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Wizard World Philadelphia 2007 - Avengers: House of M
"Marvel has always liked to ask "What if?" Creating alternate worlds such as those seen in the Age of Apocalypse or in the Ultime line, even the smallest shifts in reality can bring about drastic changes. The world of HOUSE OF M was a recreation of the Marvel Universe through the eyes of the mentally plagued Scarlet Witch. Reality was eventually restored and things returned to normal, but we were left wondering how expansive that world really was. Announced at Wizard World Philadelphia, AVENGERS: HOUSE OF M fills in some of the gaps and spotlights characters that we didn't get to see in the original HOUSE OF M mega event. Editors Tom Brevoort and Bill Rosemann, along with writer Christos Gage, tell us whats up with the November-shipping five-issue mini-series."
Christos Gage talks AVENGERS: HOUSE OF M and talks about it further in the House of Ideas Marvel Roundtable
"The story takes place over the course of 20-25 years. It starts with the human/mutant war that happened in 1979. Gage was excited that this allowed him to have Cage in his yellow shirt and Misty with a huge afro, “Basically how characters looked when I was a kid, which is how they should be,” he joked. The story will deal with how mutants went from a minority to a majority. There will be an FBI task force that is set up to take down Luke Cage’s criminals that will be comprised of Taskmaster, Blob, Thunderbird, & Punisher. In this world, Frank Castle was able to save his family, but it is still a Vietnam vet, which is why he is recruited as the token human on the team. Kingpin and his assassins are going to be there, as well."
"Gage also explained that the mini will cover time from the end of the war up until the House of M we saw two years ago. He said that it would be explained how mutants become a majority in one generation. Also, Gage said, there will be an FBI taskforce hunting the Avengers team, made up of villains such as Taskmaster and the Blob, but also other characters who might fit into the hero or anti-hero category, such as Frank Castle."
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..:: Heroes Con / WizardWorld Philly '07 ::..Taskmaster will be featured in MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS monthly series by M. Zachary Sherman.
"Like our own universe (so some theories state), the Marvel Universe is ever expanding. Luckily, the House of Ideas never wants to limit itself. Where there's a will (and a good story), there's a way. Behold the return of MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS, the classic anthology series. Beginning in September, the series is set to run 12 issues and feature a wide variety of talent, characters and stories. "
M. Zachary Sherman will be writing a story about Taskmaster in the upcoming MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS monthly series.
"After that, we’ve got a cool Taskmaster story - see what I mean about seeing characters you don’t usually get to see in their own stories - as he goes head-to-head with a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. It’s a great story by M. Zachary Sherman with amazing art by Khoi Pham, from X-FACTOR"
"Next, the audience was treated to a preview of the upcoming "Marvel Comics Presents" anthology series, the first of which will feature the work of Marc Guggenheim, Stuart and Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Moore, Rich Koslowski, Clayton Henry, and Dave Wilkins, with a wraparound cover by J. Scott Campbell. Fans of Marvel's Taskmaster will be happy to learn that the Avengers villain appears in preview art for the book. "
"After that, we’ve got a cool Taskmaster story, as he goes head-to-head with a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. See what I mean about seeing characters you don’t usually get to see in their own stories? It’s a great story by M. Zachary Sherman with amazing art by Khoi Pham, from X-FACTOR."
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Cable & Deadpool #36Writer: FABIAN NICIEZA
Cover: PATRICK ZIRCHER Pencils: REILLY BROWN
Inks: JEREMY FREEMAN Colors: GOTHAM ENTERTAINMENT GROUP Letters: DAVE SHARPE
Unfinished Business Part 1 of 4
Deadpool has decided to face the skeletons in his closet, dive deep into that dark void he calls a soul, and rattle things up a bit. First order of business: Taskmaster. Second order of business: a knock-down drag-out BRAWL!
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Moon Knight: The Bottom TPBWriter: CHARLIE HUSTON
Pencils & Cover: by DAVID FINCH
Bloody Variant Cover: DAVID FINCH
Inks: DANNY MIKI Colors: FRANK D'ARMATA Letters: VC - JOSEPH CARAMAGNA
The Fist of Khonshu is back and badder than ever, courtesy of acclaimed novelist Charlie Huston (Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things) and red-hot, fan-favorite artist David Finch (NEW AVENGERS). Collects MOON KNIGHT #1-6.
Moon Knight: The Bottom Premiere HC VariantWriter: CHARLIE HUSTON
Pencils & Cover: by DAVID FINCH
Bloody Variant Cover: DAVID FINCH
Inks: DANNY MIKI Colors: FRANK D'ARMATA Letters: VC - JOSEPH CARAMAGNA
The Fist of Khonshu is back and badder than ever, courtesy of acclaimed novelist Charlie Huston (Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things) and red-hot, fan-favorite artist David Finch (NEW AVENGERS). Collects MOON KNIGHT #1-6.
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MOON KNIGHT Editor Axel Alonso talks about what is in store for Moon Knight in his second story arc, while provding five preview pages to MOON KNIGHT #6.
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Editor Tom Brevoort answered a question by a poster about the new Thunderbolts in his blog.
-=motteditor: "OK, obviously without spoiling anything, can you talk about what your doing to make sure the upcoming changes in Thunderbolts don't result in what happened to the faux Exiles in your recent Marvel simulation."
-=Tom Brevoort: "All you've heard at this point at most are unsubstantiated rumors. Until the point at which we actually announce what it is that we're doing, I'm not going to be able to tell you anything substantial. So you're just going have to wait another few weeks, until we're ready to talk about it. (But I will tell you that the cast of characters seen at the end of CIVIL WAR #4 is not precisely the cast that'll be in the series.)"
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Editor Tom Brevoort had a few things to say about villains in his blog.
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Here are a few links to previews for MOON KNIGHT #5 in which Taskmaster continues his brutal assult on Moon Knight.
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-=Newsarama: "And the big reveal for this issue - the new Thunderbolts? Why'd they name them that?"
-=Mark Millar: "Part of the 50 State Initiative involves writers, artists and scientists getting together and rebranding old names and heroes for the 21st century. The new Thunderbolts is the first of these, upgraded to be Avengers class. My idea for these guys is to do an anti-Avengers in a sense. Having the New Avengers as all the big names of the hero community was a huge success so having a Thunderbolts where all the top villains, real world class guys, are coerced into working as a hero team seemed like an obvious idea."
-=Tom Brevoort: "And because they're still the Thunderbolts. This whole team is an outgrowth of what we've seen in the Thunderbolts tie-in issues of Civil War, with a veritable army of super-villains being arrested and recruited into the team's ranks. And as you can see in that last page image, Songbird is there among this particular group of Thunderbolts, to provide oversight and support. "
-=Newsarama: "Still - and setting things up for issue #5 - that the Pro Reg side would go all "Dirty Dozen" on the Anti Reg side…should we be reading a certain, and strong (albeit quiet) level of desperation on the part of the Pre-Reg side here? "
-=Mark Millar: "Oh yes. Definitely. But they have more plans up their sleeves."
-=Tom Brevoort: "This Thunderbolts plan is also a part of the Fifty State Initiative, and was being put into place regardless of the Anti-Reg guys' existence. It's just that now, with their manpower becoming stretched, the Pro-Reg guys feel a need to roll it out and test it in the field perhaps a bit more quickly than they'd have liked. "
-=Newsarama: "Wrapping things up then - teases for issue #5? As the cover has already been released and shows the Pro-Reg villains chasing Spider-Man, it's obvious that he switches sides... anyone else going with him? "
-=Mark Millar: "All I can right now is that it's quite good."
-=Tom Brevoort: "Well, you should never count your chickens. There's nothing that says Spidey will turn per se, nor anything that says that, even if he should decide to change his stance, that he'll be able to make it out of the building. But the one tease-thing that I can tell you is that you'll find out the identity of Ski-Mask Man. "
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-=Fan: "Will we see Taskmaster after his appearance in MOON KNIGHT, perhaps in a miniseries?"
-=Joe Quesada: "No miniseries, but you’ll see him... around."
-=Fan: "Now that Taskmaster has resurfaced in "Moon Knight," will there be a sequel to his 2002 miniseries?"
-=Joe Quesada: "You'll see Taskmaster around."
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-=DragynWulf: In WIZARD Magazine #179, Brian Bendis says the following about MIGHTY AVENGERS: "Taskmaster's absolutely going to happen. Somebody grabbed him recently, so we'll have to let him get some air, but we'll defiantly get to it. It's going to happen." Is he referring to MOON KNIGHT or another title that Taskmaster will be appearing in?
-=Joe Quesada: "I believe Brian is referring to MOON KNIGHT. David Finch and Charlie Huston are really doing a great job with Taskmaster and the handling of the character. I mean, he’s always been a badass, but he’s even more so in MOON KNIGHT".
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Here are a few links to previews for MOON KNIGHT #5 in which Taskmaster continues his brutal assult on Moon Knight.
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..:: Wizard Magazine #179: Mighty Avengers ::..In a recent interview in WIZARD Magazine #179, Brian Bendis and Frank Cho discuss MIGHTY AVENGERS. Here is what they had to say:
-=WIZARD's Ricky A. Purdin: Do you have a favorite Storyline?
-=Cho: "Trial of Hank Pym." It kind of hit me at that right age. And the Taskmaster storyline. Brian, are we using that Taskmaster scene later on?
-=Bendis: Taskmaster's absolutely going to happen. Somebody grabbed him recently, so we'll have to let him get some air, but we'll definatly get to it. It's going to happen.
-=Purdin: Brian, aside from Taskmaster, is there a character you were dying to see Frank draw once you realized he was signed on?
-=Bendis: The first thing you want to do is make an all-female Avengers team. I think his rendition of Ms. Marvel is amazing. There's something about the way he draws her that elevates her to where I want to see her get to, which is an A-list type of superhero.
..:: Wizard's Top 5 Over 5 ::..
Taskmaster's first appearance is also mentioned in the "Hot back issues over 5 years old" with AVENGERS #195 getting listed as the #2 issue.
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Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #11Writers: Jeff Christiansen, Mark O'English, Sean McQuad, Michael Hoskin, Chad Anderson, Stuart Vandal, Ronald Byrd, Eric J. Moreels, Anthony Flamini, Mike Fichera, Al Sjoerdsma, Rich Green, Chris Biggs and Bill Lentz
Cover: Ken Cha
Featuring: Stranger, Strong Guy, Stryfe, William Stryker, John Sublime, Suma-Ket, Sundown, Sunturion, Super-Skrull, Swarm, Swordsman, Talkback, Taskmaster, Thanatos, Thanos, Thor (Dargo), Tiboro, Time-Keepers, Timeslip, Tinkerer, Titania, Titanium Man, Titannus, Tombstone, Torgo, Turbo, Two-Gun Kid, Tyrant, Ultimo and more!
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Moon Knight #6Writer: CHARLIE HUSTON
Pencils & Cover: by DAVID FINCH
Bloody Variant Cover: DAVID FINCH
Inks: DANNY MIKI Colors: FRANK D'ARMATA Letters: VC - JOSEPH CARAMAGNA
"Glories Such As These"
It's never about speed or slick moves or razor-sharp reflexes. It's about what you can take. It's about how much pain you can absorb. How many times you can hit the mat, bloody and dazed, and still get up. That's where glory is forged. That's where one earns the grace of God. Or in this case, Khonshu, God of Vengeance. Marc Spector's taken their best shot. Taskmaster. The Profile. The entire Committee. Question is, are they ready for his?
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Here are a few links to previews for MOON KNIGHT #4 in which Taskmaster gets brutal with Moon Knight.
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I have recently found out that there are two versions of the Marvel Legends: Taskmaster action figure. One with and one without a VS System card included. Everything else about the action figures are the same. I was able to get my hands on both versions, which is how I found out.
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Moon Knight #5Writer: CHARLIE HUSTON
Pencils & Cover: by DAVID FINCH
Bloody Variant Cover: DAVID FINCH
Inks: DANNY MIKI Colors: FRANK D'ARMATA Letters: VC - JOSEPH CARAMAGNA
"The Bottom: Friendless and Alone"
They promised Taskmaster that Marc Spector would be a sitting duck. When Taskmaster was done with his work, Spector would be battered, bruised, friendless and, most important, alone. Only one problem: Spector is not alone. He's got a friend. His name is Khonshu. And today, he's got Moon Knight's back. It's time for round two. Part 5 (of 6).
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Moon Knight #4Writer: CHARLIE HUSTON
Pencils & Cover: by DAVID FINCH
Bloody Variant Cover: DAVID FINCH
Inks: DANNY MIKI Colors: FRANK D'ARMATA Letters: VC - JOSEPH CARAMAGNA
Someone out there knows all the angles on Marc Spector. They know his strengths and his weaknesses -- and just how much pressure to apply to make him snap. About 250 pounds of sculpted muscle and cocksure attitude, to be exact. Enter: Taskmaster! (If you thought Moon Knight's battle with Bushmaster was brutal, you've got another thing coming.) Part 4 (of 6)
