CBR: Marvel Makes Their Universe "Astonishing"

[CBR News]

Along with its Heroic Age reset to more stand-alone ongoing series, the House of Ideas plans on making 2010 a year for new reader-friendly mini series by high profile creators including "Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine" by Jason Aaron and Adam Kubert.


Full article here.

[Webslinger86]

Astonishing X-Men I might give a try. However, the Astonishing Wolverine/Spider-Man sounds epic! No to mention it's written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Adam Kubert. There's no way I'm passing this up, even if it is a mini-series

[mastadge]

Edit: Just kidding. I read it wrong.

Anyway, I don't give a twiddle about the Astonishing "brand", but I'm definitely on board with Jason Aaron and Adam Kubert on Spider-Man and Wolverine!

As for that ugly X-Men picture on the bottom . . . the whole thing's hideous, but did we really need the bizarre Storm underboob?

[olympichero62]

Astonishing X-Men I might give a try. However, the Astonishing Wolverine/Spider-Man sounds epic! No to mention it's written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Adam Kubert. There's no way I'm passing this up, even if it is a mini-series

Spider-Man/Wolverine? Count me in!

[bbiillllyy]

Kaare Andrews is absolutely brilliant!!!! I CAN'T WAIT for his X-Men mini.

And thank god Kaare fixed up the shitty designs that have been plaguing the X-Men since Bianchi.

[Frisky Dingo]

Wow, that is the worst looking Emma Frost I've ever see on the "X-Men" cover. Why it she drawn like a midget? If she wasn't wearing those heels she'd be only be up to Cyclops' knees. And it looks like she's wearing some adult diapers under those pants.

I get what Marvel's trying to do with this line but it's like they're trying to have their cake and eat it too. Just because you say something is in continuity doesn't really matter if it doesn't seem to fit anywhere and doesn't jive with what is going on with the rest of the books. They'd be better off just letting the creators go wild and do stories not vaguely bound by continuity.

[C.Cole]

What is with the art? We've got under-boob from storm, as well as hips that stick out from her abdomen way too much. Beast looks like he's about to kill someone. Emma has this weird face, strange back end, and her whole body is just weirdly shaped. The rest are decent, but overall it is a really weird style.

[froinlaven]

Has Jason Aaron written Spider-Man before? Should be interesting to see his take.

[Hrungr]

In principle I like the idea. There's a number of "big name" creators that can't handle a monthly book (and @#$% off readers when they try) so this seems like a good outlet for them. In-continuity, Marvel-line wide, self-contained minis - yeah, sounds good to me.

The cover to the X-Men is a bit wtf though. What's with Storm's retro/skanky look? And is that midget the White Queen?

[bbiillllyy]

Also, if ape-Beast can consistently look THAT fantastic, I won't hate the retcon.

[Frisky Dingo]

What is with the art? We've got under-boob from storm, as well as hips that stick out from her abdomen way too much. Beast looks like he's about to kill someone. Emma has this weird face, strange back end, and her whole body is just weirdly shaped. The rest are decent, but overall it is a really weird style.

And Emma is only 2 feet tall without those heels.

[bbiillllyy]

I am truly surprised at the reaction to Kaare's X-Men image there.

[John Zaleski]

emma and scott look pretty horrendous besides that the art looks pretttay good

[Comet Man]

Kaare Andrews is absolutely brilliant!!!! I CAN'T WAIT for his X-Men mini.

And thank god Kaare fixed up the shitty designs that have been plaguing the X-Men since Bianchi.

I wouldn't call that a fix. It's horrible. A fix would be to go back to the pre Bianchi designs, IMO.

[bbiillllyy]

To each their own . . . . .