New York Times best-selling writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and artist Neil Edwards are bringing a new version of Hercules to life in the Marvel U with their series Herc!

In this series, Hercules is tasked with a mission to take out the worst of the worst on the streets of the Marvel Universe. He’s coming with something new though: a mythological weapon taken from the arsenal of Ares.

Herc #1 drops Hercules square in the middle of the Fear Itself epic story! We have images from the first issue showing a grittier new Hercules that leaves the goofier Hercules from the old school Avengers days far behind.

Check out the pages below.