Sneak Peeks: Marvel Comics May 2, 2012

The Fellowship has obtained sneak peeks for comics from Marvel that will come out May 2...

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #3 (of 12)
ED BRUBAKER (W)
JOHN ROMITA JR (a)
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
Variant covers by J. Scott. Campbell, Sara Pichelli

• The Avengers and the X-Men scour the Earth searching for the host of the Phoenix!
• Hope takes matters into her own hands!
• And Captain America and Wolverine come to bitter blows!




DEFENDERS #6
MATT FRACTION (w)
VICTOR IBANEZ (a)
Cover by TERRY DODSON

• WHO is trying to kill the Immortal Weapons and can Iron Fist stop them?
• WHY did the world forget about the Confederates of the Curious?
• HOW does the Concordance Engine tie all these threads together?





EXILED #1
KIERON GILLEN, DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING (w)
CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO (a)
Cover by STEPHANIE HANS

• It’s NEW MUTANTS. It’s JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY. It’s NEW MUTANTS *and* JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY. It’s the New Journey Into Mutant Mystery!
• With a left over “s”.
• A forgotten hero returns, mightier than Thor himself, but will the truth behind his exile consume them all?



AVENGERS ACADEMY #29
CHRISTOS GAGE (w)
TOM GRUMMETT (a)
Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI 

• Tie-in to AVENGERS VS. X-MEN!
• The Utopia and Gen Hope teens have come to the Academy…as prisoners?
• Sebastian Shaw strikes!
• Guest-starring Wolverine, Hawkeye, Hercules and Captain America!





HULK SMASH AVENGERS #1 (OF 5)
TOM DEFALCO (w)
RON FRENZ (a)
Cover by LEE WEEKS

• A five-part, weekly punch-fest that explores the ever-evolving relationship between the Gamma Goliath and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!
• Hulk vs. the 60’s-era Avengers: Captain America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp and Thor!




DAREDEVIL #12
MARK WAID (w)
CHRIS SAMNEE (a)
Cover by PAOLO RIVERA

• It’s lawyers in love as Matt Murdock finally makes some time for assistant district attorney Kirsten McDuffie.
• The best reviewed comic of the year continues as Waid and Rivera welcome aboard new artist Chris Samnee (Ultimate Spider-Man).




AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #685
DAN SLOTT (w)
HUMBERTO RAMOS (a)
Cover by STEFANO CASELLI
VARIANT Cover by GABRIELE DELLOTTO

• Part four of the epic “Ends of the Earth”
• Featuring the World’s Greatest Super Hero: Doctor Octopus!
• Guest staring Black Widow and Silver Sable.





VENOM #17 
RICK REMENDER & CULLEN BUNN (w)
KEV WALKER (a)
Cover by MIKE DELMUNDO

• Venom faces a gauntlet of doom as the Crime-Master unites Jack O’Lantern, The Human Fly, Toxin and more to destroy Flash Thompson!
• The Crime-Master’s plan is so diabolical, so vile, that it forces Eddie Brock to become a symbiote’s host once more – and takes the war to Flash Thompson’s Family, Betty Brant and even Peter Parker!



ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #10
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w)
DAVID MARQUEZ (a)
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS

• It’s Prowler vs. Spider-Man! Uncle vs. nephew!
• The superstar team of Brian Michael Bendis and newcomer David Marquez continue Miles Morales’ journey to becoming a hero!





AGE OF APOCALYPSE #3
DAVE LAPHAM (w)
ROBERTO DE LA TORRE (a)
Cover by MIKE MCKONE

• AOA Wolverine is resurrecting dead X-Men to destroy the human race.
• Jean Grey continues her training to join the X-Terminated.
• The humans find their “atomic bomb” to defeat Wolverine.





WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN: ALPHA & OMEGA #5 (of 5)
BRIAN WOOD (w)
MARK BROOKS AND ROLAND BOSCHI (a)
Cover by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER

• Logan and Armor are removed from the construct – but back in the real world something lingers inside them.
• Logan versus the Berserker!
• Quentin Quire is contrite, but has he blown his last chance with the X-Men?



X-FACTOR #235
PETER DAVID (w)
LEONARD KIRK (a/c)

“X-TREME MEASURES”
• Something is eviscerating super heroes in Seattle and X-Factor is called in to investigate.
• Featuring all-new villain Scattershot, who looks suspiciously like two members of X-Factor Investigations…
• And Shatterstar goes berserk! (‘Nuff said!)




X-MEN #28 
VICTOR GISCHLER (w)
WILL CONRAD (a/c)

• A lost team of Skrulls infiltrates the X-Men
• Pixie is taken hostage…or did she go by choice? 







DOROTHY & THE WIZARD IN OZ #6 (of 8)
ERIC SHANOWER (w)
SKOTTIE YOUNG (a/C)

• What happens when you get to the Land of Oz and you don’t fit in?
• Jim the Cab-horse challenges the Sawhorse to a race—with alarming results.
• Dorothy meets her old friends—the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, Tik-tok, and more.
• The talking Gump-head is always good for a surprise.