C2E2: The Mondo Marvel Panel

[NightBeetle]

The Mondo Marvel Panel

Marvel Comics started out their traditional catch-all Mondo Marvel panel Friday afternoon at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo with a run of promotional teasers for their newly launched I Am An Avenger website and the motion comics version of Warren Ellis and Adi Granov's "Iron Man: Extremis" – but as fans filed in, it was apparent that the real show wouldn't start until panelists including Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, writer Jeph Loeb, writers Jim McCann and Marjorie Liu, writer Christos Gage, writer Jonathan Hickman, editors Alajandro Arbona, Nate Cosby and Tom Brevoort, talent manager C.B. Cebulski and Marketing Manager Arune Singh took the stage. And now that they have, CBR News is ready to report all the news to our readers LIVE! So keep refreshing your browsers to find out what's happening with the Marvel Universe and more! Brevoort took the ball to talk about the just-announced "Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier" saying that the espionage-themed book would tie into the origins of the super-soldier serum, the scientist who created the serum and would drive events that would lead into a major Marvel siting coming soon. Brevoort also confirmed that Dale Eaglesham would not return to "Fantastic Four" since he's drawing this book instead.

Editor Steve Wacker then appeared via video feed to finally announced Andy Diggle and Billy Tan's "Shadowland" a five-issue mini series. He called the book "a battle for the streets of New York. You're going to see a ton of heroes from Spider-Man and Wolverine to Luke Cage...some are fighting to keep New York safe, and some are fighting to keep it unsafe due to Daredevil's takeover of the ninja organization The Hand recently." He promised the series will drive the characters into compromising emotional territory, adding "Seeing these heroes on different sides and interacting with regular people will show a side of them we haven't seen in a while."
Art was teased for an upcoming "Marvel Universe Vs. The Punisher" before announcing "Captain America: Patriot" by Karl Kesel and Mitch Breitwesier, a mini series Brevoort described as "the lost story of the lost Captain America." The book will take place in the late '40s and follow the adventures of the man first tapped to replace Steve Rogers with tragic results.

The teaching lineup for Gage's "Avengers Academy" was revealed including Tigra, Justice, Quicksilver, The Wasp (Hank Pym) and Speedball of whom Gage said, "It's not monkey Speedball!" The writer added "He's trying to move past the horrible things he's been through as Penance, but he's going to find out it's not as easy as changing clothes." In fact, all of the heroes on the teaching team are facing down their past, from Quicksilver's Brotherhood of Evil mutants membership to Justice having killed his own father. Singh added that the goal for the Avengers line in the Heroic Age is so the company can say "every single book as a unique identity."
"You know you wanted Gorilla Man," said Quesada of the miniseries for the "Agents of Atlas" character moving into his own miniseries by Jeff Parker and Giancarlo Caracuzzo, which Cosby described by saying " Ken Hale killed a gorilla and then became on, so now there's a bunch of people that want to kill him so they can become gorillas."

Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee team up for "Thor: The Mighty Avenger" which Cosby called "A reimagining of Thor in an all-ages vein."
A series called "Ultimate Mystery" by Brian Bendis and Rafael Sandoval was announced which will be a follow up to "Ultimate Enemy" and continue to deliver "a really big change to the Ultimate Universe." Loeb spoke on his own Ultimate work teasing that issue #2 of "New Ultimates" with Frank Cho focuses on Cap and Valkyrie while in "Ultimate X" readers have already met Jimmy Hudson who is Wolverine's son as well as Karen Grant who the writer called "the second member of the non-team." In issue #3, the book comes to Chicago for the debut of the next new mutant – Derrick Morgan. "The aftermath [of 'Ultimatum'] is starting to bear fruit," Loeb added, saying the creators wanted to give something back to the Ultimate Universe and make it a place where stories could happen that would never happen in the Marvel Universe including Wolverine dying and staying dead.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Awesome news about the teaching staff of Avengers Academy. Gage finally pulled Robbie out of his Penance stupor, so hopefully he doesn't focus too much on the angst. I get that he has to deal with his time as Penance and the Civil War stuff, but I hope Gage brings his trademark sense of humor back. It is often a coping mechanism, after all.

The description of Gorilla Man's mini sounds absolutely ridiculous, which should be fun.

Thor: The Mighty Avenger sounds a bit lame. Basically "teen Thor." But if it exposes more people to Thor, more power to it.

 

[Iron Man]

I agree about the Avengers Academy staff. Good choices. I hope Gage writes Hank as well as Slott has.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wait, I just noticed that there's nothing in the quote about that Ron Lim Thanos pic up top. What's that aboot?

 

[Watchman]

Wait, I just noticed that there's nothing in the quote about that Ron Lim Thanos pic up top. What's that aboot?

Brian Clevinger's Avengers and the Infinite Gauntlet which is going to be insanely awesome.

Also, looking forward to Robert Langridge's Thor, Muppet Show has been great, and Kesel's Captain America.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, it's an out of continuity retelling of Infinite Gauntlet? Meh. I wonder if they're releasing it as an all-ages companion to The Thanos Imperative.

 

[Vartha]

hmmm I was kind of hoping for a Tales of Asgard ongoing. I can deal with What we're getting on Thor. More for my son to get more involved.

Liking Sif's head piece, I've always thought with the different variations it wasn't quite right. It seemed to mimik Thor more or less.

 

[iloveclones]

Oh, it's an out of continuity retelling of Infinite Gauntlet? Meh. I wonder if they're releasing it as an all-ages companion to The Thanos Imperative.

An all-ages version of a dude who is in love with Death and wants to kill the universe instead ponying up for some flowers. Next up: a Disney animated retelling of Scarface.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, that is some pretty heavy subject matter, although I suppose they'll focus more on the splashy cosmic superhero action instead of Thanos' deep and myriad neuroses.