Well this post has been in draft form for about a month now and with Marvel's June solicitations to hit this week we'll have even more Secret Wars to talk about. Here are the Secret Wars titles that I am most looking forward to in May and also every other title coming out for Secret Wars in May. First off and easy to choose I will be grabbing both issues 1 and 2 of Secret Wars coming out in May and I will certainly be grabbing the Alex Ross covers, they are beautiful.
Ultimate End by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley brings us the final events of the Ultimate Universe during the final incursion and Secret Wars. The original creative team who kickstarted the Ultimate Universe with Ultimate Spider-Man return to bring the universe to an end, well as much of an end as anything in comics. David Marquez has illustrated a variant cover for the first issue (check out the image to the left). My only real experience with the Ultimate Universe has been with Miles Morales' Ultimate Spider-Man and if any character is to survive the series should this truly be its end it is him, although the Marvel 616 Universe is getting fairly full of Spider characters. There have been many events heralding the possible end to the Ultimate Universe so will this finally be their time up? Ultimate End is solicited as a 5 issue series so I guess we will certainly know by the final issue. Will you be looking forward to Ultimate End? This ones been added to my pull list.
Old Man Logan, so it was announced last month that Andrea Sorrentino, previously on Green Arrow at DC Comics and recently on X-Men with Brian Michael Bendis, has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel. The culmination of this seems to be his teaming up with Bendis to bring us Old Man Logan. It's worth noting that this is not solicited as a limited series so hopefully this will be on our shelves for some time. Old Man Logan is a series I finally read thanks to a Comixology sale that I thought was fantastic, if I'm honest much like most of Mark Millar's work this did not disappoint. Could this be the Wolverine we'll get moving forward in the Marvel Universe after his earlier demise during the "Death of Wolverine" series by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven. With a great promo by McNiven who originally illustrated the Old Man Logan issues this was immediately added to my pull list. Do you look forward to the return of Old Man Logan?
A-Force the all female Avengers team coming this May from G. Willow-Wilson and Marguerite Bennett with art by Jorge Molina. This has the ability to be one of the stand out titles to come out of Secret Wars. This made my May 2015 pick of the solicits and was saved as my last highlight for May's Secret Wars titles as this is the title I am most excited to arrive come May from Marvel. The team line-up has currently been announced but it has been confirmed the team is not confined to its original line-up and other popular and not so popular female characters will join the team during the series. I know there have been many calling for fan favourite character Ms America, from Young Avengers, to feature in the series. Also to my surprise Ms Marvel has not featured or been mentioned to appear in the title considering she is the brain child and incredibly popular character from Willow Wilson. I will be grabbing the Russell Dauterman variant, as pictured to the left, when this hits the shelves and I can't wait to start reading this series.
Others I will be looking out for are Infinity Gauntlet by Gerry Duggan and Dustin Weaver giving us an alternate version of the Infinity Gauntlet story featuring a slightly different take on Thanos and a new team or family to take on the role of Nova's in the series. With Duggan on writing and Weaver illustrating this has the team to be an incredible book and is one I will be looking to at least give it a read to make a decision on whether I will add it to the pull list. Finally the only other title that really caught my eye was Planet Hulk by Sam Humphries, one of my favourite writers, and illustrated by British artist Marc Laming. This sees Captain America riding atop Devil Dinosaur taking on a Planet of Hulks. This will no doubt be an interesting series with Humphries writing which is why I may give this a chance before making my final decision.
Those 6 titles are just a taster of what will be coming in May and further for Secret Wars the other series to come out with their various connections to the event are below.
Last Days;
Captain America & The Mighty Avengers #8
Loki: Agent of Asgard #14
Magneto
Battleworld;
Inhumans: Attilan Rising #1
Master of Kung Fu #1
Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 (of 4)
Secret Wars Journal #1 (of 5)
Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #1
Warzones;
Inferno #1
Secret Wars 2099 #1 (of 5)
Where Monsters Dwell #1 (of 5)
Spider-Verse #1
M.O.D.O.K. Assasin #1 (of 5)
There have been many more titles announced since to come out in June which will be fully announced an confirmed once the release of the June solicits take place this week. It certainly seems Marvel are not holding back with what this event will mean to the future of the Marvel Universe. Will you be picking up any of these titles? Even if I had the money to be able to I don't think I would be picking them all up. Fingers crossed I can get the June Secret Wars titles highlighted a little sooner than I did these. Until next time...
Ultimate End by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley brings us the final events of the Ultimate Universe during the final incursion and Secret Wars. The original creative team who kickstarted the Ultimate Universe with Ultimate Spider-Man return to bring the universe to an end, well as much of an end as anything in comics. David Marquez has illustrated a variant cover for the first issue (check out the image to the left). My only real experience with the Ultimate Universe has been with Miles Morales' Ultimate Spider-Man and if any character is to survive the series should this truly be its end it is him, although the Marvel 616 Universe is getting fairly full of Spider characters. There have been many events heralding the possible end to the Ultimate Universe so will this finally be their time up? Ultimate End is solicited as a 5 issue series so I guess we will certainly know by the final issue. Will you be looking forward to Ultimate End? This ones been added to my pull list.
Old Man Logan, so it was announced last month that Andrea Sorrentino, previously on Green Arrow at DC Comics and recently on X-Men with Brian Michael Bendis, has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel. The culmination of this seems to be his teaming up with Bendis to bring us Old Man Logan. It's worth noting that this is not solicited as a limited series so hopefully this will be on our shelves for some time. Old Man Logan is a series I finally read thanks to a Comixology sale that I thought was fantastic, if I'm honest much like most of Mark Millar's work this did not disappoint. Could this be the Wolverine we'll get moving forward in the Marvel Universe after his earlier demise during the "Death of Wolverine" series by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven. With a great promo by McNiven who originally illustrated the Old Man Logan issues this was immediately added to my pull list. Do you look forward to the return of Old Man Logan?
A-Force the all female Avengers team coming this May from G. Willow-Wilson and Marguerite Bennett with art by Jorge Molina. This has the ability to be one of the stand out titles to come out of Secret Wars. This made my May 2015 pick of the solicits and was saved as my last highlight for May's Secret Wars titles as this is the title I am most excited to arrive come May from Marvel. The team line-up has currently been announced but it has been confirmed the team is not confined to its original line-up and other popular and not so popular female characters will join the team during the series. I know there have been many calling for fan favourite character Ms America, from Young Avengers, to feature in the series. Also to my surprise Ms Marvel has not featured or been mentioned to appear in the title considering she is the brain child and incredibly popular character from Willow Wilson. I will be grabbing the Russell Dauterman variant, as pictured to the left, when this hits the shelves and I can't wait to start reading this series.
Others I will be looking out for are Infinity Gauntlet by Gerry Duggan and Dustin Weaver giving us an alternate version of the Infinity Gauntlet story featuring a slightly different take on Thanos and a new team or family to take on the role of Nova's in the series. With Duggan on writing and Weaver illustrating this has the team to be an incredible book and is one I will be looking to at least give it a read to make a decision on whether I will add it to the pull list. Finally the only other title that really caught my eye was Planet Hulk by Sam Humphries, one of my favourite writers, and illustrated by British artist Marc Laming. This sees Captain America riding atop Devil Dinosaur taking on a Planet of Hulks. This will no doubt be an interesting series with Humphries writing which is why I may give this a chance before making my final decision.
Those 6 titles are just a taster of what will be coming in May and further for Secret Wars the other series to come out with their various connections to the event are below.
Last Days;
Captain America & The Mighty Avengers #8
Loki: Agent of Asgard #14
Magneto
Battleworld;
Inhumans: Attilan Rising #1
Master of Kung Fu #1
Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 (of 4)
Secret Wars Journal #1 (of 5)
Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #1
Warzones;
Inferno #1
Secret Wars 2099 #1 (of 5)
Where Monsters Dwell #1 (of 5)
Spider-Verse #1
M.O.D.O.K. Assasin #1 (of 5)
There have been many more titles announced since to come out in June which will be fully announced an confirmed once the release of the June solicits take place this week. It certainly seems Marvel are not holding back with what this event will mean to the future of the Marvel Universe. Will you be picking up any of these titles? Even if I had the money to be able to I don't think I would be picking them all up. Fingers crossed I can get the June Secret Wars titles highlighted a little sooner than I did these. Until next time...
No comments:
Post a Comment