Major announcements at C2E2 from Marvel at the Next Big Thing panel including more Guardians of the Galaxy books and creative team changes on fan-favorite books:
The publisher is bringing back the Young Guns initiative focusing on artists to watch. The All-New Young Guns are Sara Pichelli, Valerio Schiti, Nick Bradshaw, Mahmud Asrar and Ryan Stegman.
“We’ve got some heavy stuff coming up and there’s this new character that’s going to have some big ramifications with the story,” said Wolverine and the X-Men artist Mahmud Asrar. Continue reading MARVEL NEXT BIG THING At C2E2
Some of Marvel’s fan favorite creators delivered some big news and (kinda) answered some burning questions in the Marvel: Next Big Thing panel at Emerald City Comicon.
Here are some quick hits:
Captain Marvel will crossover with Avengers Assemble kicking off with a one shot called Avengers: Enemy Within #1 all by Kelly Sue DeConnick in May.
FF: What happens when Goth kids join the Future Foundation? I think that was a teaser and not a joke but the rapid-fire wit of Matt Fraction you never know! He did confirm he just wrapped a Medusa centered issue.
Hawkeye: Fraction will unleash assassins on the Avenging Archer, we’ll meet his “loser brother” and see Clint Barton on vacation.
Morbius: Joe Keatinge said Spectacular Spider-Man will guest star in issues 6 and 7.
Deadpool: Gerry Duggan said issue 7 will be a stand-alone issue and Wade an Tony Stark will cross paths.
Ultimates: Sam Humphries teased the birth of the West Coast Ultimates! The team roster introduces Ultimate versions of Wonder Man, Tigra, Vision, Black Knight and Quake.
Uncanny X-Force will have a showdown with Bishop in the subways under Los Angeles. Humphries said he’ll reveal where the time-lost, rogue X-Man has been then Fantomex times three! Then Humphries a big major villain that longtime X-Men fans will be familiar with
Indestructible Hulk: Mark Waid revealed how a one-shot with Walt Simonson turned into a major arc with the Green Goliath and Thor fighting Frost Giants. Later Waid addressed the degrees of rage you might get from when the Hulk…Hulks out!
“The Hulk you during that transformation is dependent on Banner’s mental state at the time when the transformation happens. So sometimes you get cookie monster hulk, sometimes you get a whirling cyclone of death, and you never know which one you’re gonna get…Banner. I could write Banner the rest of my life. He’s an untapped well of potential, that guy.”
A little more news at the C2E2 Marvel Next Big Thing panel about the upcoming Captain Marvel series. Kelly Sue DeConnick will helm the new series starring Carol Danvers with art by Dexter Soy and cover by Ed McGuiness.
In issue #2 DeConnick will introduce the Banshee Squadron- which sure sound like villains. DeConnick said her pitch for the new series was “Carol Danvers as Chuck Yeagher” and focus on her as a pilot so may these are high-flying female threats or allies to the former Ms. Marvel. In the panel the writer likened them to a new school Howling Commandos.
“I love Mystique so much,” was DeConnick’s response when a fan asked if the mutant shape-shifter would appear.
