Gravity: Big-City Hero Digest, Omega the Unknown Classic TPB, G.L.A.: Misassembled TPB, and What If? Classic Vol.2 TPB

Gravity’s Superhero Debut in Gravity: Big City Digest


Critics hail Gravity as a fresh book with a lot heart. “Sean McKeever manages to create an instantly likeable character,” says Jason Cornwell of SilverBulletComicBooks.com.

Ten Terrific writer Sean McKeever along with frequent collaborator penciler Mike Norton have crafted a super hero tale that feels entirely new while still harkening back to the earlier days of superheroes.

Greg Willis is a rural Midwestern who finds himself blessed with incredible powers. So what else is a college-bound teen with super powers going to dream about besides becoming a super hero in New York City? The combined stress of city life, college, and fighting crime may prove to be too much for this inexperienced hero.

Don’t miss out this refreshing take on superheroics in Gravity: Big-City Hero Digest collecting Gravity #1-5.


GRAVITY: BIG-CITY SUPER HERO DIGEST (OCT052029)
Written by SEAN MCKEEVER
Penciled by MIKE NORTON
Cover by MIKE NORTON
120 PGS./T+ SUGGESTED FOR TEENS AND UP …$7.99
FOC – 11/17, On Sale – 12/14/2005


Botched Superheroics and Body Counts in G.L.A.: Misassembled

The Avengers hadbeen disassembled and a new team of super heros were needed to rise up and stake their claim as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. In G.L.A. Misassembled TPB, the former Great Lakes Avengers reach for that brass ring…and land on top of their collective heads.

Ten Terrific writer Dan Slott and penciler Paul Pelletier, the team behind the critical smash-hit She-Hulk, showcase the misadventuers of this unassuming team of Z-list heros. And the team’s inedptitude means there is going to be a large body count of G.L.A.ers by the end of the series.

G.L.A. Misassembled TPB collects G.L.A. #1-4 as well as the first ever appearance of the Great Lakes Avengers from West Coast Avengers #46 by John Byrne as well as a special treat, Squirrel Girl’s first and only previous appearance from Marvel Super-Heroes #8 by Will Murray and Steve Ditko.

When one of the Avengers’s deadliest villians starts causing havok, the G.L.A. step up to the plate. But will they totally strike out in the process? Find out in the hilariously amazing G.L.A. Misassembled TPB.


G.L.A.: MISASSEMBLED TPB (OCT052033)
Written by DAN SLOTT
Penciled by PAUL PELLETIER
Cover by PAUL PELLETIER
144 PGS./T+ SUGGESTED FOR TEENS AND UP …$14.99
FOC – 11/17, On Sale – 12/14/2005




Omega Will Be Unknown No Longer With Classic TPB, Upcoming Mini-Series

Before you get blown away by Jonathan Lethem’s new Omega: The Unknown series due out next year, check out Omega: The Unknown Classic TPB collecting the hero’s short-lived career.

“These early Omega: The Unknown stories by Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes and Jim Mooney formed an emotional touchstone for a young Jonathan Lethem, one that stayed with him his entire life,” says Tom Brevoort, editor of the upcoming Omega: The Unknown series. ”Now, he’s going to be coming full circle, discharging that inspirational debt by presenting his own interpretation of this obscure Marvel character.”

Omega’s beginning is filled with demons, depowerment, and drama and it just may consume the Defenders.

In his short time as a hero, Omega: The Unknown battled obscure and infamous villains, with one super-villain even losing his own life in a battle with the hero. And for once, this villain has stayed dead. You’ll even witness the incredible origin of this short-lived superstar.

There’s even a Spider-Man guest appearance, but it’s not quite how you would expect it to be.

Beat the crowd and check out the beginning of Omega in Omega: The Unknown Classic TPB featuring issues 1-10 of his series and his two appearances in Defenders 76 and 77 before his high-profile mini-series later in 2006.


OMEGA: THE UNKNOWN CLASSIC TPB (OCT052039)
WRITTEN BY STEVE GERBER, MARY SKRENES, STEVEN GRANT & MARK GRUENWALD
Penciled by JIM MOONEY & HERB TRIMPE
Cover by GIL KANE
224 PGS./T+ SUGGESTED FOR TEENS AND UP …$29.99FOC – 11/17, On Sale – 12/14/2005


What If? Classic Vol.2 Celebrates Second Annual What If? Month

For all those clamoring for What If? tales, Marvel is releasing What If? Classic Vol.2 TPB continuing the run of classic What If? Tales started last year in What If? Classic Vol.1.

What If? Classic Vol.2 TPB features stories by Jack Kirby, Sal Buscema, Alan Kupperberg and others, and even features a story by Jack “King” Kirby where he wrote in himself and 3 other legends as the Fantastic Four.

Some of the other mind-bending stories include: What if someone else had become the Hulk instead of Bruce Banner?, What if the identity of Thor had been passed down to a girl?, What if Daredevil’s secret was exposed?, and What if there was more than one Spider-Man?

These stories challenged the way comic readers would read comics and made it fun to imagine “what if?” What If? Classic Vol.2 TPB collects the original What If? issues 7-12.

And the annual tradition of What If? continues this December with an entire fifth week event of What If? books. The festivities kick off with What If: Captain America as we see what would have happened if Captain America existed during the Civil War.

WHAT IF? CLASSIC VOL. 2 TPB (OCT052040)
Written by DON GLUT & JACK KIRBY
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, RICK HOBERG, BILL BLACK, SAL BUSCEMA, ALAN KUPPERBERG & JIM MOONEY
Cover by JACK KIRBY
216 PGS./All Ages …$24.99
On Sale – 12/7


WHAT IF: CAPTAIN AMERICA (OCT051991)
Written by tony bedard
Penciled by Carmine Di Giandomenico
Cover by Tony Harris
32 PGS./T+ SUGGESTED FOR TEENS AND UP …$2.99
FOC – 11/17, On Sale – 12/7
WHAT IF? CLASSIC VOL. 1 TRADE PAPERBACK STILL AVAILABLE!
$24.99 – (OCT041813)