Sneak Peeks: Titles Shipping 4.23.08 (Part III)

Thanks to Marvel, we have the following previews from Thor #8, Uncanny X-Men #497, Young Avengers Presents #4, Wolverine: First Class #2, Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #35, and Marvel Illustrated: Picture of Dorian Gray #5. These titles are scheduled to be in shops next Wednesday.

You may find some spoilers in the following images. You have been warned.


THOR #8
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
PENCILS: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
INKS: DANNY MIKI and CRIMELAB STUDIOS
The God of Thunder keeps sizzling off the stands! Part two of a two-part arc by writer J. Michael Straczynski (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) with sumptuous art by DAREDEVIL cover artist Marko Djurdjevic sees the mighty Thor ruling over a newly glorious Asgard and all its people! But what danger has risen on the horizon of its American heartland surroundings? And how will Thor equip himself to face it??
Rated T+ …$2.99

UNCANNY X-MEN #497
COVER BY: MICHAEL CHOI
WRITER: ED BRUBAKER
PENCILS and INKS: MICHAEL CHOI
“DIVIDED WE STAND”
In the wake of Messiah CompleX, there are no X-Men…Something strange is going on in San Francisco and Archangel gets pulled into the middle of it. Can Cyclops and Emma Frost save him and get out alive? And Wolverine, Colossus and Nightcrawler’s road trip takes a turn for the dangerous.
Rated T+ …$2.99

YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS #4 (of 6)
COVER BY: JIM CHEUNG
WRITER: PAUL CORNELL
PENCILS: MARK BROOKS
INKS: JAIME MENDOZA
The Vision is going through changes. He's a passionate man. And an impulsive one, if his decision to go and visit Stature at her Initiative training camp is anything to go by. He's got some important things to tell her. But will getting intangibly stuck halfway through her body while A.I.M. are attacking put a damper on his ardour?
Rated T+ …$2.99

WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #2
COVER BY: LEONARD KIRK
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
ART: ANDREA DI VITO
The good news: Kitty's managed to figure out Wolverine's birthday and has arranged a surprise candlelight dinner with the love of his life, Mariko Yashida, as his present. The bad news: The reason Wolverine never tells anybody about his birthday is that every year on that date Sabretooth shows up to dice him into cutlets. And Kitty has put Mariko within Sabretooth's grasp!
All Ages …$2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #35
COVER BY: GRAHAM NOLAN
WRITER: PAUL TOBIN
PENCILS: DAVID NAKAYAMA
INKS: CORY HAMSCHER
A MODEL DAY: 75% of the Fantastic Four positively agree that it's GREAT to judge an international beauty pageant, but what's Sue to do during the festivities? Well, how about unearthing that the pageant is actually sponsored by A.I.M. in order to smuggle high tech battle robots into the country? Or how about teaming up with a certain long lost model from Marvel's past, and then picking a fight with those battle robots? Yeah, Sue keeps busy in this one.
All Ages …$2.99

MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY #5 (of 6)
COVER BY: GERALD PAREL
WRITER: ROY THOMAS and OSCAR WILDE
PENCILS and INKS: SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
Dorian is now leading a bizarre double life with his daytime demeanor at dire odds with his nightly existence of decadence and debauchery. But events may be catching up to Dorian as he is stalked through the foggy London streets…by a man out for vengeance. It's the penultimate chapter of Wilde's strange and compelling masterpiece.
Rated T+ …$2.99

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Sneak Peeks: Titles Shipping 4.2.08 (Part I)

Marvel has yet again been kind enough to provide previews of some of next week's titles. This first batch of contains the opening pages of Cable #2, Young Avengers Presents #3, Logan #2, The Twelve #4, Lords of Avalon: Sword of Darkness #3, and Spider-Man Family #8.

Be warned, there may be some spoilers below.

CABLE #2
COVERS BY: ARIEL OLIVETTI and DAVID FINCH
WRITER: DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI
ART: ARIEL OLIVETTI
A new ongoing series spinning out of the decade’s biggest X-Men event! The future of mutantkind continues here!
There’s only one thing worse than a heavily-armed man with murder on the brain. And that’s several heavily-armed men, none of whom give a damn about Cable’s mission to save mutantkind from total extinction. Meanwhile, Cable’s newest enemy—Lucas Bishop—crawls back from bloody oblivion and tracks down his quarry the hard way: one brutal time jump after another. When Bishop finally catches up wit Cable, he’s not going to be in the mood for small talk. It’ll be kill first, ask questions later.
Rated T+ …$2.99

YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS #3
COVER BY: JIM CHEUNG
WRITER: ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
PENCILS: ALINA URUSOV
INKS: ALINA URUSOV
Wiccan & Speed: THE LOST BOYS
You're Wiccan, the Young Avengers' resident warlock. Your mother is one of the most reviled, misunderstood mutants in history: Wanda Maximoff, A.K.A. the Scarlet Witch, who's been M.I.A. for months. Even though you've never met her, she's been haunting your dreams lately...With your super-fast twin brother Speed in tow, you set out to find her, unaware that someone else is looking for Wanda, as well. A demon with a mountain-sized grudge against the Scarlet Witch: Master Pandemonium! And guess what? If Pandemonium can't find Wanda to destroy her, he'll happily destroy...YOU!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

LOGAN #2 (of 3)
COVER BY: EDUARDO RISSO
WRITER: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
PENCILS: EDUARDO RISSO
INKS: EDUARDO RISSO
The groundbreaking new mini–series from Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets) and Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) continues! Returning to the place that made him the man he is today, Wolverine faces off against an all-new enemy in an epic clash with a last page that has to be seen to be believed.
Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory …$3.99

THE TWELVE #4
COVER BY: KAARE ANDREWS
WRITER: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
PENCILS: CHRIS WESTON
INKS: GARRY LEACH
As the savage murders continue, and members of the Twelve come under a cloud of suspicion, tensions flare, and hero faces off against hero! Plus, the unbelievable origin of underground secret agent Rockman!
Rated T+ …$2.99

LORDS OF AVALON: SWORD OF DARKNESS #3
COVER BY: TOMMY OHTSUKA
WRITERS: ROBIN FURTH and SHERRILYN KENYON
ART: TOMMY OHTSUKA
The battle of light vs. dark continues when the Kerrigan rescues Seren from the hands of Morgen le Fey. The war is on. Now Kerrigan and his mandrake, Blaise are all that stand to defend the world’s next champion. Enemies of both Avalon and Camelot, they decide to make their stand at Lancelot’s cursed Joyous Gard. But will the castle prove to be a haven or a trap? Find out in this third installment of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s acclaimed Arthurian fantasy, Sword of Darkness.
Parental Advisory …$2.99

SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #8
COVER BY: DAVID WILLIAMS
WRITER: NATE PIEKOS and KEVIN GREVIOUX
PENCILS: ZACH HOWARD and RAY HEIGHT
So, have you ever noticed that Peter Parker never really grows facial hair? That’s just this side of weird, right? We felt sorry for the wall–crawler, so we went and got him a special guest star, THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN!!!!!! Because I think we can all agree that Tony Stark’s got the sweetest facial hair in all of Marvel Comics. Oh! And they fight a Nazi robot.
PLUS…Spidey vs. Iceman! Spider-Man J! And a TON of classic Spidey stories!
Rated A …$4.99

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