The weirdest thing happened in Marvel last week. The publisher’s landmark Secret Wars event has been delayed repeatedly, but Marvel is moving ahead as scheduled with their full line relauch, giving birth to the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe. We at Comics Beat are dedicated to praising great comics, and with so many potential winners out there it […]
Today, Marvel took to the stage to announce the release of several new titles and distributed preview images to several outlets, including Newsarama and CBR. First, we have All-New All-Different Point One #1, a one-shot filled with short stories that will set the plate for new Marvel stories to come.
Cover by Mike Del Mundo
Then, we have Marvel Superhero Spectacular, another one-shot with cover art by Todd Nauck.
A number of other covers were revealed as well:
unattributed
Illuminati #1 by Riley Rossmo
Secret Wars #8 by Alex Ross
Mike Allred’s Miracleman #1
Joe Quesada’s Miracleman #1
Frank Cho’s Miracleman #1
Art Adams
Daniel Acuna’s Sam Wilson, Captain America Variant
By ‘lurking’ Steve Morris
Seeing as they were nice enough to cite their source, I’ll say Newsarama were the scoopers on this. Diamond’s order form for October (yes, nowadays we actually go onto diamond order forms in order to find HOT GOSS) reveal six new Marvel titles will be released, each one more mysterious than the last.
But only because I’ve rearranged the order to make it that way.
Mystery Book 1! A-Babies Vs X-Babies #1
Presumably based on the Skottie Young variant cover for AvX #1, this is a one-shot book. It’s likely Young will be, at the very least, writing the title. Will baby Hepzibah appear? With baby Corsair and his baby Space Moustache.
Mystery Book 2! Ultimate Comics Iron Man #1 (of 4).
A new miniseries for the slightly more drunk version of Iron Man.
Mystery Book 3! Marvel Now Point One #1
Almost certainly something to do with Marcus Johnson/Nick Fury Beta, based on the teaser Marvel released earlier this week.
Mystery Book 4! Minimum Carnage Alpha #1
A one-shot setting up the new Minimum Carnage series, which it appears Scarlet Spider and Venom will tie-into. It’s likely that Zeb Wells will be writing this, and even more likely that the crossover storyline will end with an issue called Minimum Carnage Omega
Mystery Book 5! AvX Consequences #1 (of 5)
As there are five Wednesdays in October, there will be five issues of this ‘Requiem’ style series for AvX. Will Cyclops be dead? Will Captain America get socked in the jaw? Will someone sit moodily by their best friend’s dead body? Will Spider-Man wear black AGAIN?
Mystery Book 6! A Plus X #1
Erm. Something to do with a baby? Who knows. A + X = AX, so maybe it’s about a character who owns an axe.
How many pages of Amazing 1 and Avengers 1 are simply preview? Tha would really be disapointing if, in the end, those extra size made the reader pay extra for only preview pages.
They’re not preview pages, they’re all original stories. But he’s they’re just acting as preview pages with no real need to not read them and just wait to buy the actual books.
Hey what happened to Superior Iron-Man? Was there resolution to that idea, or is he still ‘as much of a jerk as usual as a result of whatever that crossover series decided’?
ANAD Point One #1 gives you Agents of SHIELD, Carnage, Contest of Champions, Rocket Racoon & Groot, Daredevil and All-New Inhumans.
Amazing Spider-Man #1 gives you separate stories of Web-Warriors (5 pgs), Spider-Man 2099 (5pgs), Silk (5pgs), Spider-Woman (5pgs), and Miles Morales Spider-Man (7 pgs).
Avengers #0 gives you Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, New Avengers, Ultimates, A-Force, and Squadron Supreme.
Out of about 20 titles previewed with this first wave, I was looking at 7 titles that were covered in some form or another by these books (even though I read all of them).
I’m walking away with 3.
“Pass, stopping here with all the Spider-verse books except Silk, Spider-Woman and Spider-Man 2099”
So by “all except” you mean half.
I had the same question about Iron Man’s shift from “Superior” to “Invincible;” and I’m really surprised by the thumbs down to Spidey – I thought that was a dynamite first issue, well-written and gorgeous to boot.
The solo titles were all pretty good. Never been a fan of paying for what are essentially previews.
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Thanks Evan! Chris: well, it seems those are original short stories.