Arrogant, brilliant, blunt. He’s the hero you want on your side – if you stand him! I loved Dr. Nemesis during Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men run. The Golden Age character is mutant with an evolved intellect (and massive ego!) The gun packing brainiac is now part of Cable and X-Force. Writer Dennis Hopeless told Marvel.com how he sees the Doctor:
“I see him as a sort of pure scientist, if that makes any sense. He comes into the story for a very specific purpose, and as soon as it’s said that Cable needs this kind of brain doctor, he’s like “alright, I’m in.” At that point I think the mad science of the whole thing is what compels him to stick around. After the first arc, they’re all kind of stuck. You can either go to jail, or you can keep doing this with us. Initially I think it’s a pure scientific interest that has him jumping along with all the crazy pre-cog, criminal, saving-the-world stuff.
How will Nemesis see brilliant mutant inventor Forge?
“They’re different versions of the same sci-fi character. Forge is sort of the Mad Max, post-apocalyptic “I can make anything out of junkyard parts” kind of a tech guy, and Doctor Nemesis is more of the genetic tinkerer from a more utopian science fiction story. Plus, their personalities couldn’t be any more different. I think having those two characters that obviously aren’t going to get along, and are going to bicker back and forth, but whenever they put their minds together are really something powerful, that’s why I chose Doctor Nemesis. The rest of the team was set and I needed another character. I kept looking around, and I thought “Forge would hate this guy, and Cable would shake his head constantly at everything this guy says.” There’s actually a scene—I think it’s in issue #3—where he says something and Cable just walks away shaking his head like “God, why did I start that conversation?”
Cable and X-Force #3 courtesy Marvel
X-Men, X-Club and now X-Force – Will this aloof loner connect with this new team?
“I think he fits in well with this team because it’s almost not a team. It’s just a bunch of people that Cable convinced to help with something that get pulled together. I try to make it clear in issue #3 that to Cable this isn’t X-Force. He’s not putting together a super hero team. First, he’s got a brain problem, and then he has another problem. He’s trying to solve it in the best way he knows how and that is to get experts to help him do something. The outside world kind of brands them “Cable’s X-Force” because that’s how we think of any team that Cable has. Doctor Nemesis, because he isn’t a super prototypical super hero, fits well on a team where you just have to be good at something to be involved.”
For the entire interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
Kids of the Marvel Universe will be forced to choose sides in the upcoming Avengers Vs. X-Men. The war comes to Avengers Academy in issues 29 and 30. Today Marvel revealed preview art and a new interview with writer Christos Gage. The writer recently brought X-23 to the Academy with more mutants on the way and don’t expect the bonds of friendship to build.
“Avengers Academy is where the Avengers want to put the young mutants of Utopia when hostilities break out,” explains Gage. “They take them into custody and house them at the one facility they know that can handle an infusion of super-powered kids. It’s a bit like Child Protective Services: ‘You’re not under arrest, you haven’t done anything wrong, this if for your own good—but you can’t leave.’
“Needless to say, there are plenty of folks who are none too happy with this turn of events. And if bringing them to Avengers Academy is intended to keep them out of trouble, it doesn’t quite work out that way.”
Expect Wolverine’s “daughter” to be in the spotlight. “She has a foot in each camp, so the war between the Avengers and the X-Men is naturally going to affect her more than anyone. She joined Avengers Academy in part because she wanted [nothing] of the Wolverine/Cyclops Schism. Now she’s caught directly in the middle of another war, and there is no avoiding making the choice this time around.”
Gage adds the members of the X-Club, Sebastian Shaw and Hercules will be visiting Avengers Academy. You may have already seen the preview art of the Olympian naked on campus – seriously.
X-Club #1 Cover courtesy Marvel.com and Comics Newsarama
X-Club #1
Beast gathered a brilliant collection of minds to become the X-Men’s first ever science team. This motley crew of geniuses has saved the day against Sentinels, Dark Avengers and Bastion. Doctor Nemesis and company get their own limited series. A gesture of goodwill goes every wrong. Can the X-Men’s egomaniac team survive each other long enough to save the day.
Defenders #1
One of my favorite creative teams takes on The Defenders. Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson reteam this new series picking up after the Fear Itself finale. Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, Namor, Iron First and Red She-Hulk become the last line of defense against supernatural forces unleashed on the Marvel universe.
Villains For Hire #1
A new brand new limited series starring some Marvel’s motley crew of psychopaths. Misty Knight is Marvel’s sexy, super bad, martial arts mistress behind the new “Heroes for Hire” concept but she’s really a pawn of a mysterious puppet master. Misty is putting the underworld’s craziest killers on the payroll to help create a new criminal empire. Will she realize the manipulator and cut his strings in time?
Boondock Saints Volume 1
The comic book series inspired by the cult crime film collected in a trade paperback. Co-written by the movie’s director/writer – these stories include the original saint’s war on the underworld.
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Kick it old school with these classic teams up by one of the most legendary teams in comic history. Chris Claremont and John Byrne are known for their epic X-Men run but duo was behind these entertaining matchups in the 70’s. See Spider-Man team up with Thor, Captain Britain, Ms. Marvel, Human Torch, Iron Fist and more against an impressive rogues gallery of Marvel’s greatest villains.
