Tag: Aliens vs. Avengers

Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Tom King and Dan Parent help Archie make ‘The Decision’

See what new comics and graphic novels will arrive in stores this week, by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribić, Michael Walsh, Magdalene Visaggio, Eliot Rahal, Craig Cermak, Stephanie Phillips, Brian Azzarello, Danijel Zezelj, Rob Liefeld, Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, Ron Garney, Lawrence Lindell and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital. This week Archie Comics has two big releases, as Tom King joins with Dan Parent to help Archie Andrews make a monumental decision, while their horror titles converge in The Cursed Library. We also have the Avengers facing off with Aliens, Rob Liefeld’s final Deadpool series, the debut of Skybound’s Frankenstein and a celebration of the 1990s and DC’s Zero Hour. It’s another big week for the final month of summer.

I’ve pulled out some of the other highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So always check with your comics retailer for the final word on availability.

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‘Older, grittier’ Avengers will face off with the Xenomorphs in ‘Aliens Vs. Avengers’

Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić will bring the two Disney properties together in a four-issue miniseries.

“Game over, Iron Man, Game over.” Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić will introduce a new take on the Avengers to battle the Xenomorphs from Aliens in a new miniseries coming this summer.

Aliens Vs. Avengers, or “AVA,” as the cover suggests, will be set in a new timeline many years in the future. As the Xenomorphs make landfall on Earth, they’ll find a grittier version of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes ready and waiting.

“Probably one of the coolest things about the project is how we’ve found really fun ways to ‘Avengerize’ Aliens and ‘alien-up’ Avengers,” Hickman told Entertainment Weekly. “I think fans will be surprised at how elegantly some of those things fit together. It really turned out to be a chocolate-and-peanut-butter situation.”

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