Age of Ultron #3 Ultron won. America lies in ruins. Marvel’s defeated heroes hide. How will Captain America rally the remaining Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four member to rise up against the all-powerful android and his army?
Batman Incorporated #9 Vengeance of Batman by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham! What else is there to say?
East of West #1 Because it’s Jonathan Hickman (Nightly News, Fantastic Four, Avengers, New Avengers, Manhattan Projects, SHIELD) you can say this is book about the phone book and I’d buy it! If you want to know what it is…Image calls it a Sci-Fi Continue reading Top 5 Comic Book Picks for March 27, 2013
Age of Ultron #1 kicked off with the Avengers defeated and the insane android ruling over a scorched world. Issue Three arrives this week and a special Spider-Man tie-in issue.
Neil Gaiman returns to Marvel! It’s part of the star-studded Age of Ultron finale! Legendary Joe Quesada returns to pencil the final pages of Age of Ultron #10. Marvel revealed Quesada will create art for a special epilogue written by Brian Michael Bendis that features the introduction of Gaiman’s Angela into the Marvel Universe! Angela will have a new look created by Quesada and have “an immediate impact” that continues in Guardians of the Galaxy #5 which will be written by Bendis and Gaiman.
Angela is a warrior angel Gaiman created by Gaiman and artist Todd McFarlane during their run on Spawn published by Image Comics.
Age of Ultron just kicked off! Marvel is giving us ominous clues to the shocking, possibly Marvel Universe changing finale in the June previews. Hank Pym’s monstrous creation returned and conquered Earth in Age of Ultron #1. Only a handful of heroes are left to stand against the humanity hating A.I. and his army of robots.
In June’s Age of Ultron #9 heroes are forced to “make the most controversial decision of their lives” and in issue #10 “the biggest secret in comics will be revealed to you! An ending so confidential…even the artists of this book don’t know what lies on the final pages.”
Marvel COO and comic book legend Joe Quesada returns to draw “a sequence that people will be talking about for years.”
Marvel COO and acclaimed artist Joe Quesada will pencil the final pages of Age of Ultron #10. Quesada joins an all-star team of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artists Bryan Hitch and Carlos Pacheco on the finale of the epic series that just launched this week. Marvel shared this Age of Ultron #10 cover by Brandon Peterson.
Ultron has won. The greatest Avengers villain has defeated almost all of Earth’s heroes. A massive cityship hovers over the ruins of Manhattan. Heroes are missing. Sadistic gangs own the streets. Brian Michael Bendis and Bryan Hitch thrust us into this brutal new reality in Age of Ultron Book One.
The star of this book is Clint Barton. Hawkeye fans will love this issue as the battered Avenger fights his way through this horrific new world on a very personal mission. Imagine Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead, Wolverine Continue reading AGE OF ULTRON: Hawkeye in Hell!
The bad guy wins! No plotting and scheming. No long-term planning. Ultron wins! Marvel heroes lose. Fans enjoy!
Enter the Age of Ultron this week from Brian Michael Bendis and Bryan Hitch. When this 10 issue series kicks off the classic Avengers enemy has defeated Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Only a handful of survivors are left to stand against the android. Bendis and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort talked about the scope and impact on the entire universe on Marvel.com.
“Age of Ultron is about Ultron, one of our biggest villains ever, finally fulfilling his destiny, which is taking the Earth. From the very first page, Ultron has taken the Marvel Universe and everything is changed. There is a shocking amount of destruction and devastation. It started in Avengers, but it’s meant to be a Marvel Universe book. It starts everyone,” said Bendis, “This was never supposed to be my last Avengers story, it was always meant to be a Marvel Universe event.”
Age of Ultron #1 courtesy Marvel
In past events we’ve seen the slow buildup of the enemy. The writer explains that this time – it’s very different: “What would it be like to wake up one morning and have one of the Marvel Universe’s biggest villains have just taken over? How will people react?”
“This isn’t a story where the Skrulls are invading. We cut right to the chase. We’re already past that and Ultron is already here. He’s already put his footprints on the landscape. You’re immediately thrust into the heart of crazy events and things are going a million miles an hour,” adds Brevoort.
Age of Ultron #1 courtesy Marvel
The editor and writer confirmed this happens in continuity in the contemporary Marvel NOW! Marvel Universe.
You probably won’t need the back story but the creators say the seeds of this epic go back to the first arc of Mighty Avengers by Brian and Frank Cho, but the most direct prologue is Avengers #12.1, aka a Free Comic Book Day issue.
Age of Ultron #1 courtesy Marvel
“Tony Stark knew the next time Ultron came back we wouldn’t be ready. This is that time,” said Bendis.
As soon as you say Ultron you immediately think of Vision, Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne but the new threat from the metal madman will affect every Marvel hero.
“It’s fair to say this is an Avengers Vs. X-Men level event. That doesn’t mean we won’t be doing other things later in 2013, but it’s Brian, Bryan, Brandon, Carlos and all the ingredients needed for a big deal project,” said Brevoort.
“If you go back to the earliest Ultron stuff, he has severe daddy issues, even for a Marvel character, and they all have daddy issues. His logic is that the only thing standing in the way of the Earth being what it can be is humanity. I’m kind of obsessed with artificial intelligence in the real world and why people are scared of it. If there were a Marvel Singularity, it would be from Ultron. This is the moment technology takes over in a hostile way,” said Bendis.
Age of Ultron #1 courtesy Marvel
“To write a story like this is incredibly scary, because Ultron coming at us with everything he has is the end of the Marvel Universe. We’re doing it,” said Bendis, “This ending is a whopper. And I’ll go ahead and say it: You can’t guess it. I’m involved in it and even I am going ‘Really?'”
“I could not be more excited for this book to hit the stands. Literally not a day has gone by over the last year where people haven’t asked me when it was coming. I know that people are looking forward to it, so to finally debut it and for it to be, I imagine, much more than people thought it was going to be, is great. It’s beautiful. It takes one of Marvel’s classic villains to a level he’s never been before, takes the heroes to a place they’ve never had to go, and ends in a way you will never guess,” said Bendis.
Age of Ultron#1 arrives this week with 2 more issues this month. For the entire liveblog here’s the link.
