Joe Glass reports from New York Comic Con 2017:
Starting Saturday off with a nicely filled panel, as Marvel brings a special Cup o’ Joe panel focusing on Marvel Legacy and the Avengers line of titles. Hosted by Joe Quesada and Tom Brevoort and featuring Al Ewing, Nick Spencer, Donny Cates, Sana Amanat, Michele Bandini, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jim Zub.
Quesada started by asking the room who had not been to a Cup o’ Joe before, and was surprised to find a good few hands raise into the air.
He then described the general structure. He joked about how they are here to ruin the industry and the fans childhoods, to which an audience member piped up that they are doing a good job.
Brevoort discussed Avengers: No Surrender, starting in January, where all Avengers titles will folks together into a massive 16-part story coming out weekly. Brevoort promises it will push the Avengers to their limit, the biggest Marvel Avengers movie they could do on paper.
Moving onto Captain America, Brevoort joked that Nick Spencer’s job is done ruining Cap for everyone now, and Brevoort went on to explain that Mark Waid and Chris Samnee are bringing Cap back to what he does best: beating up bad guys.
Ewing discussed the coming of the Kirby-esque new alien race in Royals. The Progenitors have a crazy amount of power, harnessing essentially a Dyson Solar System, a World Farm. He promises giant cosmic action.
Inhumans: Judgement Day was then announced, with Al Ewing writing, Mike del Mundo on art, and a cover by Daniel Acuna. This is Earth vs the Progenitors — essentially the finale. If Inhumans ResurrXion was the start, this is where it all comes to a close. Ewing promises this is the capstone to the Inhumans story that they are telling; he’s aiming very high, like an end of the New Gods type story.
On to Captain Marvel — Amanat and Bandini discussed the upcoming Legacy plot line Dark Origins, capping off the storyline they started in the first issue of Captain Marvel. Carol Danvers realizes she needs to go back and gets pulled into a place that is very familiar but also very, very scary. Bandini likes getting to draw a top female character and also praised series writer Margaret Stohl. Amanat says they are building a very big story with Carol Danvers, so stay tuned.
On to Black Panther: Coates confessed he was not a huge Ullysses Klaw fan, so this is an attempt to rethink Klaw, to give him more of a back story and a reason for his actions, beyond simply plundering vibranium. It’s all part of the larger story they’ve been telling since issue one about the nature of power, the nature of kings, and more.
Rise of the Black Panther was then brought up, co-written with Evan Narcisse and art by Paul Renault. This is the story of the Black Panther before T’Challa. Coates says there’s no one who knows more about T’Challa and Black Panther than Narcisse.
Cates goes onto Doctor Strange, discussing the Legacy plot of Loki: Sorcerer Supreme, Cates describes it as kind of like Stephen Strange’s mid-life crisis, and in a lot of ways it mirrors where Stephen Strange came from. We find him broken and going to great lengths to find out who he really is and reclaim his ‘throne’. Cates promises insane surprises, and says if he was a betting man, he’d go and pick up the second issue for sure.
Moving on to Thanos, Cates stripped to show off his “super-cool Thanos shirt”. Thanos’s pitch was so big he figured he’d be told to dial it back a bit. Thanos is his favorite character of all time, and he gets to work with his best friend Geoff Shaw. The point of the arc is that no one…
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