New Preview: Ultron Unleashed In Avengers: Rage Of Ultron OGN
By Nick Tylwalk
Can a robot truly feel rage? That’s an existential question I’m probably not equipped to answer, and even if I wanted to delve into it, I certainly wouldn’t be using Ultron as a test subject.
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Let’s just agree that this particular robot can get angry, which is why the Avengers often need to stop him from little things like destroying all life on Earth. Now imagine that he turns his wrath on Titan, where the Eternals live, and takes over the sophisticated computer core they’ve got there. That’d be bad.
So bad, in fact, that writer Rick Remender and artist Jerome Opena are assembling a team of two generations of Avengers to try to stop Ultron after he takes over an entire planet. They’ve also got the remaining Eternals to help, but even that might not be enough.
“The Avengers mostly contend either with the foes of their individual members, such as Loki, or teams of villains such as the Masters of Evil,” Marvel SVP, Executive Editor Tom Brevoort said in a press release. “But as a group, they have only two discrete villains of note: Kang and Ultron. So whenever you embark on a story featuring either of them, it needs to be a very strong and important story indeed. Avengers: Rage of Ultron is such a story, both going back to the formative days of Ultron’s existence, and also transforming him in a manner that can’t help but impact upon future stories. Plus, he’s a whole planet!”
This isn’t a first look, as Marvel has released some pages from this upcoming original graphic novel before, but with a certain movie on its way in May, all things Ultron help crank up the hype machine, and Avengers: Rage of Ultron is no different. Enjoy the preview and look for the book on sale in comic shops on April 1.