UPDATE: Marvel has released the official image and information on the books.
Taken from Entertainment Weekly’s Comic-Con issue we have the following:
The artist behind this teaser (and Chief Creator Officer of Marvel) Joe Quesada had this to say about the new looks for these characters. “There are some costume changes. There are some new character attitudes. Some characters may be changing their identities altogether. There’s a reason Sue Storm is there. And why there’s a floating robot near Hulk. We’re trying a lot of fun and new different things, we’re exposing characters who we’ve had in our toy chest for a long time.”
UNCANNY AVENGERS
Following Avengers Vs. X-Men, Captain America will apparently decide that he hasn’t done enough for the mutants over the years and this results in a new book from writer Rick Remender and artist John Cassaday. With a team including Cap, Thor, Wolverine and Havok, this is an exciting twist which will apparently see that latter, “become one of the biggest players in the Marvel Universe.” Their first villain will be none other than the Red Skull! However, it won’t be the version most recently seen in comics as the writer explains. “In 1943, Arnim Zola, who was this bio-fanatic engineer, recorded the Red Skull’s consciousness, and set it to wake up 70 years later. So the Red Skull [in Uncanny] is right out of 1943-44. Prime Nazi scumbag. In his mind, he’s taking that vitriol and hate and Nazi horror and methodology, and pointing it at the mutant species.”
AVENGERS
“It’s not six Avengers, it’s 18 or more,” teases writer Jonathan Hickman. The book will be pencilled by Jerome Opena, and the first arc will be entitled “Avengers World”. Published twice a month, it will apparently tell five and six issue arcs as well as much smaller one-shot stories. There’s currently no word on which heroes will make up the roster, but one of them WILL be Shang-Chi.
ALL-NEW X-MEN
“The X-Men is a tough nut to crack. There’s thousands of characters, all of which have a website dedicated just to them. I wanted to make sure I had a take that was unique,” says series writer Brian Michael Bendis. As this is a time travel story, it will feature original X-Men, Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, Angel, and Marvel Girl. “Here’s the big question that the original X-Men are gonna be faced with: We’re gonna grow up, and this is what we’re going to get? That is not acceptable.” Since her death in 2004, fans have been desperate to see the return of Jean Grey and that is obviously exactly what they’ll get in this series. “It’s the one thing X-Men fans have always asked for is: They want Jean Grey back. But they want Jean Grey. Not reincarnated Jean, or the ghost of Jean. Well, you’re getting Jean back. And Jean is gonna be looking at a world that rattles her.” Stuart Immonen has been confirmed as artist.
So it won’t be a reboot but there WILL be drastic changes to the Marvel U. I’m not sure how I feel about it (especially Cyke’s new Eric The Red’ish outfit) but I am glad they aren’t killing Scott Summers. I promised to never read a comic again if they did. Some of the suits look cool though. Especially Thor, Spider-Man and Nova.
Source: EW