Grotesque Anatomy
Monday, October 27, 2003
Marvel's New Year's Resolution: More Crap
Marvel has finally released their solicitation info for comics coming out in January 2004. Comments:
According to this site, the Punisher stories in these mags were reprinted in something called Classic Punisher back in 1989.
Marvel has finally released their solicitation info for comics coming out in January 2004. Comments:
- Regarding this solicitation for X-Statix #18: "When a mysterious CD gives new meaning to the term 'killer track' — leaving its listeners dead — it's up to the X-Statix to figure out why!" Because to the RIAA, nothing is too extreme if it discourages file-sharing?
- Avengers #77 features "new costumes"? Already? Didn't Coipel (who is still the regular Avengers artist as far as I know) just redesign most of the characters' costumes a couple issues ago?
- Interesting that the solicitation for Hulk #66 has a spoiler that you need to highlight to read, at least in Toon Zone's version of the solicit. Wonder how they'll get around that in the Previews catalog—include a pair of those "decoder" glasses in the mag? Or maybe they'll just run it without the spoiler warning, as Comics Continuum has.
- Checking in with Captain Marvel, now at #18: Yep, Marv's still crazy.
- The Incorrigible Hulk one-shot is by Peter Bagge, so I will be buying this.
- Ultimate Six #6 (of 7): "Now 7 big issues!" Or as I prefer to look at it: "Yes, we know it would make more sense if a mini-series featuring a team called the Sinister Six lasted only six issues, but hotshot writer Brian Michael Bendis doesn't know how to rein in a story, and we don't know how to rein him in!"
- Ultimate Spider-Man #52: "It's an Ultimate 'Cat' fight when Black Cat & Elektra face off, with Spider-Man caught in the middle ... (we should all be so lucky)!" Ugh. And people give anime a hard time for indulging in fanservice...
- I love how Marvel's covers continue to have absolutely
nothing whatsoever to do
with the content inside. Case in point: Amazing
Spider-Man #503, whose story is decidedly mystical ("In the
aftermath
of the inter-dimensional rift caused by Spider-Man & Doctor
Strange's battle with Dormammu, a sorceress of limitless power is set
free from years of captivity — and sets forth on a quest through
Manhattan to properly thank the one responsible for it — Spider-Man!"),
features this inappropriately street-level cover:
Because nothing says "inter-dimensional mystical adventure" like a generic cover of Spider-Man webbing up some nameless young punks with guns. - Interesting copy for 1602 #6: "Doctor Strange goes to the moon!" I don't know whether to make a Honeymooners joke or wonder if Gaiman thought he was writing a children's book again ("And Doom ran away with the spoon!")
- And Marvel has taken a different tack than I expected with the Essential
Punisher TPB, reprinting most of the Punisher's
early
appearances in other titles and ending on the five-issue mini-series
from the Eighties by Steven Grant and Mike Zeck. Here's the full
solicitation:
ESSENTIAL PUNISHER VOL. 1 TPB
I may actually consider getting this. I'm such a schmuck for nostalgia.
Written by Gerry Conway, Archie Goodwin, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Frank Miller, Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant & Mike W. Barr
Illustrated by: Ross Andru, Tony DeZuniga, Keith Pollard, Frank Miller, Al Milgrom, Greg LaRocque, Mike Zeck & Frank Springer
Cover by Gil Kane
When the mob killed his family, Frank Castle went to war. But before he became the scourge of the underworld, the Punisher set his sights on a certain world-famous wall-crawler. In time for next summer's THE PUNISHER big-screen adventure, Marvel presents the vengeance-seeking vigilante's earliest appearances in the pages of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, DAREDEVIL and more. Collects in black & white format AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129, #134-135, #161-162, #174-175, #201-202 & ANNUAL #15, GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #4, MARVEL PREVIEW PRESENTS #2, MARVEL SUPER ACTION #1, CAPTAIN AMERICA #241, DAREDEVIL #182-184, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #81-83 & PUNISHER #1-5!
January 21 :: 568 pages :: B&W :: Marvel PSR :: $14.99
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According to this site, the Punisher stories in these mags were reprinted in something called Classic Punisher back in 1989.
