Nick Roche to Draw Marvel Death's Head II in 2014
Sunday, September 29th, 2013 12:48PM CDT
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It was announced at Saturday’s Marvel Comics panel that Nick Roche will be the new artist on the new Death’s Head one shot comic launching in early 2014.
Roche will be joined on the book by writer Andy Lanning and will be released as a one shot in early 2014, possibly as early as February with the book marking the first time Roche will have worked at Marvel.
The book will be making use of the second iteration of the character Death’s Head II.
Launching the book, which was originally at Marvel UK is part of a planned phased process from Marvel to import the UK properties, long dormant to the US.
In an ironic twist, Roche made a twitter appeal in February asking to be put on the book.
Once more concrete details are given, we will let you know.
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Posted by Mindmaster on September 29th, 2013 @ 1:00pm CDT
The more of a presence I see of Death's Head, the more I want to get a toy of him to go with my shelves.
Posted by ausbot on September 30th, 2013 @ 2:25am CDT
Posted by robotmel on September 30th, 2013 @ 2:36am CDT
Yes Nick, YES!
Roche's Deaths Head look awesome, but isnt that DH1 not the the somewhat awful replacement/upgrade DH2?
I would guess we may get to see a brief origin story where DH1 becomes DH2 or such like?
Now, as Mindmaster and Im sure many others will agree, we need a Marvel DH1 figure to display alongside our Deluxe/Voyager Transformers!
Excelsior!
Posted by Burn on September 30th, 2013 @ 3:23am CDT
Mindmaster wrote:I have no idea what is going on in that image.
Well he's beaten up Machine Man, and is in the process of beating up The Vision ... the others look sort of like Technarchy ... maybe Phalanx.
It would certainly tie in with the Avengers A.I. book.
Posted by Neurie on September 30th, 2013 @ 6:08am CDT
robotmel wrote::D
Yes Nick, YES!
Roche's Deaths Head look awesome, but isnt that DH1 not the the somewhat awful replacement/upgrade DH2?
I would guess we may get to see a brief origin story where DH1 becomes DH2 or such like?
Now, as Mindmaster and Im sure many others will agree, we need a Marvel DH1 figure to display alongside our Deluxe/Voyager Transformers!
Excelsior!
Marvel UK did an origins story, Minion beat the crap out of DH, and absorbed his personality(as that is what Minion was designed to do, adding them to his own to make a gestalt personality controlled by Minion). Deaths Heads personality over rode the others and became the Dominant personality. Then in the future the remains of the original Deaths Head are found, put back together and tried to be used. The original programming is still present and Deaths Head is reborn. Then boom, you now have two of the same character running around the Marvel U.
Oh and Marvel are bringing out a Deaths Head 1 figure in their line of hero toys in early 2014
Posted by CaptainMagic on September 30th, 2013 @ 3:10pm CDT
Sorry, rant over.
Posted by Va'al on November 15th, 2013 @ 7:50am CST
REVOLUTIONARY WAR: DEATH’S HEAD II #1
ANDY LANNING & ALAN COWSILL (W) • NICK ROCHE (A)
Cover by MARK BROOKS
Variant Cover by Sharp
Part 4 of “Revolutionary War”
• The long-awaited return of DEATH’S HEAD -- one of the biggest hits of the original Marvel UK!
• Death’s Head! Death’s Head II! On an adventure together for the first time EVER!
• What threat could be grave enough to bring these two heroes together from across time? How about the villainous Mys-Tech organization resurfacing with an army?!
32 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$3.99
Posted by triKlops on November 15th, 2013 @ 10:21am CST
Hopefully this means we are slightly closer to getting a toy of DHead sometime soon.
Posted by UltraPrimal on November 15th, 2013 @ 11:15am CST
Posted by synapse on November 21st, 2013 @ 3:51am CST
Congratulations, Nick. I'm sure you'll have a great time drawing DH.
Now bring on that action figure, Hasbro!
Posted by Va'al on January 18th, 2014 @ 11:17am CST
Part 4 of 'Revolutionary War' o The long-awaited return of DEATH'S HEAD -- one of the biggest hits of the original Marvel UK! o Death's Head! Death's Head II! On an adventure together for the first time EVER! o What threat could be grave enough to bring these two heroes together from across time? How about the villainous Mys-Tech organization resurfacing with an army?!
Posted by Va'al on February 6th, 2014 @ 10:57am CST
Posted by NemesisMonkeySupreme on February 6th, 2014 @ 11:34am CST
Posted by Banjo-Tron on February 6th, 2014 @ 1:12pm CST
Posted by Va'al on February 14th, 2014 @ 4:26am CST
Posted by JazZeke on February 14th, 2014 @ 11:49am CST
Posted by Burn on February 16th, 2014 @ 5:34am CST
But hey, at least the get an reference in for "giant robots"
Posted by Va'al on April 19th, 2017 @ 5:13am CDT
BLACK BOLT #3
SALADIN AHMED (W) • CHRISTIAN WARD (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY BILL SIENKIEWICZ
PRISON BREAK!
• The prisoners revolt! But are Black Bolt and his unlikely allies simply pawns in a bigger game?
• Plus: Death’s Head! Is he there to help…or hunt?
• And who — or what — is the warden of this strange place? Whatever it is, the Jailer knows only penance and fear. And soon, so will the Silent King!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Posted by Burn on April 19th, 2017 @ 5:35am CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on April 19th, 2017 @ 6:08am CDT
Posted by Yeti on April 19th, 2017 @ 6:54am CDT
Posted by Randomhero on April 19th, 2017 @ 6:55am CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Nah, not enough for me to want to purchase a Marvel comic again. Now if it was a full on Death's Head series focussing solely on him and build up his own universe with none of the marvel superhero crossover stuff I may be tempted. Even more so if it was by Furman and Senior. I can dream.
I haven't picked up a marvel or DC book in over two years. Just too much crap. I did get nick riches issue he did that starred Deaths Head a few years ago and that was pretty good.
Posted by DeathReviews on April 19th, 2017 @ 7:02am CDT
Posted by partholon on April 19th, 2017 @ 2:43pm CDT
havent bought a marvel book in an age though. its bleeding mental just how quickly you can fall out of that universe. i've been collecting since the 70s FFS and im completely lost as to how to collect the xmen anymore, let alone know WTF is going on in the book. god help a newbie trying to get into the scene
though like others if marvel got furman/senior to do a series i'd be TOTALLY there.
Posted by Va'al on May 24th, 2018 @ 3:05pm CDT
This week, the totally not a bounty hunter reappears in the pages of a cosmic Marvel comic, as he squares off against Chris Powell, the superhero known as Darkhawk - originally co-created by Tom DeFalco, who was editor of the Transformers G1 and G2 comics after Jim Shooter! A small universe, yes? Check out the variant cover by Ron Lim (and colourist) for the issue below, and a snippet from the interview with writers Chris Sims and Chad Bowers that doesn't mention Death's Head at all - though the comic does indeed have more that a cameo.
Nrama: What’s your message about this title to fans who love Darkhawk but haven’t seen him for a while, or for those who haven’t read his comics before?
Bowers: If you’re a fan of Darkhawk from back in the day, he’s still that guy! Chris Powell, the blue collar kid with an edge against crime. Only now he fights crime in outer space, too, and it’s even cooler than it sounds!
Sims: And if you’ve never read his comics before, we can all but guarantee that there’s something here for everyone. We’ve got a good guy trying to do right by the universe, a villain who’s been forced into a terrible situation by forces beyond his control, sentient alien fighter jets, and even a little romance. We wanted to do the biggest, boldest, wildest Darkhawk story ever, and c’mon. Do you really want to miss out on that?
Posted by #Sideways# on May 24th, 2018 @ 3:44pm CDT
>>>> S E N T I E N T F I G H T E R J E T S <<<<
Guys, I can't believe Starscream finally takes the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos to erase Megatron from history.
Posted by Yeti on May 24th, 2018 @ 8:47pm CDT
Posted by JazZeke on May 25th, 2018 @ 12:07am CDT
Yeti wrote:An absolutely abysmal rendition of Death's Head. Not only is the character nothing like the professional business man we know and love but the artistic rendition is, honestly, the worst I have ever seen. Which is really sad as the art in general in Darkhawk is pretty good (much better than the second rate writing of the whole book), but Death's Head barely resembles Death's Head. It wouldn't have taken much to make him look kick-ass either. Left side is how he appears in Darkhawk, right is a quick and dirty edit by me. Really disappointing and a let down from the Editor, writer and artist.
Yikes.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on May 25th, 2018 @ 1:10am CDT
'perps were last seen at the corner of Furman and Hitch..." Nice reference to Death's Head co-creator Simon Furman and to Bryan Hitch who drew the original one page High Noon Tex strip that introduced the character.
Anyways yeah the character looks much more sorta-fantasy style than the usual shiny, sharp robot he normally is but it's alright. Still better looking than Death's Head 2 or 3.0. That Ron Lim variant cover is a tribute to the original DH design. I maaay read the next issue but as i said i'm not at all a marvel fan these days so i ain't sure.
Posted by Michael Alex Kawa on June 7th, 2018 @ 4:29am CDT
Technically Tom DeFalco was the Editor In Chief of Marvel Comics and not just the Editor of Transformers. In other words he oversaw all the Marvel comics made at that time.