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Rest in peace, Joshua Cassara

The artist of ‘X-Force,’ ‘Deadpool/Wolverine’ and more passed away yesterday.

Joshua Cassara, the artist whose detailed, kinetic work helped define Marvel’s Krakoa era, died Sept. 22.

Cassara’s wife, Martha Cassara, announced his death Wednesday on Instagram, saying he died from heart complications. She described him as “a good man, a wonderful father and husband, my best friend, and the love of my life.” Her post has been shared across multiple social media sites by Cassara’s friends and colleagues.

“If you knew Josh, you know that he approached the world with humor, sweetness and kindness,” she wrote. “He would not have wanted your condolences. He would have wanted your laughter and toasts.”

‘Avengers’ pick up another new member following ‘Avengers: Armageddon’ #4

Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto’s upcoming line-up grows by one.

Marvel’s big reveal from this week’s Avengers: Armageddon will remain at the forefront of the publisher’s plans, as Marvel revealed David Colton’s new identity will join Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto’s upcoming Avengers line-up.

David Colton, of course, is the former Captain America who Zdarsky introduced in his recent run on the book, a replacement for Steve Rogers while he was still frozen. He didn’t do so well as Cap, and popped up again in Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon, where he gained some pretty extraordinary powers from an Origin Box that was brought over by Miles Morales from the Ultimate Universe.

A lot of people probably had their money on that Origin Box containing the powers of the Sentry or Hyperion or some other Superman clone character that already existed in the Marvel universe, but Marvel had others plans.

SPOILERS below for Avengers: Armageddon #4 …

Smash Pages Q&A | Hank Kanalz on the Marvel Masterworks line moving to Clover Press

The Kickstarter for the first four volumes is now live.

For nearly 40 years, Marvel Masterworks has been one of Marvel Comics’ definitive archival collections, bringing classic stories from across the company’s history to readers in carefully produced hardcover editions. Now the long-running line enters a new era with a new publisher, as Clover Press takes over publication.

The boutique publisher behind the line of comics-related art books, special editions and original comics launched its first Marvel Masterworks releases yesterday through Kickstarter, with plans to bring them to the direct market. The first wave includes Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 18; The Mighty Thor, Vol. 25; The Tomb of Dracula, Vol. 6; and Super-Villain Team-Up, Vol. 1.

The new editions will retain the familiar Marvel Masterworks legacy trade dress while also introducing a new variant design by Clover Press art director and co-founder Robbie Robbins. But the publisher’s plans go well beyond a new look. The books will feature extensive restoration work overseen by longtime Marvel Masterworks editor Cory Sedlmeier, including material restored from original art, new scans and high-resolution reproduction.

I spoke with Clover Press co-founder Hank Kanalz about how the partnership with Marvel came together, why maintaining continuity with the existing line was important, the challenges of restoring hundreds of pages of classic comics and what Clover Press has planned for Marvel Masterworks over the next three years.

Marvel reveals David Colton as [SPOILER] in ‘Avengers: Armageddon’

The final page of today’s issue reveals whose powers the former Captain America received from that Origin Box

Hey, you like avoiding SPOILERS? Then please STOP READING NOW if you haven’t read today’s issue of Avengers: Armageddon, especially if you’ve somehow avoided any spoilers up until now.

OK, all read up, or simply want to know what’s going on? Then let’s continue …

David Colton has a new identity, and it’s a pretty significant one in the history of comics.

Marvel announces ‘Black Widow: Black, White & Red Room’ miniseries spotlighting Natasha + Yelena

Stephanie Phillips, Devin Grayson, JG Jones and more will contribute stories to the anthology series, which launches in December.

Marvel’s Black, White & Blood anthology miniseries returns this December with Black Widow: Black, White & Red Room, a four-issue miniseries featuring Black Widow, White Widow and the brutal training program that made them.

Each issue will carry three stories: one centered on Natasha Romanoff, one on Yelena Belova and one digging into the broader Red Room and the characters it has shaped over the years. And like the other miniseries in this format, all the stories will be told in three colors: black, white and red.

Marvel’s ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ #1000 line-up now includes WWE’s Triple H

The publisher reveals the creative line-up for the milestone issue and shares a preview.

Marvel has already pulled out some pretty big names for Amazing Spider-Man #1000, but the landmark issue has one more surprise in store: WWE Hall of Famer and Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque is among the writers contributing to the oversized anniversary issue.

I believe this will actually be his comic writing debut — although he’s certainly appeared in a number of them, as publishers like BOOM! have held the WWE license in the past. He’ll be teaming with artist Ed McGuinness on a story titled “The Big Night,” which is probably safe to guess will be a wrestling-themed story. And it all makes sense, given Peter Parker tried his luck in the squared circle before he became a superhero. In another life, he could have led Degeneration X.

Here’s the rest of the creative line-up for the issue, which will have many stories:

Clover Press reveals Marvel Masterworks plans, including four new volumes and a Jim Lee puzzle

The publisher will launch its new era of Marvel’s iconic archival series with restored editions of X-Men, Thor, Super-Villain Team-Up and Tomb of Dracula, and we have an exclusive look at one of the Kickstarter rewards.

The return of Marvel Masterworks under Clover Press was one of the more well-received announcements to emerge from San Diego Comic-Con this summer, especially from fans of the line. Now, the publisher is revealing exactly what that new era will look like as they prepare to launch the first Kickstarter for it.

Clover Press has announced the first four volumes of its ambitious plan to continue Marvel’s long-running archival hardcover series, with new editions devoted to The Uncanny X-Men, Super-Villain Team-Up, The Mighty Thor and The Tomb of Dracula. The books will feature extensive new restoration work, including hundreds of pages sourced directly from original art, as well as three distinct cover treatments, including a new trade dress designed by Clover Press co-founder and art director Robbie Robbins.

Boom-Boom takes charge as X-Force goes on the run in ‘Fugitive X-Force’

‘Inglorious X-Force’ writer Tim Seeley and artist Áthila Fabbio launch a new five-issue series in December.

X-Force is going on the run in December, and they’re putting Boom-Boom in charge. Marvel today announced Fugitive X-Force, a five-issue limited series from writer Tim Seeley and artist Áthila Fabbio that picks up the story from Seeley’s current Inglorious X-Force series.

Following Cable’s disappearance, Tabitha “Boom-Boom” Smith will step up as the leader of the mutant strike team, which also includes Archangel, Hellverine, Domino and Ms. Marvel.

“Fugitive X-Force is a natural extension of Inglorious, following up with the ramifications of the events of that series,” Seeley said. “But now, they’re on their own, wanted for murder, and hanging on by a thread.”

That leaves the team on the run from both the law and their fellow mutants while Domino searches for Cable, whose latest crisis could have consequences for everything X-Force has been fighting to protect.

Rest in peace, Roger McKenzie

The editor and writer of books like Daredevil, Captain America, Sun Runners and more has passed away at the age of 75.

Roger McKenzie, writer of Captain America, Daredevil and other titles throughout the 1970s and 1980s, passed away last Friday at the age of 75 while under hospice care, according to a post on his Facebook page.

The post says that McKenzie has been fighting “He’d been dealing with end-stage heart failure and kidney disease for the past several months,” the post reads. “He was certain that he still had some stories to tell in the time he had left, and struggled mightily to write one last script.”

Slugfest | Marvel’s November solicitations bring Uncle Scrooge + a new ‘Spectacular Spider-Man’ status quo

See what Marvel has in store for us during the penultimate month of 2026.

Marvel’s November 2026 solicitations are here, and while we’ve already covered several of the month’s bigger announcements like X-Orcists, Jean Grey, Spider-Woman and other new titles, there are more books worth highlighting.

Among them are a new Ghost Rider: Kushala one-shot collecting the character’s Marvel Infinity Comic adventures, a particularly adorable Marvel Meow/Strange Scales team-up, and the news that Dan Slott and Marcus To’s Spectacular Spider-Man is no longer a miniseries.

So let’s get to it …

Paul Jenkins returns to ‘Wolverine: Origin’ for new miniseries ‘The Dark Age’

Jenkins returns with artist CAFU for a five-issue series exploring a previously untold chapter of Wolverine’s past.

A quarter of a century after Marvel finally revealed the origins of Wolverine, the publisher is headed back to the character’s early days for Wolverine: Origin III – The Dark Age. The five-issue miniseries will be written by Paul Jenkins, writer of the original 2001 Wolverine: Origin miniseries, with art by CAFU.

When Wolverine: Origin arrived in 2001, it was one of those rare Marvel stories that actually answered a question readers had been asking for decades. Wolverine’s past had been deliberately kept mysterious for most of his existence, but Jenkins and artist Andy Kubert finally introduced readers to James Howlett and revealed the traumatic events that transformed him into Wolverine.

“Wolverine: Origin was foundational. It did not simply tell us how, why and where a young, frail Canadian named James Howlett became the super hero we know as Wolverine, it also showed his loss of innocence and his understanding of a cruel and difficult world,” Jenkins said. “Now, after 25 years, I’m privileged to present this story I have waited over a quarter of a century to tell. Where did Logan go? Which parts of his story were lost to history? What led to the events of Weapon X? The answers are not going to be what you expect.”

Marvel revisits the road to ‘Secret Wars’ with 5 ‘Incursions’ one-shots

Alternate Marvel universes collide in a new series of one-shots, beginning with ‘X-Men: Incursions’ and a battle between the worlds of ‘House of M’ and ‘Days of Future Past.’

When two universes enter the octagon, only one can survive! Marvel is going back to the end of the Multiverse this November with five new Incursions one-shots that will revisit the cataclysmic events leading into Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars.

The whole concept of “incursions” was central to Hickman’s Avengers and New Avengers stories in the lead-up to 2015’s Secret Wars event, as the Marvel Universe, the Ultimate Universe and countless other alternate realities collided when an all-powerful Doctor Doom brought them together to form his own Battleworld. The new one-shots will explore some of the battles that took place during those final days but weren’t previously told.

The series begins with X-Men: Incursions #1 by Alex Paknadel and Jim Towe, which pits two familiar alternate realities against one another: the mutant-dominated world of House of M and the dystopian future of Days of Future Past:

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