>“You know what everyone says is worse than the devil? The devil you don’t know!” teases editor Kathleen Wisneski. “For ACTS OF EVIL, Marvel is pitting our heroes against villains they’ll never see coming, and we’ve lined up creative teams with fresh takes on these characters to make sure our fans are just as blindsided. So readers should steel themselves! And make sure they don’t miss the launch of the next legendary rivalry, or hints at a supervillain’s next masterstroke…”
Not quite, he's infected Viv's dog. He's watching the Champions closely.
Blake Brown
What hacks are writing this crap?
Jeremiah Collins
Lady Hellbender is a cool character glad they're pushing her.
Justin Campbell
That's referencing something but I'm not sure what, I don't think it's Sentry and Carnage, something to do with splitting someone in two people. I'm thinking a Firestorm situation too where it surprises the victim how it was possible. Hulk? Ghost Rider?
Kayden Ramirez
So it's literally Acts of Vengeance 2.
Hunter Bennett
Last time they did that, Spider-man went cosmic to have any chance against Mags and Graviton.
So what? Will we have Daredevil vs Ego The Living Planet? Nova vs Mr. Negative? X-men vs White Rabbit?
Jackson Carter
if it only involves the annuals, I'm fine with iot, it's nice to see heroes fighting different enemies than usual
Levi Martinez
December probably.
Dominic Foster
wonder if she'll learn any stretching skills from him
Adam Phillips
Pitting a young hopeful hero against Mystique is just sadistic and needs more build up than a single annual.
Austin Kelly
Mystique can be a great mother-figure
but yeah, it would need a long atory arc to be worth
Jordan Clark
Just those three?
Ethan Russell
I read the article now. My bad.
Mason Brown
>VENOM ANNUAL #1: VENOM VS. LADY HELLBENDER >Written by RYAN CADY >Art by SIMONE DI MEO >Cover by WOO DAE SHIM Ryan Cady is the writer behind Infinite Dark, a series that honestly feels like something I'd write. It has a lot of elements I'm into, and a very hard sci-fi vibe going on not too unlike an Alastair Reynolds novel. So maybe this will be good.
It's one of those sci-fi books that slips through the cracks because it's a sci-fi book at Image, and published at an imprint to boot.
Logan Collins
Yep... There's more of those, like Outer Darkness and Stellar, or The Last Space Race and Relay over Aftershock.
Zachary Nelson
Isshe showing up a lot lately? I honestly never expected her to show up again after her invention in Chulk since she was unambiguously Cho's compensation for doing a few issues.
agreed but her other stuff is so split. Calamity Jane is terrible but Sex, Death Revolution is good.
Charles Brooks
I like Infinite Dark but he needs to work on how his dialog moves, it doesn't flow very well.
Jayden Evans
I've only read Eternity Girl, so yeah I guess I don't have much of a frame of reference here. Hah yes, it is a bit stiff. I chalked it up to the context since they mostly are gruff technicians in a claustrophobic setting, but there's probably some polishing necessary.
William Cruz
>Marvel: Strangers on a Train, but with supervillains >DC: Giant evil person #231 has a power level of over 100,000,000,000 Can we just stop with events for a while? Like, if you can't come up with any good ideas for an event, just don't do it. Are the big two just contractually obligated to do like two events a year or something, regardless of how lame the concepts are? For fucks sake.
Logan King
This isn't an event
Samuel King
What sort of garbage art is that?
Liam Jackson
>company-wide crossover >not an event
Camden Hughes
The more I look at it, the more mistakes shoot out at me and I've only just now looked at it. What a mess
Not necessarily. It's not like there's a hard rule about that.
Luis Ward
She showed up in that short lived Monsters Unleashed ongoing
So this would be her third appearance, which is pretty good considering as you said she's Frank Cho's big titted compensation for drawing some of that Totally Awesome Hulk series
Adrian Edwards
I like her mostly for the T&A but also because we always need more non-villainous antagonists. Mercenary in perspective and goal oriented make for good enemies that can be defeated without being beaten which keeps them threatening.
Caleb Diaz
God I wish that were me
Jayden Howard
>top cow is an imprint at image I legitimately did not know this what the fuck. Why didn’t I know about this?
Juan Hall
Yes there is. Inferno wasn't an event, it was a crossover. Same with the original Acts of Vengeance. This doesn't even affect the actual ongoings.
Jonathan Stewart
>act of vengeance 2.0
Okay, I'm down for that idea.
Brayden Miller
I don't know, it's always been like this. Marc Silvestri was an Image founder and everyone had their own imprints. McFarlane had McFarlane Productions, Liefeld had Extreme Studios, Lee had Wildstorm, Valentino had Shadowline, Larsen had Highbrow Entertainment, and Silvestri had Top Cow.
Jason Hill
> Marvel is pitting our heroes against villains they’ll never see coming >is an inhuman, mentored by Carol skrull killer danvers, and semi successor to the vell namesake Kamala is a fake superhero fan if she didn't see this a skrull fight coming.
James Hernandez
Seriously, between her shapeshifting and the comparison to Mr Fantastic's stretchy powers I'm surprised that she hasn't fought Kl'rt before now
Jace Cruz
Today I learned that the logo was Busiek idea and the jaggies are because he made it in his old computer and Marvel never fixed them...
have you been living under a rock? Top Cow was one of the biggest Image imprints, Witchblade, The Darkness, Cyber Force
Aiden Powell
If it's a good fight and K'lrt doesn't straight out job to Kamala then I'll tune in. So they're recycling the Acts of Vengeance event? I'm waiting for him to find out about Nadia which might happen in Champions since an Ultron drone infected Viv's dog and is spying on them but the writer is slow burning it. Maybe waiting for the Unstoppable Wasp comic to end.
Gavin Carter
Whose this huge tit goddess?
Carson Foster
not that user but, I knew Top Cow existed and I read every issue of the Darkness and Witchblade up until the reboot and artifacts when people stopped scanning it for a bit and I fell off hard, I just had absolutely no idea Top Cow was part of Image.
Chase King
Why do they insist in putting Frank in this type of stupid shit. >He's wearing War Machine armor! >Now he's in space fighting the brood! >Now he's Frankenstein!
Ryder White
that you Becky Lynch?
Elijah Morris
Lady Hellbender, she's a Frank Cho character.
Dylan Brown
remember when the punisher was a serious character based on works of fictions like death wish, heart of darkness and full metal jacket? a character who´s brutal realism worked as a perfect counter point to marvel comics usual rather colorful and childish stories?
Hunter Stewart
Remember Space Punisher? I sure do!
Protip: there's good precedent for that stuff. Just because a lot of Marvel writers have zero creativity regarding Frank Castle (and some of them even make their own OCs based on him) doesn't mean there's no potential for greatness.