Marvel's 2006 Plans Revealed

[jonencar]

A panel held at The Baltimore Retailer's Summit reveals Gaiman's new Marvel Project, lays out the Hulk's role in the Marvel Universe for next year, shows Joe Mad's first rendition of Ultimate Captain America, outlines several other major projects. Read the full report at silverbulletcomics.com here (http://www.silverbulletcomics.com/news/story.php?a=775).

[Ivan Isaacs]

Nice.

And thank god I can again pass on the Decimation stuff as there no creators involved I care for. Bucks saved. :)

[grendel824]

Interesting - thanks for the link! So, Gaiman on Eternals, eh? I'll buy it.

[Rich L]

Hmmm..Planet Hulk? Gaiman on Eternals? I'm there.

[chicainery]

Here's (http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=43792) a link to pretty much the same thing, just the Newsarama version.

I'm looking forward to the J2 Digest.

[darkhawk76]

Young Avengers will possibly have a crossover with another team fans have been asking for, sometime in 2006.

hmm New Warriors maybe

When Supreme Power moves from Max to Marvel Knights, it will have Squadron Supreme.

glad that it's still the same creative team, not sure if I'm that keen on it being a proper team book (I could just buy JLA for that)

New Avengers will continue to have a rotating art team, so that 14-16 issues per year will be released. Looks like Olivier Coipel will be coming to New Avengers after a rest from House of M (though they say he doesn't know it yet).

goodbye Finch?? can't say I'll miss him, his art doesn't do anything for me. 14-16 issues a year, so no more late issue .... I'll believe it when I see it

all in quite good, though still a bit too X-Men heavy (this is the Marvel universe)

The Marvel Handbooks A-Z will return.

great!

[twilight]

hmm New Warriors maybe

More likely to be Runaways.

[Cayman]

Sweet, I loved Eternals as a kid. Gaiman should be a good fit. I hope his book involves Karkas and Ransak the Reject, my two favorites.

Sounds like a good year.

Cay

[darkhawk76]

More likely to be Runaways.

probably right, though I would prefer a face off with NWs

[Expletive Deleted]

Twenty-four new Essentials, an oversized Kirby ETERNALS hardcover, and an X-Men Omnibus?

Glee!

[Graham Vingoe]

I'm broadly interested in Gaiman on the Eternals but will be witholding my enthusiasm until I find out which artist is drawing it( whatever it is). My gut feeling is to guess at Pascual Ferry, and his style does nothing to interest me.I'll Definitely be getting the Eternals Hardcover though.
Planet Hulk sounds interesting as long as it is not crossovers for the sake of crossovers and has a legitimate purpose behind it.

[StoneGold]

Nothing I can say sounds bad off the bat. There's some stuff that sounds damn good off the bat though. Some of the slightly less bombastic, but ultimately more interesting to me, nuggets, John Layman following up that amazing HoM: FF mini with whatever this Sentinel project is. Pascual Ferry on Iron Man, even if it is Ultimate Iron Man, is pretty much a match made in heaven, after his Adam Strange run.

[thik_3rd]

the silverbullet link is down now, so going by the newsarama one...

- An oversized Eternals hardcover collecting the original Jack Kirby series coming next summer.
ehh, whatever, won't buy it.
- The reveal of Neil Gaiman’s next Marvel project – something related to the Eternals though little further was revealed - however, with the hardcover coming in summer, a safe bet of Gaiman's Eternals project debuting around the same time can be made.
cool, this i'm checking for
- Next summer’s event – “Planet Hulk,” the seeds of which are planted in November’s Hulk issue.
well, i'll check for this. i was thinking about dropping hulk when pad left, but i'll give it a few issues now.
- Sentinel Squad O*N*E – a five issue miniseries as part of Marvel’s “Decimation” follow-up to House of M by John Layman and Aaron Lopresti.
sounds cool. layman is decent, and lopresti is dope, i'll check for it.
- X-Men: The 198 by David Hine and Jim Muniz, also debuting in January.
i guess this is a mini too? hine sucks, or at least his district x/mutopia stuff does.
- The backup story appearing in the Ultimate titles in November and December was revealed as well – “Ultimate Vision” written by Mark Millar with art by John Romita Jr.
nice.
- Pasqual Ferry was officially named as a Marvel exclusive, as well as being the artist on the upcoming Ultimate Iron Man II miniseries, as well as an upcoming Ultimate FF/X-Men two issue crossover.
cool, i called this a bit back. looking forward (kinda) to each of those projects.
- The slightly retitled Supreme Power: Squadron Supreme debuts in March.
i guess we can only hope this is still as good as the max version. i'm optimistic.
- Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s gap between their volumes of Astonishing X-Men will be relatively short, with volume II kicking off in February.
looking forward to it.
- Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem and Farel Dalrymple is slated for release in summer of 2006.
i've been waiting for this since it was first announced.
- New Avengers will continue to have a rotating art team so that 14-16 issues are released each year. House of M artists Olivier Coipel is slated to take an arc after his work is completed on HoM.
whatever, i dropped it. sucks that i'll miss out on some good art.
- One of Mark Millar’s upcoming projects is entitled 1985, which will combine photography, art, and digital art. Reportedly, the story follows a kid through the year 1985 in the Marvel Universe.
interesting.
- An Uncanny X-Men Omnibus is planned for a May release, in time for X3.
whatever
- In regards to Marvel Handbooks, the publisher will start up a 12 volume A-Z edition next year.
whatever
- 24 Essentials volumes (including Nova) are planned for next year, along with 18 Masterworks volumes.
24 essentials? *goes broke*
- Also coming in terms of new editions - J2 will join with Spider-Girl in seeing digest collections of the seris released; also coming - “Maximum” editions, with Maximum FF named as the first, though little was said of the date or format.
don't care about spider-girl or j2 (why?), interested in the maximum editions only on an academic level.

[jadegiant77]

Can ANYONE upload the pics from the original article?

[Doom Hammer]

Coipel on New Avengers!?!?

NO WAY!!!

AWESOME!

Oh, man. I so hope that happens.

[mattbib]

- One of Mark Millar’s upcoming projects is entitled 1985, which will combine photography, art, and digital art. Reportedly, the story follows a kid through the year 1985 in the Marvel Universe.

This seems really odd, given theat the modern MU wouldn't really have existed in 1985 given the 10-15 years of existence and the sliding timescale. Presumably the series will follow the kid through the the MU events that took place in titles during real-time 1985 (which would be closer to something akin to 1998-2000 in the MU).

[kingpin51]

thank god they finally released info on "planet hulk." I've knew about this for some time and i was going crazy not telling anybody.

[Paradox]

mattbib is quicker than me:

- One of Mark Millar’s upcoming projects is entitled 1985, which will combine photography, art, and digital art. Reportedly, the story follows a kid through the year 1985 in the Marvel Universe.

This seems really odd, given theat the modern MU wouldn't really have existed in 1985 given the 10-15 years of existence and the sliding timescale. Presumably the series will follow the kid through the the MU events that took place in titles during real-time 1985 (which would be closer to something akin to 1998-2000 in the MU).

Yeah, that caught my eye, too. Of course, there's a remote possiblity that it may be a kid dealing with a world that has the likes of Sporr, Xemnu the Hulk, and Fin Fang Foom (and maybe some of Byrne's Front Liners) running around. I, for one, would find THAT quite interesting.

It's unlikely, though.