Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. This edition focuses on Marvel’s November 2025 solicitations. Hit the links for more information.
Marvel will mark Native American Heritage Month with a special focused on the hero Echo by Black Eyed Peas member Taboo, along with co-writer B. Earl, artists Jim Terry and Kyle Charles, and more.
Echo: Seeker of Truth, which will include the “Marvel’s Voices” branding on its cover, finds Echo in Los Angeles, where she must protect her cousin from a “wellness cult” called Wisteria Meadows. The story will also have the former Avenger and Phoenix host unlock “a mysterious new gift that will redefine her adventures in the Marvel Universe forever.”
“Being able to write our second Echo story feels like a super power or strength,” Taboo said. “As a proud Native American/ Mexican storyteller, having that platform to co-write about super heroes that resonate within our Marvel Universe, is what I call ‘good medicine’ and much needed to inspire our readers. Celebrating the beauty of Echo as our hero is like painting a vibrant mural across the comic book landscape. We aren’t just creating stories, these are like bridges to communities, empowerment, and authentic representation.”
“Being a storyteller who loves to marry myth to pop culture, it’s exciting to be able to revisit Echo in a tale that will bring another dimension to her abilities,” B. Earl added. “When our editors asked us to develop a new power for her, we made sure to build it into our own mythic language that was revealed in a previous series. For me this story is also an homage to L.A., being born and raised on the East Coast with a dream to find my way to Hollywood… a dream that ultimately led me to this incredible Marvel journey with Taboo that we have been on for these past several years.”
Echo: Seeker of Truth arrives Nov. 5, with a cover by David Mack and variants by Carmen Carnero and Maria Wolf.
Jimmy Palmiotti has not one but two Punisher titles he’s writing this fall. We learned in San Diego this summer that he’s working with Dan Panosian on a Marvel Knights-themed Punisher miniseries, and November brings Daredevil/Punisher: The Devil’s Trigger with artist Tommaso Bianchi. The five-issue miniseries sees the Punisher facing the Gnucci crime family in Hell’s Kitchen, which pulls in the neighborhood’s local hero, Daredevil, to try and stop the chaos. Check out the cover by Kendrick Lim and a variant by Luciano Vecchio above.
J. Michael Straczynski’s return to Marvel in 2023 has brought some unexpected projects from the writer, and this miniseries with Ron Lim and Sean Damien Hill falls into that bucket as well. 1776 is a four-issue miniseries featuring Marvel characters traveling back in time to 1776 to “safeguard the founding of the United States of America.”
“One of the (many) things that I like about the Marvel Universe is that it takes place in the real world, our world,” said Straczynski. “It’s New York, or Chicago, not some imaginary location. This also applies to our history, and the opportunity to view the events of 1776 through the lens of our characters, and to better understand the meaning of those events, and the sacrifices involved, was way too good to pass up. At a time when so much of American discourse has become factionalized, it is a good time to look back and see where this began, and what it still means today.”
1776 #1 arrives Nov. 12 with a cover by Pete Woods and variants by Phil Jimenez, Joe Quesada, Paulo Siqueira and Steve Rude.
X-Men of Apocalypse by Jeph Loeb and Simone Di Meo was announced earlier this year, and following an Alpha issue that arrives this week, the first issue will come in November. The story finds the X-Men from the Age of Apocalypse arriving in the 616, much to the X-Men’s chagrin. I’m not sure if this has any sort of tie-in to the upcoming Age of Revelations storyline — it doesn’t seem to — but it does spin out of the Giant-Sized X-Men issues from this past summer.
Above are various covers for the first issue by Di Meo, Art Adams, Fanyang and Joe Madureira.
Speaking of JMS, he has another miniseries coming out this fall featuring a character he’s very familiar with — Amazing Spider-Man: Torn. Along with artist Pere Perez, Straczynski will take us back in time to Peter Parker’s college days at Empire State University, where he’ll pine over Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy, and face a new villain called Evangeline. The first issue features a cover by Adam Hughes and variants by Mark Chiarello, Mark Bagley, Lee Garbett, Aaron Kuder and two from Perez …
… while the second issue features a cover by Chiarello and a variant by Ario Anindito. Look for the first issue on Oct. 8 and the second issue on Nov. 12.
October also brings a new Spider-Man Noir title, featuring the character whose popularity grew in the Spider-Verse films. Erik Larsen returns to Marvel to write this five-issue miniseries, joined by artist Andrea Broccardo. The first issue arrives Oct. 1 with a cover by Simone Di Meo and variants by Andrea Sorrentino, David Mack, Jerome Opena and Erik Larsen.
And above are covers for the second issue by Di Meo and German Peralta, coming November 12, and the third issue by Di Meo, which arrives in December.
Marvel’s One World Under Doom crossover reaches its end in November, as Ryan North and RB Silva, along with cover artist Ben Harvey, wrap up the story and prepare the way for a new Sorcerer Supreme.
The upcoming Predator: Badlands movie is getting a Marvel prequel comic in November. Ethan Sacks and Elvin Ching, along with cover artist Juan Ferreyra, worked with the film’s director Dan Trachtenberg on the comic, which sees a Predator become the prey:
A young Yautja warrior is given a seemingly simple task by his father: Retrieve a piece of technology from a derelict spaceship that crashed years ago. • Inside, however, an ancient and deadly threat lies in wait. Now the Predator will become the prey…
Finally, November brings the latest Marvel holiday special, Spider-Man: Holiday Spectacular. Rainbow Rowell, Luciano Vecchio (who also drew the cover), Bob Quinn and more. The story finds Peter Parker spending the holidays alone, so he heads out into the snow as Spider-Man to spend time with the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Daredevil and more.