Avengers Fairy Tales would be very unsurprising, especially since Marvel announced Cebulski was writing it months ago.

Oooh, burned, Randy.

IIRC, X-Men: Fairy Tales sold horribly, but also sold out. I got the trade and liked it quite a bit myself.

I thought the MK line wasn’t necessarily in continuity, except for the times they decide otherwise, which could explain the whole herald of Galactus thing.

Wow, thanks Marvel! That’s totally not confusing.

Yeah, I know.
I think ostensively the Marvel Knights line was originally for books with more “mature” themes, than their regular line, but not as “mature” as the Max line, which may have come later, and in any case making its purpose rather muddled.
Which is why, I guess, JQ announced awhile back that Marvel Knights line would be for outside of continuity, high profile limited series, except of course that some books do seem to be in continuity, so yeah confusing it is indeed.

Like you, I thought the art on “Spider-Man Fairy Tales” was visually arresting and very engaging; it conveyed a lot of character personality in every panel. Unlike you, I also thought the story was top-notch. It was fun, light, true to the spirit of fairy tales and had a moral. I think Marvel has put out another great all-ages title with this one (at least based on the first issue). I look forward to the other three. I guess there’s no chance of it being picked up as an ongoing title — I mean, how many fairy tales could work with Spider-Man “recasts”? — but it will be a fun ride while it lasts.

I don’t know about an ongoing Spidey Fairy Tales, but they did do an X-Men Fairy Tales and it wouldn’t surprise me to see Avengers Fairy Tales or something along those lines. So it might be more like a series of miniseries. And there are plenty of fairy tales to use, since they’re not only doing European tales but those from Africa and Asia as well.

I thought the MK line wasn’t necessarily in continuity, except for the times they decide otherwise, which could explain the whole herald of Galactus thing.

Wow, thanks Marvel! That’s totally not confusing.

This is totally off topic but what are some good “art of” books. I hear the art of hellboy is good but I haven’t read it. I always hear people hyping that sort of stuff but nobody names any specific books.

Any of the Art books Dark Horse have done are excellent, with Art of Usagi Yojimbo being my personal high watermark. Drink and Draw hardcover by Image is great. The Panel to Panel books by Dark Horse on Aliens/Predator and Star Wars are really good if you’re into those properties. Process Recess, the art of James Jean, by Adhouse, is fantastic.

That’s off the top of my head. A lot of artists have sketchbooks that they do and you can pick up off their websites, and they’re almost always worth the cash. Do a Google search for your favorite artist and see if they’ve got a website, odds are good they might have an art book they sell.

Dear lord, even Ron Marz might look at Requiem and think, “Wow, that’s boring.”

Wait, no he wouldn’t. This IS Ron Marz we’re talking about.