PREVIEW: BLACK PANTHER #35

Out of the frying pan…into the fire! Their fantastic adventures in the interdimensional superhighway complete, the Wakandan Royal couple at last return to Wakanda -- only to find home is anything but sweet. With serious strife tearing apart his court, and one of the Panther’s greatest foes waiting to strike, is it too late for T’Challa to regain control of his kingdom?
Written by: REGINALD HUDLIN
Cover by: DAVE WILKINS
Pencils by: FRANCIS PORTELA
Lettered by: VC - CORY PETIT
On sale: March 26, 2008
Price: $2.99

PREVIEW: SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP/M.O.D.O.K.'S 11 #3

M.O.D.O.K.'s team executes its heist, penetrating the impenetrable fortress of THE INFINICIDE. And it goes off without a hitch! Psych! Actually, no. Pretty much everything that could go wrong does. Another traitor is revealed in their ranks. One of the 11 is stripped of his powers. A heretofore unknown mystery villain shows up out of nowhere to rip off their score. And did we mention the wave upon wave of unstoppable killer androids? No? Well, there are waves of them.
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
PENCILS: FRANCIS PORTELA
INKS: TERRY PALLOT
COLORED BY: GURU-EFX
LETTERED BY: NATE PIEKOS
32 PGS./Rated A ...$2.99
IN STORES: September 5, 2007

Preview: Super-Villain Team-Up #2

M.O.D.O.K. reveals the target of his heist to his handpicked team of Marvel’s Most Wanted: the most powerful weapon in the universe, one that threatens the existence of all life on Earth. Meanwhile, Mentallo has figured out that one of M.O.D.O.K. ’s team is actually a hero in disguise. (You’ll never guess who it is!) Will Mentallo sell the rest of his teammates out to the authorities for some quick cash? Do you even have to ask? Let the backstabbing begin!
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
PENCILS: FRANCIS PORTELA
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
IN STORES: August 15, 2007

Preview: Black Panther #30

The New Fantastic Four have managed to survive the Skrulls and a group of hungry former heroes with the power of Galactus known as the marvel Zombies, but how long can their luck last?
After being betrayed by the Skrulls and crash landing in a ship the new FF tries to regroup. The Marvel Zombies arrive with their own plans to use the relic that has been tossing the FF into different universes to travel to an all-you-can-eat buffet that the FF call home. The New Fantastic Four faces off against cosmic zombies in BLACK PANTHER #30.
COVER BY: ARTHUR SUYDAM
WRITER: REGINALD HUDLIN
PENCILS: FRANCIS PORTELA
Rated T+ …$2.99
FOC--8/09/07, On-Sale-- 8/29/07

CHATTIN' WITH MODOK: FRED VAN LENTE, FRANCIS PORTELA AND NATE PIEKOS

GREETINGS ONCE AGAIN, TINY-HEADED COMIC BOOK (finger quotes) “FANATICS!!” Consider yourselves blessed, for I have taken you down into Sub-Basement #125 of Advanced Idea Mechanics’ Top-Secret Headquarters, where in this holding cell I have under safekeeping the writer of my freshly debuted mini-series Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK’S 11, Fred Van Lente. He will have to speak loudly to answer my interview questions to avoid being drowned out by the pitiful screams of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents undergoing interrogation down the hall.
MODOK: Please describe your head for our readers, Fred Van Lente. Use as much detail as possible.
FVL: It’s a bit larger than I’d like it to be – uh, no offense – so large, in fact, that there are two small divots on either side of my scalp where I actually... got stuck while being born. I think they needed salad tongs or something to get me out, my head was so big. Fortunately, both cranial potholes are fully covered by hair, though I suppose if the whole comic book writing thing doesn’t pan out I could always shave my head and join a freakshow.
Sorry … was that more information than you were looking for?
MODOK: (long pause) Yes.
Moving on: I have no doubt, Fred Van Lente, that you chose to write Super-Villain Team-Up primarily because you knew that penning the first comic book title headlined by I – MODOK! — would catapult you instantly to the upper echelons of comic book stardom. But were there any other factors involved?
FVL: Well, I had gotten to work for Marvel in the first place due, in part, to editor Mark Paniccia liking a “super crime” series I had written for Moonstone and Image, The Silencers, which was about a team of super-powered mob enforcers that become freelance operators when the Mafia family they work for gets rubbed out.
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PREVIEW: BLACK PANTHER #29

“Good Eatin” Part 2 of 4
Get out the hot sauce, True Believer -- it’s slobberin’ time! The New Fantastic Four just made a wrong turn on the dimensional super highway -- and they’ve landed in the middle of Zombie-verse! And if that weren’t bad enough, they’ve parked their butts on that universe’s Skrull Planet! If the Black Panther, Storm, the Human Torch and the Thing can’t come up with the perfect escape plan, they’re going to be the next hors de’ourve for Zombie Galacti and Zombie Skrulls intent of eating the entire universe!
COVER BY: ARTHUR SUYDAM
WRITER: REGINALD HUDLIN
PENCILS: FRANCIS PORTELA
INKS:
COLORED BY: MATT MILLA
LETTERED BY: VC - CORY PETIT
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
IN STORES: July 25, 2007

PREVIEW: BLACK PANTHER #28

The New Fantastic Four—Black Panther, Storm, Human Torch & The Thing—have faced Galactus and the Silver Surfer, but now they face an even larger threat in Black Panther #28—The Marvel Zombies! Imbued with the power of Galactus from their recent tussle—they say he tasted like chicken—the Marvel Zombies are intent on devouring the Skrull home planet. Our heroes have two problems—they’ve landed on that same planet…and they’re in an alternate dimension with no way home! Writer Reginald Hudlin and artist Francis Portela invite you to jump onboard for the beginning of the latest New Fantastic Four adventure, as T’Challa confronts an enemy even he may not be able to defeat!
Featuring a cover by Marvel Zombie’s Arthur Suydam, Black Panther #28 is another can’t miss issue from the series that Newsarama.Com’s Caleb Mozzocco called, “a nice, fun clobber-filled FF story, with nice humorous dialogue,” while Hannibal Tabu of ComicBookResources.Com praised, “the soothing artistic styles of Francis Portela, Victor Olazaba and Val Staples.” With ties to the popular The Initiative storyline and as the first story to follow up on the events of Marvel Zombies, Marvel urges retailers to check their orders on the beginning of a red-hot storyline. It’s slobberin’ time!
Written by Reginald Hudlin
Penciled by Francis Portela
Parental Advisory …$2.99
On-Sale—6/27/07