Marvel Comics April 2021 Solicitations

[lordultimus]

source: CBR.com




VENOM #200
DONNY CATES (W) • RYAN STEGMAN & MORE (A)
COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY JOCK
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY JOCK
VARIANT COVER BY SIMONE BIANCHI
DEADPOOL 30TH VARIANT COVER BY ROB LIEFELD
VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
VARIANT COVER BY MARK BAGLEY
VARIANT COVER BY ART ADAMS
VARIANT COVER BY PATRICK GLEASON
VARIANT COVER BY STEPHANIE HANS
VARIANT COVER BY JEFFREY VEREGGE
VARIANT COVER BY HUMBERTO RAMOS
VARIANT COVER BY NIC KLEIN
VARIANT COVER BY MR. GARCIN
The Final Chapter in the Book of VENOM by Donny Cates & Ryan Stegman!
This is it, Venomaniacs! The landmark 200th issue starring the most sinister symbiote in the Marvel Universe arrives – and after this, NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME! From Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and a who’s who of artists from the issues that tore Eddie Brock’s life asunder and brought the KING IN BLACK to Earth, comes the first chapter of the rest of Venom’s life. But in Knull’s wake, what even remains of the Lethal Protector?
96 PGS./Rated T+ …$9.99



THE MARVELS #1
KURT BUSIEK (W) • YILDIRAY CINAR (A) • Cover by ALEX ROSS
Variant cover by CARLOS PACHECO - MAR200960
Variant cover by STEVE EPTING - MAR200961
VARIANT COVER BY BILL SIENKIEWICZ - MAR200962
PAST & PRESENT Combine in an All-New Ongoing Series!
Kurt Busiek (MARVELS, Astro City) is back, with the biggest, wildest, most sprawling series ever to hit the Marvel Universe, telling stories that span the decades and range from cosmic adventure to intense human drama, from the street-level to the cosmic, starring literally anyone from Marvel’s very first heroes to the superstars of tomorrow. This first issue includes an invasion from orbit, a picnic in Prospect Park, super hero sightseeing in Manhattan, the All-Winners Squad in 1947, Reed Richards during his time in military intelligence, cosmic beings beyond space and time— and that’s only for starters. Featuring Captain America, Spider-Man, the Punisher, the Human Torch, Storm, the Black Cat, the Golden Age Vision, Aero, Iron Man and Thor, and introducing two brand-new characters, all beautifully drawn by Yildiray Cinar (X-MEN, Legion of Super-Heroes, IRON MAN) in the opening act of a thriller that’ll take us across the Marvel Universe…and beyond. Plus: Who (or what) is KSHOOM? It all starts here. And it goes...everywhere.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Order using MAR200959



BLACK PANTHER #25
TA-NEHISI COATES (W) • DANIEL ACUÑA & BRIAN STELFREEZE (A)
COVER BY DANIEL ACUÑA
FINAL ISSUE VARIANT COVER BY BRIAN STELFREEZE - APR201031
VARIANT COVER BY SAM SPRATT - APR201032
REBORN VARIANT COVER BY TBA
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY NATACHA BUSTOS
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY JUANN CABAL
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY CARMEN CARNERO
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY JOSHUA CASSARA
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY IBAN COELLO
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY PATRICK GLEASON
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY RB SILVA
THE FINAL ISSUE OF TA-NEHISI COATES’ LANDMARK RUN!
It’s the end of an era for the Black Panther as renowned writer Ta-Nehisi Coates concludes his Wakandan epic! Over five years, Coates has taken the Black Panther to hell and back and expanded Wakanda into the distant stars. Now, in his final issue, he brings T’Challa full circle, back to the home he left behind…and the crown he has never fully accepted. This is the story of a king who sought to be a hero, a hero who was reduced to a slave, a slave who advanced into legend…and the man who has struggled to hold up an empire in his bare hands. The journey will conclude, but the legend remains. Don’t miss the close of a historic epoch in comic history, including an epilogue drawn by Brian Stelfreeze!
56 PGS./Rated T …$5.99
Order using APR201030



GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #13
AL EWING (W) • JUAN FRIGERI (A) • COVER BY Brett Booth
Variant Cover by JUNGGEUN YOON
Variant Cover by RON LIM
Variant cover by Peach Momoko
DEADPOOL 30TH VARIANT COVER BY ROB LIEFELD
REBORN VARIANT COVER BY TBA
A NEW AGE OF SPACE STARTS HERE!
They were soldiers, misfits, mercenaries, thieves and a family. They were heroes… but times have changed. The galaxy no longer needs heroes.
It needs super heroes! Now, when the call goes forth – whether it’s from a stranded team of planetary explorers or Emperor Hulkling and his Kree/Skrull Alliance – the Guardians of the Galaxy answer!
The New Age of Space brings a new artist! New headquarters! New costumes! New teammates! And an all-new enemy you’ll have to see to believe! Get on board, true believer – it’s going to be the ride of your life!
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99



SPIDER-MAN: SPIDER’S SHADOW #1 (Of 4)
CHIP ZDARSKY (W) • PASQUAL FERRY (A) • Cover by PHIL NOTO
Variant cover by PASQUAL FERRY
Variant cover by CHIP ZDARSKY
VARIANT COVER BY RON LIM
WHAT IF PETER PARKER BECAME VENOM?
Peter Parker once put on an alien suit that nearly destroyed his life – but what if he’d never taken it off? Ignoring every warning, Spidey embraces the dark symbiote! Haunted by terrible nightmares and exhausted by an endless barrage of bad guys, Peter can’t seem to catch a break these days. So when the Hobgoblin attacks, he finds a hero at the end of his rope…and vulnerable to new dark impulses. Spider-Man is about to change his rules – but is it truly Peter who is in charge? Creative powerhouses Chip Zdarsky, Pasqual Ferry and Matt Hollingsworth bring you a terrifying tale of a Peter Parker possessed and on the edge!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99



MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #25
SALADIN AHMED (W) • CARMEN CARNERO (A)
Wraparound Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
VARIANT BY SARA PICHELLI
VARIANT BY DAN HIPP
VARIANT BY MARK BAGLEY
DEADPOOL 30TH VARIANT COVER BY ROB LIEFELD
REBORN VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY JEFFREY VEREGGE
THE CLONE SAGA – MILES MORALES-STYLE!
We finally see the full extent of what the Assessor did when he kidnapped Miles back in #7.
This oversized anniversary issue lets the clones loose in Brooklyn and messes with Miles life even more than Peter Parker’s Clone Saga messed HIS life up.
48 PGS./Rated T …$4.99



S.W.O.R.D. #5
AL EWING (W) • VALERIO SCHITI (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK!
On Krakoa, Fabian Cortez and the Quiet Council discuss the rules of murder. But in space, the murders have already begun…and the killer has a connection to Cortez he’d never suspect. The color may be gold…but this, my friends…is pure giallo…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



IMMORTAL HULK #45
AL EWING (W) • JOE BENNETT (A) • Cover by ALEX ROSS
homage variant by JOE BENNETT
REBORN VARIANT COVER BY TBA
The Hulk is at his lowest point.
His strength is gone. His friends cannot reach him. Gamma itself has turned against him. What hope is there now?
What hope is left... for THE WEAKEST THERE IS?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



CAPTAIN MARVEL #28
KELLY THOMPSON (W) • JACOPO CAMAGNI (A) • Cover by MARCO CHECCHETTO
variant cover by Belén Ortega
REBORN VARIANT COVER BY TBA
TOIL & TROUBLE!
Carol Danvers is a born soldier. Give her a field of battle and an enemy to punch, and she’s unstoppable. But the Captain’s Achilles’ heel is about to break. The mystic arts are Carol’s one true weakness, and – haunted by her failure to stop the villain Ove – she’s on a mission to correct that weakness...at any cost. A brand-new arc kicks off with artist Jacopo Camagni’s supernatural talents!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Comments

[donnblake]

"The Marvels- we're just letting Kurt Busiek do whatever he wants."

I've heard worse pitches.

[thanekos]

I can't wait for " The Coming of Memento Morrie ".

[lonewolf23k]

Hey, it worked for Astro City!

[tripodeca113]

Seems like it'll be good, but now we probably won't get anymore new Astro City for a while.

[scorntx]

Carol Danvers using magic.
... okay, then.


'bout freaking time the Guardians got some more Skrull representation.
Way behind on that front.
(well, 'cept if we count Replica, but that'd require acknowledging the original Guardians, and that's clearly madness.)

Not sure about having Hulkling and Wiccan on the team. Thematically, yes, Teddy makes sense, and where he goes his husband's got to follow, but... hem...
... still, makes more sense than Iron Man, or Kitty Pryde or Ant-Man.

also that jacket looks ridiculous on Rich.

[beyondthefringe]

I'm hoping that they basically expand the Guardians into a well... legion, if you will. I've seen a lot of characters represented in the various alt covers, so maybe this means the team will basically run with a rotating roster as needed. Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot, Moondragon, Martyr, Nova, Quasar, Super-Skrull, Hulking, Wiccan... I suspect Al wants to take things to the next, bigger level. Why not do the whole "You're all Guardians when we call you."

[scorntx]

Some sort of legion of... super-heroes? An interesting thought...

Marvel have occasionally (okay, since '14) tried to market the Guardians as the Cosmic Avengers. Not sure about them going full-on with that, since the Guardians being a small ragtag bunch has always been Their Thing, right from the original team, but if anyone could make it work, it would be Ewing.

Mind, it's always nice to not just have a writer doing a cheap rehash of the films.
(Kind of surprised he hasn't had a version of the original team show up yet.)

[obsidianwolf]

The original team in the 31rst century did expand once and was clearly heading in a legion style direction.

[scorntx]

That was indeed Valentino's plan.
Then he left Marvel.

(Age of the Sentry also had the Guardians as a Legion knock-off, because of Age of the Sentry was like that.)

[spider_man6]

Yeah, I'd like that direction too, especially with all the space-related wack that's happened in the last couple years cosmic-wise. And really pumped super-skrull is joining. my only question is where are Hercules and marvel boy? They could still be there, but I'm hoping they stick around.

[themajesticmoose]

Fabian: I know a lot about murder I have some suggestions for the Quiet Council

Xavier: What are your recommendations for how we can stop it?

Fabian: ?

Stop it?

[nyadnar17]

spit out my drink

[themajesticmoose]

Fabian Cortez

In a room that has Mr Sinister, Sebastian Shaw and Charles Xavier in it he's somehow still the Absolute Worst Person There

[mastermahan]

Yep, I laughed. Well done, Moose!

[didiji]

That comment made my day hahaha

[silverhammerman]

Finally concluding Coates' Black Panther, I see. Well, supposedly, who can say if it'll get pushed back. The year-long gap preceding the final two issues has sapped whatever momentum the series might have had (which... doesn't seem to have been much, honestly, the buzz around the series seemingly evaporated by the time it got to the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda) so hopefully it reads well in trade. Personally, I picked Coates' run during Comixology's Black Panther giveaway and have been holding off reading it because it's, y'known, missing an ending, so I'm looking forward to getting into the series. Hopefully it's worth the wait, but I'll always be curious about the delays.

The Guardians of the Galaxy announcement brings such mixed emotions. Who on Earth decided Brett Booth should be doing the rollout cover? First off he's a hack, second he's toxic. If the old boys at Marvel insist on throwing work to their buddies from back in the day in place of a retirement plan there are much more suitable titles. I said it about the last issue of SWORD, but this smacks of the pre-Immortal Hulk days when Ewing's series would just get screwed over and over by editorial.

Spider's Shadow look potentially interesting, and the revival of the What-If imprint as a more prestige-oriented series of minis certainly has my attention. Hopefully the series is written with a touch more of the modern take on the Venom symbiote as not necessarily evil. The whole thing just underlines the feeling that we all know Zdarsky should be writing the main Spidey ongoing though. (yes I'm aware of Spectacular, but that was a side series)

The Miles Morales Clone Saga thing just makes me tired. Ahmed's writing, particularly on Spider-Man, seems to have been going downhill since his (excellent!) debut with Black Bolt, and this looks like more of the same. A rehash of a famously despised Peter Parker story is not the way forward for this character.

As always, I am positively vibrating with anticipation for Immortal Hulk. Ewing has really leaned into "the big guy"/Savage Hulk as the mind of a scared child with the metaphorical strength of an adult, and seeing what happens when you completely strip out that strength is going to be interesting.

[beyondthefringe]

Spider's Shadow: What if... we needed four issues to tell the same sort of story we used to knock off in one? "Spider-Man keeps the symbiote suit, things get grimdark, people die horribly, Peter comes to a tragic end. And in the end, someone new picks up the red and blue to carry on the legacy..."

[obsidianwolf]

Yep I"m not interested in yet another trip down an awful reality.

Honestly I wish during the Symbiote could be heroic days we'd gotten an AU where Spidey and the Symbiote actually worked out just to be different.

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, I do agree that if this is just gonna be a typical What-If deal but stretched out into a miniseries I'm not gonna be terribly impressed. That said, with it being Zdarsky and seemingly more of a prestige book, I think there's a chance that we get some of the kind of character work that classic What-If stories can gloss over.

I actually didn't love Life Story, but some of the stuff that he did with the symbiote and his take on Peter Parker (Peter being a bit of a jerk, understanding the symbiote even before Reed Richards does and choosing to continue using it) has me thinking/hoping that there's a chance this ends up as more than "poor Pete gets consumed by the bag space pants and eventually dies".

[leahandillyana]

That's a lot of books. I'm not sure it's a smart decision among industry-wide crisis.

[tripodeca113]

"This oversized anniversary issue lets the clones loose in Brooklyn and messes with Miles life even more than Peter Parker’s Clone Saga messed HIS life up."

Big claims Marvel, but I don't think Miles has enough ongoing series to really capture the experience of the original.
Besides it's not the same unless Miles parents have seemingly retuned from the dead, only to turn out to be robots, sent as a cruel trick by his evil (but now dead) best friend, causing himself to call himself The Spider and become more violent and anti-social....

[tcampbell1000]

"It'll make his book basically unreadable for years!"

[scorntx]

"It'll make him totally unrelatable!"

[cricharddavies]

"…and the crown [Black Panther] has never fully accepted."

... I'm sorry, what? Mr. "I know every grain of sand in my kingdom"?