Marvel Now

[JewishHobbit]

I wonder if X-men Legacy will get the axe?Rouge is supposedly in UA and Legacy is pretty much about her at this point.I'm thinking two or three X-men books are going to get the axe completely.I'm betting it's Legacy,Astonishing and Adjectiveless.

I'd love to see X-Men and Astonishing end, though I think I remember Liu mentioning long term plans for Astonishing. I don't want to see legacy end though... it's currently Marvel's longest running, uninterupted title, and that's sad.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Please leave Daredevil alone!

Thor lost his cape, replaced it with swords.

 

[Belvedere]

The thing that bothers me most about events is that there's always a status quo change as a result, and since they do yearly events the status quo lasts about 12 issues, then there's about 4-6 issues of event tie-ins, then the next status quo begins.

Seriously, I don't buy comics for a year of stories. Bendis is horrible with this. If you look at this Avengers run you can't actively point out who his Avengers are, they've changed so much. All you can say for certain is that Luke, Wolverine, and Spider-Man are New Avengers. That's the only real consistent thing he's done. Personally, I think he's finally nailed down his best team in the current New Avengers roster, but again, it lasted a year and likely it's going to be undone. It's annoying.

The short-termism of Marvel's lurch from one event to to the next is increasingly frustrating. It makes things seem frantic and lacking in any distinguished sense of direction or purpose.

Honestly, a year or two without an event that "changes everything forever", is that too much to ask for?

 

[JewishHobbit]

24 issues of unterupted storytelling is for the unimportant fringe books! (and Amazing Spider-Man, which has techincally been a fringe book since OMD)

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Please leave Daredevil alone!

Thor lost his cape, replaced it with swords.

Yeah. Don't mess with him now, he might throw a sharp object at you instead of, y'know, f***ing lightning.

 

[Lord Fanny]

Did anyone post this, got it from Bleeding Cool:

On All Star X-Men;Thus: All-New X-Men, a time-travel story with the original X-Men jumping to the present. We?re talking Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, Angel, and Marvel Girl. They?re teenagers. They?re wearing blue-and-yellow outfits. They?re seeing their older selves, and they don?t all like what they see.

Bendis is literally drawing the teenaged X-Men from a specific panel in the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby X-Men series, ?a moment where they?re at their most feisty.? And although he can?t talk too much about the mechanics that get the old-school X-Men into the present, he promises this is not a dream sequence. ?No Danger Room, no imaginary story. This is actually happening.? (In a statement guaranteed to calm at least some of the skeptics, Bendis swears: ?The space-time continuum is of utmost importance to me.?)

This sounds pretty interesting to me, especially with all the criticism about how militant and such the X-Men have become recently. Of course, it's written by Bendis, and I haven't really liked any of his mainstream superhero stuff, so...well, yeah.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Guys and gals, get ready for the original X-Men to be utter jerks.

 

[vindrow]

This has to be one of the worse Avengers line-ups ever, and some of those new costumes are cringe worthy.

And, if they are going to bring people back from teh dead or from the past then I want 616 Nightcrawler back, and not the stuffy priest version either.

 

[Lord Fanny]

Guys and gals, get ready for the original X-Men to be utter jerks.

Hey, maybe not, maybe they'll....

Okay, yeah, I got nothing really.

 

[The Overlord]

This seems rather pointless, DC got a lot of attention last fall because they were rebooting continuity, their biggest reboot since Crisis on Infinite Earths. With Marvel they aren't doing that, so its not as big an event as what DC was doing. This just seems like a marketing ploy, change the exterior, leave the interior the same. I don't think this going to get the same attention DC was getting last year.

 

[Sawyer]

John Cassaday drawing the Avengers excites me.

John Cassaday drawing these Avengers? Eh...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is that picture actually supposed to be an Avengers roster? I thought it was just a bunch of characters, meant to show that things are gonna be NEW and DIFFERENT and NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!

 

[Whiskey Tango]

lol, people complain that things get stale, then they complain when they try something new. never happy.

I think it sounds awesome, especially the merged team. I like that cap is finally standing up for mutants for a change. And what's going to happen when this Red Skull copy runs into Magneto? Should be a fun time.

Glad Jean's coming back too. Not so hot on the idea of the 60's X-Team coming to the future but it might not be bad.

 

[Spade]

lol, people complain that things get stale, then they complain when they try something new. never happy.

Everything that's new is automatically good? I'm all for change...good change. The kind that'll get me reading Marvel comics again.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Yeah. Don't mess with him now, he might throw a sharp object at you instead of, y'know, f***ing lightning.

He'll be throwing lighting swords.

 

[bored]

That isn't the Avengers line-up, folks. I initially thought it was the "Uncanny Avengers" team, but there's no Havok, who is confirmed to be on the team. They always do these group shots to sort of tease the characters that are part of their plans for this next phase of stories (remember Gorilla Man's placement in the "Heroic Age" teaser?).

I'm curious to see how Hickman's giant Avengers team looks.

Also, does Rocket Raccoon's placement mean "Guardians of the Galaxy" is officially relaunched? PLEASE?!

 

[Thor The Mighty]

Since when does Thor carry a sword? His hammer isn't enough anymore?

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

I'm in for everything cept Bendis' X-Men book, that premise just sounds horrible.

 

[bored]

Since when does Thor carry a sword? His hammer isn't enough anymore?

He doesn't wield enough metaphors.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Everything that's new is automatically good? I'm all for change...good change. The kind that'll get me reading Marvel comics again.

Everything that's new is automatically bad? I'd rather try something out first rather than writing it off the moment I hear about it. But whatever floats your boat.

 

[joshtylen]

Still trying to process all of this. More info at comic con I hope.

 

[CrimsonMist]

I guess that the Punisher event that Marvel's doing in October is a result of this? I imagine they're just going to cancel The Punisher and relaunch it as Punisher: War Zone. As long as Rucka's still writing it, i'll buy it.

However, I am curious as to whether or not this affects Daredevil. Hopefully not.

Don't really care either way for Nick Fury Jr. Especially when Ennis is writing a 13 issue series with the cooler Nick Fury anyway.

As it is, I don't really care about any of this titles being announced. If they really want to entice me, they can drop the prices to all of their books back to 3 bucks. Then I'll check them out.

 

[Lord Fanny]

Also, does Rocket Raccoon's placement mean "Guardians of the Galaxy" is officially relaunched? PLEASE?!

If the movie thing is true, which seems to be the case, I think it's guaranteed. But it's probably going to be Bendis.

 

[Hawkingbird]

I'm confused, theyre not changing the history are they?

 

[WolfCypher]

Hmph hmph...

When will I learn not to ever give Marvel the benefit of the doubt?
I though if/when Marvel was ready to retaliate to DC's New 52, they would try something different.
And like always, I give Marvel the benefit of the doubt and look stupid for it.
It may not be a "reboot", but it smells like it'll be close enough.

While they're at it, they might as well take this opportunity to take all their properties that have movies, and force all the movie-continuity into the comics full-time.