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Friday, July 26, 2002MARVEL COMICS FIRST LOOKSFIRST LOOK: AVENGERS #56Avengers #56 will arrive in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Kurt Busiek, with art by Yanick Paquette and a cover by Luke Ross. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "Kurt Busiek ends his five-year run as writer, setting the stage for the debut of Geoff Johns next month. The Avengers are assembled to face an accounting of their actions. Guest-starring the Beast, She-Hulk, and U.S.Agent." Avengers #56 will be 32 pages and will cost 2.25
FIRST LOOK: PARADISE X #4Paradise X #4 will arrive in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Alex Ross and Jim Krueger, with art by Doug Braithwaite and Bill Reinhold and a cover by Ross. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "Big revelations issue! Captain America, Phoenix, Doom, Iron Man, Black Bolt, Hank Pym and Matt Murdock make a fateful discovery regarding Mar-Vell and the nature of the new Paradise. Plus: the real reasons that the Guardians of the Galaxy have traveled back in time to visit Earth X." Paradise X #4 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.99.
FIRST LOOK: WOLVERINE #179Wolverine #179 will arrive in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Matt Nixon, with art by Ethan Van Sciver and Larry Stucker and a cover by Sean Chen and Norm Rapmund. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "Alpha Flight returns -- and brings with them guest-art by Ethan Van Sciver. At the request of Shaman, Wolverine pays a visit to the base of his Canadian comrades -- but this isn't a social call! What deadly menace lurks inside the complex -- and who will be sacrificed to defeat it?" Wolverine #179 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.25.
FIRST LOOK: X-MEN: EVOLUTION #9X-Men: Evolution #9 will arrive in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Jay Faerber, with art and cover by Udon. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "When the Professor's away, the mutants will play. It's party time at the Xavier Institute when Professor X takes a trip -- but things really heat up when the Brotherhood crashes the scene." X-Men: Evolution #9 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.25.
FIRST LOOK: X-MEN UNLIMITED #37X-Men Unlimited #37 will arrive in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Kaare Andrews, with art by Mike Kunkel, Josh Middleton and others and a cover by Andrews. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "A young boy who possesses unimaginable power has fallen under the thrall of a religious zealot seeking to eradicate the stain of mutantkind from our world -- and every other. Together, the two open a gateway that thrusts countless version of the X-Men across multiple dimensions against one another in all-out war. It's Wolverine vs. Wolverine vs. Wolverine ad infinitum. Can Professor Xavier and Kitty Pryde save themselves and the boy -- and what are they willing to sacrifice to do so?" X-Men Unlimited #37 will be 48 pages and cost $3.50.
X-STATIX #1X-Statix #1 will arrive in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Peter Milligan, with art by Mike Allred and Darwyn Cooke and a cover by Allred. Here's how Marvel describes the issue: "America's #1 supergroup receives their biggest challenge ever when a new team of even more media-savvy, camera-friendly, focus-group mutants leaps into the spotlight! Can the squad formerly known as X-Force rise to the occasion? This special 38-page extra-sized issue features a lead story by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred and a back-up tale by Milligan and Darwyn Cooke featuring that loveable Doop." X-Statix #1 will be 48 pages and will cost $2.99.
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