Marvel Comics SEPTEMBER 2016 SOLICITATIONS

[lordultimus]

INTERNATIONAL IRON MAN #7
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • ALEX MALEEV (A/C)
CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN!
• In the middle of the events of Civil War, Tony finds out the truth about his parents and their connection to the history of the Marvel Universe.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



THE ULTIMATES #11
AL EWING (W) • KENNETH ROCAFORT (A/C)
COSPLAY VARIANT COVER AVAILABLE
CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN!
• The Ultimates are at war – with each other!
• Can they solve their problems and come together in time to face the real threat...
• ...or will Thanos and his new acolyte destroy them all?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



A-FORCE #9
KELLY THOMPSON (W) • Paulo Siqueira (A/C)
COSPLAY VARIANT COVER AVAILABLE
CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN!
• The fates of NICO MINORU, a mysterious missing girl named Alice, and a small town in Colorado are all tied together as CIVIL WAR II heats up and threatens to tear A-FORCE apart.
• The team, with ELSA BLOODSTONE in foul-mouthed tow, splits up to hunt down the apparent source of the trouble in the hopes of saving the town.
• However, it soon becomes apparent that all is not what it seems with the team—A-Force is changing—and by morning there may not be anyone left to save the day.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #12
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • VALERIO SCHITI (A)
Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS
COSPLAY VARIANT COVER AVAILABLE
CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN!
• The Guardians’ allegiances are split right down the middle, and tensions have NEVER been higher!
• Will they be too busy fighting to guard the galaxy?
• Will that even matter if they can’t leave Earth?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99



VENOM: SPACE KNIGHT #12
ROBBIE THOMPSON (W) • GERARDO SANDOVAL (A)
Cover by ZACH HOWARD
CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN!
• In his fight with Flash, Spidey held all the cards—will the symbiote take back the advantage by TAKING OVER Spider-Man?
• Can Venom control his rage?! Can Spidey contain his BIGGEST secret?!
• And while Flash’s duty to the GUARDIANS brought him to Earth—he won’t forget his responsibility to old teammates.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



THE VISION #11
TOM KING (W) • GABRIEL HERNANDEZ WALTA (A)
Cover by MIKE DEL MUNDO
• The Avengers draw a line in the sand. They tell Vision he is not to cross this line. If he does, they will destroy him. “Remember,” they say. “You’re an Avenger. First. Always.” “Stay where you are,” they say. “Don’t cross the line,” they say. Vision nods. He tells them he understands.
• Then Vision crosses the line.
• The end is coming for the most critically acclaimed book of the year, and no one is safe. Don’t miss the issue everyone will be talking about.
• Also, hail Hydra.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



SILK #12
ROBBIE THOMPSON (w) • TANA FORD (a)
Cover by HELEN CHEN
COSPLAY VARIANT COVER AVAILABLE
• Silk’s search for her parents takes her somewhere unexpected—THE NEGATIVE ZONE!!!
• What the heck have her parents been doing in the Negative Zone?!
• The most surprising book has a few doozies coming up this month!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99



VOTE LOKI #4
CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS (W) • Langdon Foss (A)
COVER BY TRADD MOORE
VARIANT COVER BY DAVID LOPEZ
• Election Day is upon us and Loki-mania has reached its height! The American people have spoken and THEY WANT LOKI.
• But Nisa’s not buying it. She had a bad feeling about Loki from the get go and she’s finally got proof that he’s up to no good. Too bad no one will listen.
• Bald Eagles! Odin bless the Troops! ‘Mericuh! VOTE LOKI!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN ANNUAL #1
OLLIE MASTERS & BRANDON MONTCLARE (W)
CARLO BARBERI & ROSI KAMPE (A)
Cover by VICTOR IBANEZ
VARIANT COVER BY RON LIM
YOUNG VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
NEW STORY ARC STARTS NOW!
• When the Terrigen Cloud threatens to wash over a prison and the warden refuses to protect its mutant inmates, the Extraordinary X-Men take matters into their own hands…and stage a PRISON BREAK!
• And when Moon Girl takes it upon herself to solve the Terrigen crisis, she may just find an unlikely ally…
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99



UNCANNY X-MEN #12 & 13
CULLEN BUNN (W) • GREG LAND (A/C)
ISSUE #12 – DEFENDERS VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The X-Men join THE HELLFIRE CLUB?!
• To investigate a string of violent attacks perpetrated by mutants, the Uncanny X-Men ally themselves with their (former?) foes.
• But what they’re about to uncover may be too much for even their combined might to handle…
32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)

Comments

[crinos]

Why did Elsa Bloodstone turn into an Umber Hulk?

What has the Beyond Corporation done this time?

[scorntx]

If it's a choice between the superheroes fighting one another, or the guy determined to kill all manner of people to impress that cute anthropomorphic personification he likes, I am kind of going to have to go for the killer.

He's at least got a motivation that makes sense.
(Except when written by Bendis.)

[leoboiko]

• Team X is fighting… with each other!!
• Threat Y is coming!
• Will team X get its act together before it’s too late?!

[silicondream]

It's impressive that Black Panther is holding his own against Thanos. It's even more impressive that he's doing it with no legs.

[mrstatham]

Really? One's going behind Thanos' body. The other is folded, which you can clearly see, as he's kneeing him in the face.

[silicondream]

I just don't think Thanos' bulk leaves any room for that. Panther's left leg would have to be folded so hard that his foot's actually living inside his butt cheek, and snaking his right leg around behind Thanos while keeping the rest of his body in front like that would require a very painful bend at the knee.

[joetuss]

Well, if the NYPD could do it, why not Black Panther

[lyricalswagger]

He held his own against the Silver Surfer...

[mrstatham]

Dear God, Marvel, stop trying to make Thanos happen. He's your 'fetch', and you don't even have a fucking movie with him in it properly until what, 2018? When it comes to your inevitable big tie-in event that year, people won't care because the guy's already devalued currency.

[long_silence]

I feel like the Ultimates book is dealing with Thanos because Bendis decided to use him to incite the current superhuman grudge match, and then had no further plans for him for the rest of the event, so Ewing decided to actually use him in a tie in.

Like when Bendis introduced Layla Miller in House of M and had literally no plans for her once it was over, so Peter David had to develop her into an actual character.

[mrstatham]

It's not even just CW2, though, it's been the entire use of him since he was brought back to life. He wasn't even the big focus of his own event in Infinity, he was just a footnote for Hickman's stuff. Same in Secret Wars. They shouldn't have brought him back until 2018.

[silverhammerman]

Bringing Thanos back right after Avengers was a pretty stupid move, bu I kind of don't blame them for it. I mean, it must have seemed like a no-brainer at the time, and I don't think anyone would have predicted that the MCU would drag it's feet re: Thanos for six fulls years.

But yeah, the comics got left in an awkward position where Thanos is back but they can't do anything definitive with him until the movies do, so the character has just been puttering around the 616 losing impact for the past four years.

[lyricalswagger]

Yeah, I kind of trust Ewing on this to make lemonade out of lemons. He's reaaaaally good at that.

(Like the whole "Sunspot buys AIM" thing.)

[informationgeek]

I like to point out that Civil War II: Saturday Night Cleaver is still going on and will go on until October. Just.... just stop it Marvel. Stop dragging this out and having the majority of your books be tie-ins. This is so fricking draining on my very soul.

[scorntx]

It's an event written by Bendis. The fact that it ends this year at all is a miracle, if only in a statistical sense.

And, y'know, it's an Event. It's required to drag everything into it.
Like a black hole, but without the promise of the sweet, violent release of merciful death.

[angelophile]

At what point did they replace Nightcrawler with a troll?

[malitia]

Well, Loki is still having fun running... Not that I expect the jerk to win ( 1) Main Marvel never had fictional president before; 2) Loki's plans have a disturbingly predictable tendency to go awry).