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[buddiebeginz]

Oliver Stark 1883 Magazine (📷Ben Duggan)

[prettyfamous]

Tre Hale | Schon! | Ben Duggan | July 2023

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[smashpages]

SDCC | West Coast Avengers returns this winter from Gerry Duggan + Danny Kim

The new line-up is heavy on metal, with Iron Man, War Machine and Ultron joining the team.

cover by Ben Harvey

[ultrameganicolaokay]

West Coast Avengers #2 by Gerry Duggan and Danny Kim. Cover by Ben Harvey. Variant cover by Annie Wu. Out in December.

"NEW MEMBER: FIRESTAR FLAMES OUT! Firestar officially joins the West Coast Avengers! But the plan for her to mentor redeemed villains like Ultron and newcomer Blue Bolt collapses when it becomes clear she's seeking redemption of her own. Her time undercover with ORCHIS left scars and made her a pariah. Can the West Coast Avengers stop her downward spiral?"

[nickfuryagentofsword]

West Coast Avengers 1 (2024) by Gerry Duggan & Danny Kim

Cover: Ben Harvey

[racefortheironthrone]

At first, I thought the mission at the outset of the Krakoa saga to take out the base by the sun was plot-driven, to create heroic deaths for a bunch of favs and then show off the resurrection system. Now I'm certain. A couple of OMEGA LEVEL mutants who can control magnetic fields & atmosphere would be a LOT more useful inside Mercury than wings or a guy who makes holes in train stations (which is why he didn't go on Asteroid M raid), but the Doylist point of the mission really was their death.

You're certainly right from a Doylist perspective, and it might even be true from a Watsonian perspective - is Xavier enough of a bastard to send his X-Men to die just to give a Big Reveal for the Five at the founding of Krakoa?

I think not.

As we see in Hickman's X-Men, and Inferno, the Orchis Forge is Krakoa's own bridge too far. They destroy the Mother Mold, but Nimrod comes online anyway, thanks to the time travel/multiverse meddling of Omega Sentinel. After the mission in HOXPOX, Krakoa sends its biggest guns again and again - they send X-Force, they send Mystique, they send Magneto, they send assassins, they send the Brood, and no matter what they try they fail.

Rather, I think the point has to do with Hickman's existential themes about defying inevitability, fate versus free will, and the necessity of resistance.

While I'm throwing down bets, I will put $20 that, in FOTHOXROTPOX, Krakoa will rally to defeat ORCHIS once and for all - only to find that ORCHIS and their secret machine masters were merely pawns meant to distract and delay Krakoa, in order to buy time for the real existential threat: the Dominion.

[evilhorse]

It’s always touch and go with the X-Men, but they were bums tonight.

(X-Men #27)

[chelseajackarmy]

[graphicpolicy]

SDCC 2024: Marvel reveals West Coast Avengers, Ultimate Universe, Dogpool, and more!

SDCC 2024: Marvel reveals West Coast Avengers, Ultimate Universe, Dogpool, and more! #comics #comicbooks #sdcc #sdcc2024 #sdcc2024 #comiccon

[geekcavepodcast]

Ultron Joins the West Coast Avengers in New Comic Book Series

Marvel Comics' Next Big Thing panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 has revealed that Ultron will become an Avenger.

In Gerry Duggan and Danny Kim's West Coast Avengers comic, Iron Man and War Machine are putting together a new Avengers team which will include villains seeking redemption. "Their case study? Ultron—who, against all odds, seems to be walking the straight and narrow…for now. But does the success of one guarantee the success of all? Spider-Woman and Firestar have their doubts. And can any amount of heroics really absolve Ultron of his past?"

West Coast Avengers #1, featuring a main cover by Ben Harvey and a variant cover by Danny Kim, goes on sale on November 27, 2024.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Ben Harvey's Cover of West Coast Avengers #1)

[tylerposey]

OLIVER STARK 1883 Magazine — Ben Duggan (2024)

[nevenkebla]

Maravilla de maravillas

Guionista: Gerry Duggan Dibujante: Greg Smallwood, Mark Bagley, Luciano Vecchio y Pere Pérez Publicación original: Fantastic Four: 4 Yancy Street (2019)

— Ben Grimm: ¿En serio? Maravilla de maravillas. No puedo creer que no haya sido un tortazo en el jeto. En fin, mirando el lado bueno, al menos las cosas han vuelto a la normalidad. ¡Me ha pillado! Creía que la anciana era distinta de los demás. Supuse que se sentiría por lo menos un poco agradecida por ayudar a que no la echaran. Si la gente quiere darme tarta, me parece bien… pero dejad de tirármela a la cara. Los que destacan son los amables, pero no la anciana del N.º 3 de la Calle Yancy. Nunca más volveré a dirigirle la mirada. Espero que al menos se haya echado unas buenas risas.

[crazyrichxplainr]

Brian Tee for Schon magazine (ph: Ben Duggan)

[calamityskies]

“What struck me about him and what I’ve kind of talked about since the beginning of working on this project was he was very warm. He loved music. He never wanted to be referred to as Major Rosenthal on the field, he just wanted to be Rosie. He enjoyed getting close to the people he was working with so they felt they could put their trust in him and vice versa. That is something I found very attractive — it’s that balance between his steely determination and his outrageous courage with his warmth.”

Nate Mann for 1883

Photography Ben Duggan

[ultrameganicolaokay]

West Coast Avengers #1 by Gerry Duggan and Danny Kim. Cover by Ben Harvey. Variant covers by (2) Adam Hughes, (3) JeeHyung Lee, (4) Joshua Cassara and (5) Kim. Out in November.

"ULTRON RETURNS… REDEEMED? Iron Man and War Machine have put together a new team of Avengers – one that includes villains seeking a path to redemption. Their case study? Ultron – who, against all odds, seems to be walking the straight and narrow… for now. But does the success of one guarantee the success of all? Spider-Woman and Firestar have their doubts. And can any amount of heroics really absolve Ultron of his past?"