It’s Tuesday Sneaks time! Today, feast your eyes on two never-before-revealed pages from “World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound” #4, written by Greg Pak with pencils and inks by Leonard Kirk and colors by Val Staples.
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“Warbound” #4 hits comic book stores on March 19 — tell your local comic shop to order a copy for you today! And click here for more info about the book Comixtreme calls “highly recommended.”
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Wizard loves “Warbound” #3
Another great review for “Warbound” #3, written by Greg Pak with pencils by Leonard Kirk, this time from WizardUniverse.com:
I want to marry Leonard Kirk’s pencils on Warbound #3; I love them that much. Greg Pak’s carved himself a nice little corner of the Marvel U, and it’s a sandbox I don’t want to leave…
“Warbound” #3 hit comic book stores on February 20.
Comixtreme likes “Warbound” #3
“Warbound #3, written by Greg Pak with pencils by Leonard Kirk, racks up another four star review from Comixtreme, which notes, “Pak has guided these characters since their creation, and they’re just as intriguing here as they ever were.”
Click here to read the full review.
“Warbound” #3 hits comic book stores on Wednesday, February 20 — tell your local shop to hold a copy for you!
Pak Talks Comics: “Warbound” #3 preview with commentary!
The latest “Pak Talks Comics” column has gone live at BrokenFrontier.com — this time featuring six colored, lettered preview pages from “Warbound” #3, along with commentary by writer Greg Pak. Pak also answers a few Hulk-related reader questions.
Click here to read the article and click here to submit your questions for future columns.
ComicCritique.com names Pak “Writer of the Year”
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.
Another Comixtreme.com rave for “Warbound” #2…
… this time from Adam Chapman. Here’s an excerpt:
This has been a surprisingly good and enjoyable mini-series so far, and I’m looking forward to what comes next for the Warbound, and for Hiroim and Korg in particular (as they are my personal favourites of the group). Highly Recommended!
Click here for the full review.
“Warbound” #2, written by Greg Pak with pencils by Leonard Kirk and Rafa Sandoval, hit comic book stores on January 16. “Warbound” #3 arrives on February 20. Tell your local shop to preorder a copy for you today!
Pak Talks Comics: Reader Q&A and “Herc” and “Warbound” preview pages!
Greg Pak’s latest “Pak Talks Comics” column is live at BrokenFrontier.com — in this installment, he answers reader questions about “World War Hulk,” Amadeus Cho’s coyote, and “Incredible Herc” — and unveils two new preview pages from “Incredible Hercules” and “Warbound”!
Click here to read the column.
And click here to submit your own questions to “Pak Talks Comics.”
Jaded Expressions posts a new interview with Greg Pak
The fine folks at Jaded Expressions Magazine have interviewed Greg Pak again — this time about “Incredible Hercules,” Amadeus Cho, and the Warbound. An excerpt:
JXM: Speaking of another jolly giant – Hercules – what are your plans for him? Will he undergo a massive makeover like the Hulk?
Greg: Hercules is one of Marvel’s niftiest characters because he’s not just some strong dude who calls himself Hercules. He’s actually Hercules, the Lion of Olympus, son of Zeus, slayer of the Hydra, scourer of the Augean stables, etcetera etcetera. The character doesn’t need a makeover – he’s been one of the most popular heroes of myth and legend for thousands of years. But Fred and I are getting back to the roots of the character by tapping into insane, thrilling, and sometimes deeply disturbing myths that make up his history. He’s a hero of enormous good humour and fundamentally decent impulses – who’s nonetheless lost himself to rage and madness and committed some of the most horrific atrocities imaginable. That combination of fun, heroism, and dark danger makes for great drama and great comics.
2008.02.20 – “Warbound” #3
“World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound” #3, written by Greg Pak with pencils by Leonard Kirk and Rafa Sandoval, hits comic book stores on February 20. Ain’t It Cool News praised the last issue for “the single most tense comic book sequence I’ve read all month.” Tell your local retailer to order a copy for you today!
Click here for Marvel’s solicitation for the issue.
IncredibleHulkOnline.com interviews Pak about “Warbound”
IncredibleHulkOnline.com has interviewed writer Greg Pak about the “World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound” miniseries, the second issue of which just hit comic book stores on January 16. Here’s an excerpt:
IH:EOD: Do you have a favorite [member of the Warbound]?
GP: Right now, as I polish “Warbound†#4, I have to say Korg, the stone man from Krona. Major turning points and revelations are coming in this issue that reveal the true depth of everyone’s favorite alien rock man.
IH:EOD: Why the mini origins as back-up stories?
GP: Sometimes purely logistical problems lead to pretty awesome creative developments. Because editor Mark Paniccia and I loved Leonard Kirk’s pencils and inks on the “What If Planet Hulk†book so much, Mark wanted to let him pencil and ink himself the same way on “Warbound.†But that’s clearly a more time consuming process than dividing those chores would be. So devoting a few pages per issue to a backup story that another art team could draw and ink would help keep the book on schedule. The bonus was that the back up stories gave us a great place to delve into the pasts of our heroes and reveal a bit more about the savage world of Sakaar. And penciller Rafa Sandoval has been doing an incredible job with those stories — I’m happy to announce that he’ll be taking over pencilling duties on “Incredible Hercules,†the book I’m co-writing with Fred Van Lente, starting with issue #116.
IH:EOD: Without giving anything away, where will the Warbound be at the end of the story?
GP: You ask the impossible, my friend! But here are a few big teasers, revealed here for the very first time:
A hero will fall. A red queen will rise. And the Old Power will choose.
What’s it all mean? Keep on reading, my friends, keep reading!