Marvel continues to try to grab attention from the non-comics world by grabbing hot writers from other media. Hit novelist Jonathan Lethem (You Don't Love Me Yet) tries his hand at Marvel's reluctant anti-hero in Omega: The Unknown #1 and bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz (The Crime Writer) takes on Logan in Wolverine Annual #1: Deathsong this week, plus Buffy creator Joss Whedon (no stranger to comics) brings his run on Marvel's teen superhero team closer to its conclusion in Runaways #28.

Acclaimed Novelist Lethem Re-Imagines Omega: The Unknown

 Jonathan Lethem, the award winning novelist of Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude and the new hit novel, You Don't Love Me Yet, re-imagines one of Marvel's most offbeat heroes in Omega: The Unknown #1 (of 10)!  In 1975, co-writers Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes created the mute, reluctant anti-hero Omega: The Unknown, but the series only lasted for 10 brief issues.  Now over three decades after the original series launched, Jonathan Lethem will set out to redefine Omega. 

When the series debuted, Omega The Unknown told the tale of a lone survivor from an alien world.  Pursued by the robots who destroyed his world, Omega comes to Earth seeking refuge and a new beginning.  Accompanied by a young orphan named James Michael Starling, our hero traveled to New York City and together, the reluctant hero and the boy adjusted to their new lives.  However, questions begin to plague the pair because of James-Michael's mysterious resemblance to Omega.  Then abruptly, the series ended with Omega's shocking death!

Few would have guessed that years later, one of Omega's biggest fans would turn out to be an award-winning novelist!  Now Lethem, along with Karl Rusnak, and the very talented Farel Dalrymple and Paul Hornschemeier, will re-imagine Omega for the 21st century.

This ten chapter series that will thrill old and new fans alike, promises action, adventure, and heroics unlike any you have ever seen in the genre of comic books. So don't miss OMEGA: THE UNKNOWN #1!

OMEGA: THE UNKNOWN #1 (of 10) (AUG072249)

Written by JONATHAN LETHEM with KARL RUSNAK

Art by FAREL DALRYMPLE & PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER

Rated T+...$2.99

FOC - 9/13/2007, On-Sale - 10/3/2007

Logan's Gruesome Retribution in Wolverine Annual #1

Los Angeles Times-best selling author Gregg Hurwitz (The Crime Writer) and Marcelo Frusin (Hellblazer) bring you the gritty self-contained Wolverine Annual: Deathsong!  After a botched bank heist leaves a dozen civilians dead, Wolverine decides to hunt down the two-bit hoodlum that's responsible.  Smitty is going to die, and he knows it... the only question is: when?

Presented to you by crime thriller extraordinaire, Gregg Hurwitz, Wolverine Annual: Deathsong follows hood-for-hire Smitty, as he's relentlessly hunted by the force of nature whose senses are just as sharp as his claws.  Smitty isn't the only one on Wolverine's hit list, anyone and everyone involved in the bank robbery beware because  Logan is playing for keeps this time.  This comic isn't for the faint of heart (or those with a weak stomach); artist Marcelo Frusin's grim and gritty style captures Wolverine as he gruesomely claws through dozens of men. 

Wolverine Annual: Deathsong features a chilling tale that will leave readers shocked, and prove once and for all that Wolverine is in fact, "the best there is at what he does." 

WOLVERINE ANNUAL #1 : DEATHSONG (AUG072264)

Written by GREGG HURWITZ

Pencils & Cover by MARCELO FRUSIN

Parental Advisory  ...$3.99

FOC-9/13/07, On-Sale-10/03/07

The Runaways Race Back To The Future

The critically acclaimed "Dead End Kids" storyline continues in Runaways #28! Super-star scribe Joss Whedon (Astonishing X-Men) and rising star Michael Ryan (New Excalibur, New X-Men) have wowed audiences with the first three chapters of this exciting story, but now Runaways are... stranded in 1907?  After the stunning revelations thus far, not only are the Runaways seemingly stranded forever...faces from their past are going to make sure the Runaways don't have a future! Critics and fans alike continue to praise this bold new chapter in the lives of Marvel's most teen team!

Richard George of IGN.Com deemed Whedon and Ryan's Runaways a "must read," calling the series "brilliant" and describing Ryan as, "the best artist for Runaways."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes. This is what I've been wanting, waiting for, hoping for," gushed Scott A. Williams of ComiXtreme.Com while also adding, "The artwork is truthfully among the best the series has ever seen."

With only three issues left of Joss Whedon and Michael Ryan's landmark run, you can't afford to miss Runaways #28. 

RUNAWAYS # 28 (JUN072182)

Written by JOSS WHEDON

Penciled by MICHAEL RYAN

Cover by JO CHEN

Rated T+ ...$2.99

FOC-9/13/07, On-Sale-10/03/07

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