The World Has Changed:House of M panel:
The New X-Men' status quo is changing after the House of M. Craig Kyle and Chris Yost from X-23 are taking over after Nunzio DeFillippis and Christina Weir. Their first arc deals with the repercussions of HoM and how that affected the younger mutants. Editor Mike Marts said that HoM "demands a line-up change." "X-23, Surge, Hellion, Rockslide, Mercury, Elixir, and Dust " are on the new lineup...
Marts says "You have to read all of House of M, then House of M: The Day After and New X-Men # 20, both in November," said Marts. "Then you'll understand why all these characters were chosen to be a part of the New X-Men." He also said none of the present characters are going to any of the other Marvel Universe superteams, nor or any getting solo series...
Marvel Editor Andy Schmidt said Excalibur will be restarted featuring some of the classic line up from writer Chris Claremont and artist Michael Ryan. The line up includes: Captain Britain, Nocturne, Pete Wisdom, and Dazzler.
X-Factor is also returning this November spiraling from the success of the Madrox limited series and out of events from House of M. The series will be centered in the District X region with a darker tone than the original book...
There will be an X-Men/Power Pack limited series starting in October from the Power Pack team of Marc Sumerak and Gurihiru...
The House of M variant covers for # 6 are by Greg Land, #7's are from Sal Larroca, and #8's from Chris Bachalo...
Starting with Uncanny X-Men 464 new creative team is Chris Claremont and Chris Bachalo...
Whedon and Cassady will stay on until Astonishing X-Men #25
Exiles # 69 - #71 is about Beak returning to the mainstream Marvel Universe, but when the Exiles return, its the House of M. Also in Exiles issue # 71, a member of the team will die...
The Pulse # 10 by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Lark is going to be the most closely tied in to the House of M. If people want the full story on House of M, this is the issue to buy...
There are some plans for the X-Statix, but nothing that can be announced yet...
There are no plans for the Man-Thing after its appearance in House of M...
Joe Quesada, Orson Scott Card, Brian K. Vaughan, and Brandon Peterson on the Ultimate Marvel panel:
Concept art was shown featuring Silver Sable, Havok ,and several other characters. Quesada mentioned that Ultimate Silver Sable was in the upcoming Ultimate Spider-Man video game and that the game was penned by Brian Michael Bendis. There was no mention of if she would show up within the pages of any Ultimate Universe comic book.
Teaser art was featured from the final part in the Warren Ellis Ultimate trilogy, Ultimate Extinction. The piece shown was a black and white Galactus looking helmet. Brandon Peterson is tapped to pencil the series... he teased "The Silver Surfer is there, but not in the way you might expect.
"It's not just going to be a Fantastic Four thing," Peterson continued. "It's an entire Ultimate Universe thing with all the major players coming together to team up. Galactus will not be a big guy in a purple suit. We have a really realistic take on Galactus. The scope of the series is huge - as in actual astronomical units being described in the script I had to draw."
When asked "Why weren't Shanna and Black Panther rebooted in Ultimate line?", Joe Q said "The Ultimate Line is intended to be more in line with the movie line. When we tried to do an Ultimate Daredevil to coincide with the movie, we ended up with basically the same character. That's why with BP and Shanna, when we found ourselves going down the same road, we decided they should remain in the regular universe."
Joe Quesada plugged again the fact that major announcements containing the Ultimate Universe would be forthcoming in the next three to four weeks and everyone should "stay tuned."
Other Marvel Universe panel info:
Joe Quesada has signed a new multi-year deal with Marvel Comics that has him not only wearing the Editor-in Chief hat, but also Chief Creative Officer, Publishing.
“Over the next couple of years, my ultimate goals will remain further growing Marvel Comics’ leadership position and expanding our mainstream presence. I want comics to have the same consumer prominence as movies, TV and novels and in doing so continue to grow Marvel Comics as among America’s premiere storytellers,” said Quesada.
New creators on Iron Man, Daredevil and Thor, as well as the New Avengers artist and Incredible Hulk writer, will be announced soon. The new Thor book won't launch until next year.
Punisher #25-30 pit Frank Castle against the NYPD.
Marvel Comics revealed a new six-issue Moon Knight series will begin in February. Moon Knight: The Bottom is written by Charlie Huston, with art by David Finch. Huston, 37, is an author of such books as Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things and the upcoming Already Dead.
"This is Charlie's inaugural comic work," Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada said. "Charlie's are the best scripts I've ever seen coming from someone who hasn't written comics before."
The book will be set firmly in continuity and will feature Marc Spector as Moon Knight. "But it moves the story forward," Quesada said.
Another Mary Jane series written by Sean McKeever will start in November or December.
Fantastic Four: First Family, a six-issue series, will launch in January, written by Joe Casey, with art by Chris Weston
"We go back and explain a lot of the early stuff," Casey said. "There a lot of firsts, like the first time Reed Richards kissed the government's ass, which he seems to do a lot now."
J. Michael Strazcynski's Book of Lost Souls will be published in October, with art by Colleen Doran.
New Thunderbolts #13-14 is a meeting with the New Avengers
New Avengers- Finch's last arc will feature Ronin and then Frank Cho's arc on New Avengers will feature Spider-Woman
The original numbering on the She-Hulk will be relaunched in October, but will soon revert to cumulative numbering with a #100 issue (combining the original series, Sensational & the most recent series)
Cloak and Dagger would be seen in the pages of a Runaways arc beginning with issue # 9. The New Avengers will also be featured in that arc....
Luke Cage will appear in six issues of Black Panther.
Quesada said to look for some Iron Man-related mini-series
J. Michael Straczynski said the move of Supreme Power from MAX to Marvel Knights won't impact the title's contents creatively.
"The story isn't going to change, the characters aren't going to change and the tone isn't going to change," he said. "The only thing that will change will be the imprint."
Straczynski said there won't be any crossovers between the Marvel and Supreme Power universe, but there might be Marvel Universe-like characters in Supreme Power.
Secret War will conclude in November, and Dan Buckley said a hardcover is targeted for February or March
The panel ended with Quesada teasing a project. He said last year at Comic-Con he was asked if there was any one writer he could have come work on a Marvel Universe project, who would it be, and then flashed "The King" image without further explanation.
Peter David, Reggie Hudlin and J. Michael Straczynski on the Spider-Man panel:
"The Other", a twelve part story debuts this fall after the end of "House of M", crossing through all three monthly Spidey titles
[Peter David & Mike Wieringo's] Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will be from Peter's POV, Marvel Knights Spider-Man through Mary Jane's, and Amazing through Aunt May's
There will be no deaths in Peter’s family during the storyline...
Peter David on "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man":
"1) It's a way of doing a crossover story in which writers don't feel like they're doing bits and pieces; (2) readers who prefer particular writers can read a month of their stories in a row rather than piecemeal chapters; (3) regular readers of the respective books will be exposed to writers and might--with any luck--like what they see and check out those writers on their own regular, respective titles.
"My first month of stories will essentially be one complete tale. FNSM is told from Peter's POV, MK will be from MJ's POV, and the third will focus on Aunt May. The main storyline will be resolved by Part 3, which will be in ASM. Now...will it have elements that tie into a larger crossover? Yes. One would hope they'll be interesting enough to prompt readers to continue reading the full arc. But if not, you'll still have a complete story, soup to nuts, just as if I were doing a three parter in FNSM. The only difference is that you'll get it in one month rather than three. I would like to think that's a good thing. But if you guys think that's a bad thing and don't want to read them, well...okay. I think that's kind of unfortunate, but it's your call."
“The Other” storyline traces its roots back to Amazing Spider-Man writer J. Michael Straczynski’s “The Book of Ezekiel” arc, which introduced the idea that not only was Peter Parker not the first spider-based hero, but that the world was filled with individuals taking their powers from various animal totems...
The question of Peter's webshooters came up at the panel and here's what they had to say on it:
He wasn't 100% sure, as it was Paul Jenkins' story which gave Spidey the organic webs, but he speculated that it was done to more closely tie-in to the movies. However, he said he likes the idea of organic webshooters, as he put them in Spider-Man 2099 years ago. He then questioned why people could accept that a man could crawl on walls and have a form of ESP, but that shooting webs from his wrist is crazy? He says that crazy would be if he shot them from his behind, like a real spider.
A DC vs. Marvel videogame is in talks, about a game that would feature characters from both universes, but no official announcements can be made yet.
When asked about the recent story about Gwen Stacy, Norman Osborn & their illegitiment children, JMS seriously answered that Gwen Stacy had never really been explored as a character, and that she came across as trivial. By showing her go through this ordeal of making a mistake and choosing to take responsibility for that mistake, she became a stronger character in the process. He also pointed out that originally the baby was going to be Peter's but the story was changed to keep Peter's age ambiguous.
When asked how to make Mary Jane more than just "Spider-Man's wife", Straczynski said "By showing her taking more chances in her career, and doing her own thing. Also, her interactions with the New Avengers are going to play a huge role in their relationship." David says "She can see things Spidey can't. For example, Spider-Man has never actually learned how to fight, and Mary Jane sees that they're living with Captain America, one of the best fighters in the world and suggests that Spidey take lessons from Cap."
Now that he’s Chief of Programming for BET, Hudlin said he has three more issues of MK Spider-Man after his “The Other” arc.
He added he doesn’t know how much longer he will stay on Black Panther, but that he wants to always be writing at least one comic, “Because I’m having too much fun.”
New villains will show up in FNSM, David says the new title will be entertaining Spider-Man stories, more than likely kid-friendly
JMS said Peter will also be dealing with identity theft that will mess up his life & plans to bring back some classic villains after “The Other”, naming Sandman, Molten Man, and maybe Doc Ock
SIDE NOTE: Before he signed with Marvel, DC offered JMS Superman as part of their pitch to sign with them, but he turned down the offer. Apparently however, they said that should he ever change his mind, Superman will be there for him.