Gritty scribe Frank Tieri and artist Juan Santacruz bring together two of Marvel's toughest heroes! Matsuo - the man who murdered Mariko - is back from the dead and has one mission: kill Wolverine. But when he recruits two deadly foes of Hercules, the Olympian joins forces with Logan to show Matsuo just what it means to battle the best there is! Collecting WOLVERINE/HERCULES: MYTHS, MONSTERS & MUTANTS #1-4, plus the first meeting of Wolverine and Hercules from MARVEL TREASURY EDITION #26 (1980).
Collects Secret Wars 2099 #1-5. Travel to the Battleworld domain of 2099 and see the future in a whole new light. Introducing the Avengers 2099! Can the ideal of Earth's Mightiest Heroes survive in a world where megacorporations rule with an iron fist? Find out as the 2099 Avengers come face-to-face with a tremendous beast who's no stranger to the team! (You won't like him when he's angry.) Then, the Defenders of 2099 square off against the Avengers! When corporations control super heroes, what differences could have driven the Defenders to stand against Earth's Mightiest Heroes? To find out, the Avengers take on Alchemax - and Miguel Stone bears his talons for the first time! And even as Captain America discovers the truth about her own dual identity, an ancient evil appears, intent on destroying the 2099 Avengers!
Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented queer hero in both comics and fanfiction. Despite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era conservatism or hegemonic hypermasculinity, Wolverine does not conform to gender or sex norms, not only because of his mutant status, but also because his character, throughout his publication history, resists normalization, making him a site for a queer-heroic futurity. Rather than focusing on overt queer representations that have appeared in some comic forms, this book explores the queer representations that have preceded Wolverine’s bisexual and gay characterizations and in particular focuses on his porous and vulnerable body. Through important, but not overly analyzed storylines, representations of his open body that is always in process (both visually and narratively), his creation of queer kinships with his fellow mutants, and his eroticized same-sex relationships as depicted in fanfiction, this book traces a queer genealogy of Wolverine. This book is ideal reading for students and scholars of comics studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and literature.
Collects Wolverine (1988) #133-149, Incredible Hulk (1999) #8, Wolverine/Cable: Guts and Glory #1. Wolverine takes on the Marvel Universe! First, an alien encounter pits Logan against the Avengers and a host of Earth's heroes! Then things get really cosmic as, kidnapped to outer space, Wolverine takes on the Collector and Galactus! He'll team up with Cable, Nightcrawler, Hercules, Alpha Flight and Nova, and face gamma-fueled battles against the Hulk and the Leader...but is the Wolverine we know and love acting just a bit out of character? Then, Apocalypse turns the feral X-Man's life upside down, transforming him into the lethal Horseman of Death -complete with the return of his adamantium claws!
The world's first super hero is getting back in the game, to remind everyone why he set the bar for valor in the first place. Make way...Hercules is back! Creatures of ancient myth still linger, but they are on the brink of extinction. The world of today has no place for them. But Hercules has moved with the times -and now only he can protect them against the crushing weight of the future. Clean, sober and determined, the Lion of Olympus undertakes his quest and is quickly thrown into battle -but can he stand alone in the face of the Uprising Storm that threatens to wipe out the old ways forever? Or will his example inspire another forgotten hero to return to the fields of glorious combat? Collects Hercules #1-6.
A stunningly illustrated, science fiction retelling of the legend of Hercules by multi award-winning writer, Jean-David Morvan (Wolverine: Saudade). As war rages across the galactic frontier, one half-human, half-god super-soldier faces his greatest enemy - his own demons - in a bid for truth, redemption and revenge.
Call him the Maestro! In a broken future, the man once known as the Hulk is now neither man nor Hulk. After deposing Dystopia's ancient ruler, the Maestro sets his sights even higher. It's time everyone left on the ravaged planet Earth recognized their one true god! But the Maestro isn't the only would-be immortal left - and if he wants to truly dominate the globe, he'll have to face the most powerful beings left in creation. The Pantheon sees all - including a Hulk too powerful to leave alive! And just when his former allies have him on the ropes, the Maestro's true enemy shows his face at last - and nobody's going to like the future he has planned! Peter David continues the tale he began decades ago in the legendary HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT! Collects MAESTRO: WAR AND PAX #1-5.
