Tag: Marvel Now!

AVENGERS MARVEL NOW Begins

Avengers #1 courtesy Marvel
Avengers #1 courtesy Marvel

The Marvel Now is here. Two number one issue Avengers books arrive this new comic book day. Two very different titles for a very different reality in the Marvel Universe.

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes reassemble in the aftermath of Civil War II. We still have more chapters of the superhero showdown between Iron Man and Captain Marvel’s forces over the power of predictive justice but we’ve already seen some of the fallout.

It was just a year ago rookies (Ms. Marvel/Kamala, Nova/Sam, Spider-Man/Miles) joined legacy heroes (Captain America/Sam, Thor/Jane) for an All-New, All-Different Avengers.

The new kids are becoming Champions but a legend is joining up with Sam Wilson and Jane Foster’s team. Continue reading AVENGERS MARVEL NOW Begins

New IRON MAN Is IRONHEART

Invincible Iron Man courtesy Marvel via Wired
Invincible Iron Man courtesy Marvel via Wired

We know know the code-name of Marvel’s next generation hero.

Tony Stark’s successor as Iron Man will be a teenager girl named Riri Williams.

Marvel revealed her code-name (via Wired) will be Ironheart.

The 15 year old genius appeared in the current Invincible Iron Man #7 and impressed Stark after building her own armor

Ironheart will be the star of the relaunching Invincible Iron Man with Brian Michael Bendis still writing and joined by artist Stefano Caselli.

Bendis revealed how Marvel selected this code-name for Stark’s successor.
Continue reading New IRON MAN Is IRONHEART

DIVIDED WE STAND Is the Future of MARVEL NOW!

After this summer’s superhero showdown the Marvel Universe will be divided with new heroes, new teams and missing iconic characters.

After a series of Divided character teasers, Marvel revealed Divided We Stand as part of the Marvel Now! initiative coming soon.

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

Civil War II is underway. One hero is dead. The publisher promises more deaths are coming. Iron Man and the Inhumans are at war. The Inhumans/X-Men cold war is set to flare up. Tony Stark and Captain Marvel are ready to declare on each other.

Following the big event, the branding of Marvel NOW! returns with a new tag line: “Divided We Stand.” Continue reading DIVIDED WE STAND Is the Future of MARVEL NOW!

MARVEL Reveals New Hero MOSAIC

Mosaic #1 courtesy Marvel
Mosaic #1 courtesy Marvel

The puzzle pieces have come together.

Marvel starting asking who is Mosaic three months ago.

Now we know the new Inhuman behind the code-name.

Marvel announced Mosaic #1 first via Vulture by screenwriter and novelist Geoffrey Thorne and artist Khary Randolph. This new character will be part of the upcoming Marvel NOW! initiative.

We have seen now ordinary people have been turned into Inhumans but what happens when a celebrity becomes super powered? Continue reading MARVEL Reveals New Hero MOSAIC

MORE MISSING FROM ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT MARVEL NOW

Cable and X-Force #14 courtesy Marvel
Cable and X-Force #14 courtesy Marvel

Fans and readers have spoken. We left out some prominent characters from our first list of top heroes and villains missing from the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now.

After your suggestions and more digging here are more fan-favorites and Marvel mainstays who are MIA so far from this fall’s relaunch:

Cable and Hope! Nathan Summers has been an on-again, off-again hero since his 1990 debut. The son of Scott Summers from the future was last seen leading the latest version of X-Force saving his adopted daughter Hope (also MIA) from same techno-organic virus infected him as a child. The future leader of the war against Apocalypse and the messiah child that reignited the mutant race are not on any of the teams but don’t count them out. Continue reading MORE MISSING FROM ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT MARVEL NOW

WHERE’S KITTY PRYDE?

Legendary Star-Lord #7 courtesy Marvel
Legendary Star-Lord #7 courtesy Marvel

UPDATED July 14, 2015.

In today’s Marvel October solicits it’s confirmed Kitty Pryde is a member of the relaunched Guardians of the Galaxy.

Original Story:

One of most surprising X-Men missing from the list of All-New, All-Different Marvel Now books after Secret Wars is Kitty Pryde.

Kitty and Peter Quill’s interstellar romance was the heart and soul of The Black Vortex crossover between X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy. Just when the star-crossed lovers were about to reach a bold new chapter in their love story…the end of the universes happened.

Different versions of Kitty Pryde are starring different Secret Wars tie-in books this summer but the fan-favorite mutant half of #StarKat is MIA from this fall’s new books.

Where’s Kitty Pryde this fall? Here are our theories: Continue reading WHERE’S KITTY PRYDE?