Showing posts with label nasty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nasty. Show all posts
Monday, 28 July 2014
First Almighties #0 Teaser - meet the Deadpool-parodyin' Wayne Winston!
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Deadpool Preview 2013
[UPDATED 3/7/13:]
What with the Dead Presidents arc being a 6-parter, there hasn't been anything fresh to get excited about around the Merc with a Mouth for awhile. Well, here's the beginning of something new; one of the series of Marvel teasers for books that are getting a new artist for their second arc. Although this teaser is illustrated by Arthur Adams(!?), judging by new Deadpool artist Mike Hawthorne's previous work for indie titles such as Queen & Country and Fear Agent, as well as DC's Un-Men, it looks as though he could be a good fit for the darker turn writers Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan have hinted Deadpool will be taking.
New to Marvel, the artist has also worked on G.I. Joe and Conan, so should be a dab hand at continuing the balls-to-the-wall OTT action current artist Tony Moore (who'll be back) is delivering, too...
(Mike Hawthorne Deadpool artwork)
During an interview with Comic Book Resources, Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso has been hinting at what's coming up for the Merc with a Mouth in his team book, Thunderbolts, and Deadpool co-writer Gerry Duggan's also been talking up what's in store for Wade Wilson in Deadpool, when Hawthorne comes onboard, with both Marvel.com and Comicbook Alliance...
Ladies first...
"Writer Daniel Way is building some fascinating subplots [in Thunderbolts], and the budding romance--if that's the right word--between the Punisher and Elektra is just one aspect of that. This is a very volatile team, filled with deep fissures and unexpected bonds. Does [team leader] General Ross have a contingency plan for the Punisher if he steps out of line? Can Venom abide the methods of his teammates? And Deadpool--readers are going to look at him in a whole new light. Let's just say, Wade isn't going to like Frank and Elektra's relationship at all." Axel Alonso.
Over in the main Deadpool book, 'Dead Presidents' reaches its climax in issue #6, and co-writer Gerry Duggan has been chatting about what's heading our way with Deadpool #7 onwards...
"Deadpool leaves the first arc... changed," says Duggan--and issue #7, a flashback issue guest-starring Iron Man, "introduces us to a new villain, and makes him an old one at the same time. The idea for a comic that was written and drawn back in the day but not printed until now came from editor Jordan D. White, and we were thrilled with it. We’ll probably use this one-shot issue format between larger arcs moving forward. It’s fun, it’s different, and it allows the regular artists to have a one issue cushion to spend more time on their pages; but the primary reason to do it is that it’s fun."
Duggan says that Deadpool #8 will contain the beginning of a mystery that forms the basis for the story at the end of his & Posehn's first year--which will feature some big guest-stars. The issue sees a demon introduced in Deadpool #7 approaching Wade Wilson in the belief that, following the events of #7, he has some leverage over the Merc with a Mouth...
Further down the road, Deadpool #10 "will have the biggest star of the Marvel Universe," Duggan continues; "and then the third arc is titled 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly'; a fun story that will leave some ripples in the Marvel Universe pond..."
Coincidentally, my Deadpool-parody character Wayne Winston will make his debut going up against a demon--Grant Springford's Nasty; but more on that another time...
What with the Dead Presidents arc being a 6-parter, there hasn't been anything fresh to get excited about around the Merc with a Mouth for awhile. Well, here's the beginning of something new; one of the series of Marvel teasers for books that are getting a new artist for their second arc. Although this teaser is illustrated by Arthur Adams(!?), judging by new Deadpool artist Mike Hawthorne's previous work for indie titles such as Queen & Country and Fear Agent, as well as DC's Un-Men, it looks as though he could be a good fit for the darker turn writers Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan have hinted Deadpool will be taking.
New to Marvel, the artist has also worked on G.I. Joe and Conan, so should be a dab hand at continuing the balls-to-the-wall OTT action current artist Tony Moore (who'll be back) is delivering, too...
During an interview with Comic Book Resources, Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso has been hinting at what's coming up for the Merc with a Mouth in his team book, Thunderbolts, and Deadpool co-writer Gerry Duggan's also been talking up what's in store for Wade Wilson in Deadpool, when Hawthorne comes onboard, with both Marvel.com and Comicbook Alliance...
Ladies first...
"Writer Daniel Way is building some fascinating subplots [in Thunderbolts], and the budding romance--if that's the right word--between the Punisher and Elektra is just one aspect of that. This is a very volatile team, filled with deep fissures and unexpected bonds. Does [team leader] General Ross have a contingency plan for the Punisher if he steps out of line? Can Venom abide the methods of his teammates? And Deadpool--readers are going to look at him in a whole new light. Let's just say, Wade isn't going to like Frank and Elektra's relationship at all." Axel Alonso.
Over in the main Deadpool book, 'Dead Presidents' reaches its climax in issue #6, and co-writer Gerry Duggan has been chatting about what's heading our way with Deadpool #7 onwards...
"Deadpool leaves the first arc... changed," says Duggan--and issue #7, a flashback issue guest-starring Iron Man, "introduces us to a new villain, and makes him an old one at the same time. The idea for a comic that was written and drawn back in the day but not printed until now came from editor Jordan D. White, and we were thrilled with it. We’ll probably use this one-shot issue format between larger arcs moving forward. It’s fun, it’s different, and it allows the regular artists to have a one issue cushion to spend more time on their pages; but the primary reason to do it is that it’s fun."
Duggan says that Deadpool #8 will contain the beginning of a mystery that forms the basis for the story at the end of his & Posehn's first year--which will feature some big guest-stars. The issue sees a demon introduced in Deadpool #7 approaching Wade Wilson in the belief that, following the events of #7, he has some leverage over the Merc with a Mouth...
Further down the road, Deadpool #10 "will have the biggest star of the Marvel Universe," Duggan continues; "and then the third arc is titled 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly'; a fun story that will leave some ripples in the Marvel Universe pond..."
Coincidentally, my Deadpool-parody character Wayne Winston will make his debut going up against a demon--Grant Springford's Nasty; but more on that another time...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Deadpool #54 Review
So, thanks to Hydra Bob, Deadpool's succeeded in getting injected with the serum that's taken out his healing factor and he can now fulfill his wish to get offed. The complications: Bob got the serum from Tombstone (who had it made in order to kill Deadpool as payback for putting him in the slammer) by promising Tombey that he could be the one to kill Wade Wilson. Only, getting gunned down by a second-rater like Tombstone isn't the spectacular ending the ego-crazed Wade desires, he wants to go out in style--possibly by being destroyed by his team-mates X-Force after playing them and massively pissing them off.
'Fine.' Except, if Tombstone doesn't get to be the one who puts a bullet in Deadpool's head, he's gonna make damn sure he puts one in Bob's.
Wade got into his crazy scheme in the first place after his 'friends' temporarily killed him--briefly reuniting him with the love of his life, the female embodiment of Death--before his healing factor brought him back; Wade surmising that what his friends wanted for him was for him to be with Death, and deciding that this was what he wanted for himself now.
Only, that whole thing--? Kind of a subjective call. Those 'friends' are gone, the only one that wasn't party to it is the only one that's stuck around. Hydra Bob. Wade hadn't thought about anyone else, he hadn't considered what would happen to Bob if he carried out his plan. And he doesn't want his one true friend Bob to die...
*CONTAINS SPOILERS*
We hit the ground running in this concluding chapter of DEAD, as the bulletproof Tombstone comes gunning for Deadpool before Wade's had the chance to come up with a plan to save Hydra Bob's ass. Of course, if he really cares about Bob, he could just take the hit from Tombstone, but with Hydra Bob having shown Wade he does have a true friend, maybe Bob's actually given him something to live for. After all, this whole thing kicked off when Deadpool returned to Earth after saving a planet--to no kudos--looking for some love from his buddies and getting a barrage of gunfire from them instead.
So, now mortal and vulnerable and without a plan, Deadpool goes on the lam with Bob and Tombstone pursues--before being met with a 'temporary fix' that'll buy them some breathing space.
Bob's scared to the point of bordering on suicidal, and in a tense conversation with Wade, Deadpool's twisted mind kind of has a reboot. This was all a game to Wade--who saw the way he played his team-mates X-Force, Daken, Kingpin and co. off against each other as a grand game of Chess--his ultimate challenge--and attaining the lethal serum as the lynchpin of that. But getting it didn't turn out to be so tough for Wade, Bob did the work there, really--and now that Deadpool is mortal as a result of it, there's no challenge. Dying would be easy. And with Death a woman of VERY high demands, dying now wouldn't be worthy of her.
So Wade doesn't want to die now--but there's the small problem of both Tombstone and X-Force being out to kill him. So Deadpool and Bob are going to flee via Grand Central Station (one of the places X-Force have deemed to look for him at), so they need disguises...
But then, upon seeing his newly scar-free face in the mirror--a result of the serum--Deadpool realizes they don't need disguises--no-one now knows what either of them look like without their masks...
Despite this, tension holds as Wade and Bob hit Grand Central Station, only to be met by X-Force--and things don't look good for either of them.
I won't say exactly happens, but--*BIG SPOILER ALERT*--everything gets resolved and tied up in a neat little bow and Wade Wilson is now a blue-eyed pretty boy, complete with stylin' hair (that's come from nowhere) and comes out of DEAD mortal, and with a new lease on life.
Ale Garza's art isn't as strong here as it has been in previous issues--on occasion, I mistakenly thought there were two pencillers involved--and it would have been nice to have regular Deadpool artist Carlo Barberi back for the conclusion of the story he helped kick off--but Garza, inked by Sean Parsons, does a decent enough job.
In the writing, Daniel Way requires you to read between the lines and put things together in terms of the characters' motivations, which asks for a high degree of trust that he knows Wade inside out, given that they're certainly not the most logical or linear of motives.
We have a decent conclusion to the big arc here, though I would have liked to have seen some Deadpool on Death action (not in the biblical sense, that would be gross). If, like me, you find that amiss, you'll be able to find it in my unofficial Prequel to DEAD, Bootleg Deadpool hearts Death, here.
Way will be staying on board as Deadpool: the pretty boy years begins in issue #55, meanwhile, I'm continuing to work on showcasing my MwaM-writing skillz (for which Deadpool hearts Death was the last thing)--having fun along the way--should a vacancy come up at some point. ;)
And you can get a first look at my new thing here:
Meet Wade Wilson, Blind Al and Weasel parodies Wayne Winston, Nigel and Rodent--who will be making their debut in an upcoming Abnormals Special, taking on Grant Springford's little demon Nasty--dynamically illustrated by Sgt. Mike Battle's Graham Pearce.
Stay tuned ;)
'Fine.' Except, if Tombstone doesn't get to be the one who puts a bullet in Deadpool's head, he's gonna make damn sure he puts one in Bob's.
Wade got into his crazy scheme in the first place after his 'friends' temporarily killed him--briefly reuniting him with the love of his life, the female embodiment of Death--before his healing factor brought him back; Wade surmising that what his friends wanted for him was for him to be with Death, and deciding that this was what he wanted for himself now.
Only, that whole thing--? Kind of a subjective call. Those 'friends' are gone, the only one that wasn't party to it is the only one that's stuck around. Hydra Bob. Wade hadn't thought about anyone else, he hadn't considered what would happen to Bob if he carried out his plan. And he doesn't want his one true friend Bob to die...
*CONTAINS SPOILERS*
We hit the ground running in this concluding chapter of DEAD, as the bulletproof Tombstone comes gunning for Deadpool before Wade's had the chance to come up with a plan to save Hydra Bob's ass. Of course, if he really cares about Bob, he could just take the hit from Tombstone, but with Hydra Bob having shown Wade he does have a true friend, maybe Bob's actually given him something to live for. After all, this whole thing kicked off when Deadpool returned to Earth after saving a planet--to no kudos--looking for some love from his buddies and getting a barrage of gunfire from them instead.
So, now mortal and vulnerable and without a plan, Deadpool goes on the lam with Bob and Tombstone pursues--before being met with a 'temporary fix' that'll buy them some breathing space.
Bob's scared to the point of bordering on suicidal, and in a tense conversation with Wade, Deadpool's twisted mind kind of has a reboot. This was all a game to Wade--who saw the way he played his team-mates X-Force, Daken, Kingpin and co. off against each other as a grand game of Chess--his ultimate challenge--and attaining the lethal serum as the lynchpin of that. But getting it didn't turn out to be so tough for Wade, Bob did the work there, really--and now that Deadpool is mortal as a result of it, there's no challenge. Dying would be easy. And with Death a woman of VERY high demands, dying now wouldn't be worthy of her.
So Wade doesn't want to die now--but there's the small problem of both Tombstone and X-Force being out to kill him. So Deadpool and Bob are going to flee via Grand Central Station (one of the places X-Force have deemed to look for him at), so they need disguises...
But then, upon seeing his newly scar-free face in the mirror--a result of the serum--Deadpool realizes they don't need disguises--no-one now knows what either of them look like without their masks...
Despite this, tension holds as Wade and Bob hit Grand Central Station, only to be met by X-Force--and things don't look good for either of them.
I won't say exactly happens, but--*BIG SPOILER ALERT*--everything gets resolved and tied up in a neat little bow and Wade Wilson is now a blue-eyed pretty boy, complete with stylin' hair (that's come from nowhere) and comes out of DEAD mortal, and with a new lease on life.
Ale Garza's art isn't as strong here as it has been in previous issues--on occasion, I mistakenly thought there were two pencillers involved--and it would have been nice to have regular Deadpool artist Carlo Barberi back for the conclusion of the story he helped kick off--but Garza, inked by Sean Parsons, does a decent enough job.
In the writing, Daniel Way requires you to read between the lines and put things together in terms of the characters' motivations, which asks for a high degree of trust that he knows Wade inside out, given that they're certainly not the most logical or linear of motives.
We have a decent conclusion to the big arc here, though I would have liked to have seen some Deadpool on Death action (not in the biblical sense, that would be gross). If, like me, you find that amiss, you'll be able to find it in my unofficial Prequel to DEAD, Bootleg Deadpool hearts Death, here.
Way will be staying on board as Deadpool: the pretty boy years begins in issue #55, meanwhile, I'm continuing to work on showcasing my MwaM-writing skillz (for which Deadpool hearts Death was the last thing)--having fun along the way--should a vacancy come up at some point. ;)
And you can get a first look at my new thing here:
Meet Wade Wilson, Blind Al and Weasel parodies Wayne Winston, Nigel and Rodent--who will be making their debut in an upcoming Abnormals Special, taking on Grant Springford's little demon Nasty--dynamically illustrated by Sgt. Mike Battle's Graham Pearce.
Stay tuned ;)
Thursday, 24 November 2011
The Abnormals
I've been invited by fellow Brit/comics creator Grant Springford to join a bunch of other British writers and artists in contributing to his new Abnormals anthology.
Springford and I share Grant Morrison's bizarre run on superhero/misfits Doom Patrol as one of our big influences--evident in The Abnormals--and the story I'll be working on will star The Ab's resident demon, Nasty--whom Springford describes as Howard the Duck meets Wolverine--a ferocious fighter with poisonous claws and the ability to vomit acid (nice) among his powers; and will take place in Springford's weird Subterranea, that exists beneath London.
Graham Pierce, creator of the acclaimed Sgt. Mike Battle, will be handling the art, and the story will be one of a bunch of strips spotlighting the team's members.
If you're not familiar with The Abnormals and would like to check them out, you can get in on the ground floor of their universe with The Abnormals Special--out now and available at the Abnormals website!
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