So Marvel has decided it’s time once again to reinvent their line of comics, as they now seem to do annually. After last years’ SECRET WARS, the Marvel Universe was “changed forever” and it resulted in the ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT MARVEL. This year’s big event is CIVIL WAR II that has already led to the (SPOILERS AHEAD!) deaths of James Rhodes and Bruce Banner. The new initiative is called MARVEL NOW.
Marvel has released their MARVEL NOW Preview book for their line and it includes new titles and creative changes for older ones. That being said, here is what’s coming starting in October.
AVENGERS #1.1 by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson. The promotional art shows the mid Sixties lineups featuring Captain America, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Giant Man and the Wasp.
CHAMPIONS #1 by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos. Marvel is touting this as the classic
IMPULSE team being back together again. It features the next generation of heroes in the form of Nova, Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales Spider Man, Totally Awesome Hulk, the time displaced Cyclops, and Vision’s daughter Viv.
OCCUPY AVENGERS #1 by David Walker and Gabriel Walta. The rallying cry is “Taking Back Justice” and it looks like Hawkeye and every day Americans.
AVENGERS #1 by Mark Waid and Mike Del Mundo. Promotional art shows a team led by Vision that features Sam Wilson Captain America, Jane Foster Thor, an Iron Man, the new Wasp and what appears to be Hercules.
U.S. AVENGERS #1 by Al Ewing and Paco Medina. The promotional art is a bit confusing as we have a team that has a female Captain America, the HEROES REBORN female Bucky, Thunderbolt Ross as Red Hulk, a female Iron Man and Cannonball.
ULTIMATES2 #1 by Al Ewing and Travel Foreman. Captain Marvel and Black Panther lead a reborn space team.
GREAT LAKES AVENGERS #1 by Zac Gorman and Will Robson. The legendary team is back. I’m curious to see what Will Robson’s art looks like, as the promotional art is by Mike and Laura Allred.
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Stefano Caselli. Tony Stark is gone and Riri Williams is the new Iron Man
INFAMOUS IRON MAN #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. Here is what happens when you let a transformed Victor Von Doom in the suit.
CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 by Margaret Stohl and Ramon Rosanas. Following CIVIL WAR II, half the world thinks Carol Danvers is a hero while the other half sees her as an evil tyrant.
HAWKEYE #1 by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero. Clint Barton is off on his Occupy Avengers gig, so the female Hawkeye gets the lead in the book.
JESSICA JONES #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos. Here’s something to be excited about. The classic ALIAS team is back on the character they made famous. Expect this to be a big hit because of the new fans that discovered her through the Netflix series.
THE UNSTOPPABLE WASP #1 by Jeremy Whitley and Elsa Charretier. This ain’t your father’s Wasp and with art by DC alumni Charretier, it’s sure to feel an awful lot like STARFIRE.
DOCTOR STRANGE & THE SORCERERS SUPREME #1 by Robbie Thompson and Javier Rodriguez. Doctor Strange, along with Merlin, the Ancient One, Wiccan, and more are trying to keep the fabric of time from unraveling.
THE UNWORTHY THOR #1 by Jason Aaron and Olivier Coipel. With Aaron handling the adventures of Jane Foster in THE MIGHTY THOR, he is letting what appears to be the classic Thor run wild in this title.
KINGPIN #1 by Matthew Rosenberg and Ben Torres. Coming out of his limited CIVIL WAR II series, Wilson Fisk is poised to take his rightful place again.
BULLSEYE #1 by Ed Brisson and Guillermo Sanna. Everyone’s favorite assassin for hire is back in his own series.
IRON FISTS #1 by Kaare Andrews and Afu Chan. Have no fear: POWER MAN & IRON FIST is still going on. But Danny Rand has a new protégé and this title showcases it.
CAGE #1 by Genndy Tartakovsky. The other half of the Heroes for Hire team gets his own title. This is being handled by the creator of DEXTER’S LABORATORY, so anything could happen in this four-issue mini-series.
GAMORA #1 by Nicole Perlman and Marco Checchetto. The dealiest woman in the galaxy gets her own title. I don’t know how good it’s going to be, but Checchetto’s art looks amazing!
STAR-LORD #1 by Chip Zdarsky. The guy behind HOWARD THE DUCK AND JUGHEAD lends his own unique stamp to the former head of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Promotional art is by Ramon Perez, but that doesn’t mean Perez is the final artist.
ROCKET RACCOON #1 by Matthew Rosenberg. While the furry hero has his own title, he apparently is in the same place as STAR-LORD: David Nakayama provided the promotional art but no regular artist has been named.
MOSAIC #1 by Geoffrey Thorne and Khary Randolph. Professional basketball player Morris Sackett gains powers at the cost of his own body, becoming the newest of Inhumans whether he likes it or not.
DEATH OF X #1 by Jeff Lemire, Charles Soule and Aaron Kuder. This four-issue mini-series tells the story of what happened eight months ago that set the X-Men and the Inhumans against each other.
DEADPOOL BACK IN BLACK by Cullen Bunn and Salvador. This five-issue mini-series tells the story of how the original alien symbiote from SECRET WARS in 1984 bonded with Deadpool.
DEADPOOL: TOO SOON? #1 by Joshua Corin and Todd Nauck. It’s another mini-series for this Merc with a Mouth as he tries to keep an unknown assassin from killing off Squirrel Girl, Rocket Racoon, Groot. Howard the Duck, Ant Man, and The Punisher.
THANOS #1 by Jeff Lemire and Mike Deodato. While I think most readers have had their fill lately of Thanos, I am excited about it because of the creative team. It will look great and Lemire is on and off, so it could either be great or meh!
THE CLONE CONSPIRACY #1 by Dan Slott and Jim Cheung. Here’s the scoop: The Jackal is back from the dead and that means Spider Man could be visited by many more old friends and enemies in this five issue mini-series.
THE PROWLER #1 by Sean Ryan and Jamal Campbell. The Prowler is working for The Jackal and a reborn Madame Web is in the middle of the mix too.
VENOM #1 by Mike Costa and Gerardo Sandoval. Venom is no longer a space knight and is back on Earth. Is he in a good space or a bad one?
AMAZING SPIDER MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS #1 by Gerry Conway and Ryan Stegman. Coming out of the hit mini-series from SECRET WARS, Conway and Stegman gives us a Spidey book featuring his wife and daughter.
SLAPSTICK #1 by Reilly Brown, Fred Van Lente and Mike Norton. Another Deadpool spinoff.
SOLO #1 by Gerry Duggan, Geoffrey Thorne and Paco Diaz. James Bourne is launching his one man war on terror here and now.
FOOLKILLER #1 by Max Bemis and Dalibor Talajic. He’s back, even if he is a different Foolkiller.
Also listed for October and beyond releases are the following existing series: BLACK PANTHER, BLACK WIDOW, CAPTAIN AMERICA: SAM WILSON, CAPTAIN AMERICA: STEVE ROGERS, CAPTAIN MARVEL, DAREDEVIL, DEADPOOL & THE MERCS FOR MONEY, DOCTOR STRANGE, TOTALLY AWESOME HULK, THE MIGHTY THOR, MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR, MOON KNIGHT, MS. MARVEL, PATSY WALKER A.K.A. HELLCAT!, POWER MAN & IRON FIST, PUNISHER, SILK, SILVER SURFER, SPIDER-GWEN, SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN 2099, SPIDER-WOMAN, SQUADRON SUPREME, THUNDERBOLTS, UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL, THE UNBELIEVABLE GWENPOOL, UNCANNY AVENGERS, and UNCANNY INHUMANS,
The following titles are NOT listed in the MARVEL NOW Preview book, although they are in Marvel’s October solicitations: AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D., AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, DEADPOOL, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, NEW AVENGERS, VISION(ending with issue #12), A-FORCE, MOCKINGBIRD, ALL-NEW, ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS, THE ASTONISHING ANT-MAN, SCARLET WITCH, SPIDER-MAN/DEADPOOL, SPIDEY, CARNAGE, VENOM: SPACE KNIGHT, NIGHTHAWK, X-MEN ’92, OLD MAN LOGAN, ALL-NEW X-MEN, EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN, UNCANNY X-MEN, and ALL-NEW WOLVERINE. Completely missing is DRAX.It will be an interesting time this Fall.
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