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| Title |
Publication Date |
Initial Creative Team |
Notes / References |
| All-New Ghost Rider |
March 2014 – March 2015 |
Writer
Felipe Smith
Artist
Tradd Moore |
Smith said, "Our All-New Ghost Rider, as the title suggests, is an absolutely new character: Robbie Reyes. Robbie's an East Los Angeles high school senior with a short fuse and a passion for electronic music and absolutely anything powered by an engine. In comparison to previous Ghost Riders, he's young and inexperienced in life; but his harsh inner city upbringing, overall distrust for most people, and serious contempt for his violent surroundings make him the perfect host for a Spirit of Vengeance. The circumstances by which Robbie becomes our blazing anti-hero differ from those of his predecessors, and his vehicle of choice is the automobile; so in more than one way, this is the story of a different brand of Ghost Rider."[58] |
| All-New Invaders |
January 2014 – March 2015 |
Writer
James Robinson
Artist
Steve Pugh |
The series will initially follow the classic four members of the original Invaders (Captain America, the Winter Soldier, Namor, and the original Human Torch) and put them in a present-day battle against the Kree.[59] |
| All-New X-Factor |
January 2014 – January 2015 |
Writer
Peter David
Artist
Carmine Di Giandomenico |
Features a corporate sponsored team of mutants including Polaris, Quicksilver and Gambit. David said, "It picks up sort of directly after X-Factor #260. I dropped some reasonably obvious hints in that one as to what direction we were going."[60] |
| The Amazing Spider-Man |
April 2014[61] – present |
Writer
Dan Slott
Artist
Humberto Ramos |
Peter Parker returns (in body and mind) as Spider-Man. Quipped series writer Dan Slott, "(Parker's coming back) just in time, fancy that, for a major Spider-Man motion picture. It seems uncanny. It was very nice for Sony to schedule the movie around the story."[62] |
| Avengers Undercover |
March 2014 – September 2014[63] |
Writer
Dennis Hopeless
Artist
Kev Walker |
The series follows the survivors of Avengers Arena as they try to infiltrate the Masters of Evil. Hopeless said, "The characters who survived Murder World came out the other side much different than they went in. Those psychological scars from the "Arena" weigh heavily on all of the kids. They don't fit so well into their old lives. They no longer feel like they belong and they're all looking for a way to get back what they've lost. All of this leads them down the path of Avengers Undercover."[64] |
| Avengers World |
January 2014 – present |
Writer
Nick Spencer
Jonathan Hickman
Artist
Stefano Caselli |
Spencer said, "What the book is all about is really in the title. This is a book about geography. Its about what Marvel Earth looks like now. Obviously we've seen the Avengers make a pretty big statement about this world being under their protection and them being the representatives of our world. So it felt like it was time to do a book about what that planet looks like; not just Marvel New York or Marvel Space, but what does Marvel Europe, Asia and Africa look like right now? So it was a chance to do a story that was really global in scope and go some places that maybe we haven't been to before and really play with the idea of what that changing landscape would look like."[65] |
| Black Widow |
January 2014 – present |
Writer
Nathan Edmondson
Artist
Phil Noto |
Edmondson said, "Without giving too many of our plot turns away, Natasha [Romanova] is a character driven by atonement. She's a hero now, but she was a villain, and a dirty one. The kinds of things she's guilty of in her past, in Russia, do not go away with some vitamin B and a glass of water in the morning. She has a lifetime to make up for her past deeds, and we'll see that her "penance," if you will, is both interior and exterior: she's helping her own psyche as well as those she's injured, in a very particular way."[66] |
| Captain Marvel (vol. 8) |
March 2014 – present |
Writer
Kelly Sue DeConnick
Artist
David Lopez |
Editor Steve Wacker said, "The first Captain Marvel series was very personal for Carol. It got rid of a bunch of baggage that had built up around the character over the years. We’re going to see Carol reaching out more. We're going to see her in a context we haven't seen her in a lot during the last couple of years. As she moves up and away from Earth, she'll probably meet the Guardians of the Galaxy at some point. So her new mission takes her higher than she's ever been, faster than she's ever been and farther than she's ever gone. It gives her sort of a clean start, which is something Kelly Sue sets up very well at the end of the last "Captain Marvel" series."[67] |
| Cyclops |
May 2014 – present |
Writer
Greg Rucka
Artist
Russell Dauterman |
The series deals with the time-displaced, young Cyclops, brought to the present in All-New X-Men, joining his father Corsair on a cosmic road trip. Rucka said, "This is a story about the two of them. At the heart of everything we're going to do here, it's about these two. When you think about that 16-year-old Scott, what he's carrying into this is pretty obvious. "I've spent eight years as an orphan, I've moved from place to place, and some places have been awful. I got to a place that was a good place, relatively, I had a father figure in Xavier, and I had a purpose -- and then all of that got disrupted. And then here comes my real dad, and he's Han Solo!" So that's awesome right there."[68] |
| Daredevil |
March 2014 – present |
Writer
Mark Waid
Artist
Chris Samnee |
The series sees Matt Murdock transplanting to San Francisco. About the move Waid said, "Without spoiling too much of the final issue of the previous series, we can tell you that Matt has to leave New York and, in many ways, has no choice but to return to California–specifically, California, no where else to go. But that's where he and his cast will hang their collective hat from now on." Adding, "At least one cast member will accompany him. Maybe not all. And the nature of Matt’s law practice will have to change substantially. And, of course, there's the architecture–cityscapes and street locales have always been a big part of DD's storytelling, and this will be a whole new look."[69] |
| Elektra |
April 2014[61] – February 2015 |
Writer
Haden Blackman
Artist
Mike Del Mundo |
Wells said, "It's about her trying to find herself, through violence, of course. I don't want to give too much away, but Elektra is given a list of targets to hunt that are even deadlier than her. She becomes a hunter of assassins."[70] |
| Fantastic Four (vol. 5) |
February 2014[71] – April 2015 |
Writer
James Robinson
Artist
Leonard Kirk |
Robinson said the series is about "a family finding the strength to face adversity through the help and love of each other." Robinson continued, "We're going to see the fragmentation of the family due to villainous outside forces that are slowing picking at them and eroding them. The arc I'm going to be telling is basically the fall and the rise of the Fantastic Four, and especially the fall and rise of Johnny Storm."[72] |
| Hulk |
April 2014[61] – present |
Writer
Mark Waid
Artist
Mark Bagley |
Banner's status quo will be violently disrupted when new volume of "Hulk" kicks off. Waid said "Banner's in a VERY bad way physically as the series opens up a few hours after the end of the previous one."[24] |
| Inhuman |
April 2014[61] – present |
Writer
Charles Soule
Artist
Joe Maduiera |
The series follows the fate of King Black Bolt and his royal family in the aftermath of the Infinity event, in which new Inhumans have sprung up around the globe forcing the once-secret society of the Inhumans into the open.[6] Originally scheduled for January it was later delayed till April,[73] and writer Matt Fraction was replaced by Charles Soule over "creative differences" with Marvel.[74] |
| Iron Fist: The Living Weapon |
April 2014[61] – present |
Writer
Kaare Kyle Andrews
Artist
Kaare Kyle Andrews |
In the series, Danny Rand returns to K'un-Lun, the mystical city where he was trained, in order to find purpose in his life. Andrews described Rand "as kind of a Bruce Wayne without a plan. He's despondent. He is not connecting with life, and he doesn't know why."[75] |
| Iron Patriot |
March 2014 – present |
Writer
Ales Kot
Artist
Garry Brown |
Kot said, "James Rhodes is the human equivalent of Superman – the Man of Steel – in the Marvel universe. He wants to do good and good only. What he realizes in the beginning of our story is that he's got a deep need to adjust his life. What does James Rhodes want to stand for? What does he want Iron Patriot to stand for? You will know by the end of #1. James Rhodes makes a decision that changes everything for him."[76] |
| Legendary Star-Lord |
July 2014 – present |
Writer
Sam Humphries
Artist
Paco Medina |
Humphries said, "Star-Lord is a really fun character to write because he's very bold, he's very confident. The book is going to be Peter's adventures away from the Guardians. ... I like to call him the original outer-space scoundrel — he actually pre-dates Han Solo. He likes to fight, he likes to flirt, he flies by the seat of his pants."[77] |
| Loki: Agent of Asgard |
February 2014[71] – present |
Writer
Al Ewing
Artist
Lee Garbett |
The series follows Loki, who has been depicted as a teenager in recent years. Ewing said in this series, "Loki isn't the old self that he used to be. He's as adult as say Kate Bishop. A young man of stolen wealth and varied taste with the universe as his oyster and a penchant for black nail varnish. So we're stripping that story right back to the basics and giving him at least the illusion of a fresh start - back to the core of the trickster, the mischief-maker.[78] |
| Magneto |
March 2014 – present |
Writer
Cullen Bunn
Artist
Gabriel Hernandez Walta |
Bunn said, "Magneto in this story is very much a detective, seeking out and investigating threats to mutants before cutting loose with all the fury of a supervillain — or superhero, depending on your point of view."[79] |
| Moon Knight |
March 2014 – present |
Writer
Warren Ellis
Artist
Declan Shalvey |
Ellis says the series takes Marc Spector back to New York City because "there's just a wonderful strangeness to seeing that particular figure against a New York landscape... [Out of all the] urban caped superhero characters, I think he's almost the most incongruous." Adding, "[His] cape is actually a crescent moon and he goes out only at night and dresses in reflective white so you can see him coming. Now that’s nuts... I like that."[80] |
| Ms. Marvel |
February 2014[71] – present |
Writer
G. Willow Wilson
Artist
Adrian Alphona |
The series will follow Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old American Muslim girl from New Jersey with body-morphing powers. Wilson said, The Ms. Marvel mantle has passed to Kamala Khan, a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family. So in a sense, she has a 'dual identity' before she even puts on a super hero costume. Like a lot of children of immigrants, she feels torn between two worlds: the family she loves, but which drives her crazy, and her peers, who don't really understand what her home life is like.[81] |
| New Warriors |
February 2014[71] – November 2014[52] |
Writer
Christopher Yost
Artist
Marcus To |
The series will feature a team initially consisting of Speedball, Justice, Nova and a host new characters including: Sun Girl, a human. Haechi, an Inhuman. Aracely, a Demigod. Water Snake, an Atlantean. And a clone by the name of Scarlet Spider.[82] |
| Nightcrawler |
April 2014[61] – present |
Writer
Chris Claremont
Artist
Todd Nauck |
The series will follow Nightcrawler's resurrection in the first arc of Amazing X-Men, and will also heavily feature Wolverine. Originally, Nightcrawler was slated to be the next version of X-Men: Legacy; about the subject, editor Daniel Ketchum said, "With all the excitement surrounding Kurt's return, the enthusiasm from both fans and creators alike, we ultimately decided that this book couldn't be called anything other than 'Nightcrawler'."[83] |
| The Punisher |
February 2014[71] – present |
Writer
Nathan Edmonson
Artist
Mitch Gerads |
In the series, Frank Castle, the New York-based vigilante, relocates to Los Angeles. About the setting, Edmondson said, "Los Angeles offers all kinds of fun opportunities. There are mountains, skyscrapers, beaches and slums all in a sprawl big enough to host a variety of villainous antagonists. The southern border may play a part of the story, too. L.A. is a schizophrenic city — it has so many identities, we can never get bored having Frank interact with each of them. And nearby are military bases."[84] |
| Rocket Raccoon |
July 2014 – May 2015 |
Writer
Skottie Young
Artist
Skottie Young |
About Rocket Raccoon's adventures in his solo ongoing series, Young said, "We're definitely going to play around with his scoundrel side. We'll get him away from the Guardians and he'll have some solo adventures. So we'll definitely see that side, but we'll weave in and out of there as we look at other aspects of his character. We'll see things like what it's like to be the last of your kind left in the galaxy, but mostly this is a book about a striped-tailed, loud mouth raccoon with big guns."[85] |
| Savage Hulk |
June 2014 – present |
Writer
Alan Davis
Artist
Alan Davis |
"We wanted big names, super stars and break out talent to tell their unique Hulk stories within continuity," series editor Mark Paniccia told Marvel.com. "That might be now, or using elements of the past and perhaps even glimpses of the future. It all comes back to the current Hulk mythos while letting the talent cut loose with that Hulk story that they've been dying to tell."[86] |
| Secret Avengers |
March 2014 – April 2015 |
Writer
Ales Kot
Artist
Michael Walsh |
The series follows the events of the "How to Maim a Mockingbird" storyline in the previous volume and sees the addition of Spider-Woman to the team. Kot said, "Spider-Woman fascinates me because she's a character who is trying to learn how to have a life she can be happy with while juggling many different pieces of her life at once. She's occasionally confused and she very much wants to grow. I find that very relatable."[87] |
| She-Hulk |
February 2014[71] – January 2015[88] |
Writer
Charles Soule
Artist
Javier Pulido |
The series follows Jennifer Walters' personal life, life as lawyer and as a superhero. Soule said, "It's not at all out of character for Jennifer Walters to go out partying all night, or spend a day hanging out at the beach. It's hard to imagine a story where, say, the Punisher does that. At the same time, one of the things I want to work hard to do in this new series is treat her as a real person. She absolutely has problems, just like most of the heroes of the Marvel U, but she chooses to approach them with optimism and good spirit rather than surrendering to the grim and gritty. It takes a lot to bring She-Hulk down, although we'll throw a lot at her."[89] |
| Silver Surfer |
March 2014 – present |
Writer
Dan Slott
Artist
Mike Allred |
The series sees Norrin Rad severed from Galactus and free to explore the universe with a human friend named Dawn Greenwood. Slott said, "The way I look at the Surfer is that he's the embodiment of freedom. The character has really been two things since he became the Silver Surfer. He's been a slave to Galactus, and he's been a prisoner of Earth, trapped beyond that great barrier. There's something about him where, the minute you take that barrier away, and the minute you take him away from Galactus, he's the guy with the board who can go anywhere and do anything. It really is that kind of joy and freedom like you're 16 and you just got the keys to the car. But imagine not just driving near your home - you can go anywhere in the universe. There's something very exciting about that."[90] |
| Spider-Man 2099 |
July 2014 – present |
Writer
Peter David
Artist
Will Sliney |
The series involves Miguel O'Hara getting trapped in Earth-616 and having to live with Peter Parker until he can return home and destroy Alchemax. |
| Storm |
July 2014 – present |
Writer
Greg Pak
Artist
Victor Ibanez |
In the series, Storm will be leaving the X-Mansion and going around the world solving crimes, stopping natural disasters, and just generally saving the world. About the series, Pak said, "In this series, Storm's going to take on threats no other X-Men would or could — no matter what the consequences."[91] |
| Wolverine (vol. 6) |
February 2014[71] – September 2014 |
Writer
Paul Cornell
Artist
Ryan Stegman |
The series finds Wolverine reconnecting with his darker side and joining a group of minor super villains as he tries to make his life more simple. Cornell said, "This series is going to look into what it means to be a "villain" and how those guys think of themselves. Logan finds a real comradeship there, and a release—and a relationship."[92] |
| Wolverine and the X-Men (vol. 2) |
March 2014 – November 2014[93] |
Writer
Jason Latour
Artist
Mahmud Asrar |
The series focuses on three students – Quentin Quire, Evan Sabahnur and Idie Okonkwo. Latour said, "These kids are Logan's legacy, but as we've seen up to this point he didn't have such a great track record with that stuff even when he was at his best. In them we could be witnessing the growth of the next great team of X-Men, or the creation of the biggest threats the Marvel U will ever see. Everything we're planning, the adventures, the threats, will reflect that journey."[94] |
| X-Force |
February 2014[71] – February 2015 |
Writer
Simon Spurrier
Artist
Rock-he Kim |
An X-Force team led by Cable, including Psylocke, Fantomex and Marrow, which works as a "dirty tricks" department for the mutant nation. Spurrier said, "So we're going to see them on hits. We're going to see them stealing intelligence, technology and weaponry from other factions. We're going to see them truffling-out emergent threats and destroying them before they can get started. It's broadly the same denominator of old — a black ops X-Men team — but with a lot more of an emphasis on International and inter-factional competition."[95] |
