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Greg Capullo Draws OG Nick Fury For New Marvel Project

Previously, Greg Capullo posted pages from his new Marvel project labelled Wolverine, before posting "Don’t believe everything you hear."

Published Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:17:09 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:15:28 -0600

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Greg Capullo teases new Marvel project with images of OG Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos.
Uncertainty surrounds project details after misleading Wolverine posts lead to speculation.
Artwork hints may suggest a connection to Jonathan Hickman's 'Children of the Sun'.
Capullo's prolific career spans from Marvel's X-Force to DC's Batman and creator-owned works.

Previously, Greg Capullo posted pages from his new Marvel Comics project that had been labelled Wolverine, and when this was pointed out, they were deleted and reposted in a more cropped, less identifiable form. With Greg Capullo then posting the following, saying: "Don't believe everything you hear"

This has then been followed by a couple of other teases.

Greg Capullo posting a version of the original Nick Fury labelled "Sarge", back from when he was Sgt Fury of the Howling Commandos.

And Greg Capullo followed up with "Fury in charge", with a possible SHIELD Black Widow, Dum Dum Duggan and other Commandos, just hanging around waiting for something to happen.

Might we be getting a Sgt Fury & The Howling Commandos series from Greg Capullo and Marvel Comics later this year? A return for Nick Fury Senior to SHIELD? These were the opening pages as originally posted;

With a close up of the folks running through the jungle being attacked by the dinosaur.

Have we seen these people before? Are they the Children Of The Sun? Created by Jonathan Hickman and Adam Kubert, they were created by one of Ex Nihilo's Origin Bombs that hit the Fallen Heights, of the Savage Land in his attempt to evolve Earth, and were raised by Hyperion when he visited the Savage Land. The children generate their own internalized energy source and can be harnessed as living batteries…

Marvel Comics is relaunching their X-Men line in July under new Group Editor Tom Brevoort, could this be part of it? Or is it a Howling Commandos thing? Or something completely different? Marvel Comics' April 2024 solicits aren't that far away right now…

Back in 2011, Greg Capullo was given the choice to draw Wolverine at Marvel or to draw Batman at DC Comics. He made the switch to DC with the New 52, written by Scott Snyder. At DC, he also worked on Batman: Last Knight On Earth, Metal and Death Metal to follow, and the Mark Millar book Reborn from Netflix and Image Comics. Greg Capullo used to work for Marvel on comics such as Quasar and X-Force, before his own creator-owned comic The Creech and drawing Todd McFarlane books such as Spawn, Angela, Sam & Twitch, and Haunt, as well as We Have Demons with Scott Snyder for ComiXology.