HULK SMASHES THE AVENGERS, AND OTHER COMIC BOOK NEWS…
HULK SMASH AVENGERS. Coming February 2012. “Hulk Smash Avengers” will be a 5-issue weekly mini designed to shamelessly build up to the Avengers movie. It will be “Hulk vs.” battles that take place from 1960 on—one for each decade–all with covers by the great Lee Weeks. The talent roster for each of these self-contained issues is:
· Hulk vs. the original Avengers (1960s) by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, and the great Sal Buscema on inks–featuring Executioner and Enchantress.
· Hulk vs. Iron Man, Wasp, Vision and Beast (1970s) by Jose Casey and Max Fiumara .
· Hulk vs. Cap, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Wasp, She-Hulk, and Thor (1980s) by Roger Stern and Karl Moline, featuring the “smart Hulk” and the Captain Marvel who later led Nextwave.
· Mr. Fixit Hulk vs. West Coast Avengers (1990s) by Jim McCann, which means we’ll see Mockingbird, Hawkeye, Wonder Man and Tigra, among others.
· Rulk vs. Mighty Avengers (2000s) by Fred Van Lente and Michael Avon Oeming, which takes place after Banner was imprisoned for smashing Manhattan in World War Hulk.
I have to say, the only one I’m really interested in is #3, because I’m a big Roger Stern fan and want to see what he’s up to these days, but the 1960s one has potential. They really could have skipped the 1990s. Most of us who actually enjoy our comic books try to pretend it never happened anyway. Frankly, they should just either do an animated version of World War Hulk or re-release that series and the tie-ins as a big package. I was a huge WWH fan—great, big, brawling fun.
Lots of other news rolling out of NY Comic Con this month—too much for me to keep up on in a timely fashion. So, you may already know much of this. Or not. Hit the break to find out….
October 23, 2011
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