This week is Marvel‘s week. Beezees. Word up.
Marvel NOW! is in full effect, as two of the cornerstone titles hit shelves this Wednesday.
First up, Deadpool #1. Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan, two thinking man’s comedians, are writing the book (their first comic endeavor ever…that rhymed) while the legend himself, Tony Moore (Walking Dead), lends his beautifully twisted pencils to the Merc with the Mouth. The premise for the first arc of this series is so unbelievable, I hesitate to tell you about it.
Okay, you’ve convinced me. All the country’s deceased presidents are coming back to undead life and there’s only one man who’s jerk enough to re-kill them. I think you know who it is.
That Tony Stark needs to learn how to hold onto his inventions. Iron Man #1 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land re-introduce Tony Stark to a whole new range of readers with this Marvel NOW! starting point issue, where Tony gets his Extremis technology stolen and must develop an entirely new suit of armor to get it back. Gillen has been killing on the Uncanny X-Men AvX tie-ins, bringing the pathos and the action while Greg Land is just a beautiful, painterly artist who will make Tony’s armor look so polished you’ll think you can eat off it. Anyone who loves the Iron Man films but has never read one of his comics NEEDS to check this series out.
If you missed this year’s epic Marvel brawl to end it all, Avengers vs. X-Men, all hope is not lost. Coming out this Wednesday is the complete epic all in one hefty volume. That’s twelve issues for the main series, folks, plus six issues of AvX: Versus, the all fights all the time miniseries that accompanied the main series, and (if that wasn’t enough) three AvX: Infinite issues, which have never been in print before. The entire volume is a treasure trove of the greatest writers and artists working in comics today, featuring names like Jonathon Hickman, Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Jeph Loeb, Kieron Gillen, Ed Brubaker, Andy Kubert, Oliver Coipel, John Romita, Jr., and many, many, many more. And this thing’s so thick after you get done reading it, you can use it as a coffee table.
You’ve read the novel. You’ve seen the Swedish movie. You’ve seen the American movie. But have you read the graphic novel?
No, obviously not, it’s not out until this Wednesday. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo makes its way to comic shelves this week with a Vertigo graphic novel adaptation by novelist Denise Mina and artists Leonard Manco and Andrea Mutti. If you nabbed the free sample comic from a couple months back, you know that this version of the story plays with silence and ambiance in way the previous incarnations have not. And, if you’ve lived under a rock for the last eight years or so, then you should check the book out anyway as it is one of the best mystery, suspense stories of the decade.
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