From: [dor 1] at [midway.uchicago.edu] (thad a doria) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info Subject: PREVIEWS-O-RAMA III. IMAGE-MARVEL FOR 1996 OCT [SPOILERS] Date: Sat, 03 Aug 96 02:18:24 GMT *********************************************************** P R E V I E W S - O - R A M A. III. Image-Marvel *********************************************************** Shipping October 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Spoiliers! ----------------------------------------------------------- Everything contained herein is IMO. Duh, 'cuz I wrote it. CLIP AND SAVE! -------------------- IMAGE: ====== Supreme #43 (A. Moore & J. Bennett). Dare ye enter...the Supreme Citadel? Guest starring the Silver Age ShadowHawk. Chris Sprouse is still pencilling New Men. If I repeat this enough times I may be able to get past Eric Stephenson's horrid scripting. Power Rangers Zeo crosses over with Youngblood in a 2 issue mini by the Flying Bierbaums and Todd Nauck. Friends of the Maxx #2 (Heisler & Kieth). Resolicited. Savage Dragon & Destroyer Duck (Gerber & Marrinan/Larsen). Also featuring Gregory Brainerd and His Industrial Accidents (from Codename: Stryke Force). Crosses over (sorta) with Spider-Man Team-Up #5 (see Marvel section). Big Bang Comics #5 (Carlson & various). Secret origin special! Starring Knight Watchman, the Silver Age Blitz and the Golden Age Ultiman. Spawn the Impaler #1of3 (Grell & Grell/Prior). Rob Prior paints over Mike Grell's layouts in Image's first fully painted comic. Story follows Vlad Tepes from the distant past to the far future, Al Simmons wasn't the only one who made a deal with the Devil for lost love... Grifter #4 (S. Grant & Rubi). Cole vs. his brother Max (Condition Red). TPBs: Freak Force: Every Freakin' Issue (448p for $29.95!), Cyber Force/WildC.A.T.s: Killer Instinct, JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR ===================== JKC #12 features "Kirby around the world"--interviews in foreign mags, rarely seen artwork, articles on Jack's global influence. JAMES KOCHALKA SUPERSTAR: ========================= Magic Boy and the Word of God (Kochalka). Another zany Elf-venture for Magic Boy! MARLOWE & COMPANY: ================== Starstruck: The Expanding Universe (E. Lee & Kaluta). 256p reprint. MARVEL [the Micronauts are coming]: =================================== Actual ads for the Heroes Reborn titles now. Some bit of art for Byrne's Captain America/Batman thing (Cap & Bats leap to action, background shows Joker, Red Skull, and a muchroom cloud). Also some art from X-Men/StarTrek, but I can't describe it because whenever I see Silvestri's drawing of Kirk, Spock, and Bones alongside Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, and Storm I fall out of my chair giggling uncon- trollably. Excuse me a moment. ... Okay. StarLord #1 of 3 (Zahn & Lawlis). Tim Zahn (bestselling Star Wars novelist) script and painted art by Dan (Barb Wire) Lawlis. Peter Quill hasn't been seen in 12 years. But when his infamous living starship crashes on a remote planet, novice space lawman Sinjin Quarrel investigates and is drawn into your usual "deadly web of deceit and conspiracy." Daredevil #359 (K. Kesel & Nord). DD vs. The Absorbing Man. Now there's a mismatch... Ghost Rider #80 (Velez & Larocca). The Valkyrie returns. Abominations #1 of 3 (Velez & Medina). Story about the Maestro's future, the Abomination, and Rick Jones's granddaughter. Black Knight: Exodus (Raab & Cheung). Dane and Sersi try to return to the Marvel universe. Elektra #2 (Milligan & Deodato). Vs. Bullseye. Silver Surfer #123 (Perez & Garney). Ron Garney's the new regular penciller. Tomb of Dracula Megazine (Wolfman & G. Colan). Reprints ToD #umm, they don't say. Probably involves Blade, though. Incredible Hulk Megazine (various). 96 page mixed bag of reprints. *Heroes Reborn* Fantastic Four #2 (Choi & Lee). Namor declares war on the surface world. Guest starring the Avengers and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Iron Man #2 (Lobdell & Portacio). Iron Man vs. the Rampaging Hulk. Captain America #2 (Loeb & Liefeld). Introducing the Falcon. Guest star- ring Nick Fury. Avengers #2 (Valentino/Liefeld & Yaep). Introducing Kang. *Spider-Man* Mary Jane's pregnancy reaches its "shocking conclusion" in Amazing #418 (DeFalco & Skroce). And in Adjectiveless #75 (Mackie & Romita Jr.), two Spider-Men enter...but only one comes out alive. Spider-Man Team-Up #5 has two stories:Spidey/Gambit by Darick Robertson and Spidey/Howard the Duck by Gerber & Fry (sort of continued in Savage Dragon & Destroyer Duck #1, see Image section) Spider-Man Unlimited #14 (Herdling & J. Bennett). The Prowler. Cardiac. Nightwatch. The Rocket Racer. One of them will die. [Did they have a meeting at Marvel and decide "there are too many black second-string heroes, better kill one of 'em"?] Untold Tales of Spider-Man (Busiek & Oliffe). Mary Jane Watson! "She knows Peter is Spider-Man--so why is she so terrified to meet him?" Untold Tales Annual (Busiek & Allred). Peter asks Sue Storm out on a date. Johnny and Namor find out, and the requisite hijinks ensue. Maybe I didn't make myself clear here:MIKE ALLRED IS DRAWING SPIDER-MAN!!!! The Daily Bugle #1 of 3 (Grist & Kerschl). The pulse pounding adven- tures of Jonah, Robbie, Ben Urich and the Bugle staff. Written by the *bloody incredible* Paul Grist, who does this comic called Kane that you should all be pestering your shopkeeper about... *X-Men* Oops, almost forgot to do the *********MICRONAUTS ALERT!!!****************MICRONAUTS ALERT!!!******* Cable #38 (Loeb & Churchill). Cable & son chase the Psycho-Man into... the Microverse! Guest starring Arcturus Rann, Princess Mari, Bug, and the usual rag-tag band of freedom fighters. Generation X #22 (Lobdell & Bachalo). Banshee and Husk babysit the ter- rible three: Artie, Leech, and Franklin Richards. Plus, Emma helps Nightmare wrap up loose ends from his miniseries. Gen X--your new home for Franklin Richards content! Excalibur #104 (Arcudi & Hitch). John (The Mask) Arcudi fills in for 2 issues while the editors try to find a "permanent" writer and artist (supposedly down to either Milligan or Kavanagh). X-Men Unlimited #13 (Perez & Roleau). Binary goes beserk! Essential X-Men Collection #1. 528 pages for $12.95 in a "manga phone- book style volume," reprints Giant-Size X-Men #1 and Uncanny #94-119. Claremont, Cockrum, Byrne, etc. Essential Wolverine Collection #1. See above, reprints Wolverine #1-23. Claremont, J. Buscema, Byrne, etc. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #1 (C. Cooper & Renaud). Nog. Nog? Nog. Nognognog. Nog. Oh, and a Gorn. Nog, Gorn. Gorn, Nog. TPBs: Spider-Man's Strangest Adventures, X-Men: Mutations (Beast grows fur, Angel becomes Archangel/Death, Psylocke turns Japanese [saayy...]) to be continued (the Micronauts are here, go up a few lines)... -- -Thad Doria "Wsssssshhhhhhhttt. Goldust."