Amadeus Cho

Amadeus Cho is a Marvel Comics character created by writer Greg Pak and artist Takeshi Miyazawa in 2005 for Amazing Fantasy Vol. 2 #15. Amadeus was a major supporting character during the World War Hulk event and co-starred with Hercules in the Incredible Hercules series (co-written by Pak and Fred Van Lente) for four and a half years. In 2015, Amadeus became Marvel’s new Hulk and starred in the Totally Awesome Hulk ongoing comics series. Most recently, Amadeus led the new Agents of Atlas in their 2019 and 2020 miniseries.

More love for “Incredible Hercules” #114

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Comixtreme continues to love “Incredible Hercules” — here’s an excerpt from Adam Chapman’s review of issue #114:

Two years ago, the thought of a high-profile book starring Amadeus Cho and Hercules would not even have been a consideration, not even enough fodder for a joke. And yet here the book is, consistently engaging and interesting, making Hercules more interesting and entertaining than ever before, and making Amadeus Cho himself ever more interesting with additional shades of grey being added to his character. This is one of, if not the BEST Marvel book currently being published, a true success story, that Hercules has managed to headline a book that respects his character and makes him a serious hero again.

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“Incredible Hercules” #114 was written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with pencils by Khoi Pham. Tell your local comic store to hold a copy for you today!

Newsarama’s Best Shots loves “Incredible Hercules” #114

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Corey Henson has written a rave review of “Incredible Hercules” #114 for Newsarama’s Best Shots. An excerpt:

Much like Walt Simonson’s classic run on The Mighty Thor in the 80s, writers Van Lente and Greg Pak are mixing Hercules’s mythological history with his modern day superhero adventures. Hercules and his teenage companion, Amadeus Cho, are fugitives on the run from SHIELD and a small squad of Avengers led by Herc’s relentless brother Ares. Ares has poisoned Hercules with Hydra blood, driving him mad and inducing hallucinations of his life as a Greek god. It’s a terrific way to use the character, as I’ve never really really bought into the stories where Hercules, and similarly Thor, are treated as standard superheroes. The characters are much richer when their mythology is referenced, as they stand out more from the pack of their spandex-wearing colleagues. Besides, a lot of times, the mythological stories are way crazier and more fun to read about than anything seen in most comic books.

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“Incredible Hercules” #114 was written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with pencils by Khoi Pham and colors by the late Stephane Peru. The book hit comic book stores on February 20.

Amadeus Cho makes the Eights

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ComicBookResources.com is running a fun series of articles interviewing Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort about which Marvel characters the Skrulls would most hope to replace, capture, or convert during the upcoming “Secret Invasion” event. Here’s the blurb about Amadeus Cho, deemed the Eight of Hearts in the Skrull’s deck of most desireables:

Until ‘World War Hulk,’ he really hadn’t come to the attention of many people,” Brevoort continued. “Now that he has, though, he’d be a critical asset to neutralize if the Skrulls thought he might tumble to their plans.”
Replacing Cho would give the Skrulls many advantages, the greatest being it would eliminate someone who could devise a way to detect them. Cho is also infamous for finding and exploiting holes in the plans of large organizations like S.H.I.E.L.D. In his adventures, Amadeus has come to befriend heroes like Hercules and the Atlantean princess Namora.
Like most teens, Amadeus has a disdain and distrust for authority, like like Iron Man and groups like S.H.I.E.L.D., which is something the Skrulls have certainly noticed. “Amadeus has shown a penchant for wanting to side with the underdog, or with anybody whose situation in some way mirrors his own, or that he feels an empathy with,” Brevoort remarked. “So it’s possible that they could convert him to the Skrull cause without any need for a complex deception.”

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“Incredible Hercules” #114 scores a rave from Comixtreme

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“Incredible Hercules” #114, which hits comic book stores Wednesday, February 20, has scored a rave review from Blake M. Petit at Comixtreme.com. An excerpt:

As I’ve come to expect from Greg Pak, this was a highly entertaining, truly exciting issue. He and Fred Van Lente have managed to seamlessly blend Hercules’ classical origins with his status of a superhero, with flashes from everything from a pre-Illiad Troy to Herc’s stint with the Champions of Los Angeles… I’ve got to say it again – I’ve quickly fallen in love with this book. It’s one of Marvel’s best.

Click here for the full review. And click here for a preview of the first six pages.

Newsarama interviews Pak and Van Lente on “Hulk Versus Hercules”

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Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente are co-writing a one-shot for Marvel Comics entitled “Hulk Versus Hercules: When Titans Clash” — and Newsarama has the scoop! Here’s an excerpt:

GP: Part of the story ties directly into Incredible Hercules #116 and sets up some themes and elements of the “Sacred Invasion” crossover which will follow in Incredible Hercules #117 to #120. And part of the story fits right into a classic Bill Mantlo “Incredible Hulk” tale from the 1980s. I’ll say no more, other than to plug the thrilling fact that you’ll see the Hulk as he hasn’t been seen for a long, long time, and it will be awesome.
FVL: One of the things that people seem to be reacting really positively to in the pages of Incredible Hercules is how we’ve brought Greek mythology into the modern-day Marvel universe, and here we’re kind of doing the same thing, but in reverse.
Let’s just say Olympus is gong to need a new interior decorator. Damn quick.

Click here for the full interview.

ComicCritique.com names Pak “Writer of the Year”

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In his “2007 in Review” column at ComicCritique, Adam McGovern has named Greg Pak the Writer of the Year — and has some very nice things to say about “Hulk” and “Hercules” editor Mark Paniccia. Here’s the blurb:

Pak was the one in 2007 to pick up the Grant Morrison banner and prove that crossovers can be art. In the main World War Hulk mini the relentless momentum of Pak’s narrative and the punishing physicality of John Romita Jr.’s bravura visuals conveyed anxieties run amok and real-life war-weariness raised to a hysterical pitch. Pak’s regular Incredible Hulk book was an even more fascinating narrative of the War’s underground factions and captive bystanders, conveying the human cost and psychic shockwaves of conflicts real and fantastic like few other comics of our war-torn decade. The other “fronts” in tie-in titles were almost all as interesting — especially the deranged displaced-persons/profiteer melodrama in Zeb Wells’ Heroes for Hire — and the ramifying followup books shaded the narrative across the genre spectrum, from the sober and humane postwar elegy of Pak’s Aftersmash one-shot to the inventive suspense and moral ambiguity of his lost-platoon Warbound mini to the offbeat insurrection comedy (!) of the Incredible Herc ongoing (!!), an on-the-road (and on-the-run) adventure with Hercules and Amadeus Cho alone against SHIELD in a battle where what’s most at risk is heroism itself (this last one a real-life dream-teamup between Pak and rising auteur Fred Van Lente as co-writer). Every precinct of what I think of as the Paniccia Comics Group — that most original and oddball corner of Marvel’s overall cosmos, under editor Mark Paniccia’s wise dominion — gave its all for the kind of epic that will hopefully become a trend; call it event-garde.

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Pak Talks Comics: Reader Q&A and Ann Marie Fleming interview

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The latest “Pak Talks Comics” column has hit BrokenFrontier.com. This week’s installment features Reader Q&A and an interview with Ann Marie Fleming, a filmmaker who recently turned her documentary, “The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam,” into a graphic novel. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

GP: The book uses photographs, archival material, your own cartoons, and sequential art by Julian Lawrence. Tell us about the challenges in adapting this particular story to comics and how you made your decisions about how to tell the story.
AMF: I was really intimidated, and didn’t know how to begin to make this into a comic. I am a huge fan of indie comics, graphic novels and have such respect for the artistry of people in the field. It was like, I was stuck. I took a page (sic) out of the world of ‘zines… which said “collage is okay”.
After all, it had worked for the film, and I think was a good parallel expression to the nature of Long Tack Sam’s act and life. I used so many different media and techniques because I did not have any film of Long Tack Sam’s act, and it turned out that the scrapbook nature was perfect for my subject… which really is finding a life.

Click here to read the whole column. And click here to submit your questions for the next Reader Q&A.