Marvel have announced at their Next Big Thing panel at C2E2 that Jonathan Hickman will be writing two new X-Men titles for the company, “House of X,” and “Powers of X.” Both titles, illustrated by Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva, and colorist Marte Gracia, will begin in July and release on an alternating weekly schedule. Our correspondent Matthew Ledger was live on the scene, where it was also revealed Jason Aaron and Al Ewing will be co-writing a “Valkyrie” series spinning out of ‘War of the Realms’: read his live-tweet of the panel after the jump.
Hey this is.@mat_ledge live from @c2e2 and @Marvel’s Next Big Thing panel. Room is packed and buzzing.
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Guy next to me asked if @JHickman is going to be at this panel and i think that’s what a lot of people are here for.
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Bad quality iphone photo for proof. pic.twitter.com/6Xg5P0jFZ6
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Panel attendees get a variant comic w marvel characters eating deep dish pizza and now i’m hungry, thanks @Marvel.
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CB Cebulski riling this crowd w creators saying they prefer new york style pizza. Plot for Civil War III brewing.
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Panel is billed as announcing the 2019 “slate” of comics, borrowing some MCU terminology. Jason Aaron comes out and immediately apologizes for preferring new york pizza.
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Brings peace to the pizza war, but hypes War of the Realms as an event spilling out of Thor into MU proper, which Aaron is excited for. Says War should all ship on time.
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Dauterman is working on issue 6 now, 5 is finished.
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Art Adams’s wife Joyce is doing much better after a hospitalization this weekend, according to CB.
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Aaron’s next project will be Valkyrie.
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Al Ewing will cowrite, spinning out of War. pic.twitter.com/zW4MUluQr4
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Launching in July, according to CB.
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X-Men logo up on screen and crowd is pumped.
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Getting a very big “start of an era” lead-up for this announcement …
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Yeah, we’ve got @JHickman on X-Men confirmed.
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Says he’s partial to @grantmorrison’s run, surprising no one.
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Two books, House of X and Powers of X. @PepeLarraz on art for at least one of the books. pic.twitter.com/ZuY2Rk95jy
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Continued belowIt’s a big concept change. Tight lid with “radical, radical plans” for the books.
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Hickman says X-Men was his only Marvel comic growing up and his love is gonna show in the book. The two books bit sounds akin to his Avengers run. Powers of X is Powers of Ten.
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Pepe says he got an X-Men tattoo earlier when he took on his first x-book. Also says RB Silva is crushing it.
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Poor quality photo of an excellent Mark Brooks tease incoming. Lots of hidden tidbits according to the panel. pic.twitter.com/OosfL9zcAV
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Moving on to @Doncates’s Absolute Carnage.
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Starts on FCBD and has Carnage hunting down everyone who has ever worn a symbiote. First issue in August.
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@RyanStegman interiors came up and crowd ooh’d and ahh’d noticeably.
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Cates and Stegman continue audacious goals with a pledge to beat Lee/Claremont’s X-Men 1 sales. No word on whether Absolute Carnage will be better than Watchmen.
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Q and A session starts w some friendly badgering between Hickman and Aaron. Pepe says his favorite Marvel friendship to explore is Cyclops/Wolverine. CB teases that maybe we’ll see some of that …
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If I miss a question here or there it’s because I’m poring over that Mark Brooks teaser, which is back on screen.
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The guys next to me have a much better camera and are also running through the teaser on their phone. Aaron says Hickman’s X plans may be more ambitious than his F4 plans.
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When asked what makes NOW the time for War of the Realms, Aaron says getting @rdauterman free was the highest priority, timing-wise. And it worked out as Jane’s story wrapped up.
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Asked about first fave Marvel books, Hickman cites a number of books including New Universal and the Art Adams X-Men/Asgard books. Aaron says the Longshot mini w Adams and Nocenti.
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Hickman “calms” X-fan paranoia by apologizing for what’s about to happen in his run.
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Miles Morales can, canonically, fit 4 hamburgers in his pockets, according to Hickman.
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War of the Realms will have lasting effects on Avengers, as Aaron transitions off Thor and brings plot lines over.
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Additional December event info incoming.
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Building on “connective tissue” throughout the books, there’s another big “tentpole” event coming in December 2019. No additional info on what that will be, though …
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Pepe says he has folders within folders of reference material and research for Hickman’s X books. Hickman says there are “37 charts” for the books. He’s been working on them for about a year at this point.
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X books are bi-weekly, launching in June. So there’ll be an x book each week.
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Hickman says his fave part of Morrison’s run was Quitely’s Imperial Guard stuff, though he loves the whole thing.
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Lights are out so we’re getting bounced. Hope y’all had fun following along!
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