dare to resurrect their first Captain Marvel? All signs point to yes. Captain Marvel's death was one of those defining moments of comics. He died not in battle, but of cancer, in a bed surrounded by his greatest friends. I'm of the opinion that this death should never be reversed, but then again I'm of the opinion that any meaningful character death should never be reversed. So would Marvel dare? Yeah, I think they would. They've revealed Wolverine's origin, resurrected Bucky, and shown Gwen Stacy getting drilled by the Green Goblin. At this point I'd be surprised if they didn't overturn one of the few remaining untouched classic Marvel moments. Still, the signs are just a bit TOO obvious...
Oh, and heart-rendering.
ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM CRISIS (FEATURING WOLVER-HAM) #1
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Penciled by MIKE WIERINGO, MIKE ALLRED, JOHN SEVERIN, NICK DRAGOTTA, ARIEL OLIVETTI and JIM MAHFOOD
Cover by MIKE WIERINGO
You asked for it, you got it! Quite possibly the most important comic ever! A life-changing event that will change the way you look at yourself and the world around you! Spinning out of the page of CIVIL WAR -- and every other top-selling comic crossover event you can think of -- it’s ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM CRISIS (FEATURING WOLVER-HAM)!!! He's little, he's pink, he knows how to bring home the bacon. He’s Spider-Ham -- and he’s about to embark a kaleidoscopic, time-spanning, universe-shifting journey that will prove just how big a pig he really is. Guest-starring: Iron Ham, Deviled Ham, Fantastic Ham, Green Ham, Ant-Ham, Ultimate Captain Ham, Hambit, Hamneto, and everyone’s favorite Sorcerer Supreme -- whathisface? You know, the guy with the blue tights and red cape... Mustache... Man-servant named Wong? -- anyway, you know who I'm talking about. He's in it, too. And Wolver-Ham -- did I mention him?
Take one Marvel character. Season with a dash of Straczynski. Under no circumstances add research - it does not mix well with Straczynski. In just one month, you'll have a Spider-Ham comic with no resemblance to the original take. Sure, it's Spider-Ham, an absurd comedy character - BUT NOT EVERYONE IN HIS WORLD WAS A FRIGGIN' PIG!!!! What about the villainy of Ducktor Doom, huh? What about J. Jonah Jackass? No, now they're all pigs, which kind of undermines the whole fun of Spider-Ham, which was guessing what characters and animals would be mixed. I can't believe Straczynski ever worked on Masters of the Universe..
ALL-NEW OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z: UPDATE #1 (of 4)
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, STUART VANDAL, RONALD BYRD, SEAN MCQUAID, MARK O’ENGLISH, MIKE FICHERA, ANTHONY FLAMINI, ERIC J. MOREELS, MICHAEL HOSKIN, CHRIS BIGGS, MADISON CARTER, RICH GREEN & AL SJOERDSMA
Cover by TOM RANEY
What's the origin of M-11 the Human Robot? Who are the members of the Circus of Crime? What are the powers of Spider-Man 2099? Who are Digitek and Garko the Man-Frog? Who was Cage's first costumed foe? Find the answers to all these questions and many more here, as the Official Handbook continues to visit not just the Marvel Universe proper, but all related universes beyond! This one has something for everyone! New characters getting their first Handbook coverage? Freedom Ring, Death's Head 3.0, Nextwave and more -- CHECK! Older characters not covered in 2000s Handbooks? Arcade, Circus of Crime, Graviton, Ikaris, Impossible Man, In-Betweener, Tiger Shark and more -- CHECK! Older characters that never had a Handbook entry before? Bug-Eyed Voice, Human Robot, Thundersword and more -- CHECK! Major characters getting massive expansions and updates to reflect their new status? Norman Osborn, Quasar, Storm and more -- CHECK! Entries for major events, technology, pantheons and alien races -- and for characters from different countries, deepest space, other realities, dimensions, and past and future eras -- covering more of Marvel's universes than ever before? Contest of Champions, Digitek, Badoon, MC2's Fantastic Five, New Universe's Mark Hazzard, Japanese Gods, the M'kraan Crystal, Spider-Man 2099 and more -- CHECK! These updates will ship quarterly in 2007!
Nice, especially as a quarterly. This is all the Official Handbook we should ever need from this point on. Just print four of these issues a year, and eventually we'll have every Marvel character covered. One day I hope they collate all of the entries, including those from the 60s and 70s Handbook, and print 'em all up in one big volume.
GHOST RIDER FINALE
Written by IVAN VELEZ
Art by JAVIER SALTARES & MARK TEXEIRA
Cover by JAVIER SALTARES
The original creative team unites to complete an issue eight years in the making! In early 1998, GHOST RIDER #93 ended with a shocking cliffhanger: the death of Dan Ketch, the Ghost Rider's human host! But the book was canceled prematurely, prior to the release of the series finale in GHOST RIDER #94 -- which had already been written and was almost entirely penciled. Now, the final fate of Dan Ketch is revealed at last! With Blackheart deposed, the Ghost Rider is now lord of the Nether Realm. What does he intend to do with his power? And will the other Dark Lords -- like Belasco, Pluto and Hela -- allow him to keep it? This special edition also includes GHOST RIDER #93 and other bonus material!
I'm not much of a Ghost Rider fan past the awesome visual, but this is a fantastic idea. I'm not certain if it can possibly be canon, since I've heard that most of Ivan Velez's run got retconned by Howard Mackie in an issue of Spider-Man, but it must be a wonderful relief for long-time fans, who will finally get real closure to the character of Dan Ketch. Kudos to Marvel, even if all they did was dust off a story that's been moldering in the vaults.
IRON MAN: HYPERVELOCITY #1 (of 6)
Written by ADAM WARREN
Penciled by BRIAN DENHAM
Cover by ADAM WARREN
A single, grueling night of high-speed, mechanized mayhem finds Tony Stark and a new, uniquely improved version of the Iron Man armor caught in the crossfire between the bleeding-edge technology of an insurgent mecha subculture and the massed hardware of an elite "cape-killing" paramilitary force. Besieged by ballistic missiles, supersonic jihadi LMDs, seductive viral avatars and cyberdrug-addled roboravers, Iron Man must push himself far beyond his technological and biological limits to survive the onslaught of ultra-tech war machinery...
Writer Adam Warren (Livewires) delivers the fast-paced, tech-laced narrative, and artist Brian Denham renders the action in high-contrast "technoir" realism, with Guru eFX adding vibrant colors to the mix.
I don't know Adam Warren from... um... Adam, I suppose... But Iron Man is really intriguing at the moment - his status post Civil War is up in the air with his current near-villainous acts, which is a very different place for a hero with his own title to be in. Anyway, more intriguing are the words 'cyberdrug addled roboravers'. Less intriguing are the description of the visuals, which bring to mind the faux-CGI look of Adi Granov. Is it too much to ask for an Iron Man comic drawn with a pencil?
MYTHOS: GHOST RIDER
Written by PAUL JENKINS
Paints and Cover by PAOLO RIVERA
A fully-painted recounting of the origins of Johnny Blaze, the man the world knows as the Ghost Rider! What would cause a man to barter his soul with Satan, becoming an unholy Spirit of Vengeance in the process?
Ah, I think this explains the other GR project above - this must be about when the movie comes out. Which, let's face it, is going to be crap unless Nic Cage can pull off something awesome. The Mythos projects were supposed to be attempts to mesh a character's comic origins with their movie origin, though they haven't really held to that. The X-Men one did a retread of X-Men #1, with some more mutant-human stuff thrown in. The Hulk one did Hulk's comic origin with some more of Betty (as I vaguely remember it...) I suppose the GR origin will still be Johnny Blaze selling his soul to save his mentor from cancer, but that depends on where the movie's going.
MS. MARVEL SPECIAL
Written by BRIAN REED
Pencils and Cover by GUISEPPE CAMUNCOLI
Once upon a time, Carol Danvers was a novelist. This morning, at the New York Public Library, a child with the ability to turn anything he imagines into reality has begun to read Carol's sci-fi epic "Binary," based loosely on her own life amongst the stars. Within minutes, the library is overrun with visions from Carol's book and soon all of New York City is threatened! Brian Reed (Ms. Marvel, New Avengers: Illuminati) and Giuseppe Camuncoli (Captain Atom: Armageddon) team up for this one-shot special guest-starring Simon "Wonder Man" Williams and re-introducing one of Ms. Marvel's oldest threats!
I don't get Marvel. Why wouldn't they just publish this as an issue of the Ms. Marvel series? It has the same writer. One shots like this almost always sell less than issues of the main series. It's mind-boggling, honestly.
NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E. #12
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Pencils and Cover by
STUART IMMONEN
To all those who HAVEN'T been buying NEXTWAVE -- Thanks a lot, jerks! This is the last issue! To all those who HAVE been buying NEXTWAVE -- YOU RULE!! Do not miss this pulse-pounding conclusion to the greatest work of western literature EVER! Hamlet? Horrible. War and Peace? What-a-joke! The Great Gatsby? The Great Lame-by, maybe. Those works are going to be moved to the Bad Section of your local bookstores after this issue comes out. Don't miss this or you won’t know what your children's children are reading in school.
NOOOOOOO!!!! Apologies to my fiancee, but my life has now lost all meaning. People at Marvel must be kicked. And exploded.
Plus, according to Nextwave I RULE, which automatically makes it the best comic ever.
SILENT WAR #1 (of 6)
Written by DAVID HINE
Penciled by ROY ALLAN MARTINEZ
Cover by JOHN WATSON
SON OF M told how Quicksilver stole the precious Terrigen Mists from the Inhumans and how Black Bolt retaliated by declaring war on humanity. Now that war is about to break loose as Gorgon leads a terrorist attack on New York. Old friends become deadly enemies when the Fantastic Four are forced to defend their city against the Inhumans.
This is the sequel to Son of M, where the Inhumans (a race of hidden, genetically engineered humans) declared war on the human race. I'd kind of assumed that the whole thing got dropped when Civil War hit, so it's nice to see that it's being picked up. I'm not so sure David Hine is the guy I want to see writing a human/Inhuman war, but Grant Morrison is DC exclusive so I'll have to make do.
SQUADRON SUPREME: HYPERION VS. NIGHTHAWK #1 (of 4)
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Pencils and Cover by PAUL GULACY
It had to happen: The ultimate throw-down between the two stars of the smash hits "Supreme Power" and "Squadron Supreme:" Hyperion and Nighthawk.
But what could draw these two heroes into the biggest of all smackdowns? Nothing less than genocide. In this ripped from the headlines story, Marc Guggenheim (Wolverine, Blade) and comic book legend Paul Gulacy (Master of Kung Fu) explore the real-world tragedy that is going on right now in Darfur, Africa. The most thought-provoking and action-packed book you'll read all year!
A book entitled "Hyperion vs. Nighthawk" has no right to declare itself thought-provoking. Nevertheless, it could be good, but I seriously doubt that the Supreme Power/Squadron Supreme title has enough legs to support spin-offs. Especially ones that aren't by the main series writer. Shouldn't these events be, like, significant? How can they be in a miniseries by a fill-in writer?
EXILES #90
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Pencils and Cover by
PAUL PELLETIER
A new era for EXILES begins here! Legend Chris Claremont (UNCANNY X-MEN) starts a run that will have Exiles fans talking for years to come. And he's not the only one joining up, as X-Woman PSYLOCKE joins the team as well. What is she doing there? How will the team deal with her arrival? And what new villains plan on destroying every world in existence?!
Looks like Chris Claremont has recovered from his health scare, and is back at the writing game. I personally question the wisdom of placing him on this particular title. Exiles has been rock-solid in terms of sales for years. Nothing has been able to shake it out of its sales range. But Claremont has acquired an idiosyncratic reputation, and a whole lot of readers simply hate his work these days. Something tells me he won't mesh well with Exiles. Then again, not even Chuck Austen could destroy it. We shall see.
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Comment by JoshZ
Finding out Wolverine's origins in the Universe X series was quite cool, but now with all I've heard about the civil war series it sounds really cool.
Also, I have to admit, I prefered the movie of V for Vendetta over the comic book. The main character was cooler.
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Comment by JoshZ
The other thing is that after reading the original screenplay, if what they had intended has been produced, they would have simply made a very cheap porno.
But hey, that's cool. We all different.