Most Anticipated Projects of 2009

[CaptainCanada]

Sequel to the earlier "Best of 2008" thread, what are you most anticipating in the new year?

Some of mine:

- Daredevil's "The Return of the King" story; Brubaker went about two years without using Fisk, which is a good stretch for any writer of DD, now I can't wait to see him return to the stage.
- Whatever's going down for Captain America #50, which will presumably be big.
- Finding out what Hera and Athena's dueling schemes in Incredible Hercules are about.

 

[Themanofbat]

ASM #600

 

[Dread]

Dread's Most Anticipated Projects of 2009:

(As this is the Marvel forums, I'll just limit it to Marvel projects. Otherwise I'd be including stuff like INVINCIBLE or UMBRELLA ACADEMY)

- The Dan Slott/Khoi Pham run on MIGHTY AVENGERS starting next month. Sure, Hank Pym is wearing his dead ex-wife's dress now. But the art looks great and the roster looks even better. Dan Slott is a master of interweaving current and past continuity and history with his characters. Plus, the tone of the book, while not a comedy, should hopefully be a tad more upbeat than AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE, which is Slott's forte. After years of past writers bending the Avengers to their whim, here comes a writer who knows what they are and should be. In Pham, we get an artist who can draw both gods and heroes well. I'm counting down the weeks until MA #21.

- Abnett & Lanning's WAR OF KINGS, their second "space event" which seeks to include not only the space regulars in NOVA and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, but to rightly include the Starjammer/Shi'ar stuff as well as the Inhumans, who are in space now too. They're even getting Darkhawk, a former Marvel Trading Card "Rookie of the Year" (circa 1992) in on the action, after a guest stint on NOVA. The best events in Marvel for the last two years have been in space, and "DnA" look to improve on the errors in their first event, ANNIHILATION CONQUEST to produce a hit. **** Dark Reign; this is what I'm looking forward to. Vulcan's earned the inevitable ass-whuppin'.

- Seeing what Hera & Pluto have planning for Hercules in INCREDIBLE HERCULES. Awesome book.

- Seeing who exactly is this new menace that Bucky "New Cap" Barnes is taking on in CAPTAIN AMERICA as well as watching him settle into the impossible legacy he is trying to pay homage to.

- Seeing what comes of the roster changes as well as the breaks in time & space within GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.

- I'd say, "seeing something, anything of importance happen in THOR", but 2009 only has twelve months in it. That means about eight issues of THOR if we are lucky, and I sincerely doubt JMS will get off his narrative duff in even eight issues. If so, though, then hey, good. I want to see it.

- The return of THE AGENTS OF ATLAS.

- Everyone vs. Dracula in CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI-13.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

1) Mighty Avengers
2) New Avengers
3) Roger Stern writing a new Spider-Man/Juggernaut story

 

[Ikaris-Eternal]

I'm curious to see just how far Marvel's willing to take Dark Reign. I know, I know... I'm a junkie at heart But if they're going to call it "Dark" at least make it truly gut-wrenching.

War of Kings could be very cool.

curious to see where Willingham takes Fables now that the status quo has shifted.

Finale of Ex Machina

 

[Dread]

I'm curious to see just how far Marvel's willing to take Dark Reign. I know, I know... I'm a junkie at heart But if they're going to call it "Dark" at least make it truly gut-wrenching.

Considering virtually every event of theirs based on Earth has ended in an anti-climatic prologue for the NEXT event, especially as two out of four of them were written by Bendis, I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Ikaris-Eternal]

"Considering virtually every event of theirs based on Earth has ended in an anti-climatic prologue for the NEXT event, especially as two out of four of them were written by Bendis, I wouldn't hold my breath. "

i don't necessarily disagree with your assessment - i felt both Civil War and Secret Invasion were a little underwhelming at the end, but that is the nature of perpetual storytelling. you can't argue that the status quo is not changed after these events, though.

and that's the way these things work - Fall of the Mutants basically ended with putting the X-Men in Australia and Angel shooting razor feathers at people. They were setting up future stories.

But the last two have been pretty obvious in this tactic. to the detriment of the final issues of each. But the sales figures say to me that you're looking at perpetual "events" from now on.

Some of these are less traditional crossover and more a general tone - like The Initiative and Dark Reign, as opposed to Civil War, WWH, etc. But we've voted with our wallets, and events are what comic fans dig.

 

[GNR]

Cap and DD,I'm hoping Bru doesn't fall into the same lifeless melodrama that plagued Without Fear.

JMS' Thor.

Green Lantern Blackest Night

Flash Rebirth

Secret Warriors

Ultimate Avengers only because Millar on Ultimates again will be grand.

 

[Blader5489]

Finale of Ex Machina

Won't be until 2010, if the book continues its bi-monthly schedule.

Anyway, my most anticipated of 2009:
-Ultimate Avengers
-Captain America #50
-Amazing Spider-Man #600
-Thor #600
-War of Kings
-Incredible Hercules' "second season" (whatever that's supposed to mean)

 

[Silver Knight]

Anything Hulk and Son of Hulk.

 

[Kraven]

Captain America and Invincible Iron Man, two of my favorite titles. I'm interested in seeing what happens to Tony next, and am looking forward to more of Bucky as Cap. Other than that, I am anticipating very little.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

ASM #600

Thor #600

New Avengers

Mighty Avengers

Avenger Initiative

Dark Reign/Dark Avengers

Captain America #50

 

[Doc Destruction]

Blackest Night
Mighty Avengers
Flash Rebirth

 

[TheCorpulent1]

- Finally seeing what Loki's plans are in Thor (hopefully that'll be this year, but with JMS, who knows?)

- War of Kings

- Agents of Atlas ongoing

- Captain Britain and MI-13, Guardians of the Galaxy, Incredible Hercules, and Nova hopefully sticking around for another year

- Slott's Mighty Avengers run

- What X-Men: Legacy is going to become after Carey's done with his "Professor X: This Was Your Life" thing

- A return to JSA stories that are actually about the JSA

- Secret Six, House of Mystery, Northlanders, and Madame Xanadu hopefully sticking around for another year

- Conner Kent hopefully returning at some point

- The Wildstorm universe hopefully continuing without a reboot every few months

- Seeing what new depths the DC universe can sink to

 

[kguillou]

I think technically Daredevil is supposed ta reach 500 issues next year. I dont know if they're gona acknowledge that though.

 

[Blader5489]

I think technically Daredevil is supposed ta reach 500 issues next year. I dont know if they're gona acknowledge that though.

Oh yeah, I think Quesada mentioned that in one of his Myspace columns.

Lot of milestone issues next year.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Actually, that reminds me, Captain America #600 is due this year as well:

454
+13
+50
+32=
549

Which means that #600 will fall on v.5's #51, two anniversary issues back-to-back.

 

[mjdiddy1]

For me it would be War of Kings (already reading Kingbreaker which is alright so far) and the other would be Cable/X-Force Messiah War

 

[Congo Jack]

- Whatever's going down for Captain America #50, which will presumably be big.

ASM #600

3) Roger Stern writing a new Spider-Man/Juggernaut story

Yes to all of these.

In addition:
- More Joe Kelly Spider-Man.
- Wolverine: Noir by Stuart Moore and C.P. Smith (these are the guys that should be on the ongoing).

 

[Kraven]

I'd buy another Joe Kelly ASM issue. I hardly buy ASM anymore, but I really liked his two-parter with Hammerhead. When was it mentioned Roger Stern would write another Spidey/Juggernaut story?

 

[Blader5489]

I'd buy another Joe Kelly ASM issue. I hardly buy ASM anymore, but I really liked his two-parter with Hammerhead. When was it mentioned Roger Stern would write another Spidey/Juggernaut story?

From the letters page of ASM #580:

We're thrilled to announce that [Roger Stern and Lee Weeks will] be back next year for a 3-part epic that includes the phrase "Something Can Stop the Juggernaut!"

 

[The Geek Vault]

Anticipated 2009 Projects:

The continue of Kick Ass
Agents of Atlas on going series
Anything by Dan Slott
and anything by Brubaker
also hoping someone saves spidey!

 

[The Superman]

Dread's Most Anticipated Projects of 2009:

(As this is the Marvel forums, I'll just limit it to Marvel projects. Otherwise I'd be including stuff like INVINCIBLE or UMBRELLA ACADEMY)

- The Dan Slott/Khoi Pham run on MIGHTY AVENGERS starting next month. Sure, Hank Pym is wearing his dead ex-wife's dress now. But the art looks great and the roster looks even better. Dan Slott is a master of interweaving current and past continuity and history with his characters. Plus, the tone of the book, while not a comedy, should hopefully be a tad more upbeat than AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE, which is Slott's forte. After years of past writers bending the Avengers to their whim, here comes a writer who knows what they are and should be. In Pham, we get an artist who can draw both gods and heroes well. I'm counting down the weeks until MA #21.

- Abnett & Lanning's WAR OF KINGS, their second "space event" which seeks to include not only the space regulars in NOVA and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, but to rightly include the Starjammer/Shi'ar stuff as well as the Inhumans, who are in space now too. They're even getting Darkhawk, a former Marvel Trading Card "Rookie of the Year" (circa 1992) in on the action, after a guest stint on NOVA. The best events in Marvel for the last two years have been in space, and "DnA" look to improve on the errors in their first event, ANNIHILATION CONQUEST to produce a hit. **** Dark Reign; this is what I'm looking forward to. Vulcan's earned the inevitable ass-whuppin'.

- Seeing what Hera & Pluto have planning for Hercules in INCREDIBLE HERCULES. Awesome book.

- Seeing who exactly is this new menace that Bucky "New Cap" Barnes is taking on in CAPTAIN AMERICA as well as watching him settle into the impossible legacy he is trying to pay homage to.

- Seeing what comes of the roster changes as well as the breaks in time & space within GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.

- I'd say, "seeing something, anything of importance happen in THOR", but 2009 only has twelve months in it. That means about eight issues of THOR if we are lucky, and I sincerely doubt JMS will get off his narrative duff in even eight issues. If so, though, then hey, good. I want to see it.

- The return of THE AGENTS OF ATLAS.

- Everyone vs. Dracula in CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI-13.

Pretty much got everything I'm eagerly awaiting - except the Cable/X-Force crossover. I'm not a big fan of either book, but I enjoyed Messiah CompleX and am loving the current run on Uncanny X-Men, so can't wait for the follow-up.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Hmmm...

1) War Of Kings is probably the biggest thing for me.

2) Next would be Darkest Night.

3) Iron Fist's 8th city storyline, along with the Immortal Weapons.

4) The rest of the Umbrella Academy.

Hmmm, I'm sure I'll enjoy other things, but those are what I'm actually looking forward to.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Blackest Night, dude.