You’ve seen who WILL wield the shield… now are you curious who won’t? No? Well, allow me to entice you!
While we know that the obvious answer to that question is “everyone else,” Marvel has decided to release a humorous one-shot in order to showcase a little talent and poke fun at themselves. It seems that lately, Marvel has been REALLY big on publishing more humorous work and poking fun at their own practices (as well as others), and that’s exactly why Who Won’t Wield The Shield now exists.
Coming out on April 21st, this one shot will be released and will feature three highly amusing stories:
- The first story will star Forbush Man written by Jason Aaron, who promises that EVERYONE WILL DIE!
- The second story will star Doctor America and will be written by Matt Fraction. Fraction describes Doctor America as, “Dr. Stephen Rogers, transformed by the Super-Satan formula into the pentagram-bespangled sentinel of the arcane, Doctor America.” He will spend his portion of the issue fighting Richard Milhous Manson, aka the sinister Red Dick, and his genocidal assistant Bebe Rebeyonder.
- The final story arc will be written by Stuart Moore, and will star THE GOLDEN AGE DEADPOOL. What?! That’s right – ‘Wheezy’ Wilson, the Golden Age Deadpool you’ve never heard of.
I’m not going to lie – I wasn’t going to buy this book, and now I most definitely am. A book that is purposefully made to be a joke with talent like Jason Aaron behind the wheel? Count me in. I am all for silly comics by talented people, and those of you who have read Fraction’s work outside of Iron Man and X-Men (such as Five Fists Of Science and Casanova) know that he has a very odd but very good sense of humor. I’m betting this issue really will be pretty amusing. For the full humorous article, in which Moore, Fraction, and Aaron break down their roles, check out Marvel’s press release here.
