Fred Van Lente

As casually as some superhero comics approach death, it's good to see a freshly-revived Hercules will return to the Marvel Universe with a clear purpose: Rallying Earth's heroes in a war against a mad alien warlord and his army of alien gods...

Amadeus Cho finally got a chance to step into the spotlight with his own miniseries in "Prince of Power." Written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, with art by Reilly Brown and Adam Archer, the series concluded with its fourth issue this week and set the stage for the upcoming events of the "Chaos War" cross-title event...

There's gonna be hell up in New York City later this year, but two heroes will be teaming up to confront the situation fist-first. Spinning out of "Shadowland: Power Man and Iron Fist" comes Fred Van Lente's (Shadowlandless) "Power Man and Iron Fist" five-issue miniseries this August...

ZOMBIES AND DRACULAS AND ROBOTS (OH MY) - Marvel Zombies 5 #4 / The Death of Dracula One-Shot Unless you've been buried alive for the past decade you've probably noticed that various incarnations of the undead in fiction have experienced bursts of popularity in the last several years...

Reviving the Prince of Power, establishing a huge cosmic threat, uniting an unlikely team of warriors - it's all in an autumn's work for Hercules writers Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente and artist Khoi Pham. According to last night's "Attack of the Show" on G4, Hercules is set to live up to his functionally immortal heritage this October when he returns just in time to confront mad god the Chao

DC Comics' flagship heroes may be coming up on 700 issues, but Marvel's most merry mercenary isn't about to let a little thing like reality stop him from retaining the highest mainstream comics count. This August, Deadpool celebrates his 1000th issue (sort of) and Marvel's sparing no expense to help the anti-hero ring in the occasion...

As MODOK Month draws to a close, I think it's only fitting that we all take a moment to reflect on our personal relationships with the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. That's why I asked a handful of comics creators including Fred Van Lente, Jeff Parker, and Colleen Coover and to write short essays on the theme "What MODOK Means To Me...

Since his mainstream comics debut nearly five years ago, writer Fred Van Lente has been one of our favorite writers, climbing slowly but steadily to prominence by self-publishing books like the Xeric Award-winning "Action Philosophers" while simultaneously rising through the ranks at Marvel Comics, making his name first in the "Marvel Adventures" line aimed at younger readers,

As much as I dug Robert Kirkman's humorous continuation of Mark Millar's Ultimate zombie reveal in "Marvel Zombies" 1 and 2, I feel like the series really found its footing in volumes 3 and 4, when the mechanized Aaron Stack (A.K.A. Machine Man) harnessed the power of his inherent inorganicness to slay the undead...

ComicsAlliance's Chris Murphy reviews the biggest -- and best -- comic books hitting the shelves this week. MAYBE RIDING IN A CAR TRUNK ISN'T AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS IT LOOKS. PERSONALLY, I DON'T WANT TO FIND OUT -- Stumptown 1 Private investigators in fiction usually come in two varieties...