Interlude: MOAR 70th COVERS?!

Almost as if to slap me in the face, Marvel turned around yesterday and went "Oh I'm sorry, have you already made a news post about the recently shown 70th covers? WELL FUCK YOU HERE'S SOME MORE!"

... Bastards. Still gives me an excuse to update prior to getting my first ALL NEW FTP text review up this evening/tomorrow morning.

To aid your thought bubbles or thought boxes (dependant on what comic you are.... wait... what?) I've included the list of artists for each one that Marvel has so thoughtfully provided.

HIT THE JUMP FOR THE PRETTY STUFF!



AGENTS OF ATLAS #9 70TH FRAME VARIANT by ERIK JONES
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #601 70TH FRAME VARIANT by JOHN ROMITA JR.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #602 70TH FRAME VARIANT by MIKE MCKONE
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #603 70TH FRAME VARIANT by MIKE MAYHEW
BLACK PANTHER #7 70TH FRAME VARIANT by KEN LASHLEY
CABLE #17 70TH FRAME VARIANT by ROB LIEFELD
DEADPOOL: MERC WITH A MOUTH #2 70TH FRAME VARIANT by TONY MOORE
EXILES #5 70TH FRAME VARIANT by MIKE GRELL
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #17 70TH FRAME VARIANT by MIKE PERKINS
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #133 70TH FRAME VARIANT by SALVADOR ESPIN
INCREDIBLE HULK #601 70TH FRAME VARIANT by MICHAEL GOLDEN
HULK #13 70TH FRAME VARIANT by MICHAEL GOLDEN
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #16 70TH FRAME VARIANT by SALVADOR LARROCA
MIGHTY AVENGERS #28 70TH FRAME VARIANT by KHOI PHAM
NEW MUTANTS #4 70TH FRAME VARIANT by ELENA CASAGRANDE
PUNISHER #8 70TH FRAME VARIANT by STEVE DILLON
RUNAWAYS #13 70TH FRAME VARIANT by TAKESHI MIYAZAWA
UNCANNY X-MEN #514 70TH FRAME VARIANT by HARVEY TOLIBAO
WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #18 70TH FRAME VARIANT by TAKESHI MIYAZAWA
X-FORCE #18 70TH FRAME VARIANT by JASON LEVESQUE
X-MEN LEGACY #227 70TH FRAME VARIANT by GREG LAND



ALSO! I FUCKED UP! Didn't notice that X-Factor one I posted was from 1986. I'm retarded like that. AH WELL GALLERY TIME!












Ah another phoned in update. Top Ten should be done later. Gotta make sure I do this one right!

Interlude: THUNDERBOLTS!

Interlude (in.ter.lude) -noun

an intervening episode, period, space, etc.

... Yeah I can live with that. not sure what I'm intervening with these (my lack of a video update?) but they certainly are an interlude to something... Like worthwhile reading! AHAHAHAHAHAHA MOVING ON!

Some news comes from other sources sure, but once again Joe Quesada's Cup 'o Joe provides all I ever really need in the way of news, this time in the form of a Q&A involving one of my favourite teams (and one of the first comic series I read every issue of) THUNDERBOLTS!

Mssr Quesada, when asked about a possible return for everyone's favourite redeeming racist Baron Helmut Zemo and the rest of the original Thunderbolts- Fuck it let's just use one of those quote box things.

LET'S SEE IF I CAN FIX THE JUMP! APPARENTLY NOT! SO INSTEAD CLICK THE TITLE, OR READ MORE AT THE BOTTOM TO ACCESS THE ARTICLE! FUCKING HTML!

Lastly, Steven Ghost and MikeFitz both wanted to know about what Baron Zemo was up to in regards to Norman, with Mike asking, "Will we see Baron Zemo and any of the original Thunderbolts soon? I'd love to see Songbird go to them and have the new T-bolts go against the original T-bolts? I'd love to see Zemo vs. Osborn. Might we see Citizen V and V Battalion?"

Joe Quesada: It's a great question, Steven and Mike, and I guess you can say you heard it here first. Old school T-Bolts fans rejoice! Songbird is actually going to begin to assemble the original TBolts in issue #134. Her mission basically is to destroy Norman Osborn and his crazy pack of killers who have taken the good name of the original T-bolts. And yes, Zemo has been discussed internally, so stay tuned. We haven't decided just yet... or maybe we have and I’m just not going to tell you. [laughs]

This. Is. AWESOME. News.

Thunderbolts has been one of the most interesting long running comics to come out this side of Marvel's Dark Age and has suffered a fair bit of confused identity since the comic got a complete upheaval from super-scribe Warren Ellis. Don't get me wrong, I love Ellis' Thunderbolts to the degree of having the first volume signed by the man himself, but since then it's lost its way, to the extent that at present there isn't a SINGLE original Thunderbolt in the line-up and instead of being about redeeming villains it's about a black ops team of D-listers. I've overlooked this due to certain positive factors (Ghost, Black Widow II pre-turning out to just be Black Widow and somehow looking like a man) but none of it has captured the essence or charm of the original concept. To paraphrase Doc Samson: "I'm of how everyone takes something GOOD and turns it into a nightmare". As such, this can only be a return to form, especially in light of Dark Reign ending come the end of the year.

The Q&A also features some pencils from issue #134, which appears to herald the start of the original line-up coming together. Check 'em out below:

Source: Comicbookresources.com

Interlude: New Marvel 70th Covers

Eh........ So I've managed to also miss the lazy Sunday update. This doesn't bode well for the week ahead where I am sans laptop for the majority of the week. Anyway, I'll try and crack out these interlude updates (I'll drop the interlude prefix after a while and just make them random posts or the like) whenever I'm at a computer.

Today we get to have a peek at those 70th anniversary Marvel covers that are coming our way in the coming... whenever.

WHY IS THE JUMP THING NOT WORKING PROPERLY TODAY?!

First up: the X-Books ones (ahahaha oh like you're not sick enough of X-Stuff being on here already!)

These, by and large, look pretty cool. Except Deadpool's... Oh and X-Force's... and Uncanny and X-Factor look boring... And despite my love of the New Mutants series I don't know enough to understand why that cover is cool...

WAIT! Doesn't that mean that the only two that look cool enough to be worth getting are... Liefeld and Land's covers for Cable and Legacy respectively?!

.... Oh shit.

Moving on from that depressing nugget of thought-juice we have the other recently revealed covers:

Agents of Atlas: COOL! Mighty Avengers: ICE COOL! Iron Man: .... 'tis okay. Guardians of the Galaxy: AWESOME!

So yeah out of all these announced, I'd say ignore the X-Covers (save admitting that Land and Liefeld can do okay) and go straight for Atlas, Mighty or Guardians, all three of which are awesome covers to awesome series.

... Yeah... That's an update.

BUT WAIT! FOR THE FULL SIZE IMAGES GO TO COMIC BOOK RESOURCES AND IGN COMICS!

Quick-Fire Reviews: NO QUICK-FIRE REVIEWS

THAT'S RIGHT!!

No, I'm not gonna do them this week. If comics decide to take the week off then so do I. The only other releases I wanted to read this week were Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 and X-Men Forever #3. I don't have these. I could review Essential X-Men's latest issue that I bagged but that'd be X-Men overkill. So no reviews. Kinda handy considering the whole format changing thing I'm doing as well. Instead of Quick-Fire I'll crank out another Top Ten and my thoughts on some recent comics related stuff.

See you all later

Oh, it's a big week for comics next week, with some of my favourites appearing. What better way to start the new format of reviews than with ridiculous praise?

Interlude: I ALMOST FORGOT

In the current issue of X-Men Legacy:

WHY DO I WANT THESE?!

Well not the Black Widow one BUT STILL!

Freakishly awesome detail and a fun re-imagining of female characters...

Fuck I'm going to buy these aren't I?

I hate myself.

Interlude: SO MANY UPDATES!

We've updated a lot today. To celebrate, a meaningless update featuring an image from Encyclopaedia Dramatica:

Oh yeah, it's relevant too

Ah.... Memes. Here's to another 25 updates and many more!

Interlude: Marvel Legends SDCC

I love Marvel Legends. Even the shoddily built Hasbro ones where parts are recycled and there were less figures for me to care about.

I love X-Factor Investigations. Madrox is one of my ten favourite mutants (yes there'll be a top ten for that at some point). I loved the series even when it looked like arse in Secret Invasion.

As such this is great news for me:

"There's a new wave of Marvel Legends 2 Packs on the way in 2010 and you help to decide who's in them. The basics are simple - six total characters, you pick three and we pick three. Sound like fun? Voting for this all new Fan's Choice will start on July 22nd when we reveal all of the possible choices at San Diego Comic Con."

That's from a Hasbro PR, tossing out the info that people who go to San Diego Comic Con get to vote for the next wave of Marvel Legends. Three of the candidates have been revealed already (Madrox, Warpath, Lady Bullseye) and they've done a good job at getting me stoked.

Madrox is awesome and no-one can say otherwise. Warpath... Well he's from a series I don't like so I can't say much but he looks cool. Lady Bullseye... Okay I know nothing about her. BUT MADROX!



Source: 16bit.com via Toplessrobot