The panel is scheduled to start in just a little bit. In attendance will be Joe Quesada, C.B. Cebulski, Brian Michael Bendis, Arune Snigh, Matt Fraction and Jim McCann. Read our full recap after the jump!
And we’re off!
Bendis on The Avengers – ‘It’s the gathering of the greatest Heroes that ever lived . . . and Spider-Woman. We have some surprises coming up later on in the presentation.’ Major magic event going on in The New Avengers and not everyone wil make it out alive.
Matt Fraction has a pretty good Ed Brubaker impression.
‘This is my dream come true.’ – Jim McCann on Hawkeye and Mockingbird. ‘We’re building up their rogues gallery.’
Upcoming stuff:
The Trial of Captain America – ‘The world will know that Captain America is Bucky Barnes, and he’ll have to pay for his sins as the Winter Solider.’
Widow Maker – Spies over the world are being taken out all over the world by the new Ronin. Will effect theses characters for the next two years.
Issue #4 Avengers art. Bendis drops the f-bomb. It’s a great piece of art with Bendis teasing that the timestream splitting apart.
Red Hulk will join the Avengers on Issue #7.
Who is the new Man Without Fear? Falcon, Nova, and Gambit are teased. Post Shadowland there will be a new Daredevil.
Question and Answer time. I’m running out of battery so I don’t know how long I’ll be able to post for, but I’ll try and post the best of the Q+A segements.
What’s in store for Ultimate Spider-Man? Issue #16 is the #150 issue of Spider-Man and the 10th year of the Ultimate universe. This issue will ‘put Peter in a very different place’ according to Bendis.
Ed Brubaker has big plans for Steve Rogers and Bucky.
Bendis is calling Brubaker asking him for what’s in store for Captain America – doesn’t really work very well, but still hilarious.
Brand New Day question – at what point did you release that this was a success or failure, etc? ‘Were it really started to play off was when the cast started to play together well, that’s what we wanted, we wanted this canon of people in Peter’s life to be interesting.’
‘We have some very cool things planned for the Cosmic [Marvel] universe.’
Spider-Man will pop up in Invincible Iron Man at the end of the current arc. Considering how strong the first meeting of these two were, I’m very excited for this.
What’s coming up with Iron Man? ‘We’ll see how resilient Tony can be, and it’s all leading up to the biggest action set piece I’ve done.’ War Machine, Iron Man and Rescue will be in action together.
Digital is a ‘brand new world’ for Marvel. ‘We are learning, and you are helping us to learn. Every once in a while you’ll see a day and date release. We take all your feedback on this digital stuff very seriously.’
What is Fraction’s story on Thor? ‘It’s very Kirby inspired. It’s much more born at the end of Kirby’s run. It’s very spacey and future-y. It’s big and cosmic and heavy and in a different direction.’ Won’t see Beta Ray Bill right away in Thor, but he’ll show up soon.
‘Spider-Man is the heart of the Marvel Universe. He represents more than just themselves [The Avengers].’ – Bendis on why Spider-Man is an Avenger.
And that’s pretty much it. Thanks for reading folks!
