It's history in the breaking! After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family's sect - locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong! But as this naive teenage assassin stalks his prey, he'll soon find that both hunter and hunted are just pawns in a centuries-old conspiracy that stretches from the catacombs beneath Wall Street to the heights of the Himalayas. And Archer & Armstrong will have to work together if the future is to stand any chance of surviving the past's greatest threat! From the New York Times best-selling creative team of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies) and Clayton Henry (Incredible Herc), this volume collects ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #1-4!
Every enemy. Against each other. For centuries, the cloak-and-dagger coalition of conspiracies collectively known as The Sect has worked together to bring silent oppression and undercover tyranny to a world that thought it was free. But, now after centuries of profit sharing and uneasy alliances, the factions of The Sect are about to erupt into open conflict?and the only men that can end the insanity are Archer & Armstrong! Too bad they're fighting for different sides! Why? How? And will either survive? The knockdown, drag-out A&A event of the year starts now - and no conspirator is safe! Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #14-17 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules) and acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Harbinger) and ChrisCross (Superman/Batman), jump into the series that IGN calls 'a must read' with an all-new adventure pitching Archer & Armstrong into their biggest battle yet!
Collecting five action-packed stories starring the Golden Avenger! After a tragic airplane crash, 16-year-old Tony Stark loses his father and is so injured that he must use his dad's repulsor technology to keep himself alive. In the aftermath, Tony also discovers a prototype for the IRON MAN suit, and donning it, Iron Man resolves to fight the enemies of World Peace! And in IRON PROTOCOLS, Tony travels deep into the Arctic to do battle with an Artificial Intelligence trying to destroy all human life! Then, someone is using stolen Stark Industries technology to take control of Marvel's most high-tech heroes and villains. Sounds like the perfect time for Power Pack to attend an exhibit of old Iron Man armor! Collecting IRON MAN: ARMORED ADVENTURES, IRON MAN: IRON PROTOCOLS, MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #1 and IRON MAN AND POWER PACK #3-4.
(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Cory Smith, Roberto Castro (CA) Gabriel Hardman In the blink of an eye, young martial artist Magnus has everything taken from him: his father, his wife, his entire life. He's suddenly thrust into a futuristic world he doesn't understand, populated by humans and robots living together in oppression! Can Magnus fight to get his life back... and once he learns the truth about himself, will he want to? Includes the first four-issue story arc from Fred Van Lente and Cory Smith's popular comic series, plus the special Magnus: Robot Fighter #0 issue featuring story by Van Lente and artwork by Roberto Castro.
Zombies on Infinite Earths! The zombie plague has been largely wiped out and the Earth spared from an undead apocalypse. But a cure to the virulent infection still proves elusive, due to the disease's ever-changing nature. To uncover an antidote, Machine Man and Howard the Duck have set out across the multiverse, in search of zombie samples to bring back to their laboratory base. Joining forces with the gunfighter known as Jacali Kane, they must travel to five distinct universes beset by their own unique zombie plagues. A universe stuck in the Wild West. A world overrun with malicious Martians. A land where Camelot is at its height. A cybernetic future megacity. And the world we call our own. Can Machine Man, Howard the Duck and Jacali Kane obtain the samples they need from each of these worlds?without becoming zombies themselves? Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 5 #1-5. Parental Advisory
A small outbreak can turn into a worldwide apocalypse... but only through a long string of screw-ups! Once actual zombies begin popping up in our world, a lone intelligence analyst realizes real-life events are beginning to mimic the events of a long-lost, Grade-Z, drive-in horror flick. As he races to save humanity with this knowledge, he quickly learns the only thing more dangerous than ravenous walking corpses is the ineptitude of the living! The gut-splitting (and then eating) comedy that pokes fun at the zombie horror phenomenon!
(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Eman Casallos (CA) Steve Ellis
New creative team! New party of Iconics! New lands of Golarion to explore! The tantalizing prospect of a rendezvous with a Geb defector in possession of priceless secrets from that undead nation brings a diverse group of adventurers to the Nexian metropolis of Ecanus. When they find themselves cornered by the city's remorseless Deathsealers, can the Iconics band together for survival--and escape a city full of hostile wizards alive?
Featuring playable character stats!
Written by Fred Van Lente, with incredible art by Eman Casallos and covers by Eman Casallos, Steve Ellis and Biagio d'Alessandro!