I don't buy hardly any new Marvel Comics these days. Most of the line I gave up on decades ago and my last hold out, The Avengers and some related titles fell off the list over a dozen years ago. But I still keep up a bit from time to time with what's going on, when I can figure it out since I know not so many of the new characters and Marvel Comics #1000 was an ideal time and ideal way to get a glance. The fact the book had artwork by some of my favorite veteran talents didn't hurt any at all.
Neat to see new stuff by talents such as Steve Epting, Alex Ross, Chris Weston, Ron Frenz, Walt Simonson and especially George Perez. The book's format was intriguing too, a single page for each creative team to address in some shape form or fashion a significant character or even from across the span of the eighty years. Now truth told some of the "events" seemed not really to rate, but still we get some fun and even at times compelling stuff. Jams like this rarely make much sense overall, but this one took great pains to relate the saga of a black magical mask that has apparently been worn and possessed off and on throughout the ages in the Marvel Universe. Nifty gag that actually allowed the book to at once reach to its roots and point the way forward in the collection's climax.
To check out the many many alternate covers see this link.
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Interesting that Allred's "1960s" cover goes with Clint Barton as Goliath II rather than Hawkeye....yet they show Hank Pym as Giant-Man in the "character box" in the upper-left corner, not Ant-Man as he's shown on the cover!
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One of the reasons I featured that cover was Goliath II. He might not have been Hawkeye, but he was pure Clint. He and the Vision do seem to be of a slightly different era than the rest, if it's intentional I cannot say.
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