M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games | |
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![]() Cover art for the M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games trade paperback. Art by Scott Hepburn. | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Ongoing series |
Genre | |
Publication date | December 2020 – June 2021 |
No. of issues | 4 |
Main character(s) | M.O.D.O.K. Superior Gwen Poole |
Creative team | |
Written by | Jordan Blum [1] [2] [3] Patton Oswalt |
Artist(s) | Scott Hepburn |
Letterer(s) | Travis Lanham |
Editor(s) | Annalise Bissa Lauren Amaro Jordan D. White |
Collected editions | |
Head Games | ISBN 978-1-302-92490-4 |
M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games is an American comic book limited series written by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt and drawn by Scott Hepburn. Published by Marvel Comics, [4] the series is a tie-in with the M.O.D.O.K. Hulu animated series by Blum and Oswalt. Set on Earth-616, the series follows M.O.D.O.K. Superior as he begins having visions of his family from the Hulu series (ultimately revealed as glitched programmes in his head), going up against his nemesis Gwen Poole and the father of the original M.O.D.O.K. George — Alvin Tartleton. [5] [6]
The series was published across four issues from December 2, 2020, to April 28, 2021, [7] and collectively as a graphic novel on May 20, 2021.
From Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, the showrunners of the Hulu animated series Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. , the Earth-616 M.O.D.O.K. Superior reigns as the ruthless and brilliant leader of the terrorist group A.I.M., regularly outsmarting superheroes and his colleagues. However, when he begins to be haunted by memories of a family he never had (from the animated series), left unsure of whether he is losing his mind or there is something more to it, he begins investigating their origin, while Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini hires his nemesis Gwen Poole to kill him. [8] [9] [10] [11]
To promote their Hulu animated series M.O.D.O.K. , Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum co-wrote a miniseries for Marvel Comics titled M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games. The comic quickly establishes the existence of M.O.D.O.K.'s family from the Hulu series into the mainstream Marvel Universe, albeit as a trio of Super-Adaptoids that were copied from the hallucinations of M.O.D.O.K. Superior brought upon by a glitched program in his head. [13]
The four-issue miniseries began publication in December 2020, and concluded in April the next year, cover-dated June. [14] [15]
Issue # | Publication date | Critic rating | Critic reviews | Ref. |
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1 | December 2020 | 8.8/10 | 8 | [16] |
2 | January 2021 | 8.8/10 | 4 | [17] |
3 | February 2021 | 9.2/10 | 2 | [18] |
4 | April 2021 | 9.0/10 | 2 | [19] |
Overall | 8.9/10 | 16 | [20] |