M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games
Cover art for theM.O.D.O.K.: Head Games trade paperback. Art byScott Hepburn.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
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	Scott Hepburn
Letterer	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 anAmerican comic booklimited series written byJordan Blum andPatton Oswalt and drawn by Scott Hepburn. Published byMarvel Comics,^[4] the series is atie-in with theM.O.D.O.K.Huluanimated series by Blum and Oswalt. Set onEarth-616, the series followsM.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 nemesisGwen 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 agraphic novel on May 20, 2021.

FromPatton Oswalt andJordan Blum, theshowrunners of theHuluanimated seriesMarvel's M.O.D.O.K., theEarth-616M.O.D.O.K. Superior reigns as the ruthless and brilliant leader of the terrorist groupA.I.M., regularly outsmartingsuperheroes 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, whileScientist SupremeMonica Rappaccini hires his nemesisGwen Poole to kill him.^{[8][9][10][11]}

• M.O.D.O.K. Superior – Asupervillain cloned cyborg who has an oversized head and a stunted body.
• Monica Rappaccini – TheScientist Supreme ofA.I.M., who hires Gwen Poole to kill M.O.D.O.K. Superior after she previously killed him inThe Unbelievable Gwenpool.
• Gwen Poole – M.O.D.O.K. Superior's semi-omnipotentnemesis, a former employee of his from his 'Agents of M.O.D.O.K.' who isa girl from the real world transported to the Marvel Universe. Originally believingM.O.D.O.K.: Head Games to be a newGwenpool series of which she is the protagonist, on learning it is actually M.O.D.O.K.'s own series after killing him, she revives him before giving up her position as antagonist to Alvin Tartleton.
• Alvin Tartleton – The founder ofA.I.M. and the father of the original M.O.D.O.K.George Tarleton, from whom M.O.D.O.K. Superior was cloned.^[12]
• JOD1E – M.O.D.O.K. Superior's "wife", a programme in his system created by Alvin to keep his son's systems in-check, who was transferred over to M.O.D.O.K. Superior when George was cured and cloned, and is later given the body of aSuper-Adaptoid to exist in the real world, along with their "children" Melissa and Lou.

To promote theirHuluanimated seriesM.O.D.O.K.,Patton Oswalt andJordan Blum co-wrote aminiseries forMarvel Comics titledM.O.D.O.K.: Head Games. The comic quickly establishes the existence ofM.O.D.O.K.'s family from the Hulu series into the mainstream Marvel Universe, albeit as a trio ofSuper-Adaptoids that were copied from the hallucinations ofM.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]

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