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Al Ewing, Sewing Together The Marvel Universe, Issue By Issue (New Avengers And Contest Of Champions Spoilers)

Two Marvel comics by Al Ewing are published today. New Avengers, part of Avengers Standoff (ish) and Contest Of Champions. But the latter also crosses over with his Ultimates series that he also writes. As the team pay a visit to the Grandmaster.

IMG_2183 And they are on the track of the fate of Gun-R…

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…during which they all start talking about ISO-8, the element derived from the new nature of the post-Secret Wars Marvel Universe, that has featured in all three titles written by Ewing.

But for all this, Ewing is still bringing the coolness, taking an uber-patriotic soldier and turning him into…

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The American Kaiju. Kaiji, being the Japanese term for such monstrous mythical beasts hat have pervaded pop culture, and a term that gained popularity in the US after the release of Pacific Rim. And, indeed, that's the film that Ewing is going for here…

 

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You catch my drift? And if that's not enough, knowing the joy that the fns have had with recent mashups he takes a Punisher executing The Void…




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…and then Venom…

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…in the same place to give us the eventual mashup characters…
IMG_2186The Symbiods! And we are, Al, we are. These are just some of the wonders you are bestowing upon us today, and we give you much thanks.

Contest Of Champions and New Avengers are published today.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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