Over at Comic Book Resources you can preview RED HULK #1 which is in comics shops today! Go see the grumpy Hulk and the A-Bomb forced to work together, and learn the secret of COSMIC HULK.

You can see a preview here at Comics Bulletin as the Agents of Atlas get back into it with The Avengers, and then the ORIGINAL Avengers. And today also has the conclusion to the THUNDERBOLTS hit on them, where I just bet you, SOMEONE DIES.

Also out today: SPIDER-MAN 1602! I know there’s a preview of that somewhere, I’ll try to put it up later.

Heads up! Steve Lieber and I are nearly finished with UNDERGROUND #5, the conclusion of our cave thriller, but it won’t be in stores next week. We’ll be a few weeks late, but you won’t have to wait that long. As soon as we get the final files to Image we’ll be able to let everyone know the exact shipping date.

Thanks to our readers for being understanding, I think you’ll like how it all goes down at the end!

Over at NEWSARAMA you can preview the upcoming AVENGERS vs. ATLAS with the team of me, Gabriel Hardman and Elizabeth Breitweiser as we put the band back together to meet the original line up of The Avengers.
And right after that preview, see the THUNDERBOLTS beat on the team too! I don’t know if that was planned or it just worked out that way. But there’s a lot to get ready for.

And enjoy a good review as you do, courtesy Matthew Brady and Comics Bulletin.

Report to your officially sanctioned adventure-dispensing facility.

I hope you’ll pick up the first of the three issue miniseries THE URANIAN, which has art by the excellent Felix Ruiz. See the early years of Bob Grayson as he discovers his home planet and tries to get the hang of this hero thing.

If your shop sold out of FALL OF THE HULKS ALPHA #1, the reprint with McGuinness cover is out today. It’s about the evil geniuses of the world getting together like bros and hoisting pimp cups, so you should probably get it. I may have retconned a little Marvel History in there too.

Embiggen for the Chalice.

I know you’re wondering if MODOK is holding one. But Thinker won’t move his Mad head.

Over at Comic Book Resources, read about the talented crew piling into the good ship HMS Agents of Atlas for the AVENGERS vs ATLAS miniseries- Jason Aaron! Paul Cornell! Scott Kurtz! And they have written some excellent shorts focusing on individual members of the team. I totally owe them. Make sure your shop is ordering this mini!

Or is it GOOOLLLLLD rings, I can’t ever remember. But you can see my whole studio, Periscope, representing each of the 12 Days of Christmas over at Comics Alliance.

While you’re picking up THUNDERBOLTS and SPIDER-MAN 1602 today, do not forget UNDERGROUND 4. Here’s a preview you can read beforehand…

The first few pages are over at BSCreview.com, and those mischievous Agents of Atlas stop by.

Go get FALL OF THE HULKS: ALPHA!

I’m thankful for all of you who come here and keep up with my fiction and ramblings, even if you don’t post in the comments (which you’re welcome to do). Happy Thanksgiving if you participate in it, and just a hearty Happy Thursday if you don’t. Still… thank you!

Is of course where I live, and that’s Portland. Here’s a neat article in Oregon Business that goes into the subject a little more and mentions Periscope Studio, the place I’m about to peddle to in a few minutes.

Drew Robbins captured on film some of the elusive Agents of Atlas Heroclix figures- why are these so hard for me to find pics of? Have my web search skills gone bad? Anyway, I’ve now got to go find some, excuse me…

UPDATE: Wndola comes through with the line up!

If you’re in the upper left corner of Oregon, today is the Portland Comic Con at Memorial Coliseum from 10 to 5. Here’s the list of who will be there, with of course, me. I’m bringing a fat stack of trades too, so come lighten my load. Also there will be a Periscope Studio panel where we sit around and look at each other much like we do all week, except you can be part of it.

Hope to see some of you locals there…

Aarrr, it’s the next big event, mateys. Startin’ next week with Spider-Man 1602 #2. Yar.

Comics readers of the world, I would like to introduce you to a butt-kicking artist named Ben Dewey. Go to MySpace Dark Horse Presents for this month’s issue featuring our story, BLIGHTER (click the link at top right). And you know I wouldn’t send you to MySpace without good reason. Enjoy the free comic!

Today in shops: The conclusion of X-MEN VS. AGENTS OF ATLAS 2! And that leads right into another book on shelves today, ASSAULT ON NEW OLYMPUS (Incredible Hercules) where the Agents take what the goddess Aphrodite has to dish out.

And the collection of my short n sweet run on EXILES is out today, if you never read that. Charge into a comics store now!

I’m sorry, I just can’t get enough of this picture of Alan Moore and the hip-hop kids. I cut the other old guy out at left so it just looks like Moore is a Rubinesque music producer.

At least give me points for the play on Rubenesque.

Oh hey look, I still have a website! Promise I’ll be putting more into this soon, after some deadlines are beaten senseless. In the meantime, I want to link to the Hero Initiative’s first round of eBay auctions featuring the WOLVERINE: WEAPON X blank covers that many comics artists (and me) have contributed to. I can’t find my original scan now, but if you go to the auction you’ll see Wolverine fighting dinosaurs in the Savage Land. A very worthy cause benefiting earlier generations of comics creators, hope you can find something there that needs to come home. And since this is a charity, I’m pretty sure you can deduct it from your taxes.

I think the reason I haven’t been posting lately is because I have SIX BOOKS coming out from Marvel in January that need to get done NOW! Agents of Atlas readers, notice that there are FOUR separate titles with the team (well, one is Bob only) in them too. Order accordingly.

THUNDERBOLTS #140
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA
Cover by FRANCESCO MATTINA
Thunderbolts vs. Agents of Atlas—round 2! The hunt down in the swamp comes to a head when one of the T-Bolts ends up dead! There’s not going to be much time to cope either, because Norman Osborn needs his team of killers ready for a final mission—and this is what he’s been saving them for!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

MARVEL BOY: THE URANIAN #1 (of 3)
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by FELIX RUIZ
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
A young man has travelled billions of miles through space in a rocket to help our world. But is Earth of the 1950’s ready for a new super hero? Before he became the dark figure the Agents of Atlas call The Uranian, Bob Grayson raced through the skies as Marvel Boy! From the critically acclaimed writer of AGENTS OF ATLAS and FALL OF THE HULKS: ALPHA comes this all-new look back at one of Marvel’s first heroes!
48 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

AVENGERS VS. ATLAS #1 (of 4)
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by GABRIEL HARDMAN
Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS
Variant Cover by GABRIEL HARDMAN
Spacetime is being selectively eroded by an unknown force. To stop the effect, the Agents of Atlas seek the help of the Avengers- and find a much earlier version of the team than they expected: Captain America, Iron Man, Wasp, Giant-Man and Thor are together again, with the atomic wildcard THE HULK!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

INCREDIBLE HERCULES #140
Written by GREG PAK, FRED VAN LENTE & JEFF PARKER
Penciled by RODNEY BUCHEMI & GABRIEL HARDMAN
Cover by ALEX GARNER
“ASSAULT ON NEW OLYMPUS,” Part 3 (of 4)
Of all the giants, gods and monsters Hercules and his team of New and Mighty Avengers have faced in their battle through New Olympus, none may be as formidable as HEPHAESTUS, creator of the immortals’ fearsome war engines! With what fearsome device will he try to ensnare and destroy the Hercules/Amadeus Cho team, which has reformed at last — only to meet their doom? Find out as the New York Times Best-Selling creative team lead Herc on his biggest adventure yet! Plus: as the Agents of Atlas push into the stronghold of the Olympus group, Aphrodite decides to take matters into her own hands in Godmarked Part 3!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

FALL OF THE HULKS: RED HULK #1 (of 4)
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by CARLOS RODRIGUES
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS & CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
FALL OF THE HULKS continues in this all-new series! What secrets will be revealed? What plans has the RED HULK been hiding from everyone? And what does all of this have to do with the COSMIC HULK robot!? Don’t miss this thrilling first chapter by JEFF PARKER (Agents of Atlas, The Hood) and CARLOS RODRIGUES (Thunderbolts)!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

SPIDER-MAN 1602 #4 (of 5)
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by RAMON ROSANAS
Cover by MICHAEL GOLDEN
FROM THE BESTSELLING MINISERIES ORIGINALLY CREATED BY NEIL GAIMAN! Peter travels to Venice in search of his new love, but instead finds that Osbourne is still alive…and more dangerous than before. Thanks to the hellish lab of Octavius, this century now has a Green Goblin – bent on revenge!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

AND a hardback collection…

AGENTS OF ATLAS: TURF WARS PREMIERE HC
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by GABRIEL HARDMAN, CARLO PAGULAYAN, DAN PANOSIAN & PAUL RIVOCHE
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Disturbing visions plucked from the malignant mind of Norman Osborn lead the intrepid Agents to the darkest depths of the Atlantic Ocean, where Namora must have words with her infamous cousin — the Sub-Mariner! Then, The Agents of Atlas find themselves racing around the world to rescue their leader! Jimmy Woo and M-11 find themselves under the talons of the most terrible power in China…the deadly- and beautiful- JADE CLAW! Plus: the Atomic Age heroes meet the original gamma ray giant and learn the meaning of HULK SMASH!!! Collecting AGENTS OF ATLAS #6-11.
144 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4276-8
Trim size: standard

Of course, I’m not even mentioning that an issue of UNDERGROUND will be out in January as well, I’ll talk about that tomorrow when Underground #2 hits shelves.

Which looks awesome, is what.

If you’re in the area, Steve Lieber and I are heading to the Baltimore Comic-Con tomorrow. I’m not sure where I’ll be sitting most of the time, but for panels I’ll be at the Image one at 1:00 and Mondo Marvel at 4:00 on Saturday. We’ll have plenty of UNDERGROUND #1 at the table (whereever that is) and I’ll have the latest AGENTS OF ATLAS hardbacks, various Marvel comics and copies of THE INTERMAN, if there’s someone in America I haven’t sold that to yet.

Bring things for me to sign! I may even do some commissions, heck. See you there…