Never Not A Nerd

Yeah, that’s right son.  Giant-Man, a character name we haven’t seen used in a long-ass time, returns in December in Avengers Academy.  It can only make me imagine that Hank Pym, the man with a thousand codenames and a mean back hand, has finally gone old school because theoretically he’s going to stop being insane.  Remember the Hank Pym that didn’t create killer robots and beat his wife?  Neither do I.  So I think this could be a really interesting return for Hank Pym.  The only disappointing thing is that this is happening in Avengers Academy, and that Hank isn’t on a primary Avengers team to really prove himself.  Granted, this character has been about nothing but proving himself for the past I-don’t-know-how-many years, but he deserves the shot.

I’m going to laugh pretty hard if this ends up not even being Hank in this costume.

Marvel just released their line-up for November. Here are what I think are the best covers.

The cover above was done by Esad Ribic.

They are ordered by release date, then alphabetically. Prepare to scroll.

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I know comics already came out this morning, but this has been a hugely popular series as of late. Check out the official synopsis and some preview images below the cut.

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Aaaaaaaand the last dimension listed for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is Ultimate Spider-Man, but during his time with the symbiote.  What a load of bullshit.  Way to try having your cake and eating it too.  They wanted the intrigue of black suit Spidey along with the popularity of Ultimate Spidey.  Cheaters.  Cheaters I say!  But in honesty I don’t know that I should have expected Spider-Ham or anything similar to be the last remaining character.  They kind of had to keep things within the realm of familiarity with most fans, and while people like myself may enjoy the everyday Peter Porker joke, I can get why they’d do this.  It just seems like a wasted opportunity to do really wild versions of Spider-Man.

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Yay!  I can art good!  Jamie’s had a bit of a… technical snafu.  He has entrusted me to cover Read These, Burn the Rest this week… ALL ALONE.  Do you like my image this week?  It took me three months in Photoshop to get it just right.  And it has a happy crab!  Hooray!

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Fred Van Lente, one of the writers on Incredible Hercules announced on his Twitter this morning that he would be doing a new Avengers series for Marvel.  Considering we right now already have Avengers, New Avengers, Secret Avengers, Avengers Academy, Avengers Prime and Avengers: Children’s Crusade it seems pretty outrageous that we’re getting a new title.  That doesn’t mean I’m any less intrigued.  Yeah, I know, I’m a sucker for the Avengers.  But regardless of whether or not this team is called the Next Ultimate New Dark Mighty Secret Young West-Coast Great-Lakes Pet Avengers Initiative Academy Prime, I can only speculate as to who could possibly be included on a team at this point.  Outside of attempting to spread Spider-Man, Wolverine and Luke Cage any more thin than they already are, who else is left?

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I don’t know what Dillon is going to select this week, but I’m willing to bet this will be one of them. If not it’ll be one of mine. Check out the synopsis and some preview images below.

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Variant covers that is. Throughout this month certain Iron Man releases, and one Avengers book, are getting variant covers by guest artists. They’re calling the variants Design 2.0. The above image is my personal favorite and was done by Pixar story-board artist Bill Pressing.  The cover is depicting WWII era Iron Man and will go on sale June 23rd. Keep reading to see the other three.

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Earlier I chose Spider-Man: Fever #3 (of 3) as an issue I thought you should check out. If you haven’t gone to your local comic shop, or are on the fence about it, keep reading to see why you should read this issue.

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Dillon picked this for this week. I don’t really know much about it other than it sounds a lot like the school Professor Xavier ran. Check out some preview images and the full Marvel.com synopsis under the cut.

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