Marvel Now! - a Friday post.

So Marvel has responded to the New 52 by DC, and are relaunching many of their core titles.  Many titles are getting new #1's, while others will have a change of creative teams without the #1.  And there will be a few new titles launched as well.  As I talked about in my previous post, after my experience with Marvel at SDCC, I am making a conscious decision to whittle down what books I get from Marvel.  A creative change helps with a lot of those choices, and over the past week, Marvel has hinted at some of these changes. I'm going to be focused on writers for most of this post, because I am fan who follows the writers.

First - the books that don't seem to be relaunched mostly because they just were launched not too long ago (thought for books with big name characters that doesn't seem to matter)  Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Winter Soldier, Gambit, Dark Avengers, X-Factor, X-Treme X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men, Daredevil and the Spider-Man titles (Amazing, Avenging, Scarlet Spider, Venom).  We also know Hulk will now re-titles Red She-Hulk but will keep the same writer at the very least.  We do not know about if X-Men, Uncanny X-Force, Astonishing X-Men and Secret Avengers will have any kind of changes.  We do know Bendis will be leaving Avengers Assemble but not if it'll be relaunched.  So let's talk about what we do know:

Hickman will be writing Avengers which will be bi-monthly and New Avengers- which we can expect to be pretty connected.  Which is both good and bad.  Bendis tried and at times succeeded to keep the titles apart, but if Hickman's FF and Fantastic Four are any kind of indication, they most likely will be ties together. I like Hickman's writing and have always loved the Avengers so I'm ok with that and most likely will be getting both of these.

Bendis will be writing All-New X-Men which seems to take the spot of Uncanny X-Men.  It features the five original X-Men somehow in the present and sticking around.  I'm done with Bendis and this really doesn't interest me.

Rick Remender will be launching Uncanny Avengers - now this line up seems awesome and I'm a big fan of Remender, so I'll be picking at the very least the first arc of this book.

We also know Slott and Loeb will be writing Avengers and X-Men - seems to focus on the New York based characters from both books.  I like Slott at times, but have really come to not like Loeb's writing.

Announced this week.

A new Deadpool book.  No thanks.

Kieron Gillen on Iron Man.  I've only heard great things about Gillen and have enjoyed his Uncanny run from what I have picked up.  But Iron Man has never been a favorite of mine, and I think I'll leave the character with Fraction.

Jason Aaron on Thor.  Again, I like Thor in the Avengers but never been a big fan of his solo adventures.  Also, I like Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men but not enough for this.

Fraction on Fantastic Four and FF.  I picked these books up because I enjoyed Hickman so much from his runs on Secret Warriors and SHIELD.  However, I have never really loved these characters and Fraction is so hit or miss in my opinion.  I've like his Iron Man, Hawkeye and Iron Fist, but not so much his Defenders or Fear Itself.

Si Spurrier on X-Men Legacy.  Ehhh......no thanks?

Rick Remender on Captain America.  For sure picking up the first arc.

Mark Waid on the Hulk.  Interesting -I love Waid.  Not a big fan of the artist, Yu.  But I'll be picking up the first issue.



So my Marvel pull list:

Definite:

Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers
Remender's Uncanny Avengers
Winter Soldier
Wolverine and the X-Men
Daredevil

Maybes:
Captain America
Hawkeye
Hulk

And if Remender stays on Secret Avengers and Uncanny X-Force - them too.

Now, a lot of the X-Men books have not been announced.  And some current writers have not been assigned or announced.  Also, many are expecting a Guardians of the Galaxy book, so I'm waiting to see who will be on that book too.  And hopefully Abnett and Lanning will be writing some book since New Mutants are getting canceled.