This Marvel Now! thing is looking pretty darn sweet - and not *cough* in any way designed to *cough cough* claw back some readers who went off to the shiny land that is the new DC 52... AT ALL.
Still there's some sick looking stuff on the horizon for next month including more Avengers titles (to go with the seventy three other Avengers titles we've seen over the last few years) and a brand new, awesome Thunderbolts line-up that made me do a little love wee.
Observe:
Holy shit look at the colour co-ordination there! Red Hulk, Electra, Deadpool, Punisher and a sweet looking Venom all in black and red. Good fucking times.
But what I'm happiest about is Marvel rediscovering Mike Allred - creator of some of the weirdest and most wonderful comics I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Titles like Madman, The Atomics and Marvels own X-Statix to name but a few. Oh how I love Mike Allred - let me count the ways...
1. The art is so clean and bright and fun it makes me think of a simpler time when I wasn't even born! 2. His writing is funny and has the oddest mix of innocence and out and out weirdness I've ever read before. With dialogue coming straight out of the 60's but never with that cloying faux hipness that Stan Lee used to write into Spider-Man back in the day. 3. OK, so I only have 2 ways but those are 2 pretty good ways.
So they let Mike Allred do an issue of Daredevil recently (issue 17 true believer) which boasted a truly beautiful cover. Have a butchers at this:
And there's more to come as he's also doing not one but a series of covers for FF. Covers like this one:
I don't care that this reboot seems on the whole to be a colossal waste of time - it's got Mike fucking Allred doing covers so until the Mad Thinker... erm... stops having mad thoughts, make mine Marvel (Now).
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