HeroesCon 2009 — Day 2 — Part 2: The Dark Reign Panel

Had a chance to check out Marvel Comics’ Dark Reign panel, which — as the title suggests — was all about the Dark Reign story line running through a ton of Marvell books these days. At the panel, which featured writers Bendis, Fraction and Hickman, a few announcements were made about new stuff coming this fall. Stuff like:

• A series of one-shots called “Dark Reign: The List.” These one-shots deal with Norman Osborn (the villain sometimes known as the Green Goblin who now effectively runs the Marvel Universe) wanting to finally deal with a number of “problems” floating about the Marvel Universe (like, as Bendis said, “Why has no one killed the Hulk?”). The one-shots will apparently team writers like Bendis, Fraction and Hickman with big-time artists who aren’t doing monthly books right now. For example, Fraction is writing an Uncanny X-Men one-shot drawn by Alan Davis. And there’s a Punisher one-shot drawn by John Romita Jr.

• Ares is getting a new limited series in October.

• Echo, last seen in New Avengers, is coming back in the Spider-Woman series, which has been delayed because of the motion comic currently in production.

For waaaaaaaayyyyyy more on this panel, visit check out the story on Newsarama.

This article appears in Jun 16-23, 2009.