“Incredible Hercules” ranks #7 in CBR’s 100 Best Comics of 2008

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“Incredible Hercules,” written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, has been named the 7th best comic series of 2008 by Comic Book Resources, the highest ranked Marvel comic book on the list. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente took a flagship Marvel book and character and summarily replaced him with a small time Avenger and his teenage sidekick. Surprising everyone, in doing so they created one of the most charming and oddly moving superhero books of the year. – Reviewer Benjamin Birdie

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Newsarama likes “War Machine” #1

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From the Brendan McGuirk Best Shots mini-review:

My favorite memories of War Machine are from the Benson/ Kaminski and Gabriel Gecko 1994 series, where Rhodey basically became the defense branch of a small nation, so I thought War Machine #1 was full of logical developments for the character. I think the cyborg angle makes so much sense it is hard to imagine going back. Leonardo Manco does a great job capturing a gritty technological feel, and Greg Pak does a great job keeping the pace up. I think this series will be one to watch.

“War Machine” #1 hit comic book stores on January 2. “War Machine” #2 arrives on January 21.

JHU raves about “Magneto Testament” #4

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Jeffrey O. Gustafson has posted an advance review of “Magneto Testament” #4 at the Jim Hanley’s Universe blog. Here’s an excerpt:

It has always been hard to wrap one’s mind around the sheer scale of the horror of the Holocaust, and Pak and [DiGiandomenico] find a simple and powerful way to translate that unfathomable tragedy in a two-page spread of inanimate objects that stops you cold. This is a book of subtleties – from the beautifully rendered use of Max’s powers to a jump in time represented by empty panels a la Brubaker/Phillips Criminal – mixed with scenes of the worst the human species has ever inflicted on its own, and it is a stunning, moving work.

Click here to read the whole review and click here for a seven page preview of the book.
“Magneto Testament” #4 is written by Greg Pak and drawn by Carmine DiGiandomenico. The book hits stores on January 2.

“Magneto Testament” wins Best Miniseries of 2008 from IGN

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IGN has named “Magneto Testament” the Best Miniseries of 2008. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Greg Pak has spent years researching Magneto’s past, mapping events in his life with true historical accounts of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The result is a tragic tale that not only respects the horrors of that era but lays down a definitive, sympathetic origin for one of the greatest villains of all time.

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“Magneto Testament” is written by Greg Pak with art by Carmine DiGiandomenico. The fourth issue of the miniseries hits comic book stores on January 2, 2009.

2009.01.02 – “War Machine” #1

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“War Machine” #1, written by Greg Pak with art by Leonardo Manco, hit comic book stores on January 2. Here’s the solicitation text from Marvel.com:

From the pages of IRON MAN and AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE, War Machine blasts into his own ongoing solo series! Across the globe, from the killing fields of Santo Marco to the blasted deserts of occupied Aqiria, butchers and tyrants are committing the most horrific atrocities imaginable. The outside world won’t raise a finger to stop them, but now Jim Rhodes is on the job. And forget a finger – he’s raising a couple of ginormous shoulder mounted rocket cannons! From WORLD WAR HULK scribe Greg Pak and DEATHLOK artist Leonardo Manco comes the most shocking incarnation of War Machine you’ve ever seen – along with a surprisingly familiar supporting cast and one of the biggest villains in the Marvel Universe!

2009.01.02 – “Incredible Hercules” #124

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“Incredible Hercules” #124, written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, hits comic book stores on January 2. Here’s the solicitation text from Marvel.com:

“LOVE AND WAR” (Part 4)
Hercules, Namora and Athena rush to Washington, D.C., to stop the Mad Amazon Artume from shifting the Axis Mundi and placing the whole world under her control. But now Artume has both Amadeus Cho and the mightiest of the Titans, ATLAS, at her beck and call — and Atlas hasn’t forgiven Herc for ripping him off during the Eleventh Labor!