Marvel is pleased to announce that the long-running and much loved Wolfpack series will go giant-sized for its anniversary #300 issue. The special will also spotlight the return of original creators Larry Hama, Ann Nocenti, and Ron Wilson.
“We are all just ecstatic that the story of our young urban heroes has stood the test of time so well, even after the rough patch of the John Byrne years through the 90′s.” said Nocenti, who will be leaving her current contract with DC Entertainment in order to return to the book full-time. “I mean, time-traveling aliens, Byrne? Really?”
Continues fellow former Marvel scribe and editor Larry Hama, “Our story will begin as Wheels Wolinski finally graduates from community college with his degree in auto mechanics, only to find that almost every other member is wasted away on crack, thanks to the evil plotting of the Nine. His only hope is in former teammate Slippery Sam, who unfortunately has just been expelled from the Job Corps program over charges of loansharking.”
Wolfpack began in the mid 1980s as a way to show how normal people can be heroes too, regardless of ethnicity or handicap or whether or not Kyle Baker was inking artist Ron Wilson. The series went through a variety of creative changes, such as the afore-mentioned run by John Byrne where the team became futuristic witness relocation recipients. Even less popular was the Chuck Austen/Greg Land run of the early 2000s, in which the push for realism resulted in felony charges of stalking and trespassing filed against the writer and artist by members of the Hewitt Independent School for Girls in New York City.
Said Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso, “When I was first recruited away from Vertigo, my only demand was to keep this baby alive and well. Obviously, the hundreds of Wolfpack fanclubs all over North America have kept our numbers strong. I love these kids like my own, and we are all thrilled to see how drug-addicted, sexually-abused poor urban teens can still after all these years identify with drug addicted, sexually-abused poor urban teens.”
“I’m just glad to have a paycheck again, to be frank”, said artist Ron Wilson, who will once again be inked by the popular Kyle Baker.
Wolfpack #300, a $9.99 48-page extravaganza, will be on sale this August with a new cover by comics legend Frank Miller.
