What happens when you put a mythical God in the same bar as a Canadian introvert? Well, you get two drunks battling it out for the affections of one woman. Or at least, that’s what happened in the back of a Rampaging Hulk Marvel Treasury Edition #26. Now after being a lifelong fan of the two characters, Frank Tieri has teamed with Juan Roman Cano Santacruz to tell Wolverine/Hercules: Myths, Monsters, and Mutants – out in 2011.
The story focuses on Wolverine and Herc up against Matsuo, the man who killed Mariko (Wolverine’s ex) and recently fought against Psylocke, and King Eurystheus and Achelous, the villains from Tieri’s Hercules series. It’ll be in the cracks of continuity and long before things like Shadowland, Second Coming, and Chaos War. Tieri also describes it as a buddy-cop type action movie comic, or “48 Hours as done by Ray Harryhausen.” As Tieri explains,
…King Eurystheus and Achelous, we bring them back for this. They basically go to Matsuo and say, “Hey, listen. We’ve got these common enemies. We have Hercules, you have Wolverine, they’re buddies, let’s join forces and take ‘em out.” So what King Eurystheus says is, “Hey, I know the burial places of all the greatest monsters and creatures and heroes and villains and warriors from Greek mythology. I know where they’re all buried. You, with the Hand, have the ability to resurrect people. Let’s combine forces, I’ll show you all these sites, you bring ‘em back. We’ll cause a lot of chaos and in the process Wolverine and Hercules get taken out”. Win/win for everybody.
We’re all big fans of the current Wolverine stories and Incredible Hercules stories (look for reviews of Chaos War from us on Thursday!), so I think it’s safe to say that we will definitely be covering this book come March 2011.
For more on the book, check out the (quite funny) interview with Frank Tieri over at Newsarama.
