Kingpin #1

[cyberghostface]

"The whole thing began with the idea of a crime related book that would fit my peculiar sensibilities. There was going to be no mining of the Marvel canons at all at first. But the more we worked it out, the more we realized we had just what we needed in the form of Wilson Fisk and that fans might enjoy our take on his early rise to infamy. I wrote a six issue outline that was approved and ready to go, when we realized the best way to keep this dark, film noir kind of piece at least tenuously connected to the Marvel Universe was to give Fisk a traditional arch enemy like Spider-Man. There were problems, of course-the two didn't meet in strict continuity until Fisk was older. But we just didn't want to throw out the opportunity the wider canvass of their initial meeting invited, so we blurred time a bit and got our cake and ate it too." -- Bruce Jones

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Jupiter's Legacy #5

[lordultimus]

"[It's like The Godfather] in the sense that it's about an unusual family at the heart of the most outrageous situation. But it feels incredibly human and very layered because you can relate to everybody within the story and it gives it that humanity."
-- Mark Millar
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The Walking Dead Deluxe #10

[cyberghostface]

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Guardians of the Galaxy #11 - "Here we make our stand."

[laughing_tree]

I've been trying not to lean on the Mission: Impossible thing too much when talking about this series -- I don't want it to come across as a "meets,” like the only thing about it is that it's a mash-up of other things -- but there is going to be that super-spy flavor to it. This will be a team that does missions, and those missions won't always pan out so well, and the stakes are going to be high, both in terms of the big, galactic fate-of-the-world stuff, and the more personal stuff to do with the individual team members -- who lives, who dies, who gets their heart broken. And people are going to live, die and get their heart broken. We're not going easy on anyone here. -- Al Ewing

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