A year of Ghost Rider, LMDs turned and a Framework of a dark mirror world with Hydra in control and Grant Ward resurrected. All the Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season four story lines came together for an action and emotion packed finale. And that out of this world cliffhanger!
Agents of SHIELD season 4 cast courtesy Marvel
Supernatural and super scary technology threats weaved the season’s three arcs into the season ender World’s End. But what about that ending? What does it mean for Team Coulson and the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Continue reading AGENTS OF SHIELD Season Four Cliffhanger Questions
A big week for two of Marvel’s most beloved female heroes and the two women behind those characters.
Writers Tara Butters and Michelle Fazekas celebrate the start of the second season of Agent Carter and the launch of a new volume of Captain Marvel. They recruited the women behind the acclaimed Agent Carter television series.
Butters and Fazekas take over the new adventures of Carol Danvers after the departure of Kelly Sue DeConnick who transformation Ms. Marvel to Captain Marvel, inspiring the Carol Corps fan movement.
The X-Men go into orbit as a new creative team kicks off a new arc in X-Men #18. Arrow Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim and artist Harvey Tolibao wrap the all-female mutant team into an outer space mystery featuring the return of a classic villain.
When Deathbird shows up floating at The Peak’s door step…or airlock may be more appropriate…S.W.O.R.D. leader Abigail Brand calls in the Children of the Atom. Continue reading X-MEN #18 Review
Arrow Executive Producer/Writer Marc Guggenheim take over the all-female X-Men book this week and sends the team into orbit.
Deathbird shows up at death’s door at The Peak. Abigail Brand of S.W.O.R.D. calls in the mutants. It’s part of the new X-writer’s plan to take the Women of the Atom to new heights.
Logan got deep fried in Wolverine #1 by Paul Cornell and Alan Davis. It appears when this alien weapon of tremendous power gets into the hands of a regular Joe it turns a daddy dearest into a possessed daddy deadliest. Now a little kid is running around New York City with that super weapon. What will Logan have to do stop the reign of terror? We’ll have to keep reading to learn the origin of this weapon but Cornell delivered an ominous tease about the future of Logan’s solo book and this weapon.
When asked by a fan on Comic Book Resources if that weapon will have significance beyond this initial story arc writer Cornell responded:
Marvel’s biggest teams join forces one final time before they go to war against each other in Avengers Vs X-men. Kieron Gillen talks with Marvel.com about the significance of this 2 part Uncanny X-Men arc.
“It’s the final compare and contrast,” Gillen says. “It’s showing everyone involved as the greatest super heroes on Earth. It’s about showing how we hope they’ll never fight. It’s about showing why they’re going to.”
Earth’s first line of defense against aliens cracks. The S.W.O.R.D. facility, The Peak, fails.
“There’s a catastrophic failure aboard the Peak’s brig and all its prisoners are dropped,” says Gillen. “The main villain of the arc is actually UNIT, who I introduced in [the S.W.O.R.D. series] as a cross between CP-30 and Hannibal Lecter.
“Many [prisoners] explosively decompress. The ones who don’t, who fall to Earth—well, you’re talking about the sort of number of threats that would make up a year of stories if we were to tell them all. There are some elements of the approach that do remind me of S.W.O.R.D. That was a book which moved at enormous pace. For a story that’s only two issues, we manage to fit an enormous amount of actual story in here. If there’s one part of S.W.O.R.D. which crosses over well to Uncanny X-Men, it’s that. So it’s a case that there are so many things happening, the Avengers and X-men talk to each other [and decide] ‘If we mobilize and act together, we can pull this off.’”
Uncanny X-Men #9 courtesy Marvel.com
“It’s all about saving the world,” Gillen declares. “That’s all that matters. Generally speaking, Captain America seems entirely on the X-Men’s side. Cyclops is a little more cautious, but that’s just in his personality. The team-up works spectacularly. And then something changes, which, even if it doesn’t go to blows, really does show that the teams are in different places.
“There’s obvious tension in Cyclops having to be even vaguely in the same area as Wolverine,” he notes. “It’s at the level of a glance. The story’s mostly about the team in action and throwing them against the threats, and seeing what they can do. Do several people not like Magneto? Sure. But that takes a back seat. This is them all pulling together.
“Until they don’t.”
Uncanny X-Men #9 is out April 11th. It looks like Terminus was on board the Peak. I don’t think he’s been seen since The Evolutionary Wars back in the 90’s Marvel Annuals.
For the entire interview and more preview pages by Carlos Pacheco here’s the Marvel.com link.
