What Marvel’s Latest Teaser Releases Could Mean For Comics

If you’re plugged in to the Comics chat, which sometimes you don’t want to be, you did have a treat yesterday. The bosses at Marvel Comics had the writers and artists with social media spots post similar images to their feeds, around 1pm Eastern.

#MarvelComics #Fun pic.twitter.com/2fBMLZfj4z — GAIL SIMONE Thinks the Punisher Should Smile More (@GailSimone) May 9, 2019

Some posters were more timely than others:

I was supposed to post this at 1pm, but hey, check it out, Dustin and I are late as shit again. The band IS back together! pic.twitter.com/GzfbtyhhwT — Jonathan Hickman (@JHickman) May 9, 2019

But by the time the dust had settled, Marvel had revealed around 100 authors and artists, working alone, in pairs, or threesomes, all hinting at a big publication coming in August of this year. It must be noted that of that names listed, Al Ewing is attached to 11 different artists. There are about 7 women writers/artists listed. So whatever this big event will be, it’ll be about 10% Ewing, but only about 7% women, which isn’t a very good average. (See Women Write About Comics’ Pie Chart breakdown for up to the minute numbers.) With that in the mix, the BNP Comics Slack started speculating wildly about what this “event” could be. Our money is on some kind of one-shot extravaganza to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the comics house that has stumbled and clawed its way to fame. So what could these one-shots be? If we, your comics reading Marvel critics and revie…