On last night’s edition of G4TV’s ‘Fresh Ink’ host Blair Butler announced the return of Hercules to lead a new team of heroes in an event called ‘Chaos War’. The event is a five issue mini series written by the long running creative team of Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak, with art by Khoi Pham. The event starts this October.

The event will focus on an attack on Earth by the Chaos King and his army of alien slave gods.  Hercules will lead a team of gods and cosmic beings consisting of Thor, Galactus (!), Sersi, Silver Surfer, and Venus.  It’s also worth noting that Amadeus Cho appears in some of the preview art.  Butler also stated that the Incredible Hulk will unite the “the surviving members’ of his family to combat this new threat.

This story seems like it will play off some of the events that occurred the ‘Scared Invasion’ story line that happened early on in Pak and Van Lente’s Incredible Hercules series.  I’m just so incredibly happy that I’ll get to see the return of one of my favorite Marvel characters. Check out the video after the page jump to see some great preview art from the series and get the full details.

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