Rick Remender + Steve Epting bring down the ‘Hammerfist’ in August

The ongoing series from Image Comics blends hardboiled crime fiction and splatter horror, as a hitman is forced to fight the supernatural to save his daughter.

Rick Remender and Steve Epting are teaming up on Hammerfist, an ongoing series from Image Comics and Remender’s Giant Generator imprint that will launch in August.

The series is about Mike Denton, a hitman/absentee father who must awaken a supernatural weapon powered by love to save his daughter from an ancient darkness called Black Noon.

Hammerfist is for people who grew up on those unhinged genre films of the VHS era, over-the-top, hard-R, wildly original, but never forgetting to be fun,” Remender told IGN. “A hardboiled crime story that mutates into an ultra-violent, Raimi-style horror story following a low-rent killer who becomes the only thing standing between us and eternal darkness. Getting to see it come to life in the hands of a master like Steve Epting is a dream come true. I’ve wanted to collaborate with him for years, and the pages speak for themselves, cinematic, brutal, and emotional. Paired with Matt Hollingsworth’s color there just isn’t a better art team.”

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Kevin Smith, Andy McElfresh + R.B. Silva team for ‘Spider-Man/Hulk: Fire and Brimstone’

The five-issue miniseries arrives in August.

Marvel has announced another miniseries bringing together Spider-Man and the Hulk. Spider-Man/Hulk: Fire and Brimstone, by writer/director Kevin Smith, The Tonight Show writer Andy McElfrsh and One World Under Doom artist R.B. Silva, will kick off in August.

With Hulk and Punisher both appearing in this summer’s big Spider-Man flick, Brand New Day, both characters are getting panel time in addition to screen time with the wallcrawler this summer. Both characters are appearing in Spider-Man: Long Way Home in June, while a story set in the early days of the Punisher and Spider-Man’s relationship, titled The Punisher vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, will arrive in July.

“I’ve played with Peter Parker and swung with Spider-Man before but this is the first time I’m having Hulk issues,” Smith said. “Andy and I are dropping two of Marvel’s most well-known scientists into a spiritual story of Biblical proportions as we exorcise the Incredible Hulk—and I’m not talking cross-fit!”

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