We absolutely love a bit of cape & tights action here at the SPBM mansion, but you don't want to hear about our special 'parties' you want to hear about comics, right? Well here's one that looks very fun and vaguely familiar. Tell you what, you have a read of this press release while I don my domino mask and nonchalantly swing my enormous hammer...
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Just in
time for THAT movie - Almighties Amass!
The enigmatic White Out
has put together a dysfunctional bunch of heroes to take down
‘threats to America’ - sending them on missions that have comedic
nods to all the big Marvel events of recent years – from Civil
War to Fear Itself. But these aren’t your momma’s
super-heroes and things aren't quite as they seem…
“The Almighties
brings together creations from myself and co-scripter Mike Gagnon,”
says the comic’s other writer Sam Johnson (creator of Geek-Girl
and Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman). “But while that
other super-team were the best that could be assembled,
brought together to take on threats that no single hero could
withstand – things are a bit more…offbeat here.” Johnson
continues, “The guy that hires them - White Out – is a little
wacky, aided as he is by a lobotomised butler with a tray of Pimm’s
– and he has a personal agenda. So there are factors at play in
whom he’s amassed that don’t necessarily make for the most heroic
of super-teams. For example, one of them – Nite Fang –
whom Johnson & Gagnon bill as ‘our Hulk’ - is a cocky British
punk/werewolf who’s here purely for the pay check; another -
Mason - is a borderline-psycho merc, and another - Stefanos –
billed as ‘our Wolverine’ - is seemingly just a guy that runs a
kebab shop - armed with his donor kebab on a skewer!
Not all members of the
team are total misfits, though, Johnson and Gagnon bill their field
leader - Maxi-Tron - and female member Ms. F - as ‘our Iron Man and
Ms. Marvel.’ But like those heroes, these two are also flawed. Only
more so.
Johnson fills us in:
“Maxi has Tony Stark’s ego dialled up to 11 and is more
self-centered than it’s healthy to be when your life and the lives
of your team-mates are on the line, and Ms. F has just broken free of
her oppressive marriage and has anger issues coming out of that.
Anger issues she’s gonna take out on crime!”
“This comic has been
created by a talented group of creators who are also big comic book
fans,” adds co-scripter Mike Gagnon. “It’s all done in good
natured humour, and with all the dark and serious stories being told
in comic books, I think this book is important because it reminds
people that comics can be fun.”
With the motley crew
amassed, you can expect offbeat action, adventure, comedy, testicular
cancer, Nazi Robots, and plenty more – all illustrated by hot team
of up-and-coming artists Eleonora Kortsarz, Pablo Zambrano and D.C.
White - in The Almighties #1; out now in regular and Limited
Avengers movie poster-parody Variant editions; 32 pages, full color,
rated Teen+, $3.99 - published by Actuality Press and available to
purchase at www.thealmighties.com
where you can also check out free-to-read Almighties Origins!
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