UPDATED with news about a second Spider-Man book coming this fall:
Marvel gave fans a sigh of relief and jolt of excitement at Comic-Con as they revealed more new books coming in October as part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now.
During the Women of Marvel panel, the publisher confirmed The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl will return with a new volume by current creators Ryan North and Erica Henderson.
Blade will return in a new series with a teenage girl as the lead character by Tim Seeley and Logan Faerber. The famous vampire hunter known as the “Daywalker” is the mentor to his teenage daughter Fallon Grey, the new Blade.
Seeley (Hack/Slash, Grayson) explained his take on Marvel monsters and the next generation of monster hunter:
“My goal is to make the monsters scary again — the way they were to me then. I think, too often with modern horror the reader knows too many of the “rules” and that makes vampires and zombies less frightening. Blade is going against stuff he’s never seen before, and I want the reader to be afraid to hide this under their beds.” Seeley told Comic Book Resources.
“My take on Fallon is that she’s an “anti-Peter Parker.” She’s popular, well liked, and everyone around her thinks she has the future by the balls. But those kind of expectations come with their own stresses, and part of Fallon’s story will be dealing with what people expect her to be.”
Spider-Man/Deadpool marks the reunion of 90’s Deadpool team Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness. This was revealed in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends panel.
Kelly said, “Spidey and Deadpool have two very different types of humor” and wants to find the ways in which they complement each other, while still adding gravity to the story” during the panel.
Marvel’s final announcement of Comic-Con was Spidey, an all-ages, in-continuity book starring a teenage Peter Parker in his high school years by Robbie Thompson, writer of Silk. Earlier this month Marvel announced the adult Parker would star in a rebooted Amazing Spider-Man by Dan Slott while Ultimate Universe survivor Miles Morales is the new Spider-Man in a book by Brian Michael Bendis.
By Editor