Joe Quesada to Draw Final Pages for AGE OF ULTRON

Also, Quesada's art is quite nasty, though, not as nasty as his editing. That's on a different level.

@Kimeraevent said:

So much complaining. This event was planned before the launch of the Heroic Age more than a year ago. The Ultron Event breaks everything and sets into motion whatever the writers want it to. I would be upset over how New Avengers, Avengers, All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men's current storylines appear to being put aside. Those four books are putting out some serious stories with world breaking plots. The New Universe was reintroduced with the Starbrand in Avengers, The Illuminati are fighting back against dimensional collapse in New Avengers, The original X-Men are being twisted and darkened long before they should would have due to the anger of Hank McCoy and in Uncanny, Magneto is betraying Cyclops, who is being a better revolutionary than Magneto EVER was and doing it without the murder of innocents. Ultron should have been pushed until the end of the year and had the reboot done January 1st after the stories could have been tied up. I'm still going to get the books, but I'm not going to complain just to complain. With the hiccup that was Dark Reign, Siege and the horribly disfigured interpretation of the Phoenix in AVX, Marvel hasn't done such a horrible job with its company wide plots.

When both titles are finished (or a different writer steps on), nobody's going to take the premises and concepts seriously. There's nothing world-breaking about forced and convoluted fan fic.

Hank Pym is done for

Like most events, they are just ploys to kill off characters to shock new readers into thinking Marvel is a bold company when in fact it is spineless

Civil War - Captain America

Secret Invasion - Wasp

Fear Itself - Thor (briefly) Bucky (not really)

AvX - Prof X

Who's going to die this time?

Hmmm, don't know how good of an idea this will be here :/

So much complaining. This event was planned before the launch of the Heroic Age more than a year ago. The Ultron Event breaks everything and sets into motion whatever the writers want it to. I would be upset over how New Avengers, Avengers, All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men's current storylines appear to being put aside. Those four books are putting out some serious stories with world breaking plots. The New Universe was reintroduced with the Starbrand in Avengers, The Illuminati are fighting back against dimensional collapse in New Avengers, The original X-Men are being twisted and darkened long before they should would have due to the anger of Hank McCoy and in Uncanny, Magneto is betraying Cyclops, who is being a better revolutionary than Magneto EVER was and doing it without the murder of innocents. Ultron should have been pushed until the end of the year and had the reboot done January 1st after the stories could have been tied up. I'm still going to get the books, but I'm not going to complain just to complain. With the hiccup that was Dark Reign, Siege and the horribly disfigured interpretation of the Phoenix in AVX, Marvel hasn't done such a horrible job with its company wide plots.

I'm never happy to hear about Joe Quesada doing anything. Not because I dislike his art; simply because I don't think he deserves his job.

Hope this event goes well unlike the last few crappy ones.

Why do I get the feeling that Marvel is slowly trying to replace the REAL green Hulk with Rulk?

They surely can't be that desperate for a new 52? .... lol let's hope not!, either way i'm not a huge fan of changing artists in one event. AvsX annoyed me that it wasn't consistent "artistically" speaking. I'll probably pick up AU in a hardcover.

"What does this mean for the critically-acclaimed event?"

It means two thins

1) It likely means Hitch could not finish the art on time

2) Their and my definition of critically acclaimed are about as far apart as can be

@danhimself said:

they're rebooting....I just know it :***(

Marvel has no reason to reboot. That doesn't even make sense.

I have no problem with this. Quesada can draw his ass off. Just look at his run with Kevin Smith on Daredevil. He can do what I like to call American Manga as good as anyone. Plus he's killing it while running Marvel. Just doing a great job.

I've already seen the End - and here we go again - All New # 1 issues thereafter.

till the end of days every time Marvel does a big event people are gonna suspect a reboot

This whole thing definitely has that same "Rule number one of Flashpoint is... don't talk about what happens after Flashpoint" kind of vibe about it.

Issue 1 was crap IMO so they got a long way to go make me care about those last pages at all

@danhimself said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

@danhimself said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

@isaac_clarke said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

Critically acclaimed? Really? THe first issue was Booooooring with just Hawkeye beating up some goons, and you're claiming it's Critically Acclaimed?

Whatever?

Hate to pour water in all that whine (since it isn't ancient Greece) but you understand basic marketing or what a critic is, right? To perhaps be a bit more enlightening, remember the film Bridesmaids? Remember all the positive reviews and commercials hyping the hell out of it? That was well receive / critically acclaimed and I honestly thought the film was mediocre, with a predictable ending / running half an hour longer than it needed to - but my personal opinion doesn't stop it from being critically acclaimed.@Dman1366 said:

I think he is thinking a reboot is bound to happen given how @#$ed Marvel Earth is right now.

I loved Bridesmaids, but I get you. I mean, I was bored out of my mind during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and everyone acted like it was the funniest movie I ever seen! Still, I think people are overpraising AoU 1 when it was just mediocre and the arc was, well, not that good.

And they aren't rebooting. Why do Marvel NOW and then reboot everything that just got started? It makes no sense. Further emphasizing that AoU really is out of place because it was supposed to come out 2 years ago.

DC launched a lot of books right after Brightest Day only to reboot a few months later....maybe Marvel had planned on rebooting two years ago when this was intended to start but because of DC's reboot they decided to hold it off.....I hope I'm wrong...but another thing to point out is that Bendis and Quesada felt that they couldn't trust anyone else with the ending of AoU and decided to do it by themselves and apparently are the only ones at Marvel that know how the book ends at this point

They AREN'T rebooting. Marvel NOW is a smashing success. And Hickman said he's planned out 5 years of Avengers stories.

Age of Ultron is just a Bendis story that took too long to be made that they're shoving it off onto the public and acting like it's important, when really all it will do is probably kill Hank Pym.

well since you know of Marvel's plans then I'll take your word for it.....I'm just pointing out evidence that could point to a reboot

Except it's not. Avengers Arena is still going, Avengers will be going on for years, Guardians of the Galaxy just started, and so many other titles. Why on Earth would they reboot?

EVERYONE knows the stories of these heroes. A reboot would do nothing, especially since the movies are the reboot.

@BR_Havoc said:

@danhimself: I see your point that there could be a reboot but I honestly do not think that will happen. Marvel now just came to be and so far its doing well also it was a point that with Marvel Now there would be longer story arcs and teams would remain on the books longer. So to say all of that and then reboot the universe a few months later seems like a bad move that would make more fans leave then come running to read them. I think the end of AOU will be that Marvel Man will be reintroduced and be thrown right in the middle of the Marvel universe that would change everything for sure.

I really really don't want one AT ALL! there's just a lot of things that seem to (in my mind at least) point that they're going in that direction....I hope that I'm wrong to since I've been loving just about everything out of Marvel Now with the exception of Thunderbolts

@Dark_Guyver said:

F**k Joe Queseda! He's done so many things to Marvel.

Not that i disagree with you, but could you be more specific? Examples?

And personally, i would just be amazed if Bendis could write for more than three issues without killing/retconning/ruining a major character. Place your bets, people!

Nightcrawler better be coming back. That would be cool.

A reboot would be really awkward now. Also, we're starting to get June solicits for Marvel, and none of them seem to point to a reboot. (To me, anyway). Is it possible that we're going to get some kind of mass OMD-style retcon? Yeah, definitely. A full-on reboot seems improbable, though.

F**k Joe Queseda! He's done so many things to Marvel.

@danhimself: I see your point that there could be a reboot but I honestly do not think that will happen. Marvel now just came to be and so far its doing well also it was a point that with Marvel Now there would be longer story arcs and teams would remain on the books longer. So to say all of that and then reboot the universe a few months later seems like a bad move that would make more fans leave then come running to read them. I think the end of AOU will be that Marvel Man will be reintroduced and be thrown right in the middle of the Marvel universe that would change everything for sure.

if this is the last thing Quesada does for Marvel then I can accept it. Then we can get on with the business of cleaning up his Civil War mess and putting things back the way they should be.

First issue was boring sort of..

@Cafeterialoca said:

@danhimself said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

@isaac_clarke said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

Critically acclaimed? Really? THe first issue was Booooooring with just Hawkeye beating up some goons, and you're claiming it's Critically Acclaimed?

Whatever?

Hate to pour water in all that whine (since it isn't ancient Greece) but you understand basic marketing or what a critic is, right? To perhaps be a bit more enlightening, remember the film Bridesmaids? Remember all the positive reviews and commercials hyping the hell out of it? That was well receive / critically acclaimed and I honestly thought the film was mediocre, with a predictable ending / running half an hour longer than it needed to - but my personal opinion doesn't stop it from being critically acclaimed.@Dman1366 said:

I think he is thinking a reboot is bound to happen given how @#$ed Marvel Earth is right now.

I loved Bridesmaids, but I get you. I mean, I was bored out of my mind during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and everyone acted like it was the funniest movie I ever seen! Still, I think people are overpraising AoU 1 when it was just mediocre and the arc was, well, not that good.

And they aren't rebooting. Why do Marvel NOW and then reboot everything that just got started? It makes no sense. Further emphasizing that AoU really is out of place because it was supposed to come out 2 years ago.

DC launched a lot of books right after Brightest Day only to reboot a few months later....maybe Marvel had planned on rebooting two years ago when this was intended to start but because of DC's reboot they decided to hold it off.....I hope I'm wrong...but another thing to point out is that Bendis and Quesada felt that they couldn't trust anyone else with the ending of AoU and decided to do it by themselves and apparently are the only ones at Marvel that know how the book ends at this point

They AREN'T rebooting. Marvel NOW is a smashing success. And Hickman said he's planned out 5 years of Avengers stories.

Age of Ultron is just a Bendis story that took too long to be made that they're shoving it off onto the public and acting like it's important, when really all it will do is probably kill Hank Pym.

well since you know of Marvel's plans then I'll take your word for it.....I'm just pointing out evidence that could point to a reboot

I love Quesada's art. I'd pick that up.

@danhimself said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

@isaac_clarke said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

Critically acclaimed? Really? THe first issue was Booooooring with just Hawkeye beating up some goons, and you're claiming it's Critically Acclaimed?

Whatever?

Hate to pour water in all that whine (since it isn't ancient Greece) but you understand basic marketing or what a critic is, right? To perhaps be a bit more enlightening, remember the film Bridesmaids? Remember all the positive reviews and commercials hyping the hell out of it? That was well receive / critically acclaimed and I honestly thought the film was mediocre, with a predictable ending / running half an hour longer than it needed to - but my personal opinion doesn't stop it from being critically acclaimed.@Dman1366 said:

I think he is thinking a reboot is bound to happen given how @#$ed Marvel Earth is right now.

I loved Bridesmaids, but I get you. I mean, I was bored out of my mind during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and everyone acted like it was the funniest movie I ever seen! Still, I think people are overpraising AoU 1 when it was just mediocre and the arc was, well, not that good.

And they aren't rebooting. Why do Marvel NOW and then reboot everything that just got started? It makes no sense. Further emphasizing that AoU really is out of place because it was supposed to come out 2 years ago.

DC launched a lot of books right after Brightest Day only to reboot a few months later....maybe Marvel had planned on rebooting two years ago when this was intended to start but because of DC's reboot they decided to hold it off.....I hope I'm wrong...but another thing to point out is that Bendis and Quesada felt that they couldn't trust anyone else with the ending of AoU and decided to do it by themselves and apparently are the only ones at Marvel that know how the book ends at this point

They AREN'T rebooting. Marvel NOW is a smashing success. And Hickman said he's planned out 5 years of Avengers stories.

Age of Ultron is just a Bendis story that took too long to be made that they're shoving it off onto the public and acting like it's important, when really all it will do is probably kill Hank Pym.

@Cafeterialoca said:

Critically acclaimed? Really? THe first issue was Booooooring with just Hawkeye beating up some goons, and you're claiming it's Critically Acclaimed?

Whatever?

What this man said. Also - in other news; a mouse farted and it amounted to the same media trend that this story did.

Normally I like Quesada's art (the Sentinel box design was freaking epic), but what in the holy mother of ass did he do to Red Hulk in that picture?

He looks h has a bigger cup size than the Hulk design from Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

Edit:

Wait, the image above isn't a Quesada pic. But still, who's allowed to draw a Hulk like that?!

@Cafeterialoca said:

@isaac_clarke said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

Critically acclaimed? Really? THe first issue was Booooooring with just Hawkeye beating up some goons, and you're claiming it's Critically Acclaimed?

Whatever?

Hate to pour water in all that whine (since it isn't ancient Greece) but you understand basic marketing or what a critic is, right? To perhaps be a bit more enlightening, remember the film Bridesmaids? Remember all the positive reviews and commercials hyping the hell out of it? That was well receive / critically acclaimed and I honestly thought the film was mediocre, with a predictable ending / running half an hour longer than it needed to - but my personal opinion doesn't stop it from being critically acclaimed.@Dman1366 said:

I think he is thinking a reboot is bound to happen given how @#$ed Marvel Earth is right now.

I loved Bridesmaids, but I get you. I mean, I was bored out of my mind during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and everyone acted like it was the funniest movie I ever seen! Still, I think people are overpraising AoU 1 when it was just mediocre and the arc was, well, not that good.

And they aren't rebooting. Why do Marvel NOW and then reboot everything that just got started? It makes no sense. Further emphasizing that AoU really is out of place because it was supposed to come out 2 years ago.

DC launched a lot of books right after Brightest Day only to reboot a few months later....maybe Marvel had planned on rebooting two years ago when this was intended to start but because of DC's reboot they decided to hold it off.....I hope I'm wrong...but another thing to point out is that Bendis and Quesada felt that they couldn't trust anyone else with the ending of AoU and decided to do it by themselves and apparently are the only ones at Marvel that know how the book ends at this point

OIC. I hope AoU doesn't reboot the Marvel universe. Makes me feel like anything I'm reading now is pointless.

@isaac_clarke said:

@Cafeterialoca said:

Critically acclaimed? Really? THe first issue was Booooooring with just Hawkeye beating up some goons, and you're claiming it's Critically Acclaimed?

Whatever?

Hate to pour water in all that whine (since it isn't ancient Greece) but you understand basic marketing or what a critic is, right? To perhaps be a bit more enlightening, remember the film Bridesmaids? Remember all the positive reviews and commercials hyping the hell out of it? That was well receive / critically acclaimed and I honestly thought the film was mediocre, with a predictable ending / running half an hour longer than it needed to - but my personal opinion doesn't stop it from being critically acclaimed.@Dman1366 said:

I think he is thinking a reboot is bound to happen given how @#$ed Marvel Earth is right now.

I loved Bridesmaids, but I get you. I mean, I was bored out of my mind during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and everyone acted like it was the funniest movie I ever seen! Still, I think people are overpraising AoU 1 when it was just mediocre and the arc was, well, not that good.

And they aren't rebooting. Why do Marvel NOW and then reboot everything that just got started? It makes no sense. Further emphasizing that AoU really is out of place because it was supposed to come out 2 years ago.

@ptigrusmagus: Brian Hitch is only the main artist for 5 issue's then Brandon Peterson will be replacing him

I've enjoyed the variant cover's he been producing so I'm ok that he's drawing it

I like Joe Quesada's art, I haven't started reading this yet but I will soon.....

@danhimself: I hope they don't reboot

Altered Reality and Quesada is a bad combo

@Mucklefluga said:

@DH69 said:

the event will be over in june? holy crap usually these things go on for half a year and some change.

It's out almost weekly so that's why.

well i gues thats why they're also teasing the thanos event for this year...marvel needs to fill the third and fourth quarter profit margin...

@Dman1366: these are the solicits for numbers 7 and 8 of AoU

AGE OF ULTRON #7 (of 10)

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W)

BRANDON PETERSON & CARLOS PACHECO (A/C)

Cover by BRANDON PETERSON

Variant cover by LEINIL YU

Ultron Variant by ROCK-HE KIM

In an attempt to defeat Ultron two Marvel Heroes take it upon themselves to create an all-new Marvel Universe. But is the one they have created better or worse than the one they left behind? The event of the year just got INSANE!!

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AGE OF ULTRON #8 (OF 10)

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W)

BRANDON PETERSON & CARLOS PACHECO (A/C)

Cover by BRANDON PETERSON

Variant cover by 7TH ORANGE

Ultron Variant by ROCK-HE KIM

With the Marvel Universe turned inside out, who will take responsibility for breaking the world? And is there any way to put it back? Wait until you see who is in charge of the new world order and how they got there...! A reality-spanning choice is made this issue that will affect the Marvel Universe for years and years to come.

this along with Quesada drawing the final pages of number 10 lead me to believe that Marvel is going to reboot....Quesada probably wants to draw the final pages of the Marvel Universe

@DH69 said:

the event will be over in june? holy crap usually these things go on for half a year and some change.

It's out almost weekly so that's why.

Quesada? He already ruins story now he wants to screw the art up as well?

Quesada's art is good, but it's not comparable to Hitch's.

So joe is going to have Ultron go on a long rant about how heroes shouldn't be married and then make Cap sell his soul to Mephisto to undo it all?

@Cafeterialoca said:

Critically acclaimed? Really? THe first issue was Booooooring with just Hawkeye beating up some goons, and you're claiming it's Critically Acclaimed?

Whatever?

Hate to pour water in all that whine (since it isn't ancient Greece) but you understand basic marketing or what a critic is, right? To perhaps be a bit more enlightening, remember the film Bridesmaids? Remember all the positive reviews and commercials hyping the hell out of it? That was well receive / critically acclaimed and I honestly thought the film was mediocre, with a predictable ending / running half an hour longer than it needed to - but my personal opinion doesn't stop it from being critically acclaimed.@Dman1366 said:

@danhimself: what?

I think he is thinking a reboot is bound to happen given how @#$ed Marvel Earth is right now.

Still have yet to check this out, heard #1 was meh.

I like the current artist on the project just fine, why would someone else swoop in right at the end? :S

@broo1232: The DnA Guardians of the Galaxy book was FANTASTIC! This Bendis book though? He basically did the same story Loeb did with his Nova. Right down to the bully scene. And even worse, Starlord only cares about Earth now? When before he was going on about how Earth was insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe?

I guess everything has to be daddy issues and NYC being the center of the Marvel Universe.

Am I the only one whos not a fan of Quesadas art?

I love Pacheco and Hitch though

@Cafeterialoca: Marvel always says stuff is great and critically acclaimed even when it's bad in the back of Guardians of the Galaxy that Iron man had been a hit series (yeah right).

@danhimself: what?