Marvel announced today in a liveblog press conference that Rick Remender, Jeff Parker and Rob Williams will be teaming up to write a six-part Venom-centric event in February, featuring Red Hulk, Ghost Rider and X-23. The book will be illustrated by Tony Moore, and for that alone should already be in your pre-orders.
The book features a crossover between the four different characters, but will all take place within extra issues of Venom, spanning from Venom #13 through Venom #13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.3, 13.4 and concluding with #14. The writers will also be passing duties between the issues, coordinating via conference calls and e-mails. The reason all of these characters connect is that they are all essentially searching for themselves and their personal definitions within the Marvel U given that they’re all second generation characters, and now as a team they’ll be forced to get some answers to those questions. All of the story will eventually see reverberations into the characters individual titles as well.
Remender has no plans to reveal too much of the book yet (with the Big Bad being kept a secret), but the book will take place in a Las Vegas casino when Cap sends Red Hulk to investigate something for the Avengers, while the others find their own ways to Vegas. The idea apparently came from Jason Aaron and Remender trying to come up with a Venom/Wolverine crossover, and instead discussing Walt Simonson and Art Adams’ crossover when Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man and The Hulk became the “new” Fantastic Four, with the characters of this crossover now filling those roles.
The story starts in Venom #13 with a 30-page Moore-drawn special issue.
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