From: [dor 1] at [midway.uchicago.edu] (thad a doria) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info Subject: PREVIEWS-O-RAMA III. IMAGE-MARVEL FOR 1996 SEPT [SPOILERS] Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 18:52:52 GMT *********************************************************** P R E V I E W S - O - R A M A. III. Image-Marvel *********************************************************** Shipping Sept 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Spoiliers! ----------------------------------------------------------- Everything contained herein is IMO. Duh, 'cuz I wrote it. CLIP AND SAVE! -------------------- IMAGE: ====== Extremely Young Blood #1 (T/M Bierbaum & Brewer). Youngblood does an X-Babies riff. Youngblood Classics #1 (Liefeld/Stephenson & Liefeld). Rob has surgically removed the abominable Kank Kanalz dialogue from the very first issue of Youngblood and replaced it with his own abom- inable dialogue. Recolored, rescripted, "remastered." Power Rangers Zeo #1 (T/M Bierbaum & Nauck). Big Bang Comics #4 (Carlson & various). The secret origin of the Knights of Justice, with art by Mart Nodell, Terry Beatty, and Rich Buckler. Chris Sprouse is still on New Men. Curse of the Spawn #1 (McElroy & Dwayne Turner). Spawn gets the Grendel treatment in this companion series chronicling the lives of Hellspawns past and future. This arc written by the guy who's writing the Spawn movie and animated series. CyberForce #27 (Holguin & Finch). Guest stars Joe Quesada's ASH. all Top Cow titles move to Top Cow Comics in October. KING HELL: ========== BratPack/Maximortal Super Special #1 (R. Veitch). ALL NEW! MALIBU: ======= Rune #1 (again?!) (Moench & Felder/Panders). Rune "returns to his Gothic roots." MARVEL: ======= More promo art from "Heroes Reborn" (formerly "Unfinished Busi- ness"). Liefeld has an Avengers piece: Captain America (sporting the eagle insignia on his forehead), Thor (no longer in his silver age costume but still a Kirbyesque variant of it; boy, that hammer has a really long handle), The Vision (looks the same), and a very different Swordsman (with a vaguely samurai theme). A few panels from Portacio's Iron Man. A close up of The Thing by Jim Lee. Heroes reborn! All #1 issues are 48 pages. I will quote directly from blurbs here: Fantastic Four #1 (Lee/Choi & Lee). "Four intrepid adventurers challenge the unknown [oh, cute] and rocket into the stars--only to be bombarded by mysterious cosmic rays!" Captain America #1 (Dixon/Liefeld & Liefeld). "A befuddled man awakens to an American nightmare of terrorism and rac wars. Who is he? Why is he targeted by the neo-nazi movement called the Red Skull? Why is he plagued by strange dreams of World War II?" [NB: reports indicate Dixon has bailed out and may have been replaced by Jeph (X-Force, Challengers, LotDK Halloween) Loeb.] Iron Man #1 (Lee/Lobdell & Portacio). "Who is the man behind the iron mask? How will he trigger the origin of the monstrosity known as the Hulk? And how does this Green Goliath in turn cause the creation of Iron Man?" Promises Happy Hogan, Hydra, and Len Samson. The Avengers #1 (Valentino/Liefeld & Liefeld/Yaep). "Off the coast of Norway a man is found encased in amber--a man revealed to be a fighting mad Thor! Now Captain America must lead his newly formed team into battle with the trickster Loki and a thunder god caught in a berserker's rage!" Elektra #1 (Milligan & Deodato). Yes, Peter Milligan. Journey into Mystery: The Lost Gods #503 (DeFalco & Deodato). Here's the concept. In order to escape Ragnarok (in the Worldengine story in Thor), Odin hid the Asgardians in mortal bodies, wiped their memories, and scattered them across the Earth (this is why Asgard has been deserted in recent months). Now Red Norvell and seven strangers unite to find these lost gods before an old enemy can destroy them. Hulk #447 (PAD & Deodato). Bruce Banner is gone--the Hulk stands alone! Ghost Rider has been completely redesigned (by Adam Pollina) as of GR #79. Creative team remains Velez & Larocca. StarLord Magazine (Claremont & Byrne/Austin). Reprints the original StarLord stories. Lead-in to October's all-new StarLord by Timothy Zahn & Dan Lawlis. X-Force Megazine (L. Simonson & Liefeld). Reprints New Mutants #98-100 X-Men Megazine (Claremont & Lee). Reprints Uncanny X-Men #273-275. Spider-Man #74 (Mackie & Romita Jr.) Guest stars Daredevil and Hydra. Spectacular Spider-Man #240 (DeZago & L. Ross). "Book of Revelations part 1" The end of the clone story and the return of the one true Spider- Man to the Marvel Universe culminates in Spider-Man #75 (October). X.S.E. #1 of 2 (Ostrander & Hood). The secret origins of Bishop, Shard, and the Xavier School of Enforcement. Generation X #21 (Lobdell & Bachalo). Guest stars Howard the Duck. Generation X Annual (Golden & J. Johnson/Golden). Fenris is back. This is not a misprint--Michael Golden actually writes and draws a story! Magneto #1 of 4 (Peter Milligan & Kelly Jones). The amnesiac "Joseph" seen in the Onslaught crossover begins a journey of self-discovery. X-Force #60 (Loeb & Castrillo). Longshot reveals Shatterstar's origin. Star Trek: Voyager #1 (Laurie Sutton & J. Redondo). Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #1 (Howard Weinstein & Grindberg). Star Trek Unlimited #1 has Star Trek [TOS] by Abnett & Buckingham and Next Generation by Edgington & Jerome Moore. TPBs: Amalgam Age of Comics, Elektra Lives Again, Last Avengers Story, Mutant Massacre. to be continued... -- -Thad Doria "Wsssssshhhhhhhttt. Goldust."