NYCC’09: Marvel Day One

Here’s your roundup of announcements and items revolving around Marvel on the first day of the New York Comic Con 2009.

• The Old Man Logan arc by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s will conclude with “Old Man Logan: Giant Sized Special”.
• Mark Millar is interested in telling more stories set in the Old Man Logan Universe.
• Young X-Men will end with issue #12, but New Mutants will begin in May.  Zeb Wells and Diogenes Neves will work on the new series.  New Mutants picks up where the 80’s series ended, and gives fans a look at how the characters turned out.
• The New Mutant team will consist of Cannonball, Magma, Sunspot, Illyana, Xi’an, and Dani Moonstar.
• No word on who the villain will be in the first New Mutants story arc, but it will be a classic villain.
• Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu will write Dark Wolverine, which will hit stores in June, which will feature Daken in the lead role.
• Cyclops will send a team Back to the Future to find out what has happened to Cable in the ongoing Messiah War.
• There’s a new redhead in Scott Summers life, and it has to do with a certain young child Cable is dealing with in the future.
• Nightcrawler is quitting the X-Men
• Don’t worry, there isn’t going to be an X-Men weekly series.  There are plans for X-Men Forever – a bi-weekly series by Chris Claremont and Tom Grummett.
• If you are in France, you’ll be able to find an original X-Men graphic novel written by Chris Claremont.  eBay, here we come!
• Wolverine and Domino team up in X-Force: Sex & Violence – arriving in late 2009.
• Christos Gage and Jay Faerber are working on an online-only series called War of Kings: Warriors running May through July on the Marvel site.
• Guardians of the Galaxy #11 and #12 will ship bi-weekly.
• Groot, Rocket Raccoon, Havok, and Rachel Grey are the New Guardians?
• War of Kings: Ascension runs May-August.
• Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham will be the new Fantastic Four creative team once Millar and Bryan
• Hitch wrap up their arc in September.
• Dale Eaglesham has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel and his debut work will be an eight-page back up story in Amazing Spider-Man.
• Dark Reign: Young Avengers will be a five issue mini-series beginning in May.
• Other Dark Reign titles include:
  • Dark Reign: The Hood
  • Dark Reign: Zodiac
  • Dark Reign: Mr. Negative
  • Dark Reign: Anti-Venom
  • Dark Reign: Fantastic Four
  • Dark Reign: Hawkeye
  • Dark Reign: Elektra
  • There are probably more, just look at the extensive number of titles from Marvel and put a Dark Reign tag in front of them.
• Captain Britain and MI 13 is not canceled.

This has to be the quote of the week:
“When we produce books that aren’t part of an event, there’s a significant drop-off,” Quesada added. “You vote with your dollars…. We try to give you the stuff you want to read. When it’s not successful, we stop publishing.”

I wonder what DC will say to that?

via Comic Book Resource and Newsarama