Hot, Sweet, Marvel Male Action

Just came across this (Hey, it was a long weekend, and I live 250 yards from a liquor store, a bar and a comic store. I’m only human. A deeply, deeply broken human) – Marvel published a live blog of a conference call between writers Matt Fraction, Cullen Bunn, Christopher Yost and Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort where they talked about the upcoming followups to the Fear Itself storyline: The Fearless and Battle Scars.

Go check it out for details from the horses’ mouths (And for some pretty art from Mark Bagley, Paul Lelletier, Frank Cho and Art Adams), but the nuts and bolts are that, no matter what happens with the Serpent in Fear Itself, the Hammers of The Worthy are still gonna be kicking around, in areas like Utopia, New York, the ocean and other far-flung areas that, purely by coincidence, are the perfect locations for heroes and villains to easily locate them so they can punch each other.

According to Fraction, the high-level plot is that Valkyrie and friends are racing against Sin and accomplices to get their hands on a hammer (And by the way, the hammer is my penis) or hammers. So, purely by coincidence, only six weeks after the San Diego Batgirl made female characters a battle cry in comic fandom, Marvel has a major female-driven storyline. And make no mistake: it IS a coincidence; the only creative team that could turn around an entire 12-issue arc in six weeks would be Lee and Kirby with pharmaceutical assistance from Walter White from Breaking Bad.

“It seems like we’re really in touch with the zeitgeist about female characters, but honestly we stumbled into it and it was a happy coincidence.” -Tom Brevoort

“Battle Scars is all dudes. It’s Marvel male action the way you like it.” -Chris Yost

Um…

UltimateKidNova: To clarify in case this gets quotes, Chris Yost’s “all dudes” comment was humor, not legit

Dammit! THANKS, UltimateKidNova! NOW how do expect me to come?

Both titles drop in October. (via Marvel)