Announced yesterday, Marvel has big plans to shake up the Thor universe of titles right before the God of Thunder makes his debut on the sliver screen. Starting in April, Matt Fraction will join with artist Olivier Coipel to launch The Mighty Thor. This brand new number one spins out of Fraction’s current Thor arc, ‘The World Eaters.’ As Fraction makes his exodus from Thor, Kieron Gillen will take over the title with Doug Braithwaite on art, while Thor reverts back to its original title, Journey Into Mystery. The series will continue with the original numbering. You may remember that Gillen took over Thor during Marvel’s Siege event.

Fraction and Gillen also offered details on the upcoming stories of their respective series. The Mighty Thor will see Galactus come for Asgard to do his normal thing (eat it) and Fraction promised a battle between Thor and the Silver Surfer. Journey Into Mystery will be a ‘mythological black-ops comic, with a rotating team’ which will be lead by Loki and will tie-in into the next Marvel event, which is being written by Fraction, Fear Itself. Speaking of Fear Itself, Fraction had this to say about the upcoming Marvel crossover:

Fear Itself is the epic Thor in the Marvel Universe story to end all Thor in the Marvel Universe stories.

Current Thor artist Pasqual Ferry will return to The Mighty Thor post Fear Itself for a story that ‘nobody else on Earth could draw’ except for him.

We’ve included several of the covers for both The Mighty Thor and Journey Into Mystery along with a bit of analysis after the jump.

Marvel has announced plans for a new reader initiative that will cater to both new and old fans. Marvel: Point Line will provide jumping on points for all of Marvel’s top-selling titles. Titles like Thor, Invincible Iron Man, Avengers and Captain America will all see the addition of a .1 after the original numbering. These issues will provide a self-contained story aimed at bringing in new readers, while still providing new material to entice old readers. The .1 issue will then be followed up with a regular numbered issue later that month.

Hit the jump for the full list of Point One titles and three of the Point One covers.

Today, Marvel released the following teaser featuring the female assassin Elektra. In the wake of Shadowland, could Elektra see her own on-going series? It’s all speculation at this point, but enjoy the ‘Assassin for Hire’ teaser below:

Today I was browsing through the site, and my eyes became fixed upon a post tracking Marvel’s teaser character images for a new “Man Without Fear.” Upon noticing some similarities between a few of the images, I compiled the character posters together.

This reveals a giant poster with one space missing. The Daredevil emblem can clearly be seen outlined by the surrounding posters. So what could this mean? And what are Marvel’s aims in this campaign? Who do you believe will be the new “Man Without Fear”? Air your thoughts in the comments!

Click on the image on the left for a full size look.

During Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con panels, the company showed off several images teasing a new hero taking over Matt Murdock’s role as “The Man Without Fear’ aka Daredevil. Today, Marvel began to post these teasers, and will continue to do so all throughout the week. Nova is the subject of today’s teaser and was released with only the following comment:

WHO WILL BE THE NEW MAN WITHOUT FEAR?

UPDATE: On Tuesday, Marvel released another teaser, this time focusing on the infamous X-Men team member: Gambit.

UPDATE: Wednesday’s teaser is The Black Panther. What’s the legendary Wakandan king want with Hell’s Kitchen?

Thursday’s image is Falcon. I believe that out of all the choices so far, this is the most likely candidate.

The fifth and final image is of Kraven the Hunter.

Now that we have all five images, who do you think will be the new MAN WITHOUT FEAR? Sound off in the comments!