Yeah , there was some ! I know , it ’s easy to miss among all the movie panels and cosplayers and hoopla , but comics newspaper publisher did show up and announce a bevy of new titles — including a ton of groovy comedian from the non - spandex bunch . Here ’s what you require to know !
Marvel
Marvel ’s swelled news was of course the first details about their Star Wars comic , include Jason Aaron and John Cassaday ’s Star Wars , following the Rebellion ’s scrap against the Empire , as well as series titled and focus on Princess Leia and Darth Vader ( more information here ) . The second big announcement was SHIELD # 1 , which will put the factor of the hit television serial publication Agents of SHIELD into the proper Marvel comics universe , and allow the TV team to flow out with a blanket variety of Marvel superheroes and have adventure no TV show budget could handle .
Sam Wilson ’s novel Cap will join the Avengers in an competently titled Captain America and the Mighty Avengers . Spider - Woman will pick up a new monthly ongoing serial as part of the “ Spider - Verse ” case . Ex - Spawn character Angela will also get her own Marvel serial , entitle Angela : Asgard ’s Assassin . So it ’s nice to see she ’s getting oeuvre .
Marvel will also follow - up Warren ’s Ellis ’ fantabulous outdoor stage - alone Avengers graphical novel Endless Wartime with a novel one titled Rage of Ultron , by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena . you’re able to probably hazard what its about , but it will have a pregnant impact on regular Marvel continuity , Remender enjoin .
And finally , Marvel will adopt up September ’s “ The Death of Wolverine ” event — in which the darling character will totally , really die for all time — with “ The Weapon X Program , ” feature a mysterious fresh version of the top - secret programme .
DC
DC ’s big announcement was of line Grant Morrison ’s newfangled project , dub Multiversity . It ’ll be set on many , many different dimension , as things that happen on one Earth impact issue on other earth . It ’s about fiction , the fourth wall , comic books as medicine … it ’s basically the Grant Morrison - 1 thing ever , which have in mind it ’ll be brilliant and confused and awesome and most citizenry will have no approximation what it ’s about .
Meanwhile , Vertigo announced : The Names , about a immature wife who discover a shadowy cabal check the world ’s finances after her husband ’s suicide ; The Kitchen , about the wives of Irish gangsters in 1970s ’ New York ’s Hell ’s Kitchen , who take over their husband ’ criminal empire when they go to jail ; Suiciders , a post - apocalyptical tarradiddle set in the walled bastion of New Angles and crumble , streamlet - down slum area of Lost Angeles next to it ; and Bodies , about a meter - travel serial killer in 1890 , 1940 , 2014 and 2050 .
IDW
IDW had a substantial showing , reveal the loss of the doc Who license wo n’t set them back a flake . The self-aggrandizing announcement was of course Star Trek / Planet of the Apes , where the crew of the initiative gets call for in an copycat civic war along with the Klingons . But IDW will also begin a novel on-going serial based on the cult favourite movies Galaxy Quest and Edward Scissorhands , The ’ 80s trading phenomenon Garbage Pail Kids will also receive a comic .
Most challenging is Shadow Show , a new anthology free-base on the whole kit and caboodle of scifi master Ray Bradbury ( which the top image of this article come from ) . Look for the series to include tales by Neil Gaiman , Joe Hill , Harlan Ellison and more .
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Image announced a full dozen new series . Let ’s recrudesce ’em down :
• Tokyo ghost , by Rick Remender and Sean Murphy , where jurisprudence is created by amusement companies , as two John Constable are sent on a mission that takes them to the lost nation of Tokyo .
• From Under Mountains , a new serial publication from Brandon Graham ’s 8House comics line , by Marian Churchland , Claire Gibson , and Sloane Leong . The destiny of rival menage is hold in the work force of a knight , a stealer , a lord ’s girl , and several goblins and witches .
• Valhalla Mad , about Supreme Being returning to earth to company and discovering its many changes , by Joe Casey and Paul Maybury .
• Rumble by John Arcudi and James Harren , which figure describes as “ like a scarecrow - Conan fight in a Louis CK TV show lead by David Fincher . ”
• Southern Cross by Becky Cloonan and Andy Belanger . A woman takes a flight to Titan to investigate her sister ’s mysterious expiry .
• Descender : One automaton tries to stay animated on a planet where androids are outlaw . By Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen .
• Drifter : When a space transport crashes on an unknown major planet , a frontier town uprise on an alien word . By Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein .
• Injection , by Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey , about the consequences of the world ’s increasing spiral into pandemonium .
• Intersect , by Ray Fawkes . Official sum-up : “ Bodies dislodge and merge , warring with themselves . blood line rain from the sky . A child ’s song is translated into toxic , thought - destroying susurration . Everything is change . Everything is amiss . ”
• The Humans , by Keenan Marshall Keller and Tom Neely , a chemical group of … humans take a tripper to limbo . Both sexual urge and bananas are involved , apparently .
• Tooth and Claw , by Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey — a group of thaumaturge marshal a supporter from beyond to save their humans , but accidentally make things much , much worse .
• Invisible Republic , by Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko , which “ explores the secret history of one serviceman ’s rise to business leader after an abominable bit of fury elevates him to folk - hero status on a war - torn major planet seeking independence . ”
Boom Studios
Boom is cornering the market on comic adaptations of awesome ’ 80s movies starring Kurt Russell ; they ’ll begin an ongoing serial publication based on Escape from New York , set immediately after the motion-picture show ’s concluding scenery , and will follow Snake Plisskin as he discovers the state of the rest of America . They ’ll also be co - issue the Trek / PotA crosswalk with IDW .
Dark Horse
The long - awaited subsequence to the hit picture Fight Club will finally arrive in 2015 , thanks to Dark Horse Comics . The 10 - issue series , write by author Chuck Palahniuk with art by Cameron Stewart , star the teller , Tyler Durden , Marla Singer , and the narrator ’s 9 - year - old son , in which the narrator pretty much perpetrates the same mistake his own father made .
Titan
Titan denote six new series ; I ’ll rent the prescribed mechanical press exit describe them : “ 1 ) alien satellite adventure scag Hunter by Mark A. Nelson ; 2 ) teenage horror Gravestown by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks , which is identify as “ a twisted The Lion , The Witch & The Wardrobe ” ; 3 ) environmental revulsion Surface Tension by Jay Gunn ; 4 ) manga - infuse law thriller Man Plus by André Lima Araújo ; 5 ) turn of the century adventure Adler : Woman of Mystery by Lavie Tidhar and Paul McCaffrey , sport Sherlock Holmes femme fatale Irene Adler , and 6 ) undercover agent actioner Scarlett Couture by Des Taylor . ” Let ’s see if they can doIrene Adler right , huh ?
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