Once again we’re combing through all the news and filtering it to the facts, announcements, and maybe a hint or two of what is about to come from the House of Ideas.
ALL THINGS AVENGERS
- New Avengers will be a major Marvel magic event (no, not the card game).
- Galactus will appear in issue #4 of the Avengers
- Red Hulk will be joining the Avengers with issue #7.
- Joe Quesada said the company has cool things planned for Cosmic Avengers by Abnett and Lanning.
- Spider-Man gets to be an Avenger because according to Brian Michael Bendis he is the heart of the Marvel Universe, with Captain America serving as the soul.
- Spider-Woman will also be joining the team.
- In case you missed it earlier, Joss Whedon is directing the Avengers movie.
BLACK WIDOW
- Jim McCann and Duane Swierczynski will work on a crossover story called Widow Maker.
DAREDEVIL
- There will be a new Man Without Fear after Shadowland ends.
- Yesterday Marvel teased Nova, today it was Gambit. I expect we’ll be seeing the artwork in the coming weeks.
DIGITAL COMICS
- Joe Quesada said the digital comic world was new to everyone and they were making mistakes and learning from them.
- For now, there won’t be many day and date releases from the company.
- The next announced day and date digital released book will be Ultimate Thor in October.
- Hit Monkey was released one week after the print edition.
MARVEL ANIMATION
- Upcoming projects include Marvel Anime and Avengers” Earth’s Mightiest Heroes that will premiere in the Fall.
- Marvel Anime will air on G4 in 2011.
- A lot of this panel featured voice actors Tom Kenny, Stan Lee, and Charlie Adler doing a trivia contest and giving away prizes.
- Astonishing X-Men Motion Comic will arrive September 28, 2010.
- Iron Man: Extremis Motion Comics arrives November 16, 2010.
- More Motion Comics are planned for 2011.
- Scarlet Witch and HERBIE will be joining the Super Hero Squad, and will be voiced by Tara Strong.
- Other new characters announced include
- Nebula- Jane Lynch
- Nightmare- Jim Parsons
- Nighthawk- Adam West
- Captain Marvel- Ty Burrell
- She-Hulk – Katie Sackhoff
- Thanos – Jim Cummings
RUNAWAYS
- The book is on hiatus right now, but the characters will be appearing around the Marvel Universe.
WOLVERINE
- Wolverine: The Best There Is will feature work by Charlie Huston and Juan Jose Ryp. It is a series that focuses on the future of Wolverine, and not his past. It arrives in the Winter of 2010 (or maybe 2011).
- The villain of the series will be a new character named Contagion who has no previous connection to Wolverine, and is describe by Huston as the “absolute opposite” of Wolverine.
- If you’ve already guessed that Contagion has some kind of disease powers, then you are spot on.
X-MEN
- The rest of the Marvel Universe will begin to interact with the X-Men, including in the Curse of the Mutants story arc.
- X-Men writer Victor Gischler said he wants to revitalize the role of vampires in the Marvel Universe. Marvel Vampires anyone?
- Wolverine and Archangel will be co-captains leading the Uncanny X-Force.
- The X-Men will be teaming with major superheroes and will go up against major villains in January 2011.
- Generation Hope arrives in November.
More news as we get to it!
14 Comments
when will that poster be available for purchase? i want it!
That is a great poster.
There are a few characters I don’t recognize:
The blonde between Pixie and Magneto.
The pink archangel-looking dude on the far right.
The guy with X-23 claws above him.
The metallic woman right below Pixie.
I see Cannonball but none of the other New Mutants. Still not sure what’s going on with that team.
@Navarre:
Dazzler: The blonde between Pixie and Magneto.
No Idea: The pink archangel-looking dude on the far right.
Dakken? : The guy with X-23 claws above him.
Mercury (from New X-Men): The metallic woman right below Pixie.
Who is the:
Blue girl next to Rogue.
Black haired guy next to Rogue.
Guy with Bowtie.
my guesses on unknowns:
blue girl next to rogue: is the female apocolypse girl in one of the previous posters they had
black haired on the other side of rogue: looks like karma or moonstar of new mutants
The black haired figure on the other side of Rogue doesn’t look like Xi’an or Dani to me. But I don’t know who it is. It’s a scary face.
Also, where is X-Factor (except for the tragicly old costumed Shatterstar)?
The guy with the bow tie is the old X-Men villain, Arcade, right?
Also, the pink archangel dude: From the color and triangular chest piece, I thought maybe Bastion?
Yeah, the Pink Angel thing is Bastian and the dude with the bow tie is most definitely Arcade (awesome). Who’s the girl with the X necklace just left of Wolverine and is that supposed to be Psylocke in the bottom left with the actual sword?
The girl with the X-necklace has to be Jubilee.
And she’s not “left of Wolverine”. She’s “above Kitty”.
Wolverine who? ;-)
I don’t get it. In the Marvel One-Shot a month ago, Dracula slain and another vampire usurped his throne.
Next week, Dracula comes back in X-Men.
My guess on the new Man Without Fear is none other than FOGGY NELSON!! What?! They can do crap like that with Jimmy Olsen, Snapper Carr and Rick Jones, why not Foggy?
Who is the girl between Cable and Rogue?
Is that the grown up Hope that Cable’s been protecting from Bishop for a while now?