Alonso & Brevoort Make Theirs Marvel NOW!

[CBR News]

Marvel Comics enters a new era in October with the Marvel NOW! initiative. CBR spoke with Editor in Chief Chief Axel Alonso and SVP of Publishing and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort for details.



Full article here.

[graffiX]

Hmm well I guess Wanda ISN'T dying at the end of AvX. Shame.

[Telos]

Tom Brevoort added, "At some point in the '90s the X-Men books sort of skewed off from the rest of the line, sitting technically in the same world, but feeling very much at a remove from the rest of the Marvel U. That's something that we're going to be looking to change going forward."

One of the ways Marvel is looking to change that is by joining a number of X-Men with members of the super team that's found themselves at the center of almost every Marvel event, the Avengers. This merging of the two squads happens in October when writer Rick Remender and artist John Cassaday launch a new ongoing series titled "Uncanny Avengers."

Ugh! No! This is exactly what they should not be doing. X-Men and Avengers work better separately, not combined.

Also, confirmed that Avengers is relaunching with #1. No #600

"We're not ready to tell you any more about it, but Jonathan will also be writing 'New Avengers' as well as 'Avengers. I mention that because the second thing you need to know is that, like 'Amazing Spider-Man,' 'Avengers' is going to be shipping twice a month. So there'll be three Hickman-written Avengers comics coming out every 30 days -- two issues of 'Avengers' and one issue of 'New Avengers,'" Brevoort explained. "And that's important because while Jerome Opena is launching the series and drawing the opening story, Adam Kubert will be the second artist, Dustin Weaver will be the third, and Mike Deodato will be the fourth. I'm sure as we get deeper into the series other guys will be contributing as well, but this powerhouse line-up of illustrators will take us through the first six months of the title.

Huh, shame that New Avengers isn't getting canned. Nice artist lineup though.

So we'll be fielding a very large core team comprised of 18 or so characters -- spanning the key players in the 'Avengers' film, mainstays of the current team such as Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) and Spider-Woman, classic Avengers of the past such as the Falcon, some established Marvel characters of note that have never been Avengers before, and a number of completely new, though familiar, characters as well. And we'll be keeping things in motion--not every hero will be featured in every issue--there'll be smaller groups tasked to deal with rising situations as they crop up.

Firstly... Spider-Woman, a mainstay?

So the lineup will consist of:

Captain America
Iron Man
Thor
Hawkeye
Black Widow
Hulk
Falcon
Ms. Marvel
Spider-Woman
Shang-Chi
At least two new Avengers
At least two entirely new characters (because he uses plural)
Four others

[Talisman]

Meh. More of the same blah blah blah.

[OptionalPlayer]

The situations the Avengers must face will crop up quite frequently and build upon each other. "In typical fashion, Jonathan has laid out plans for literally years of stories -- at our recent Editorial Retreat, I worked out that he'd broadly plotted through issue #63 at this point.

So I guess the new "Avengers" will be sticking around for awhile. I won't be. :-(

[Nova2814.1]

Interesting. So New Avengers is staying on the schedule but All New X-Men replaces Uncanny. I would have thought it would have been the other way around.

The AR app as a catch up sounds like a good idea, but I can never get it to work on my phone.

[John Ossie]

Hmmm. Some interesting stuff looking forward to seeing where Hickman takes Avengers and New Avengers. I kinda like the idea of Uncanny Avengers but will wait and see if it can be pulled off.

Overall fairly interesting article.

[graffiX]

Glad they aren't rebooting, but replacing Uncanny X-Men with that garbage? At least if it was a new title I had the option of not buying it, but Uncanny X-Men is now gone because of Bendis and his "genius". Sad.

Saves me some $ I guess.

[Sam Robards, Comic Fan]

Brian's 'All-New X-Men' replaces or succeeds 'Uncanny X-Men' in the same way that 'New Avengers' succeeded 'Avengers.'

...And my worst fears are realized. You take Kieron Gillen, who really gets the X-Men and has made Uncanny better than it's been in YEARS and replace him with friggin' BENDIS?!?!

I don't care if he's a big name or not, this sucks.

That, combined with the fact that both Hulk and Defenders may get canned, makes me very sad; however, if Matt Fraction gets kicked off Mighty Thor and Jason Aaron gets kicked off Incredible Hulk (neither of which is any good at those respective characters), then I'll consider that small consolation.

As a side note: what's the point of keeping New Avengers around? Aside from having another title with "Avengers" in it for sales. It seems a bit redundant, especially when you'll have a bi-monthly shipping main Avengers book as well as Uncanny Avengers. But whatever.

[tesh_karde]

A lot of exciting stuff. Can't wait until they announce some of the other creative teams. Should be awesome!

[Sebastos]

Intriguing news for what's ahead, looking forward to it.

[Rud]

wow, seriously?, i literally jumped onto marvel with X-Men Schism so i could get Uncanny X-men (along with Wolverine and the X-Men). And now your telling me that there will be no Uncanny X-Men, and its looking like Cyclops (and even Emma) might bite the dust with this event?

It looks like after AvX i'm done with marvel.

(no i don't give a shit about Cyclops from the past, thats probably who that redesigned Cyclops with the X Visor is too....)

[Songbird/Diamondback]

Replacing Uncanny just seems weird. Especially since it outsells Wolverine and the X-Men!

...and Songbird better be on the Avengers!

[CTpitch]

Bendis on X-men

The guys at marvel who thought of that must be masochist

[Marvel_Adam]

I can't afford Avengers AND New Avengers. They'd need to do some serious convincing if they want me to pick up New Av...

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Steve Epting with Hickman on New Avengers? Take my money. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/07/...ng-for-janary/