The X-Men 50th Anniversary event revealed: X-Men: Battle of the Atom introduces mutants from the future designed by Arthur Adams. Will Paul Cornell make Wolverine: Killable? A news packed Marvel X-Men panel at C2E2 in Chicago kicked off with more news about the dead X-Men and Avengers coming back in Uncanny Avengers.
X The Apocalypse Twins will use the death seeds to resurrect The Sentry, Daken, Banshee and Grim Reaper as the Horsemen of Death. Rick Remender teased a big Thor vs. Sentry battle, Wolverine vs. Daken, Rogue vs. Grim Reaper and Havok vs. Banshee.
X Red Skull (now with Xavier’s brain) will turn up in X-Men Legacy (now starring Legion, the Professor’s son.)
XWolverine and the X-Men #29 will be set 50 years in the future. Ramon Perez is leaving the book as artist.
X Brian Wood teased there’s one more member of his all-female team that will be introduced in the final page of X-Men #1.
Marvel revealed big changes coming for Superior Spider-Man at C2E2 in Chicago. Here are some highlights.
July will be Superior Spider-Man month with a new costume of the wallcrawler debuting in issue 14 by Humberto Ramos.
Miguel O’Hara (Spider-Man 2099) will appear in the series.
Venom (Flash Thompson) will fight Superior Spider-Man.
The Panel Reminded fans: Superior Spider-Man Team-Up by Chris Yost and David Lopez and Superior Foes of Spider-Man by Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber hit in July. (Team-Up will replace Avenging Spider-Man.)
Superior Carnage by Kevin Shinick and Stephen Segovia begins in July.
Scarlet Spider #19 will guest star Wolverine with Kaine and X-Man fighting ninjas.
Dan Slott praised Joshua Fialkov for his work on Alpha: Big Time starring Peter Parker’s one time sidekick introduced last year:
“Fialkov is a miracle worker. I did everything in my power to make Alpha the most unlikeable character EVER… and Josh has me LOVING him. They’re doing an awesome job on the ALPHA: BIG TIME book!”
Valkyrie (leader of Fearless Defenders) will guest star in Superior Spider-Man #8 with a new costume designed by cover artist Mark Brooks.
A fan asked about the status of the Sinister Six:
“Chris Yost has a long term plan for the members of the Sinister 6” Editor Ellie Pyle.
Editor Tom Brevoort announced there will be a follow up to the Spider-Men book but no date set yet.
Infinity begins this Summer! Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers and New Avengers have been building to the epic return of Thanos. Marvel’s top writers and editors shared news, art and teases of what’s coming in the Marvel Now to Infinity panel at C2E2 in Chicago. Here are some of the highlights:
Uncanny Avengers #10 in July by Rick Remender and Daniel Acuna. Remender confirmed the “return” of Sentry, Daken, Grim Reaper and Banshee, who will be the Horsemen of Death.
“The Apocalypse Twins take the corpses of these dead heroes and infuse them with Death Seeds, resurrecting them and turn them into Deaths–servants of Apocalypse,” said Remender, “This is going to mean nothing good for the super heroes but we want nothing good to happen to them.”
The panel turned to Secret Avengers featuring a team including SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson by Nick Spencer.
“We’re taking the concept of this off the grid team of Avengers in a kind of grey area,” says Editor Lauren Sankovich, “We’re putting them through the action ringer and the emotional ringer.”
“This book was a dream come true for me,” says Spencer, “There’s a lot of shady stuff going on in this new world and our heroes are struggling with how to deal with it. The fallout’s going to be pretty catastrophic for the entire team… so lots of drama coming soon.”
Spencer was recruited by Jonathan Hickman to co-write Avengers in the march to Infinity.
Kieron Gillen announced Young Avengers #6 is a one-off issue with artist Kate Brown, a UK artist that will focus on Prodigy saying “Prodigy is basically working in the equivalent of a dead end job and he’s wasting his talent,” and later the team will go on a cosmic backpacking trip.
Avengers Arena #14 courtesy Marvel
The cover of Avengers Arena #14 showing X-23 in an homage to a classic Frank Miller Wolverine cover. The first season concludes in a story beginning in #14. The story is called “Boss Level.” It’s all about who lives, who dies and who wins.
Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi are exploring the origin of the villain of Infinity in Thanos Rising.
Issue #4 hits in July and “It’s as sick and twisted and dark as you’d hope in the depths of your heart that it would be,” said Editor Ellie Pyle.
Thanos rises again in Hickman’s big event Infinity.
The Infinity Free Comic Book Day (out next Saturday) issue features a new 10 page story by Jonathan Hickman and Jim Cheung.
Infinity will be 6 issues total from August to November. There will be Prelude to Infinity stories in Avengers in August. #14 and #15 by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer and Stefano Caselli. Continue reading From Marvel Now to Infinity
The big event shaping the Marvel Universe right now is Age of Ultron. Heores and villains face the aftermath of Wolverine’s shocking event in next week’s issue. At Marvel’s Age of Ultron panel at C2E2 in Chicago Marvel creators teases what’s next as the second half of event rolls ahead and face fan questions.
Uncanny Avengers #8AU by Rick Remender and Deadpool writer Gerry Duggan will tie in to the current Uncanny Avengers arc and Age of Ultron as Kang takes out the Apocalypse Twins to do some killing.
In Fearless Defenders #4Au Phil Jimenez joins writer Cullen Bunn for a issue focusing on the new member of the team: Hippoylta, Warrior Woman.
You don’t have to go to Westeros to see dragons! Seattle’s EMP Museum invites you to their latest exhibit Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic featuring elements from The Hobbit, The Wizard of Oz and The Princess Bride to Harry Potter and Snow White and the Huntsman. You can take off on a fantastical journey to discover the inspiration behind this genre’s most magnificent creations.
See iconic costumes from television and the big screen including The Wizard of Oz, Xena: Warrior Princess, Labyrinth, and The Princess Bride; pet a dragon designed by Seattle Opera; sit atop the Iron Throne from HBO’s Game of Thrones; and witness original hand-edited manuscript pages from J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
courtesy EMP Museum
Now about that dragon…Of the 902 name ideas submitted 10 were selected and put to a public vote. EMP presented Adalinda, scaly guardian of the gallery!
Built by Seattle Opera Scenic Studios, Adalinda’s head is approximately six-feet-long and her “bite” would be slightly bigger than that of a great white shark. Her claws have a grasp of 18 inches, her tail is about the length of an adult saltwater crocodile, and if she were to spread her wings they would stretch to more than 36 feet.
Xena’s costume at EMP Museum, photo by ComicsBlend
The Opening Night party gave excited fans a first look at the collection, meet Knights in shining armor, enjoy a taste of cider, grog or meed and a photo op on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones.
Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic is now open at Seattle’s EMP Museum! While you’re there don’t miss Icons of Science Fiction and Can’t Look Away: The Lure of the Horror Film.
Nightwing is leaving Gotham City for Chicago! At the DC All Access Panel at Chicago’s C2E2 writer Kyle Higgins talked with fans about the new mission and new home for Dick Grayson:
“The idea is that Tony Zuco – the man that killed Dick Grayson’s parents – is still alive and living under an assumed identity in Chicago.” The high concept of masked heroes and villains all being outlawed in the city even as a new masked version Continue reading NIGHTWING in Chicago
Robert Downey Jr. plays the Armored Avenger in Iron Man 3 next week while The Secret Origin of Tony Stark begins in the Iron Man comic book. In other Marvel films like Captain America: The First Avenger we saw Tony’s dad playing a role with the U.S. military.
Kieron Gillen and Dale Eaglesham explores the past of Howard and Maria Stark. Some fans may worry that the upcoming arc will change continuity. Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso took on those concerns on Comic Book Resources.
“Let’s be clear about one thing: This story doesn’t totally change Tony Stark’s origin. It reveals a heretofore-unrevealed pocket in his origin that, shall we say, deeply illuminates who he is and his relationship with his mother and his father. It also introduces a major new character who’ll be very important to Tony’s future — I can’t emphasize enough how important. You will look at Tony very differently at the end of the story.
The Secret Origin of Tony Stark begins next week in Iron Man #9.
