If the world doesn't end in 2012, Marvel is going to have quite the year. At New York Comic Con, the House of Ideas told fans what they've got in store for the next year in the massive Marvel Universe. From the return of villains to team change-ups, the publisher is aiming to please all of its readers. Here were the biggest and best NYCC 2011 Marvel Comics news and coverage announcements.
Remender
takes over Secret Avengers
Rejoice,
fans of Venom and Uncanny
X-Force!
Rick Remender will be the new writer for Secret
Avengers,
and with a new writer comes a brand new team. Hawkeye will lead and
Captain Britain is joining the special operations squad. Beast, Black
Widow, Hank Pym, and Valkyrie were shown on covers, and an image released on Marvel.com today revealed the rest of the roster, including Flash Venom.
More
Cable details
We
know Cable is back and looking to put a bullet in the head of every
Avenger, but up until now we haven't been given any hints as to
why. We're told Cable is back from the time-stream (see X-Men:
Second Coming for
details,) and is under the belief there will be dire consequences if
the current Avengers aren't six feet under within 24 hours. We have
no clue what those horrible repercussions are, but X-Sanction is said to be "important
to what's to come."
Avengers
Academy vs
The
Runaways
It
looks like Marvel listened to the fans, because the major hit The
Runaways is
coming back. The Avengers
Academy moving
to California will result in them bumping heads with the inactive
team for a two issue story. And in related news, X-23 will join the
Avengers
Academy.
New
Thunderbolts vs Classic Thunderbolts
Writer
Jeff Parker's time-traveling team is going to bump into a few
familiar faces. It's new school versus old school as the brand new
roster of Thunderbolts face off against the original line-up. Parker
joked that seeing new and old Moonstone throwing down might be worth
the price of the comic alone.
The
Return of Sabretooth
The
man who made Wolverine's life a living hell (ironic seeing as the
runt was just there) is back for more. Victor Creed was
seemingly killed off when Logan sliced his head off with the m-blade
during Jeph Loeb's Evolution
(and even
appeared in Hell during Wolverine,)
but now the writer says the final issue of his story (Wolverine #55) has clues about how
the murderous villain will come back. Go re-read Evolution and see if you can spot the
bread crumbs, because I have no idea!
Storm
becomes an Avenger
The
weather goddess is going to join Marvel's top team. Storm will
become one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes beginning with Avengers #19. Ororo is going to be a
busy lady, seeing as she's now an Avenger, X-Man, and has a
marriage with Black Panther. Still, that schedule likely has loads of
free time in comparison to what Wolverine and Spider-Man go through
on a daily basis.
Phoenix
returns
She's
dead! She's alive! She'd dead! Who knows the real status of the
original X-Man, Jean Grey, but Marvel certainly made us wonder. The
title "It's Coming" was accompanied by a powerful image of The
Phoenix. Will she rise from the ashes once and for all, or will the
cosmic force take the form of a different individual? The saga will
begin in Point
One, a
massive issue Marvel says will kick off all of 2012's events.
Dexter
comic
America's
favorite serial killer is getting his own comic book with Marvel. The
publisher's Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada, teased readers
with the huge reveal. No details were given other than it will be
written by novelist Jeff Lindsay and it will be an on-going series
not directly connected to the TV show's stories.
