Fun in Baltimore Part 4 of 5

Next up is the House of Idea's, the Mighty Marvels. And probably DC as well. Neither of them had a whole lot to say that they hadn't already said either that weekend in panels, or (as in DC's case) that they had already talked about sometime over the summer. But there were a few things worth mentioning:

Marvel

-There will be an all new X-Men book next year. They might have meant All New X-Men, or just, y'know, another X book.

-October is zombie month, and Suydam is doing covers for about twelve different comics, Iron Fist, Ms Marvel, and She-Hulk among others

-MAX comics is making a comeback, starting with Foolkiller. There will be 2 to 3 more as it picks up steam.

-Marvel Knights will continue with limited series, but there are no plans to make any on-going titles part of the MK line.

-First up for the MK line is Logan by Brian Vaughn and Eduardo Risso

-Battle of the Purple Pants'ed Monsters!!!! Hulk vs. Fing Fang Foom! Let's just hope Hulk stays out of Foom's pants.

-Hulk goes Commie! Maybe. I tossed the image they showed us at the con up here for all to see. Afterwards at the bar, the other retailers and I decided that it was Capitalist Hulk and Commie Hulk.

-Part of that image got explained (kind of) when we were told that Jeff Loeb and Ed McGuinness were the new creative team on Hulk. But that Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan would remain on the book. What? And that's all they would say.

-Greg Pak will also be writing a few other things Hulk related such as Warbound and Hulk: Against the World

-The X-Men "Disassembled" teaser that we saw is not the actual name of the series, it's just supposed to have the same "feel & flavor"(?)

-Secret Invasion is the big news for '08. It will be an 8 issue limited series (and ninety million tie-ins).

-Ultimate Iron Man II by Orson Scott Card and Pascal Ferry is coming this winter

-There will be a Bendis/Maleev Omnibus for Daredevil. Which is cool, those guys really deserve it.

-Dark Tower: The Long Road Home is the next installment of the DT story. Jae Lee is already working on issue 3 apparently.

-I'm sure you've seen the pictures of the new X-Force team. I don't know if this is supposed to be the secret X book they were talking about, but we'll see. If you haven't seen it, or have trouble placing the characters, it's Wolverine, Wolfsbane, X-2, and Warpath. I wonder if Cyclops, Colossus, and Cannonball will get their own team?

-There will be no team known as the X-Men anymore. They even showed us a teaser, the "No More Mutants" image from House of M, but replacing Mutants with X-Men

- Cable is coming back, but which Cable, and from when?

Okay, on to DC. This is much shorter as pretty much everything they had to say had already been talked about, most of it back at San Diego!

-There will be a 20th Anniversary Hardcover of The Killing Joke. It has been re-colored and will include bonus material of some sort

-Sergio Aragones will be writing Batlash with John Severen on art, Sergio will also be taking over writing on The Spirit

-Billy Tucci will be doing Sgt. Rock

-Bob Wayne's old Time Masters will be released in trade

-Vertigo is expanding with Madame Xanadu, where we will see the Phantom Stranger? But Phantom Stranger is DCU!? And, those two can't cross anymore, right? I'm so confused

-Lastly, WildStorm Armageddon will lead into WildStorm Revelations in January

See? Hardly a thing. Shameful. Okay, that's for this one. Stay tuned for more bits and pieces about the con, as well as a few touristy pics I took when Ben and I headed up to Washington D.C. Tuesday evening.

-Dan