Top 15 Marvel Comics March 2022 Solicitations Spoilers With Avengers Forever, Immortal X-Men, Venom, Punisher and More!
2022 has Marvel seeming to slow down a bit on its super-heroes, but there is still a lot on offer, so, I’ll be grabbing the following from Marvel’s solicits.
AVENGERS #54
JASON AARON (W) • JUAN FRIGERI (A) • COVER BY JAVIER GARRÓN
INFINITY SAGA PHASE 2 VARIANT COVER BY DAVID NAKAYAMA
CARNAGE FOREVER VARIANT COVER BY GREG SMALLWOOD
DEADPOOL 30TH VARIANT COVER BY ROB LIEFELD • FORESHADOW VARIANT COVER BY TBADoctor Doom and his Multiversal Masters of Evil have come hunting Deathloks. And now there’s only one Deathlok left, trapped inside the rubble of a besieged Avengers Mountain. Just in time for a new group of Avengers to rise from the ruins, with new members and at least one Avenger having been wildly transformed. And just who is the cosmic general who commands the Deathloks, the mysterious Avenger Prime?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AVENGERS FOREVER #4
JASON AARON (W) • JIM TOWE (A) • COVER BY AARON KUDER
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY R.B. SILVA
INFINITY SAGA PHASE 2 VARIANT COVER BY SKAN
CARNAGE FOREVER VARIANT COVER BY STEPHANIE HANSTHE RETURN OF THE GODDESSES OF THUNDER!
Atli, Ellisiv and Frigg are the granddaughters of Old King Thor, last seen during the end of Jason Aaron’s landmark THOR run. Now the Goddesses of Thunder are back, sailing the wild cosmic seas, chasing the thunder that echoes across universes…and hunting for fallen hammers.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
BEN REILLY: SPIDER-MAN #3 (OF 5)
J.M. DEMATTEIS (W) • DAVID BALDEÓN (A)
Cover by STEVE SKROCE
Variant Cover by DAN JURGENS • Variant Cover by DECLAN SHALVEY
ENSNARED BY DOCTOR OCTOPUS!
Jealousy strikes as Carolyn Trainer takes her anger out on Spider-Man!
But who’s REALLY behind this cavalcade of villains?
And is Ben ready to face that truth?Find out as J.M. DEMATTEIS and DAVID BALDEÓN bring the action – and heart! – you know and love in a Spidey story!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
CAPTAIN CARTER #1 (OF 5)
JAMIE MCKELVIE (W) • MARIKA CRESTA (A)
Cover by JAMIE MCKELVIE
DESIGN VARIANT COVER BY JAMIE MCKELVIE
HEADSHOT VARIANT COVER BY TODD NAUCK
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY SARA PICHELLI
INFINITY SAGA PHASE 2 VARIANT COVER BY DECLAN SHALVEY
CARNAGE FOREVER VARIANT COVER BY JEN BARTEL
Marvel Studios’ Animation Variant COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
WOMAN OUT OF TIME?
A reality where Agent Peggy Carter took the Super-Soldier Serum is turned upside down when the World War II hero is pulled from the ice where she was lost in action decades before.
Peggy struggles to find her footing in a modern world that’s gotten a lot more complicated – cities are louder, technology is smarter and enemies wear friendly faces. Everyone with an agenda wants Captain Carter on their side, but what does Peggy want? And will she have time to figure it out when mysterious forces are already gunning for her?
Prolific comics creator and designer Jamie McKelvie teams with rising star Marika Cresta to tell an unforgettable Captain Carter story for a modern age.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DEVIL’S REIGN #6 (OF 6)
CHIP ZDARSKY (W) • MARCO CHECCHETTO (A/C)
Connecting Variant Cover by MARK BAGLEY
VARIANT COVER BY PAULO SIQUIERA • SPOILER VARIANT COVER BY JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCOWilson Fisk’s hubris as mayor of New York has cast the city in the waiting arms of a cadre of dangerous and deadly super villains! Worse still, Fisk’s vendetta against the heroes who have stood against him for so long has left the city defenseless. You may think you’ve heard a tale like this before, but there will be no last minute bargains struck between Fisk and the heroes, no truce to stop the fighting and no mutual parting of the ways. Just blood, sweat and tears! Trust us, True Believer, you have NO IDEA what’s coming — or the effect it will have on the Marvel Universe!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99
IMMORTAL X-MEN #1
Kieron Gillen (W) • Lucas Werneck (A) • Cover by Mark Brooks
Design Variant COVER by Tom Muller
Headshot variant COVER by Todd NAUCK
Carnage FOREVER variant COVER by TBA
Quiet Council Variant COVER by Phil Noto
Promo Variant COVER by Leinil FRANCIS Yu
Teaser Variant COVER by Lucas Werneck
Variant cover by Peach Momoko
Variant cover by Oscar Vega
WOMEN’S HISTORY VARIANT COVER BY EMA LUPACCHINO
IN THE QUIET COUNCIL, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM!
The Quiet Council rules the Krakoan age, for better… or worse. Now, shaken by INFERNO and X LIVES / X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE they strive to hold together, no matter how much they want to tear each other apart.
Writer Kieron Gillen (UNCANNY X-MEN, ETERNALS, The Wicked + The Divine, Die) returns to the world of X with artist Lucas Werneck (TRIAL OF MAGNETO) to bring us all into the room where it happens. “It” being “the most powerful people on Earth deciding the fate of the whole planet.” Prepare for sinister secrets to be revealed and learn that some secrets are more sinister than others…
48 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99
MAESTRO: WORLD WAR M #2 (OF 5)
PETER DAVID (W) • GERMÁN PERALTA (A)
Cover by CARLOS PACHECO • Variant Cover by INHYUK LEE
BATTLE AT PACIFICA!
The Maestro is out for revenge against those who attacked him, which has led him straight to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, right into the underwater city ruled by the Sub-Mariner, Namor! But the Maestro might be outmatched…or, more likely, out-limbed.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
PUNISHER #1
JASON AARON (W) • JESÚS SAIZ & PAUL AZACETA (A) • Cover by JESÚS SAIZ
Variant Cover by JEN BARTEL
Variant Cover by GORAN PARLOV
Variant Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Variant Cover by ERNANDA SOUZA
Variant Cover by BENJAMIN SU
TIMELESS VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
TIMELESS VIRGIN SKETCH VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
Spoiler Variant Cover ALSO AVAILABLE
WILL THE PUNISHER’S WAR END?
Born of tragedy. Devoted to war. Unstoppable in his rage. As the Punisher, Frank Castle has become the most accomplished killer the world has ever seen. Now it’s time for him to face his true destiny. What shocking secret from Frank’s past will convince him to take the reins of the Marvel Universe’s most notorious clan of assassins? And once Frank becomes the warlord of the deadly ninjas of the Hand, will it also mean an end for the Punisher? Or a whole new bloody beginning? Join the superstar team of writer Jason Aaron and artists Jesús Saiz and Paul Azaceta for an epic exploration of the dark and violent past and inevitable future of one of Marvel’s most iconic characters.
48 PGS./Parental Advisory …$5.99
RECKONING WAR: TRIAL OF THE WATCHER #1
DAN SLOTT (W) • JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ (A/C) • VARIANT COVER BY PHIL NOTO
CARNAGE FOREVER VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ
VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMANIn all of the Multiverse, there is only one “What If” world that Uatu has avoided watching – one “What If” that he never wished to see.
And now it will be revealed – The story that could damn him for all time…and a revelation that could change everything in this universe.
Guest starring the Fantastic Four, Galactus and the Silver Surfer.40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
THOR #23
DONNY CATES (W) • NIC KLEIN (A/C)
INFINITY SAGA PHASE 2 VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
CARNAGE FOREVER VARIANT COVER BY RAHZZAH
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY TBA“GOD OF HAMMERS” PART 5 of 5!
It’s the final chapter in Thor’s brutal war against the God of Hammers, and after a horrific and tragic loss, Thor is more determined than ever to finish the fight, once and for all. But can he triumph without Mjolnir at his side?
Either way, by issue’s end, Thor’s life will be irrevocably changed!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
VENOM: LETHAL PROTECTOR #1 (OF 5)
DAVID MICHELINIE (W) • IVAN FIORELLI (A) • Cover by Paulo Siqueira
VARIANT COVER BY BILL SIENKIEWICZ
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY JOSHUA CASSARA
VARIANT COVER BY DAVID NAKAYAMA
AN EPIC RETURN!
Before Carnage and space gods, clones and toxins, and the revelation that he was a father, Eddie Brock was a down-on-his-luck reporter who had tried to take his own life and been saved by an extraterrestrial alien.
This all-new story set in the character’s earliest days welcomes Venom co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE back into the symbiote hive with open arms, as he and rising star IVAN FIORELLI unite to tell a new, horrifying tale that not only revisits the wicked web-slinger’s past, but hints at what’s to come in his future!40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
WOLVERINE: PATCH #1 (OF 5)
LARRY HAMA (W) • ANDREA DI VITO (A) • Cover by GEOFF SHAW
Variant Cover by DAN JURGENS
Variant Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
RETURN TO MADRIPOOR WITH THE MAN CALLED PATCH!
ALL-NEW action, intrigue and espionage awaits you as legendary creator Larry Hama returns with a story set before his original run on WOLVERINE! The mutant known as LOGAN has made a name for himself on the mysterious island of MADRIPOOR, where the locals know him as PATCH. From their haunt at the PRINCESS BAR, what starts as a simple recon mission lands PATCH and ARCHIE knee-deep in a paramilitary struggle that will surface some SURPRISE REVELATIONS and characters!
And is that NICK FURY, DIRECTOR OF S.H.I.E.L.D.? Yes, two patches for the price of one! A must-have for long-standing readers, and a welcome entry point for new readers of WOLVERINE!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
X LIVES OF WOLVERINE #5 (OF 5)
BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • JOSHUA CASSARA (A)
Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Trading Card Variant Cover by MARK BAGLEY
Lives of Wolverine Variant Cover by Javi Fernández
Animation Style Variant Cover by Juni Ba
Variant Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN • Variant Cover by PEPE LARRAZTIME TO DIE!
WEEK 9 – OMEGA RED has threatened the past, present and future of mutantkind. Today, WOLVERINE puts an end to it. The unbelievable climax to X LIVES OF WOLVERINE is an experience comic readers won’t soon forget and sets the stage for the ultimate finale in X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE #5!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$4.99
X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE #5 (OF 5)
BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • FEDERICO VICENTINI (A) • Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Trading Card Variant Cover by MARK BAGLEY
Omega Spoiler Variant Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
Anime Style Variant Cover by TBA • Variant Cover by Mateus Manhanini
Variant Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ
THE FUTURE CRASHES INTO THE PRESENT WITH THE SHOWDOWN YOU’LL HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE!
WEEK 10 – It’s WOLVERINE versus WOLVERINE?! With the time-traveling mission behind him, the truth will be revealed. But who –
or WHAT – will remain as the OMEGA WOLVERINE?32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$4.99
X-MEN #9
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • Javier Pina (A) • Cover by Pepe Larraz
Trading Card Variant Cover by Russell Dauterman
Promo Variant Cover by Leinil FRANCIS Yu • CARNAGE FOREVER Variant Cover by TBA
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY NATACHA BUSTOSThe Quiet Council of Krakoa. The Great Ring of Arakko. The Central Column of Orchis. Three ruling bodies, all about to make vital decisions that will affect their people for years to come…and the X-Men are caught in the cross fire.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
I’m iffy on March 2022’s issue of Eternals, even with the Avengers in their crosshairs, but it seems to set up something big for Marvel. I’m also iffy on the end of the Ben Reilly “Beyond” storyline in Amazing Spider-Man, likely due to the series’ tri-weekly shipping and .BEY issues. Neither are counted in my Top 15 as I’m on the fence.
What intrigues you from Marvel’s offerings?
