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Top 5 for 12/28/11

Secret Avengers #20 courtesy Marvel.com

Secret Avengers #20 The Avengers are all dead except Black Widow? The secret agent is trapped in the past on a secret mission to save her teammates

Avengers: Children’s Crusade #8 Death of a Hero? The Young Avengers fight their lifelong heroes to the death and find themselves on the bad side of Scarlet Witch’s reality warping powers.

Uncanny X-Men #4 Mister Sinister’s manipulation of the Dreaming Celestial could mean a nightmare for everyone on Earth. The immortal Space Gods are coming to render their devastating judgement on humanity.

Teen Titans #4 No kiss at midnight on New Year’s Eve for this couple! Wonder Girl versus Superboy in Times Square. Can Red Robin and his brand new teen heroes save Wonder Girl in time?

Roots of the Swamp Thing Scott Snyder’s new series is smash hit. Now you can creep out with this blast from the past. Experience the tales the made Swamp Thing a fan favorite from his debut in House of Mystery to Swamp Thing #1-13 featuring art by the legendary Berni Wrightson.

Who Will Assemble the Avengers?

Avengers #500 cover courtesy Marvel.com

  Who will take over the Avengers franchise once Brian Michael Bendis moves on? A fan asked Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso on today’s Axel-In-Charge on Comic Book Resources.

  “We have a plan…” Alonso responded, ” Let’s just say the Avengers franchise will be in excellent hands. As for Brian, if you’re a fan of his work, you won’t believe what he’s writing next for us. My lips are sealed.”

Speculation:

  Could Matt Fraction inherit the Avengers franchise? Fraction’s era on Uncanny X-Men was phenomenal and he’s been steering Iron Man and Thor’s solo books. Could his current Defenders run be leading up to a takeover of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

Avengers Versus X-Men courtesy Marvel.com

  If Avengers Versus X-Men and the return of the Phoenix lead to the destruction and rebirth of the X-Men – could we see an Age of Bendis for the Marvel’s mutants?

 

Top 5 Picks December 21, 2011

X-Men Legacy #260 cover courtesy Marvel Comics

X-Men Legacy #260 The X-Men are divided. Magneto chooses Cyclops. Gambit chooses Wolverine. If Rogue survives her mission to save a lost young mutant, who will she follow. This is Mike Carey’s final X-Men issue after five and a half years of epic storytelling.

Justice League #4 Darkseid revealed. Cyborg is born. Aquaman attacks. DC’s big guns are meeting for the first time. Can they stop fighting each other in time to face the real enemy behind the conspiracy.

Batman #4 Batman digs deeper into the Court of Owls and discovers its dark ties to his own family. Scott Snyder keeps delivering intense action and a brutal secret history of Gotham City and the Wayne family that may trap the bat.

Birds of Prey #4 courtesy DC Comics

Birds of Prey #4 Batgirl joins DC’s female crime fighting force. Three bombs in the brains of three passengers on three trains. The Birds of Prey only know two names of the living bombs. How will they prevent the disaster. DC promises this issue will rewrite the rules for the team.

Christmas Memory With the Mutants

X-Men #109 courtesy Marvel.com

  I’m in transit today from Seattle to Eastern North Carolina to see Mom for the holidays. Before I left I wanted to share a special Christmas issue of the X-Men.

  X-Men #109 was dubbed a 100 page monster issue featuring a new story by Chris Claremont plus 3 older tales set around the holidays. While the previous stories are all action packed with Sentinels, a demon stalking Kitty and Gladiator versus Cannonball, the main story is very moving and reminds us how Chris Claremont poured a lot of heart into the team he wrote so many years.

 “Ceremonies” shows X-Men in a snowball fight, ice skating, enjoying a date, breaking up, giving each other comfort. Comics always deliver action, thrills and battles but once in a while, a change of pace issue like this one makes you remember why you’re cheering for X-Men to win.

  I may not be posting as much as you’re used to this week because I’m spending time with family and just chilling out but I will be back up to full speed after the holiday.

  As you unite with friends and family I wish you safe travels and a happy holiday.

Kitty Pryde Online

Shadowcat from Marvel Super Hero Squad courtesy Marvel.com

  One of my favorite X-Women is newest playable character in Super Hero Squad Online. On the Marvel site they are calling her by her former code name: Shadowcat, but she’s sporting the blue and yellow look.

The many looks of Kitty Pryde by David Lopez courtesy Marvel.com

  In Wolverine and the X-Men, Kitty is co-headmaster with Logan of the new Jean Grey School. Seeing Shadowcat takes me back to her blue/black look in Uncanny X-Men then Excalibur. The Shadowcat costume had a Black Canary but with a mask feel – and my favorite.

 

But one look that’s really scary for Kitty – pregnant and surrounded by Brood! Click here to see the preview from the February issue of Wolverine and the X-Men.

Jason Aaron’s Final Wolverine Arc

Wolverine #300 cover by Adam Kubert courtesy Marvel.com

  A Wolverine milestone, a new villain and creative changes from Marvel today.

Wolverine #300 will be the start of Jason Aaron’s final arc on the title and takes Logan back to Japan.

  “This is a good story to go out on. It’s the biggest Wolverine story I’ve ever done. Threads I’ve set up over my entire run come to a head. There has been a power vacuum in Japan since Silver Samurai died in Wolverine #1 and now everybody is fighting for it,” said Aaron.

  Wolverine #300 will introduce a new Silver Samurai, son of the original, but Aaron says is very different from his father. The milestone issue features the return of Sabretooth. Aaron says he has plans for the new Silver Samurai beyond this arc.

Wolverine #300 interior art courtesy Marvel.com

  Victor Creed’s comeback will be explained in another story by Jeph Loeb and Simone Bianchi – the same team that killed Sabretooth in a previous Wolverine series run.

  Aaron said his two big Wolverine in Japan influences are the Wolverine limited series by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller and Blood Debt by Steve Skroce.

Wolverine #300 interior art courtesy Marvel.com

  Yukio (Logan’s lover and the woman who inspired Storm to get a mohawk way back around the time of Wolverine’s almost wedding to Lady Mariko) and Amiko (Logan’s adopted daughter) are confirmed to be big parts of this story. 

  Adam Kubert, Ron Garney and Steven Sanders are the artists working on the landmark issue divided into 3 parts.

  Jason Aaron’s final Wolverine arc begins in January. Aaron will stay on Wolverine and the X-Men. For the entire presser click this link on Marvel.com.

  For movie fans – the next Wolverine movie is said to be based on the Claremont/Miller Wolverine in Japan story with the original Silver Samurai as the villain.

Wolverine #300 wrap cover art by Geoff Darrow courtesy Marvel.com

Avengers Movie Prelude Comic

Avengers Prelude Comic image courtesy Marvel.com

  A new comic book limited series will give fans a special look into the cinematic Marvel Universe. Marvel’s The Avengers #1 and 2 (of a 4 part series) debuts this March sets the stage for the movie event of 2012. The preview teases what exactly is The Avengers Initiative, insight into SHIELD Director Nick Fury and the agents of SHIELD. Chris Yost and Eric Pearson are writing with Luke Ross on art.

2012 is truly the year of the Avengers with Brian Michael Bendis ending his 8 year run on the franchise, the Avengers versus X-Men maxi series and Avengers Assemble by Bendis is a special series in continuity starring the Avengers featured in the upcoming movie.

Cable’s First Shot in AVX

Avengers: X-Sanction #1 alternate cover preview courtesy Marvel.com

  Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness bring Cable back with full impact in Avengers: X-Sanction #1. This time Nathan is not a father figure, freedom fighter or platoon leader. Cable is an effecient super soldier on a focused mission.    

  Nathan and Steve Rogers are two determined soldiers with brilliant tactical minds. The fight is big and physical but you get a sense of the strategy behind every move.

  I think you can get a sense of the battle strategies Captain America and Cyclops will execute in Avengers Versus X-Men. Cap may even learn something from Cable that could give him an advantage to beat Cyke – knowing when to make sacrifices.

  We learn how Cable survived “death” in Second Coming, see a blast from Nathan’s past who sets him on his new mission and learn why he must destroy the Avengers in 24 hours.

  The script is tight. The art is big, brash and bursting off the pages. The issue is one big giant teaser for the upcoming AVX but this first shot in the war in a fun yarn on its own.