Marvel had a flurry of announcements about upcoming series and tie-ins during New York Comic Con.
The Next Big Thing panel lived up to its name, as Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski, VP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort, and Fantastic Four writer Ryan North revealed more details of the 2025 event One World Under Doom, in which Doctor Doom, having taken on the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme in Blood Hunt, declares himself Emperor of the World (see “Preview: ‘Doom’ Variant Covers”). The event will be anchored by The Rise of Emperor Doom, a five-issue series by North and artist R.B. Silva, which will launch on February 12, 2025, with a cover by Ben Harvey.
“One World Under Doom is the umbrella,” Brevoort said, “impacting not just The Rise of Emperor Doom but the entire Marvel Universe.”
The first One World Under Doom tie-in series will be Doom Academy, by writer Mackenzie Cadenhead and artist Pasqual Ferry, with additional art by João Lemos. The five-issue limited series, announced at the Women of Marvel panel, will follow the changes made to Strange Academy under the new regime, including moving it from New Orleans to Latveria. “It was really fun to go through old Doom stories and pick out some random characters that exist in that world and find someone or someone’s kid who might be attending Doom Academy,” Cadenhead said. “And because the school doesn’t exist, we got to really play with stuff. Pasqual is having a great time coming up with beautiful locales.” The first issue will be released on February 19, 2025, with a main cover by Pablo Villalobos and variant covers by Ryan Brown and Woo-Chul Lee.
The Women of Marvel panel also included the announcement of the annual Women of Marvel anthology. Women of Marvel: She-Devils, by Stephanie Phillips, Alison Sampson, and others to be announced later, will be a set of interconnected stories featuring the “street-level heroines” of the Marvel universe. The one-shot will be released on February 26, 2025, with a cover by Nina Vakueva.
The big news at the Marvel Fanfare with C.B. Cebulski panel was that writer Charles Soule is returning to Daredevil with Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell, a three-issue limited series with art by Steve McNiven, who collaborated with Soule for Death of Wolverine. Told in the same vein as McNiven’s Old Man Logan, Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell will introduce an older Matt Murdock who has lost his powers but regains them during a catastrophic event and teams up with Captain America to fight a looming menace. The first issue will be released in April 2024 with a main cover by McNiven.
Soule was at the Marvel Comics: Spider-Man and His Venomous Friends panel as well for the announcement that he will write Eddie Brock: Carnage, a new ongoing series in which Eddie Brock becomes the host of Carnage. The series follows the events of Venom War (see “Preview: ‘Venom War’ Tie-In Covers”) and will interact with the other symbiote series All-New Venom.
“Carnage is someone that has to kill, so Eddie has to feed him deaths,” Soule said. “In order for Eddie to be okay with that, the people he feeds Carnage are serial killers. But Carnage is also an addict, and addicts need bigger and bigger highs…”
The series will launch on February 12, 2025, and the first issue will have a main cover by Iban Coello and a foil variant by Mark Bagley.
At the show, Marvel also unveiled the Premier Collection of affordable, new reader-friendly paperbacks (see “Marvel Premier Collection Launching February 2025”) and announced that Wolverine would be the newest character to get the Ultimate treatment (see “Marvel Announces ‘Ultimate Wolverine’”).
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