Comments on: Coming Up: Marvel Comics Due June 2010

By: Bill D.

Bill D. — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:47:28 +0000

I wasn’t too interested in Heralds until I saw that the creative team was Kathryn Immonen and Tonci Zonjic. Given that the two of them helped to make Hellcat one of my favorite Marvel characters of all in the space of a year(Immonen as writer on Patsy’s mini-series, Zonjic as artist on Marvel Divas) – and I used to think Hellcat was all kinds of lame – I pay attention to whatever either of them is doing now. And they’re working together? Yeah, I’m gonna have to check this out.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:50:55 +0000

Oh, cool, thanks for doing the research. I’m assuming that everyone will be reintroduced in the new series.

By: Ralf Haring

Ralf Haring — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:11:04 +0000

Looks like Toro is the same character as from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Allies_(Marvel_Comics)#Heroes_Reborn but the “normal” Earth version.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:15:39 +0000

Wow, I didn’t realize she had a mini. I’ll have to look for that collection. And James, I have no idea who Toro is, either, but apparently there’s something about illegal immigration in his backstory. Anyone heard of him before?

Ralf, I gave up on X-Factor when it started playing into the crossovers and David was being all “don’t talk about this online!” Fascinating speculation about Marvel’s Man strategy. (I can’t say Marvel’s Marvelman, too redundant.)

Caroline, thanks for cluing me in on the Avengers. I’d forgotten they were coming out of an event (but then, when aren’t they?).

By: Caroline

Caroline — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:07:15 +0000

Nomad had her own miniseries, recently, by Sean McKeever and — I’m not sure of the artist, but it was a lovely series and really a great self-contained story. Marvel’s done so little with solo heroines, much less young ones, that it really stood out. There’s a TPB available in the smaller format that Marvel’s been experimenting with:

http://comics.ign.com/objects/002/002974.html

I’d really recommend this to anybody, but particularly young readers (either gender) who might have some interest in Captain America. It takes some of the themes that you see a lot of in Cap comics and makes them work in a high school setting.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:01:47 +0000

Wow Young Allies has a weird membership. Firestar who was a character first created by a cartoon series. Arana was a big push character under Jemas I think. Nomad is the female Bucky that’s crossed over from the Captain America book when Liefeld was drawing it.

Toro is a new on for me…. the android Human Torch’s sidekick ad that name. Yet this one looks pretty different from him.

By: Ralf Haring

Ralf Haring — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:41:18 +0000

I would cynically guess the Marvelman stuff is to establish precedents so that when they get to the litigious stuff they can point back and say “we’ve been doing this forever, why didn’t you object then?”

I’ve been kinda blasé about the Avengers books since Bendis took over, and it’s been a while since I really followed anything in single issues so I thought I might give some of them a shot. Brubaker is writing one which is a good pedigree, but even Bendis’ at least have Romita and Immonen as artists.

Good superhero team book … hmmm … X-Factor?

By: Caroline

Caroline — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:45:06 +0000

There *is* supposed to be an Avengers movie — in 2012, maybe? — but the 5 Avengers titles thing isn’t that odd. There are already 4 Avengers titles that I can think of (and I may be omitting one), so it’s really just re-numbering and a bit of reorganizing of books that already exist (it’s not even a fullscale renaming, because New Avengers will still be New Avengers), in the wake of the year’s big event. It’s similar to what DC did last year when they ‘cancelled’ most of the Batman related books, then launched a lot of new ones.

I guess the idea is to create new ‘jumping-on’ points, but it’s hard to know whether or not to recommend the books two months out, you know? If you are looking for one to start from the beginning, ‘Young Allies’ seems like a good bet, if you’re willing to accept the risk it might get cancelled after 5 issues, which is a thing Marvel’s been doing a lot. I also think the new Hawkeye/Mockingbird book that Jim McCann is going to be writing could be a good bet.