Marvel Comics February 2022 Solicitations

[lordultimus]

source: cbr.com




SPIDER-GWEN: GWENVERSE #1 (OF 5)
TIM SEELEY (W) • JODI NISHIJIMA (A) • Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
Variant cover by Leonardo Romero
HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
HEADSHOT VARIANT COVER BY TODD NAUCK
DESIGN VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
STORMBREAKER VARIANT COVER BY NATACHA BUSTOS
NOT ENOUGH GWENS!
When Gwen Stacy was bitten by a radioactive spider, she gained arachnid-like super-powers and started a crimefighting career as Spider-Woman (or as she's affectionately known to her peers, Ghost-Spider)! But what would have happened if instead she had picked up the enchanted hammer, Mjolnir? Or if she received the Super-Soldier Serum? Or built a high-tech suit of armor? Or…you get the idea! Find out in this new five-issue miniseries by Tim Seeley (HEROES REBORN: MARVEL DOUBLE ACTION) and Jodi Nishijima (UNITED STATES OF CAPTAIN AMERICA) as Ghost-Spider tumbles through time and comes face-to-face with herselves!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99



GHOST RIDER #1
BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • CORY SMITH (A) • Cover by KAEL NGU
Headshot Variant Cover by TODD NAUCK
Variant Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
X-Gwen Variant Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Variant Cover by INHYUK LEE
Variant Cover by PEACH MOMOKO
Variant Cover by BENJAMIN SU
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY ADAM KUBERT
WRAPAROUND Variant Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY TBA
SHADES VARIANT COVER BY JORGE FORNES
JOHNNY BLAZE!!
Johnny Blaze has the perfect life: a wife and two kids, a job at an auto repair shop and a small-town community that supports him… But Johnny isn't doing well. He has nightmares of monsters when he sleeps. And he sees bloody visions when he's awake. This life is beginning to feel like a prison. And there's a spirit in him that's begging to break out! Benjamin Percy (WOLVERINE, X-FORCE) and Cory Smith (CONAN THE BARBARIAN, CAPTAIN MARVEL) are going back to basics with the Spirit of Vengeance in this extra-sized first issue!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #88.BEY
GEOFFREY THORNE (W) • JAN BAZALDUA & JIM TOWE (A)
COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW • VARIANT COVER BY JAN BAZULDUA
Did you think BEYOND only had ONE hero on their payroll?
In this issue: The Slingers come out to play!
Watch as Hobie Brown ascends to new heights as THE HORNET!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99



SAVAGE SPIDER-MAN #1 (OF 5)
JOE KELLY (W) • GERARDO SANDOVAL (A) • Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
Variant Cover by GERARDO SANDOVAL
Variant Cover by MARK BAGLEY
Variant Cover by RON LIM
VARIANT COVER BY LOGAN LUBERA
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
SPIDER-MAN LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE!
Peter Parker finds himself at the middle of the biggest, most wide-ranging adventure he's ever had and out of the gate it has turned him into a SAVAGE BEAST! Forget everything you know about Spider-Man. All rules and regulations are out the door and Peter Parker may never be the same!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



IRON FIST #1 (OF 5)
ALYSSA WONG (W) • MICHAEL-YG (A) • Cover by JIM CHEUNG
X-GWEN VARIANT COVER BY NICK DRAGOTTA
HEADSHOT VARIANT COVER BY TODD NAUCK
VARIANT COVER BY GUNJI
VARIANT COVER BY Leinil Francis Yu
WHO IS THE NEW IRON FIST?!
After giving up his power to save the world, DANNY RAND believes he's seen the last of the IRON FIST...
...But when DEMONS begin to attack cities around the world, a MYSTERIOUS NEWCOMER in a FAMILIAR MASK appears, hands blazing with the CHI OF SHOU-LAO THE UNDYING!
Who is this NEW IRON FIST? And does his power really come from the DRAGON OF K'UN-LUN... Or from something far more sinister?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



X-CELLENT #1
PETER MILLIGAN (W) • MICHAEL ALLRED (A/C)
Variant cover by Mateus Manhanini
Variant cover by David Mack
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
IT'S FINALLY HERE!
They were loved by their adoring fans. They were reviled by the harsh press. They lived, they loved, they fought and they died…a lot — all for the sake of fame. They were the X-Statix, a team of mutant celebrities fighting for a brighter world and an even brighter spotlight! But they're old news now, because there's a new mutant team that will live harder, love harder, fight harder and die a whole lot harder than those has-beens! Peter Milligan, Michael Allred and Laura Allred return to introduce the best new super hero team you didn't know you needed! Meet…THE X-CELLENT!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99



VENOM #5
AL EWING (W) • BRYAN HITCH (A/C) • X-Gwen Variant Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
VARIANT COVER BY PAULO SIQUEIRA
If you thought the first four issues of the latest volume of VENOM were crazy, all-out action, just wait till you get a load of this one! IN THIS ISSUE, Al Ewing returns to the pages of Venom – AND HE'S BROUGHT ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS WITH HIM!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99



ETERNALS: THE UNDYING #1
KIERON GILLEN (W) • RYAN BODENHEIM (A) • Cover by ANDREA SORRENTINO
Variant Cover by Phil Noto
Thanos is now ruler of the Eternals! But believe it or not…he's actually not the worst leader that the Eternals' society has ever seen. No, that honor belongs to someone even more horrific. Thanos is evil, yes, but who was the original evil from whom all Eternal evils descend? Meet Uranos, the Undying. And may the Celestials have mercy on your souls.
32 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$3.99

Comments

[tinygaylaura]

..............

That is a VERY unfortunate choice of name for the Eternals new big bad

[lordultimus]

Well, he's a canon character, so they're stuck with it.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Uranos_(Earth-616)

[angelophile]

Thus the giant ring on the front cover, I guess.

[cyberghostface]

I hope they don't fridge Typhoid Mary so Kingpin can become 'evil' again. That's the impression I'm getting from these 'Devil's Reign' solicitations.

[laughing_tree]

She’s a mutant. Krakoa can resurrect her.

[silverhammerman]

Gwenverse
Between this and the just announced Miles Morales What-If stories, which have basically the exact same premise, it's extremely weird that Marvel is framing these two very prominent Spider-Man characters/successors as generic, context-free legacy characters for the Marvel U in general. At minimum it seems unimaginative, at most it feels like actively cheapening the characters.

X Lives/Deaths of Wolverine
Still extremely salty that this is just another "Wolverine's dark and mysterious past" storyline, rather than the followup to HoX/PoX that its name and format suggested it would be.

Superior Four
I still think this looks like a load of fun, but like the Gwenverse stuff, using the multiverse to do relatively straight takes on "What if X character was also Y character?" is not a terribly interesting use of the multiverse to me. Even the designs of the various alternate Doc Ocks (Ghost Rider Ock, Wolverine Ock, and Hulk Ock) aren't exciting imo.

ASM Beyond
Shifting Hobie Brown from the Prowler (cool) to Hornet (uncool) is a major downgrade. It's still kind of surprising that Marvel didn't just combine him and Aaron Davis somehow.
The fact that the solicit text can talk about how Goblins have defined Spidey for 60 years and now here's another one really drives home the dearth of new ideas around Spidey.

Ben Reilly: Spider-Man
Maybe it's just that I'm getting old and overly nostalgic, but it's wild that the actual nostalgia book from DeMatteis looks both cooler and more fresh than the actual new era of the main Spidey title.

Savage Spider-Man
I love Man-Spider stories. This looks cool.

Iron Fist
This could be cool and I wonder where it will go, but there's a part of me that can't help looking at this and seeing brand management. Like, is this only coming out because Disney saw that the Shang-Chi movie did relatively well and they don't want to bring in the actor from the bad Netflix Iron Fist show when they inevitably do Iron Fist stuff on Disney+? Also, what happened to Pei, the new Iron Fist who Kaare Andrews introduced? Is she gone and forgotten already?

Sabretooth
Still rocks, still hyped. The body at the foundations of Krakoa. This could be either vital reading or utterly, brutally disappointing.

Secret X-Men
As before, the team itself looks very cool, but I'm not enthused to see Tini Howard writing this, since her handling of Krakoa has rubbed me the wrong way.

X-Cellent
Finally. I'm a huge fan of X-Statix, and we've been waiting for this for two years since the initial X-Cellent one-shot. My reservations about this remain the same as they were two years ago; 1) I don' generally love to see creative teams return to old projects unless they have something new to say and 2) as much as X-Statix was an incredibly encapsulation of its moment, the nature of celebrity has undergone some major changes in the 17(!) years since the conclusion of the original series, and I'm not sure Milligan is going to be able to comment on that in a thoughtful way.

The Thing
Love the look of this, love the buzz around the first issue.

Hulk
It's not really fair to compare this to the now concluded Immortal Hulk, and its aim sound very different, but the solicit text "Get ready for a surprise-filled, all-out brawl that only the insane minds of Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley can bring you!" could not more perfectly encapsulate why I've already resigned myself to not caring about this book and why I find Cates' whole brand vaguely embarassing.

Avengers Forever
Aaron's Avengers is still dumb as a bag of rocks, but this sounds like the kind of AU stuff which can be a ton of fun.

[thanekos]

Even the designs of the various alternate Doc Ocks (Ghost Rider Ock, Wolverine Ock, and Hulk Ock) aren't exciting imo.

Clever riff on the " New Fantastic Four ", at least.

[numeronone]

Yeah...Cates is kinda very James Gunn or JJ Abrams in effect, in that a lot of his promotions would like to SHOCK you with what a COUNTER-CULTURAL VISIONARY he is...while he writes material that's mostly unchallenging and indistinguishable from your average Big Two output.

[lordultimus]

"Iron Fist
This could be cool and I wonder where it will go, but there's a part of me that can't help looking at this and seeing brand management. Like, is this only coming out because Disney saw that the Shang-Chi movie did relatively well and they don't want to bring in the actor from the bad Netflix Iron Fist show when they inevitably do Iron Fist stuff on Disney+? Also, what happened to Pei, the new Iron Fist who Kaare Andrews introduced? Is she gone and forgotten already?"

I also think it's to avoid another case of "should we make Danny Rand Asian for the MCU" controversy.

[scorntx]

-this sounds like the kind of AU stuff which can be a ton of fun-

Depends if it's like Aaron's Heroes Return, AU nonsense that's generally harmless until Aaron starts trying to give it a plot.
(and it sounds like that's what he's going to do. So that's a bit ominous.)

[lordy_co]

Yay for more Ghost Rider, even if the first arc will use the "trapped in a fake life" plot I so thoroughly despise.

Eternals is a gift that keeps giving (is this how you use the expression?).

I'm cautiously optimistic about the new Iron Fist, even if I'm still mad about Danny getting mostly dumped.

X-Cellent will probably be good, even if Milligan isn't at his prime anymore.

Apparently USAgent will be on the side of the villains during Devil's Reign, huh? Assuming of course that's Walker under the hood.

Surprised the Spider-Woman book is still going on. I read the first couple issues and it's nothing to write home about.

On a closing note, I'm very curious about that Sabretooth book. Victor Lavalle is a great writer and I'll love to see what he'll bring to the X-office.

[tinygaylaura]

"Yay for more Ghost Rider, even if the first arc will use the "trapped in a fake life" plot I so thoroughly despise."

I don't like this either :(

[tinygaylaura]

I'll be glad when this stupid Wolverine event is over and we get the regular X-books back because I fucking hate Logan and I hate Benjamin Percy's "Writing" so the fact that some of the X Books are on hold for two months so we get an event all about this metal boned moron written by the single worst writer of the entire X-book line up is about as enticing to me as an offer of a poetry reading by Bob Dole with an interval featuring the music of Justin Bieber

[iamrman]

I have to say I'm interested in Lives of Wolverine. I love those look back through the past sort of stories. I could care less about Deaths of Wolverine though.

At least we get an issue of New Mutants, though.

[numeronone]

What in the WORLD is going on with Dusk's neck/shoulder area?!

[sabertoothlotus]

I THINK she's supposed to be wearing a hood. Not sure what that red thing is supposed to be... the edge of the hood? It does look weird.

[iamrman]

I guess I was right about how the Venom book will work out, Ram V doing the earthbound stuff with Dylan Brock and space adventures with Eddie by Al Ewing. I have to admit I am more interested in Eddie's space adventures. It's Al Ewing, that's automatically a big tick from me.

[silverhammerman]

You were, and I'm glad to see it. I'm a big Ewing fan and I couldn't care less about Dylan Brock. I want the weird space adventures!

[tinygaylaura]

The Slingers are back!

That's pretty cool

I hope they do something fun with them

Black Cat appearing in the Spidey books more is good too. I hate her ongoing had to end but I'll take her being a supporting character over nothing

Queen Goblin's design is kind of hot and kind of cool but I'm eh on the idea of yet more Goblin stuff. Do we need this? There's Norman, Harry and Roderick plus I think Menace is still around tho god knows what is happening with her

I'm not saying writers shouldn't make new villains or that a legacy villain can't be cool but yet another Goblin when basically EVERY major story in all the Spider books has revolved around a Goblin for the past decade or so? Either use a classic villain who isn't a Goblin or invent a new villain who isn't a Goblin is my feeling here

I do love that it looks like Felicia is about to fuck her right there in the sky tho

Writers: Our new villain Queen Goblin is so powerful! What have the heroes got that can stop her

Black Cat: I'll tell ya what I've got

Queen Goblin's pussy on my breath

Writers: ...........

No one has EVER spoken to us like that before

Black Cat: That's because their mouth's too full of Queen Goblin's box

[iamrman]

Madelyne Pryor called, she wants her super-villain name back.

[scorntx]

So just how many writers does Spider-Man have now?
Are they just going around press-ganging whoever they find?
"Got another one here guys. He was crying and screaming a lot, so I had'ta knock him out."

(also, yay Hobie. Even if he's not being the Prowler or Spider Hero, it's nice to see Hobie get some love.
... allllthough given what happened to him last time he got the spotlight, kind of worried for him.)


The X-Office trusting a big moment meant to change everything forever to Percy is... hrrrrn...


A new arc in New Mutants.
Are they going to follow up on the whole Tier subplot?

[sabertoothlotus]

So just how many writers does Spider-Man have now?
That depends... how many Spider-Men are there now? (At least three, by my count)

[numeronone]

"Slingers" is still a terrible team name, IMO.

[zachbeacon]

It's a good name for a team of Spider-People (if you're allergic to money and don't want to use "Spider-Verse" branding") but - aside from Hornet - I don't think the general public (or the people in the costumes) know the names have anything to do with Spider-Man.

I just assumed the Devil made them do it. Mephisto gave the original team their costumes and he loves messing with Spider-Men.

[leahandillyana]

This actually sounds fromising. Looking forward to Spider-Gwen, Silk, Ms Marvel, Echo and maybe Black Panther. Has Doctor Aphra been cancelled?

[tinygaylaura]

"Thanos is now ruler of the Eternals"

Even the people of Cybertron, who elected Starscream as supreme ruler of the planet, consider this some shockingly poor decision making

Then again my country elected Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan and two George Bush's so who am I to judge

[deh_tommy]

I thought you came from (or at least lived in) the U.K.?