Two Guys Talking About The Marvel NOW! Point One Creative Teams

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Pulse Glazer
Hey Grey, it’s 2am, we must be writing.

 

Grey Scherl
Also, I’m watching Buffy.

 

Glazer
I was watching Patton Oswalt stand-up.
We’ll call that a push. What we talking about tonight?

 

Grey
Marvel did these teasers a few weeks back for Marvel NOW! Point One that featured Kid Fury throwing out cards. Each teaser revealed a card with the idea being that there would be books spinning out of the issue. The solicit gave us six writers to go with the six stories, so we figured why not figure who who’s doing what because that will most likely be the teams of the actual books when they launch.

Glazer
The books are: Ant Man, Nova, Cable, Young Avengers/Warriors 3, Guardians of the Galaxy and Fury.
The writers are Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, Jeph Loeb, Nick Spencer, Kieron Gillen, and Dennis Hopeless.
The artists are Mile Allred, Ed McGuinness, Steve McNiven, Jamie McKelvie and Salvador Larroca.
Let’s start with the book with the most obvious writer. Who gets Guardians of the Galaxy, Grey?

 

Grey
Brian Bendis, or, he who brought the Guardians back in Avengers Assemble, which if nothing else clues us into the fact that he wants to write them…and what Bendis wants, Bendis gets.

 

Glazer
Agreed. I’d assume he’s with McNiven, as well, for reasons I’ll get to as we go on. Agreed?

 

Grey
I’d actually really like to see Mike Allred draw that part, because he’s the one artist we know isn’t going to be on any of these books once they launch since he’s on FF.
And the idea of Mike Allred drawing cosmic absolutely trips me out.

Glazer
I’d be surprised if it were Allred. I mean, of those listed I’d easily prefer Fraction or Gillen, but such is life.

 

Grey
I know where I’m putting McNiven which also helps with the Allred placement.

 

Glazer
We shall see. Are you getting that book, assuming we’re right on the team? Guardians is the one property I’ll read with damn near anyone writing it, so I am.

 

Grey
Even with my current no-Bendis pull list, I’ll pick it up. I’m sick of him on Avengers and Spider-Man, but not him in general. I’m really looking forward to seeing him do his thing on different properties.

 

Glazer
His Ultimate Spider-Man is still fantastic.
I think he could write a good Star-Lord, too.

 

Grey
One reason I like Geoff Johns is that while he’s been writing Green Lantern for forever, he’s written a bunch of other books from Superman to Flash to JSA to freaking Aquaman, with Bendis it’s just been Avengers and Ultimate Spider-Man for the last decade.

 

Glazer
Well, Spider-Woman and Moon Knight, but since those sucked…

 

Grey
Exactly. His attempts at branching out have all had three things in common.

 

Glazer
Another really obvious book is Nova, right? Loeb seems to be getting that and Loeb constantly works with McGuinness.

 

Grey
Awww, you didn’t take the bait!

 

Glazer
They’re his pet characters in a noir like setting… and ?

 

Grey
Alex Maleev, delays, and sucking.
Spider-Woman came out something like three years after he announced it.

 

Glazer
Ha, burn. I was actually nicer to Bendis.
Agree on Nova?

Grey
Oh, yeah, ever since they did the Nova story in the last Marvel Point One I knew that we’d see a Nova ongoing by them sooner than later, and that while it may not star Rich, I’ll still read it. McGuinness on Nova is going to be so much fun to look at.

 

Glazer
I won’t read it. I want Rich and do not touch Loeb.
Seriously, Loeb is toxic.

 

Grey
Jeph can have his moments, I really enjoyed Avengers: X-Sanction.

 

Glazer
I did not.
He’s bad. And his plots contract themselves… a lot.

 

Grey
Twelve issues are about as long as he can go on a book before tapering out completely.

 

Glazer
Way way less than that.
But then you liked the terrible Hush arc.

 

Grey
I’ll give him a chance, really more for Ed’s sake.

 

Glazer
I’ll not. I might have with Rich. Sam? No.

 

Grey
Hush was fun, I didn’t go in expecting some genre defining story or a best Batman story ever. I just wanted to see Batman fight a lot of people.

 

Glazer
I’ve seen it, I want more from my comics. New ideas, big or small. Fan-service? Eh, been there done that too many times.

 

Grey
It was the Batman coming out when I got back into comics at the end of high school, there’s some nostalgia for me.

 

Glazer
Not for me. I liked it at the time and it holds up not one iota.
The Young Avengers/Warriors Three has an obvious creative team. That’s going to be Gillen and McKelvie. Bank on it.

Grey
You won’t see me argue that.

 

Glazer
They’re the Phonogram team – one of my favorite indy books ever.

 

Grey
Some teams just work well together.

 

Glazer
Good friends and a better creative team. Journey into Mystery is the single best book Marvel publishes. I expect similar greatness here.

 

Grey
Still need to read it.

 

Glazer
I know. I need to keep harassing you.

 

Grey
One of these days.

 

Glazer
Still, this is a must-read book. As a jumping on point, you’d better pretend this is hop scotch.

 

Grey
I’m interested to check it out.

 

Glazer
Good man.

 

Grey
Marvel needs teen heroes.

 

Glazer
Hey Grey? We only have 5 artists and 6 writers and books.

 

Grey
There’s an “AND MORE” tacked on the end of the artists line, so I’m imagining that the Fury segments are going to be cobbled together by various artists as a framing sequence that has multiple looks.

 

Glazer
Nice… well, Fury had better go to Nick Spencer. The guy writes spies and mystery!

 

Grey
I was thinking Dennis Hopeless for the Fury part, since it’s just a framing sequence (well, I think it is, it could be more). He’s the smallest name writer so I imagine he wouldn’t get one of the playing card characters.

 

Glazer
Spencer is still a relatively small name, and he’d be perfect for Fury.

 

Grey
I want him on Ant Man.

Glazer
Since I couldn’t care less about Pym, that’s where I want Hopeless, so I won’t have to read it, though I fully expect that to get Allred to make life difficult, since I love Allred.

 

Grey
Who says it’s Pym? Scott Lang is back.

 

Glazer
He’s alive? What?

 

Grey
Also, infinite openings for new applicants.
Children’s Crusade. It killed Stature and Kid Vision, made Iron Lad into Kang, shattered the Young Avengers, brought back Wanda, blamed all of her sins on Doom, and then capped it off with rezzing Scott Lang.

 

Glazer
Wow… that’s terrible. Okay, I won’t be reading that, either.

 

Grey
I do not recommend it, but it does bring back Scott who I always loved as Ant Man.
Even if Ant Man were Pym, Spencer doing super science.

 

Glazer
Not Spencer’s thing.
Mysteries! Spies!

 

Grey
He could do that with Ant Man! At tiny size!

 

Glazer
No thanks.
And hey, we have the Iron Man team moving to Cable! Larroca and Fraction to Cable! They go from the futurist to the guy from the future.

Grey
I actually was going to say Fraction and McNiven here, but I saved McNiven from earlier just so Cable could look more blockbustery.

 

Glazer
Marvel likes taking a wildly successful creative team from one book then putting them on a new one, as we’ve seen with Bendis and Maleev or Bendis and Bagley time and again.

 

Grey
Loeb and McGuinness.

 

Glazer
Right – it goes on.
So, will you read Cable? I sure as hell will. This can be the best Cable since Fabian.

 

Grey
I tend to read Cable no matter what, but this sounds like Cable I wouldn’t bitch about.

 

Glazer
I don’t read Cable no matter what, but I like him enough to usually give him a chance. I want a really really long run from Fraction here.
It also seems like this and the 2 FF books, he’s fully booked for the foreseeable future.

 

Grey
It should keep him focused and away from writing events!

 

Glazer
Ha, well, FF might get events. Everyone else has!

 

Grey
Let’s hope not. I’m sick of events.

 

Glazer
We’re getting an Event per year as long as they sell.
And, we’re spent. Enjoy anticipating the next event. Goodnight everybody!

 

Grey
Night!

A lifelong reader and self proclaimed continuity guru, Grey is the Editor in Chief of Comics Nexus. Known for his love of Booster Gold, Spider-Girl (the real one), Stephanie Brown, and The Boys. Don't miss The Gold Standard.