New York Comic Con Report: Marvel’s Civil War Fallout Panel

Saturday, Feb. 24 2007 | Author: Michael

The New York Comic Con is in full swing this weekend, and Marvel Comics had a HUGE panel yesterday addressing the fall out of the recently concluded Civil War Event. The “Civil War Fallout: The Initiative” Panel focused entirely on the Post-Civil War Marvel Universe, and what readers can expect this year.

Avengers: The Initiative writer Dan Slott, Omega Flight writer Mike Oeming, Editor Bill Rosemann, Editor in Chief Joe Quesada and marketing’s Jim McCann were all on the panel.

You can read Newsarama’s full report here, but in a nutshell the panel focused very heavily on Avengers: The Initiative, and the concept behind the new series.

Essentially every pro-registration Hero in the Marvel Universe has been drafted into The Initiative, which aims to put a super hero time in every state in the country.

I’m not going to recount the minutes of the panel, becuase for the most part it was filled with “we can’t talk about [insert subject here] but you can’t miss [insert comic here]…go out and buy it.”

New titles mentioned included New Warriors, a new Champions series, Nova, and Thor.

I have to say that I’m disappointed in the entire Marvel line right now. I didn’t care for Civil War, and I don’t care for what they’re doing now either. One thing of note is that Captain America #25 is going to show us the direction the title is going to take from this point forward. Personally, I think we’re going to see The Winter Solider take up the mantle of Captain America….but that’s just speculation on my part.