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Marvel Comics #1′s Coming In November 2014

In keeping up with the broadcasts about some upcoming and also very exciting comic book titles, I am here to line out what you can find on the shelves from Marvel Comics in November 2014 in terms of their just launching titles. As I have done in a number of these posts in the past, the descriptions are taken from the provided press copy or the titles official Wiki entry. I’ll present that along with the covers and then line out some personal views on the batch as we close it up. Here we go with November, on your mark, get set…..comic!

Comic - All New Captain America 1- 2014

All New Captain America: In the series, Sam Wilson takes over the mantle of Captain America from Steve Rogers. Series editor Tom Brevoort said, “While Sam shares many of Steve’s beliefs in a general sense, he’s also a very different person with a very different background. He didn’t grow up in the 1930s, he’s a modern day man in touch with the problems of the 21st Century. For most of his professional life, Sam has worked as a social worker, so he’s seen the worst of urban society up close, and how crime, poverty, lack of social structure and opportunity can affect the community.”[125]

Writer: Rick Remender; Artist: Stuart Immonen
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Marvel Comics #1′s Coming In October 2014

Welcome to October, or as I will be referring to it for the music related posts “Rocktober”. I’d have tried “Comictober” but that just sounds stupid, so where was I — Oh yes, welcome to the Marvel Comics installment of our semi-regular series of posts that line out the upcoming first issues from some of the publishing houses that we enjoy here at the PiercingMetal Command HQ. As I have done with numerous posts like this, we are taking the official press copy or Wiki description of the titles premise and then adding some views as we close up. Let’s get this party started.

Comic - Bucky Barnes The Winter Soldier 1 - 2014

Bucky Barnes The Winter Soldier: Kot said, “Bucky Barnes has undergone self-numbing amounts of traumatic experiences. He killed for the Soviets. He killed for Americans. He had people taken away from him by rather brutal means. He had his mind wiped out. Repeatedly. To top that, he’s hyper-competent when it comes to hurting people and he barely had a childhood. So: a lot of damage. A lot of carefully developed survival mechanisms. The thing about them, though? They might have been important once, but now—well, many of them might be no longer necessary. Bucky is entering a completely new phase of his life and it is a deeply expansive one. Shedding the old and embracing the new is the core of the character and the series – traveling across galaxies as a very capable and damaged ex-mercenary, having experiences you can’t fit into your established worldview, changing in the process.”

Writer: Ales Kot; Artist: Marco Rudy
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Marvel Now! Onsale In January 2014

Marvel Comics has been delivering their “Marvel Now!” initiative for just over a year now and I wanted to take a moment to share with you readers some of the brand new first issues that we shall be seeing in January. Clearly there is some exciting stuff heading our way.

Logo - All-New Marvel Now

Beginning this 2014 is “All-New Marvel Now! Point One”, “Avengers World”, “Black Widow”, “All-New Invaders”, and “All-New X-Factor”; Some of the covers are presented below for your viewing pleasure along with some premise text that we lovingly have copied from the Official Wikipedia entry for “Marvel NOW!”.

Comic - All-New Marvel Point One 1

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Out Now: “The Superior Spider-Man” #1 (1/2013)

Welcome to the Marvel NOW! Universe the premiere issues of “The Superior Spider-Man” which comes about a month after the cancellation of the long running “The Amazing Spider-Man” title that ended last December with issue #700.

Comic - Superior Spider-Man 1

So you all know a bit more about the premise of this new series, I have taken it from the official Wikipedia page of the title to bring you up to speed. Check it out.


“The Superior Spider-Man is an ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics that debuted in January 2013 as part of Marvel NOW!. The series is written by Dan Slott with artwork by Ryan Stegman, Humberto Ramos, and Giuseppe Camuncoli. It features a reformed Otto Octavius who has taken over Peter Parker’s body and, having allowed Peter to die in Octavius’ body but being affected by Peter’s memories, is determined to be a better Spider-Man than Peter ever was, and a better man than Otto Octavius. The title replaces the long running series The Amazing Spider-Man, after the conclusion of the “Dying Wish” storyline, as the core Spider-Man book.”

PiercingMetal Thoughts: Personally speaking I think that this is a wild premise for sure and since I grew up on the classic tales of the Web-Slinger and Peter Parker, I hope that his death was not exactly as it seemed and we find him back in the red and blue costume once again. I’ll likely be checking out this title when several issues are collected into a trade paperback or something but based on collecting space and time will not be able to snag each and every issue as it hits the stands in that fashion. What do you fans of Spider-Man think of this new and very different direction and the new premise? I will leave the comments open for you to offer up those views. I look forward to hearing from you about it.

Official Website: http://www.marvel.com

Marvel “NOW!” Is Coming In October 2012

In the last quarter of 2011, DC Comics gave us a bold initiative with “The New 52” relaunch of all their titles. Now it’s Marvel Comics turn to offer up an event of massive proportions with Marvel “NOW!” According to what I have read, this will aim to get new readers into these characters stories but it did not appear to be the same kind of dramatic relaunch as we found DC Comics doing and literally starting us all over on their histories. “NOW!” strikes me as new titles beginning with first issues but continuing along with what longer tenured readers already know.

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