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SDCC | Doom takes his rightful place at the top of the Marvel food chain

And that brings repercussions for Spider-Man and more.

Readers of Marvel’s Blood Hunt know that Doctor Doom is up to something, and in San Diego today Marvel gave us a glimpse of what’s to come for the Latverian monarch and his plans for the entire Marvel Universe.

One World Under Doom is described as a new “status quo” for the 616, and it’ll feature … well, something that’s a spoiler for the finale of Blood Hunt, but some of us have already seen it coming.

But hey, SPOILERS AHOY …

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SDCC | Deniz Camp to write ‘Ultimate Universe: One Year In’ one-shot

Marvel says ‘Happy birthday’ to the Ultimate Universe this December.

The Ultimate Universe returned last year, and then really kicked into gear in 2024 with the launches of Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Black Panther and the latest title, The Ultimates. Marvel will mark the end of the first full year of titles with Ultimate Universe: One Year In, a one-shot coming in December.

Written by Deniz Camp and featuring a cover by Stefano Caselli, the artist for the project was not announced when Marvel revealed it was coming today in San Diego. But it will heavily feature the Maker’s Council, the villains who secretly rule the world, as well as the debut of the Ultimate versions of two characters.

“Kind of brings together the entire universe, fills in some history, ties back to a bunch of what we’ve been doing in Ultimates, and introduces a character or two people have been clamoring for,” Camp said on social media.

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SDCC | The TVA arrives in comics this winter

Katharyn Blair and Pere Perez bring the organization from ‘Loki’ and ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ to comics.

During their Marvel Fanfare panel at the San Diego Comic Con today, Marvel announced a new series featuring a well-known entity from the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the Time Variance Authority. The five-issue TVA miniseries will kick off in December.

Writer Katharyn Blair worked on the Disney+ series Loki series, which featured the organization prominently. She’ll join artist Pere Perez, who has worked on Edge of Spider-Verse — so he knows his way around the multiverse as well.

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SDCC | Girls rule at Marvel this fall with the intros of a new Deadpool, Spider-Girl

Marvel revealed their plans for ‘Spider-Boy” and “Deadpool’ to retailers in San Diego.

At the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con today, Marvel announced a new Spider-Girl will debut in the pages of Spider-Boy, while a familiar character will take up the Deadpool mantle after he (gulp) dies.

First, in October, a new Spider-Girl will debut in Spider-Boy #12, courtesy of Dan Slott, Michael Cho and Paco Medina. Slott worked with Cho to design the new character, which Medina will bring to life in the issue.

According to Marvel.com, “Spider-Girl’s mysterious backstory will supersede even Spider-Boy’s shocking origin! Just as the emergence of Spider-Boy turned the Spider-Verse inside out and fueled fan speculation for months, Spider-Girl has a story to share that will keep readers guessing and make Spider-Man, Spider-Boy, and all the rest question everything!”

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SDCC | As the Avengers team with Ultraman in the U.S., Spider-Man will team with him in Japan

Manga publisher Shogakukan will publish ‘Ultraman: Along Came a Spider-Man’ in Japan, while Viz will bring it to America via their Viz Manga app.

The first crossover between Ultraman and the Marvel Universe is getting bigger. While Marvel will publish Ultraman X Avengers by Kyle Higgins, Mat Groom and Francesco Manna next month, Japanese publisher Shogakukan will publish Ultraman: Along Came a Spider-Man, a manga that will be released the same week.

In addition, Viz Media confirmed during their panel in San Diego this week that they will publish Ultraman: Along Came a Spider-Man digitally in the U.S. via their Viz Manga app as it is released in Japan, with plans to release a print collection next year. The manga is written by Shigenobu Matsumoto and drawn by Tomo Hirokawa. Marvel Comics Executive Editor Tom Brevoort and Tsuburaya Fields Media & Pictures Entertainment’s Transmedia Producer Jeff Gomez served as creative consultants for the series.

“We’re thrilled to bring together Marvel comics and manga in such an exciting way, uniting our biggest heroes directly with Ultraman against ultimate villains like never before,” said C.B. Cebulski, Marvel’s editor-in-chief. “This manga will be an epic showdown at a cosmic level, but it’ll have plenty insightful themes and touching moments as well. We’re excited for fans to experience this story around the globe.”

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SDCC Slugfest | Star Wars, DuckTales, Thundarr + more

Today’s round-up of SDCC and related news includes items on a Junkyard Joe action figure, new titles coming from Dynamite, a big sale by Fantagraphics and more.

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. With the San Diego Comic Con in full force, this edition covers news from today I haven’t already covered, plus a few items from the lead-up to the show. Hit the links for more information.

The first full day of the San Diego Comic-Con brought plenty of news and tiodbits from comic publishers, following a very busy couple of weeks for comic news. It’s hard to believe a week has already passed since DC’s All In announcement. But here we are! So let’s jump in.

We ‘ll start with some Star Wars comic news, which these days spans multiple publishers. Lucasfilm hosted a publishing panel today that covered several upcoming releases, including the Battle of Jakku comic coming from Marvel this fall. Today’s panel also brought the news that phase 3 of the Star Wars: The High Republic will come to a close next year, and Cavan Scott and Marika Cresta will help wrap it up at Marvel with a comic titled Fear of the Jedi:

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Marvel announces a prequel comic for ‘Alien: Romulus’

Zac Thompson and Daniel Picciotto will reveal more about the film’s back story in a one-shot this October.

With  Alien: Romulus set to hit theaters next month, Marvel has announced a prelude comic for the movie that will tackle “one of the film’s lingering mysteries.”

The film, which is set between the events of Alien and Aliens in the overall timeline, sounds like it’s getting back to the franchise’s roots: a group of young space colonists who, while scavenging a derelict space station, come face to face with the most terrifying life form in space.

Writer Zac Thompson and artist Daniel Picciotto are creating the one-shot with input from the film’s director/co-writer Fede Alvarez and his co-writer Rodo Sayagues. It’ll feature some of the back story behind the film’s antagonists.

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SDCC | Marvel’s Star Wars comics pick up after ‘Return of the Jedi’ with ‘Battle of Jakku — Insurgency Rising’

Alex Segura, Leonard Kirk, Stefano Raffaele and Jethro Morales tell the story of the final battle between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire.

Marvel’s current Star Wars titles will end with the 50th issues of Star Wars and Darth Vader, and in the lead-up to the San Diego Comic Con, StarWars.com has revealed what will come next.

Just as the two previous eras of Star Wars comics were set after Star Wars: A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, this one will take us beyond Return of the Jedi into that fertile, uncharted space between that film and The Force Awakens. And they’ll start with the infamous Battle of Jakku, the final confrontation between an Empire struggling on without its two leaders and the New Republic, aka the evolved Rebel Alliance. It’s also the battle that left the planet covered in dead starships, as seen in The Force Awakens.

The maxi-series Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Insurgency Rising is by writer Alex Segura and artists Leonard Kirk, Stefano Raffaele and Jethro Morales.

“I cannot say a lot about this yet, but it’s been an absolute thrill to explore this period of time in the Star Wars story and to elevate a fun new villain, especially when paired with such amazing artistic collaborators,” Segura said in his newsletter.

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Steve Orlando, Álvaro López + Laura Braga return to Endor for ‘Ewoks’

The four-issue miniseries featuring the cuddly ‘Star Wars’ warriors begins this fall.

The Ewoks will return to comics this fall in a new miniseries by Steve Orlando, Álvaro López and Laura Braga. To mark the 40th anniversary of the TV movie Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, Marvel will reveal a crisis that occurred on the Endor moon following the events of Return of the Jedi.

“Forty years of Ewoks! Sometimes, a lot of the times, this job is just a dream—and for someone who grew up watching Return of the Jedi after every single Sunday Ski Trip, getting the chance to celebrate them and explore their world in the aftermath of the second Death Star’s fall is truly beyond belief,” Orlando said. “When I was young, the Ewoks got me in the door—Wicket was my hero, a young hero like me (like I was back then) going on adventures with Princess Leia herself!”

The Ewoks are a somewhat divisive subject for Star Wars fans, seen either as savage, noble warriors or a “bunch of muppets,” depending on who you ask. But their legacy stretched beyond Return of the Jedi, starring in two made-for-TV movies, an animated series and a comics series as part of Marvel’s Star line.

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Marvel celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month this year with ‘Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special’

Created 10 years ago by Felipe Smith and Tradd Moore, the young Ghost Rider returns to comics in a Marvel’s Voices special.

Jason Aaron left Robbie Reyes trapped inside the God Quarry at the end of his Avengers run, but if you’ve been wondering what the former Avenger has been up to, you can find out in October’s Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special.

The anthology, which will include the Marvel’s Voices branding on the cover, will feature a new story by writer Carlos Hernandez and artist Moises Hidalgo that not only shows what Robbie Reyes has been up to since getting stuck, but also how his family and friends have reacted to the loss.

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Spencer Ackerman + Julius Ohta will reboot ‘Iron Man’ in October

Tony Stark goes to war with Roxxon in the new series.

Gerry Duggan’s run on Invincible Iron Man may have ended today, but an Invincible-less Iron Man will return in October in a new series by journalist and Waller vs. Wildstorm writer Spencer Ackerman and Hellverine artist Julius Ohta.

The new series will see Tony Stark once again running Stark Unlimited and facing off with some familiar threats — AIM and Roxxon. What won’t be familiar is his armor, as Marvel says Tony Stark’s tech will fail him, and he’ll have to put together an “improvised” set that he’ll upgrade throughout the series.

“Winning a Pulitzer is cool and all, but it’s not writing for Marvel Comics,” said Ackerman, who won the Pulitzer while working for The Guardian. “And to write Iron Man is a very specific dream come true. A lot of comics’ best creators have used Iron Man to tell big stories about security and freedom—with a whole lot of super hero action, of course—and I can’t wait to build on their legacy.”  

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Bloodhunting 3 | The quiet and then the storm

The Smash Pages crew plants a stake into the third and fourth issues of Marvel’s ‘Blood Hunt,’ as well as some of the crossover issues.

Marvel’s Blood Hunt crossover is more than halfway over now and heading toward its final issue. Once again, the Smash Pages team — myself, Shane Bailey and Tom Bondurant — has come together to talk about the event, with our third “Bloodhunting” roundtable. You can read our thoughts on the first issue here and the second one here.

In this edition, we talk about Blood Hunt #3 and #4, as well as crossover issues featuring Doctor Strange, Doctor Doom, Moon Knight and more. Please note there are un-polybagged SPOILERS in this discussion related to the story, so only enter if you dare — or if you’ve just been freed from an Asgardian prison, and need to catch up on things quickly.

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