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Preview: Jason Aaron and Marc Silvestri Bring The Rage In Hulk #1.
I’m excited for the Aaron/Silvestri Hulk reboot. I enjoy Silvestri’s artwork, and if you’ve read anything by Jason Aaron you know he can bring rage and violence. The precise elements I want in a Hulk title.
Hit the jump for the preview.
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New Teaser For First Issue of ‘Hulk’ Is Electrifying. This Is A Pun.
I’m excited for the new Jason Aaron-helmed Hulk relaunch. I checked out on the Hulk when Jeph Loeb dangled the identity of the Red Hulk for three or so years, and have been waiting for a new in-let into the title. This new teaser/variant cover by Ladronn is hopefully the manifesto for the new team’s approach to the Hulk: the green man. Smashing. Everything.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Marvel Releases ‘Wolverine And The X-Men #1’ Teaser. Aaron Time.
Marvel is getting their tease on this week. On top of the couple of “4” promos they’ve dropped, yesterday they also released an Uncanny X-Men #1 teaser. Today Wolvie and his team are getting their deserved time in the teasing spotlight.
Hit the jump and check out the promo. Any guesses on the silhouettes would be outstanding, I’m stumped.
Variant Covers: Scalps, Stretchy Junk, and Futurists.
It’s that mid-summer moment where the comic books are twisting in my greasy palms, affronted by humidity and my general toxicity. Comic books! One of the great stalwarts of summers, the MEGA-EVENTS coming out weekly. Say what you will about the general quality of the EXPLODEY TIME STORY ARCS that permeate the shelves during the summer, I’ve come to need them just as a means of passing time. Like marking days off a calendar, they’re there. And they’re omnipresent. Keeping me company.
Like the drunk Uncle at the Christmas parties who you thinks annoys you, but then when he dies in a horror shit-show of cirrhosis and bloody vomiting, you miss him under the mistletoe. Trying to kiss your Mom, his first cousin.
I don’t know what I’m writing about anymore. This is Variant Covers, your weekly take on the tasty licks hitting comic books shelves.
WEEKEND OPEN BAR: Time To Put Down Watchmen, Fanboys.
[WEEKEND OPEN BAR: The one-stop ramble-about-anything weekend post at OL. Comment on the topic at hand. Tell us how drunk you are. Describe a comic you bought. This is your chance to bring the party.]
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a few fellow graduate students waiting for a class to begin. They were all talking about what their final thesis was going to be on, when I decided to spurt nerd juice all over the crowd. “I want to work with comic books for mine”, I said. I wasn’t stunting, it’s my geeky aspiration. An unimpressive woman with no chin turned and smiled at me. “Oh, you mean graphic novels.” The smile lingered. In my mind, fantasies of spin-kicks and flawless victories danced about. Her chin shattered into a thousand pixels of hate, her smile evaporated and an announcer bellowed “KO!”
I returned the smile and informed her no, I very much meant comic books. No need to dress it up in the high-brow artsy-fartsy name.
When she assailed the cred of my favorite medium, the first thing I wanted to do was pull out the typical parry. Watchmen. It’s at the tip of every fanboy’s tongue when the medium of comic books comes under assault. If it isn’t the first thing, it’s surely the second. Watchmen, Watchmen, Watchmen. Considered one of the greatest novels of all time. Deconstructs the superhero. Blah, blah, blah. Commentary on the conflict of ideologies in the Cold War. Blah blah. Watchmen, Watchmen, Watchmen.
But I didn’t say anything, I was tired of using that usual comic book as a defense. It was then that I realized: we need to come up with new stalwarts. New examples. We need to put Watchmen down.
