Marvel NOW - Don't Call It A Reboot!

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The relaunch will run from October to February, starting in October with UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 by Rick Remender and John Cassaday, making the latter’s return to regular comics penciling. New titles will roll out every week, with the new titles featuring new costumes, new backstories, and so on.

That’s a minimum of about 20+ new titles. There will be both relaunches of existing titles and the return of old favorites we haven’t seen in a good long while. Some characters will get new costumes, weapons and identities, and even the covers themselves will get a design makeover. The key words here are “shake-up,” “change” and “new” — but don’t call it a “reboot.” Marvel insists that this is not an abandoning of their rich past — but rather making it more accessible to as many readers as possible.

So Aldo - you up for more punishment?

UNCANNY AVENGERS? Thats like a Fanboy Rampage-era joke right there.

And we can bring back Jean Grey through time travel! Hulk in space! Nuevo Nova! New clothes to sell new action figures! Let's prep for the next movies!

lol

what is the longest-running/still-being-published Marvel comic? Fantastic Four?

world needed a ROM reboot

I think its Fantastic Four, but they renumber/rename stuff all the time without "rebooting" so I'm not sure what counts anymore. It wasn't like DC with 60+ years of action and Detective Comics before the nu-DC.

this looks TERRIBLE and I'm certain I will be purchasing a lot of it

they renumber/rename stuff all the time without "rebooting" so I'm not sure what counts anymore

yeah this is what I was wondering about... figured FF would be up to like #1,500 by now or something if they'd stuck with consecutive numbering

DJP - There's an X-TREME X-MEN series starting shortly with alt-universe Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Emma to get you prepped for the head-slapping goodness of the fall lineup.

The thing with numbering is they renumber then just add them back on and pick up where they'd be without renumbering. So Captain America jumped from like 55 to 620. Stupid as hell to try to figure out.

When you normalize the pathological, you will see pathology everywhere.

lol how did I miss Rocket Raccoon in Uncanny Avengers pic

xp: I am inordinately excited about X-Treme X-Men, largely because I really liked Boy Nightcrawler in the little mini-arc he debuted in

I knew you would be.

The Hickman Avengers is going to be super space fun time set up Thanos for the 2015 movie team. Hulk and Iron Man and Nova and Black Fury and Rocket Raccoon and dare I hope Groot.

Huh. Not enough info for me to have an opinion either way on this yet. I do think the MU was getting stale, so I'm not automatically against a soft reboot. My prediction of Bendis on the cosmic titles might still be borne out, but it was a total guess, so I won't be surprised if I'm wrong.

The current Spider-Men miniseries has opened the door between 616 and Ultimate; I wonder if Ultimate Nick Fury is going to come back over to the regular M.U. to live at the end of that.

I thought I read somewhere that Sam Jackson Nick Fury was introduced into 616 as Nick's son? MAybe that AVENGERS ASSEMBLE series or something?

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that.

I have a feeling that ASSEMBLE series is going to be the starting point for all this when seen in retrospect.
Is anyone reading it?

I've been following it, but it's not very memorable.

not too surprised. I'm pretty much over the Bendisverse, especially the ABENDERS.

His 2 Avengers books are in kind of a dull denouement now. The only storyline I have any curiosity about is Luke/Jessica/baby.

Didn't the recent Guardians of the Galaxy (which I have yet to read) have Rocket Raccoon? I can't wait for this series of reboots, where instead of Wolverine being in every comic, Rocket Raccoon is the new must-have team member.

btw, I love the stuff Jonathan Hickman has been doing, but I wonder how far that's going to go when he's stretched Bendis-thin and scripting everything under the sun. He's still kicking out his own work for Image right now, too!

Marvel Cosmic has been their best stuff for years under Abnett & Lanning. Putting Rocket Raccoon, Groot & Bug into play and highlighting their awesomeness? Yes please. Some more please.

thread has reminded me how utterly baffling the Marvel universe is to me now

Whether I do this or not depends on whether I have a job at the time, I guess, but I don't really read that many Marvel books at the moment so either that makes me a poor candidate or the best possible one.

Oh what the hell, OK.

Woo-hoo!

I would like to see someone describe the actual plot/chronology that brings the five original X-Men into the present from 1968. Then I would like to have that same someone tell me that modern comics are much more believable than their silver-age counterparts, and therefore superior.

I await Aldo's read with great antici-

-pation!

I have this horrible feeling that the adventures of the original X-Men in the modern day are going to take place in the publishing gap of the early 70s. "This is what was going on during those lost 5 years!" or what have you.

Huh. My understanding was bringing them up to date, so to speak. But I was never detail-oriented.

That's my understanding too.

I meant that this explains why they were gone from the Marvel U in that time frame - they were in the future, so to speak. Poorly worded on my part.

Didn't John Byrne already do a series about that gap?

Anyway, based on the picture of the Marvel Girl costume, this is from before that.

still lolling that they found a way to bring back Jean Grey

Yeah, you're right that it looks before the gap, based on the costume. So it'll be an even stupider reason.

No one cares about John Byrne or Chris Claremont's weirdo "here's what happened in this time gap/at the end of the Marvel U" series, imo.

Pretty sure Joe Casey already mined that vein. And maybe Steve Rude, too.

But I await the po-faced seriousness that is surely to come.

Annoyed that they didn't give the art chores on the spacey raccoon stuff to my friend Brad Walker.

thread has reminded me how utterly baffling the Marvel universe is to me now

― your petty attempt at destroying me is laughable (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 11:41 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otmfm! I am so glad I jumped ship in the 90s. And to think I actually wanted to write for these guys in high school...

lol that was supposed to be

Marvel U isn't incomprehensible, it's just kind of dumb

at least Stacy X isn't around anymore

To heck with Marvel Now.

Spring Break Wolverine is where it's at.

http://springbreakwolverine.blogspot.com/