Pour la première fois depuis la création de la firme il y a plus de 76 ans, l’éditeur Marvel publiera un comic adaptant une franchise vidéo-ludique de son cru: le jeu Contest of Champions (Le Tournoi des Héros) développé par Kabam.
Aux manettes, les lecteurs retrouveront le scénariste Al Ewing (The Ultimates, New Avengers) et le dessinateur Paco Medina. Les deux auteurs chercheront à savoir ce qui arrive aux héros stockés/prisonniers lorsqu’ils ne sont pas en train de se battre. Ce sera l’occasion de présenter de nouveaux personnages qui seront graduellement introduits dans le jeu. C’est le cas de Guillotine, une jeune héroïne tirant ses pouvoirs d’une épée magique qui est dans sa famille depuis la révolution Française.
Cette nouvelle série fera partie de l’importante vague de lancements qui suivra la conclusion de Secret Wars.
Quand je pense que certains ont changé de scénar’, des scènes, retiré des scènes, repoussé des films, arrêté des scripts, … suite au 11/09 et voilà que eux nous sortent une chtite chtite chtite chtite fillotte du Docteur Guillotin !
[quote]There’s a core cast – the « Pawns » – split into two team,s controlled by two different Summoners. One of those is the Maestro, controlling a team of main universe characters, and the other is a mysterious Player On The Other Side, who we won’t be revealing until issue #4 or #5, probably. He’s running a team pulled from different alternate universes.
Those Summoners are acting under the direction of the Elders, as part of a cosmic competition for the ultimate prize. In addition, we have guest stars brought in by the Elders to essentially add a little zap to proceedings and prolong the excitement. It’s all a bit meta, really. That’s one of the fun things about this series – I think at one point the tagline for the series was going to be: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
Anyway, we’re bringing back a couple of characters readers might think we couldn’t – the Collector’s reach, in certain cases, extends to the dead.[/quote]
[quote]Contest of Champions #1
Story by Al Ewing
Art by Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco
Colors by David Curiel
Cover by Paco Medina, John Tyler Christopher, Mark Bagley
Publisher Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date Oct 7th, 2015
Welcome to the BATTLEREALM–a broken section of space-time where cosmic beings gamble for the ultimate power while their unwilling pawns fight for their lives and a chance to return back to Earth. Who will survive… THE CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS?[/quote]
STORY BY Al Ewing
ART BY Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco
COLORS BY David Curiel
LETTERS BY VC - Joe Sabino
COVER BY Paco Medina, Ron Lim, Karl Kesel, Guru-eFX , Kabam , Gabriel Frizzera
PUBLISHER Marvel Comics
COVER PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE DATENov 4th, 2015
• Ares lives!
• The god of War vs. Maestro…and Iron Man & Gamora!
• Who is the shadowy player scheming with the Grandmaster? You’ll never guess![/quote]
Story by
Al Ewing
Art by
Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco
Colors by
David Curiel
Letters by
VC - Joe Sabino
Cover by
Victor Ibanez, Pasqual Ferry, Chris Sotomayor,
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Jan 6th, 2016
THE ROAD TO CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR BEGINS WITH THE OFFICIAL ADAPTATION OF THE SMASH HIT FILM CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER!
• When CAPTAIN AMERICA encounters an assassin named THE WINTER SOLDIER, he joins forces with BLACK WIDOW and FALCON to uncover a deepseated conspiracy in their very midst!
• It’s spy versus spy as the fate of the country hangs in the balance![/quote]
Story by
Al Ewing
Art by
Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco
Colors by
David Curiel
Letters by
VC - Joe Sabino
Cover by
Victor Ibanez, Kabam, Gabriel Frizzera, Ron Lim , Karel Kesel , Guru-eFX [hide…]
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Feb 3rd, 2016
TO THE DEATH!
• NO MORE GAMES! White Fox enters the fray - in time for a six-a-side deathmatch!
• And one contestant WILL die – AND MAYBE MORE!
• Plus! A new guest star THRASHES the enemy! You won’t believe who’s back![/quote]
Story by
Al Ewing
Art by
Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco
Colors by
David Curiel
Letters by
VC - Joe Sabino
Cover by
Paco Medina, Kabam, Gabriel Frizzera,
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Mar 23rd, 2016
CHECK AND MATE!
• How did Maestro end up in the Battlerealm? How did he come to be a servant of the Collector?
• This issue has all the answers and then some! As the Maestro takes his revenge…on EVERYBODY!
• The dominoes fall, the plans come together and NOTHING will be the same again!
Story by
Al Ewing
Art by
Rhoald Marcellius
Colors by
David Curiel
Letters by
VC - Joe Sabino
Cover by
Paco Medina, Ron Lim, Roberto Poggi, Andrew Crossley
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Apr 6th, 2016
« Ultimate Fighting » STARTS NOW!
After the cataclysmic events of last issue – Battlerealm will never be the same! But Earth’s ultimate superteam has discovered the Contest – and they don’t like it at all! Is this the end of Maestro’s dream of power? Or the start of a whole new Contest of Champions? Fan-fave writer Al Ewing combines two of his new series into one can’t-miss epic![/quote]
[quote]That was always the Maestro’s plan – to bring back Battleworld. Since « Secret Wars, » he’s been itching to become sole ruler of Battleworld, so there’s a pride issue, otherwise he’d presumably have built a new planet somewhere else, or gone to rule over an alternate Earth. Effectively, he’s become a god, which makes him incredibly dangerous – his only limitations are the ones he imposes on himself. He has weaknesses, as we’ll see – he’s a very primal, physical being who thinks in physical terms. He’s still the Hulk, and he still likes a fight.
As to his relationship with the other contestants – they’re his prisoners, and he has Jake Gallows as the ultimate warden. As far as he’s concerned, the contestants are out of his hair for good, and he can concentrate on deciding what he wants to do with his new planet.[/quote]
