One of the best items to come out of the “Mondo Marvel” panel is the announcement that the quirky and wonderful Agents of Atlas — comprised of characters from the 1950s Atlas era — will get an ongoing series beginning early next year. The team, which debuted in a 2006 miniseries, last appeared in Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust?
“I want to keep up the ‘modern pulp’ approach we used in the mini,” writer Jeff Parker tells CBR, “where sometimes you’re in an espionage story, sometimes it’s sci-fi, and it can easily go into mystery and horror very quickly. And we have much inner space of our cast to explore.”
Although Leonard Kirk drew the Agents of Atlas miniseries, he’s now working on Captain Britain and MI:13. The name of the artist for the ongoing is expected to be announced soon.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Awesome, awesome, awesome, AWESOME! I’d been waiting so long for more Agents of Atlas goodness and the SI one-shot story only whetted my appetite. I swear I was this close to submitting my own proposal for an AoA story, that’s how much I’d been anticipating their return.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Glad to see they’re giving this another shot. The miniseries didn’t exactly set the charts alight, but it WAS very well received by those who read it - and we’ve seen before that low-selling titles can sometimes generate enough buzz to get people interested in a sequel.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:45 am
They should use a slightly more (or greatly) exciting promo pic to pimp out this comic, that one above is very drab, especially to create interest in such a low selling series (though I doubt I won’t be reading this, or that it’d change the minds of the already converted).
July 25th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
ejulp, that’s not a promo pic, at least not from Marvel. It’s from an issue of the first series.
I would imagine that once they name an artist and start advertising the series, there will be promo art.