Originally posted by badsymbiote
Next Wednesday: Venom #18 (the final issue), Marvel Knights Spidey #6 (Venomous pt. 2, with art by Liberty Meadows artist Frank Cho), and ASM #511 (Sins past pt. 3)!
Don't forget Avengers 501. It's got one of the best pics ever in: This!
I don't have much on my pull list for this week. Juts Ultimate Fantastic Four, and maybe I'll pick up whatever else looks good.
Last week's Invaders #1 was very good, Jacobsen is doing one hell of a job setting up a short concise yet thrilling story, and pulling away from the somewhat muddled and confusing Chuck Austen influence that started the series. Too bad we still get horrendous covers by Kolins. Anyways, it was Dyna-mite! (if anyone gets the pun, a great deal of kudos to you. Mmm. kudos snack bars, so delicious.)
I know that I keep pushing this book and all, but I just read an interview with artist CP Smith on Invaders with some preview art, and wow. The first real arc is only 3 issues but they're finding ways to cram in more stuff than most writers do in a 6 issue arc. Everything is just so massive, the scope of everything, all the worldwide events, but it's still easy and fun to follow! And it has a very unique and catchy art style that gets better every issue.
This is one of the last pages for next issue, big stuff is happening very quickly.
Here's the cover for the new avengers
Remember Onslaught? :/ we all do. After Onslaught when most of the heroes were gone, and nobody wanted themselves to be protected by those horrible Mutants, or that dreadful Spider-Man or god forbid, the New Warriors, a new team came on the scene. Only they weren't so new as it seems....
It was Baron Zemo with his Masters of Evil in disguise, capitalizing on the loss of the heroes and the people's need to be protected. Eventually they were found out, but not before most of the T-bolts began to like and grow into their heroic roles. Finally they were succesful and they weren't getting the crap beat out of them and being given prison sentences.
So Zemo and another T-bolt Techno/Fixer went on the run and back to villainous roots. The rest went on the lamb and kept up the heroics. Eventually Hawkeye from the Avengers joined them, they reminded him of his own start as a badguy and he wanted to help bring them around. Eventually after some business on Counter-Earth it seemed like Zemo was starting to come around and he became the leader again, and they were recognized as heroes.
Most recently in an Avengers/Thunderbolts mini-series which just wrapped up earlier this month, Zemo tried to capture all of the transnormal energy, anything besides electricity that powered stuff, because it was a danger to the populace of the world. He even offered to give the energy to the Avengers for safe keeping, it seemed he had finally turned a new leaf. Then some crap happened, he escaped with Moonstone's moonstones, a newly disfigured face (which happened when he took a blast that was meant for Captain America, despite the fact that he and Cap are supposedly enemies) some other stuff happened and Mach-3 (or so, don't know what number he's up to now) was released from prison (he was an original T-bolt but was the only one with a murder rap, so to redeem himself he offered to go to prison) because he helped with the defeat of the grave world-wide threat. Upon leaving prison he issued a statement saying he was starting up the Thunderbolts again to give any repentant criminals a chance to redeem themselves like he was given.
