Will “Angela” right the wronged Marvel Universe? Wolverine’s decision to kill Hank Pym before he could create Ultron resulted in a bizarre new reality with Earth’s strange new heroes fighting a war against mystical forces.
Can Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane’s warrior angel end the war and set things right?
Marvel revealed this wraparound variant cover of Age of Ultron #10 by Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada. The finale Continue reading AGE OF ULTRON Finale “Angela” Cover by Joe Quesada
Big changes are coming to the Marvel Universe in the aftermath of Age of Ultron! The biggest surprise is the Marvel debut of a classic character from the Image mythos. Now we see her!
Marvel unveiled the new look of Angela by Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada. Created by Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane of Spawn, this warrior angel makes her Marvel debut in Age of Ultron #10 this June. Quesada is among the all-star roster of artists contributing to the AoU finale.
“Angela is going to make her mark rather quickly. She’s going to hit the ground running and cut a large swath through the Marvel Universe, both literally and metaphorically,” explained Joe Quesada, Chief Creative Officer, Marvel Entertainment. “We have huge plans for her, and the mystery of Continue reading ANGELA by Joe Quesada
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.
Preparing the way for Continue reading Neil Gaiman and “Angela” Join Marvel!
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 Avengers are defeated. A robotic city ship hovers over a ruined Manhattan. The action begins with Hawkeye’s suicide Continue reading All-Star Finale for Age of Ultron
I experienced an enjoyable sense of Deja Vu this week from X-Factor #230. It’s a reboot event and some mutants are left without a team for post-Schism dodgeball! Rogue (via writer Mike Carey) brought Havok, Polaris and Rachel Summers back from deep space. Rachel signed up to teach at the Jean Grey School. Havok and Polaris seemingly had no place (or X-title) to call home until this week when Logan brings the long-suffering lovers to X-Factor Investigations.
I could help but think back to the aftermath of the Muir Island Saga when a second X-Men title was born (and the original X-Men left X-Factor for these books) and X-Force, Excalibur regrouped back in the early 90’s. I was an ignorant youth back then when I thought ‘they just put all the leftover characters in this other title that doesn’t have anybody!’
Havok, Polaris, Madox, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver and Guido (I’m the Strong Guy so call me Strong Guy) became the mutant team working for the U.S. government. I was a huge fan of Peter David from The Incredible Hulk so I gave this team of what I thought were leftovers a try – and it was perfect.
Peter David and Larry Stroman took these refugees from every corner of the mutant-verse to create a team that was compelling and often hilarious. David transformed background mutants into major characters I cheered for and cared about.
This X-Factor faced Mister Sinister’s Nasty Boys, Helle’s Belles and even went up against the Hulk and the Pantheon in the “War and Pieces” crossover with The Incredible Hulk. The government team were part of the X-cutioner’s Song crossover with their mutant cousins. Joe Quesada later became the artist and co-created Random, an X-Factor enemy turned ally.
Earlier I recommended this is the time to join or rejoin the drama and fun at X-Factor Investigation with this week’s #230 but should go back in time to see the rebirth of X-Factor when Alex and Lorna first joined the motley mutants.
There’s a good reason why they call it X-Factor: visionaries because Peter David is brilliant at taking the oddest assortment of characters and evolving them into a compelling “family” you want to be part of.