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This afternoon, Forbidden Planet Megastore in London was host to a signing for the new Death's Head original series collection that was a real murderer's row Death's Head creators Simon Furman and Geoff Senior were there, also pushing their self-published series To The Death, with an early release of its final tenth issue But also Watchmen (and[...]
Death's Head #3 [Preview]
Death's Head #3 is in stores next week from Marvel Comics, by Tini Howard and Kei Zama, and we've got a preview below. Wiccan, Hulking, Hawkeye, Death's Head, and "Vee" (that's a fifth-generation upgrade of Death's Head created by Dr Necker and stolen by Wiccan because googling himself across all realities showed Vee as a possible[...]
The Sneakiest of Peeks Ahead at Marvel Comics #1001
The sequel to Marvel Comics #1000, it continues the same overarching idea of an ongoing story by Al Ewing threaded through a litany one one page stories by the good and the great from Marvel Comics' history. Currently that includes writers Al Ewing, Audrey Loeb, Jimmy Palmiotti, Declan Shalvey, Vita Ayala, Howard Chaykin, Kaare Andrews, Frank[...]
Death's Head #2 [Preview]
Death's Head #2 is in stores this week from Marvel Comics, by Tini Howard and Kei Zama, and we've got a preview below. And for a second issue, it's already got a pretty complicated story, so you might want to read the recap page to catch up. And we go to a flashback, video footage of Death's[...]
Death's Head Gets Big Collection - But No Doctor Who
Onc upon a time, Marvel Comics published a comic book character called Death's Head Created by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior for the Marvel UK continuance of the Transformers comic book, they had the nouse to publish him in his own one-page strip first, so that Marvel had full ownership claim on him rather than[...]
Wiccan and Hulkling Return in Death's Head #1 [Preview]
Death's Head #1 launches next week, a 4-issue mini-series bringing back the classic British comics bounty hunter But Death's Head isn't the only one returning in this series, which opens with the titular robot showing that he is a very particular music critic. But there are some other attendees at the concert, conveniently taking a bathroom[...]
A Rare Appearance of Death's Head II in Next Week's… Giant Days #46?!
Originally a major part of Marvel UK in the 1990s, appearances these days by Death's Head II are relatively rare The character has appeared in Marvel's UK-centric 2014 super-mega-crossover event Revolutionary War, and the original Death's Head even appeared recently in Infinity Wars But Death's Head II makes a surprising appearance next week, not in[...]
Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk #2 cover by Skan
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Darkhawk has made an agreement with Death's Head He will allow the bounty hunter to take him to the Fraternity of Raptors Before he goes, Chris Powell says one last goodbye to Miranda. Upon arriving, the Raptors attack Death's Head and swarm Darkhawk. Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk #2 cover by Skan One thing about Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk that[...]
Speculator Corner: So What Is The First Appearance Of Death's Head Anyway?
Does that mean the value of his previous appearances will rise? It depends – do Marvel have big plans to revive Death's Head, put him in Guardians Of The Galaxy, make his the centrepiece for their next cosmic event? Or is it a trademark move now that Dark Horse are publishing Death Head? Only time[...]
How Can We Get Kieron Gillen To Write Transformers?
Gillen has brought back Death's Head, the freelance peacekeeping agent (don't call him a bounty hunter) that debuted in Transformers UK in 1987. Listen to the man talk fan: "If Impactor was our Jean Grey, Death's Head was our Wolverine," Gillen has said, referring to Simon Furman's seminal, world-breaking run on the original Marvel comics He[...]
A Few Creative Details For The Marvel UK Revolutionary War
Courtesy of the Starlogged blog at the London Film And Comic Con earlier this month, with the team talking about the current Revolutionary War event at Marvel comics, reviving the old Marvel UK characters of the nineties. An undefined period of time has passed since the original sub-universe and MyS-TECH have been defeated.  In a parallel[...]
Death's Head In Today's Iron Man
Drawn rather wonderfully, albeit for one panel, by Greg Land, it's Death's Head. Iron Man in space, Tony Stark romancing the alien, the continuance of Kieron Gillen's biased agenda against facial hair, and AvX having cosmic consequences… it's all here folks! Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. In today's Iron Man Drawn rather wonderfully, albeit for one[...]
The Return Of Death's Head. And The Loss Of Death's Head's Head
I heard that bounty hunter robot Death's Head, created by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, might be coming back to the Marvel Universe with Iron Man Well, writer Kieron Gillen has form in that regard. But it looks like Avenging Spider-Man #17 is about to beat them to it… Hrrm.   I heard that bounty hunter robot Death's[...]
Akira The Don Talks MorrisonCon
Gerard meanwhile "lost his shit" over my Death's Head tattoo Death's Head, he said, was "his favourite" when he was young I had no idea DH had penetrated America I'm proud of him. I prepared my set, and asked MCR synthist James Dewees if he'd like to be my onstage DJ, an offer he accepted happily, and before we knew[...]