Watch out for a monstrous Marvel New Year with an invasion of classic monsters.
Fin Fang Foom is among the old school creatures on the attack just when Marvel’s heroes are divided.
Marvel announced Monsters Unleashed as a massive event to kick off 2017. Writer Cullen Bunn (Uncanny X-Men, Deadpool) will be joined by a roster of stellar artists: Adam Kubert, Greg Land, Salvador Larroca, Steve McNiven, Leinil Yu to unleash an army of creatures on the Avengers, X-Men, Spider-Man and more heroes.
As Cullen Bunn explains, attack comes just when Marvel’s heroes are still feeling the ramifications of several wars between heroes and the still shaky new reality:
“I think, on the surface, it’s a story about the heroes of the Marvel Universe [waking] up one morning and out of nowhere, giant Marvel monsters start descending on the Earth and attacking in force. the super heroes have to put aside their differences, they have to mobilize extremely quickly in order to combat the monsters that are suddenly appearing all over the world and to save the populace and keep people safe as this chaos and destruction is raining down around them.” Bunn told Marvel.com.
“What you have is the arrival of mammoth-sized monsters in the Marvel Universe, creating mayhem all around them. They arrive everywhere so it’s an all-in event. Avengers, X-Men, Champions, Inhumans, Deadpool, Spider-Man and friends, Power Man and Iron Fist; everyone has to get past whatever gripes they might have currently in the Marvel Universe and team up against this threat that’s global. It’s gonna happen quickly; it’s five issues rapidly shipping, more or less a bi-weekly ship starting in January. Each issue is 30 pages long. You know who the artists are at this point; they’re five of the hottest artists at Marvel, all known for big super heroes and large-scale action. And there’ll be plenty of two-page spreads and one-page splashes for them to show off and give this story the scale it deserves. [It is] an all hands-on deck event for the Marvel heroes and they will find help from a very unlikely source; a cavalry will arrive at some point.” added Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso.
Monsters Unleashed crashes into comic book shops in January 2017.
By Editor