Welcome to the 2014 version of Marvel NOW! Week after week I will be bringing you the latest in comics in the Marvel NOW universe as well as the All-New Marvel NOW stories. Can you believe we are 79 weeks in the Marvel NOW and they are putting out an ALL NEW version of the titles? What will NOT be included is Disney stuff, TV stuff, Ultimate Universe, and kids books. Those will be included (when available) in my Total Marvel pack.
This weeks' release (May 14, 2014) includes 15 issues with 1 new #1's (Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu)
My release packs are as follows:
DC Universe 52 (Wednesdays based on scanners release times, but not later than Friday morning)
Marvel NOW! (Marvel Comics in the NOW! universe will be released Wednesdays, based on scanners release times)
Total Marvel (All Marvel Universe comics, released on Friday, based on scanners release times)
Independent Comics (Non-DC Universe and Major Independent comics, released between Sunday and Monday morning)
Total DC (all DC comics released for the current week. Released by Saturday each week. Does not include digital only releases)
DC Monthly (all DC Universe comics for the month, released the first Friday after the end of the month)
Total Marvel Monthly (all Marvel Universe comics, released the first Tuesday after the end of the month)
All New Ghost Rider #3 (5/14/2014)
'ENGINES OF VENGEANCE' PART 3 Ronnie meets the mysterious entity behind his possession. Is the all-new GHOST RIDER a hero or a villain? MR. HYDE takes on the street gangs while a thug discovers the power of DR. ZABO'S pills.
All New X-Men #27 (5/14/2014)
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from 'Battle of the Atom' are back and still gunning for the ALL-NEW X-MEN! Jean Grey came back different from her trial. What does this mean for the rest of the X-Men?
Avengers #29 (5/14/2014)
WHAT DID HE SEE?
Avengers Undercover #4 (5/14/2014)
'DESCENT' PART 4 (OF 4): BARON ZEMO MAKES OUR YOUNG HEROES AN OFFER THEY CAN'T REFUSE! What did the teen survivors of Murder World do last issue to become Public Enemy #1-and what does Zemo tempt them with in response? Who accepts Zemo's invite? And who goes rogue? Our first arc comes to a chilling close-and what happens here makes it too late for our heroes to go back!
Captain America #20 (5/14/2014)
Gungnir's true power exposed! This is the day when it all changes; this is the beginning of the end. Dr. Mindbubble has learned a secret that will shatter the life of Captain America. The Iron Nail's true power revealed! This is it, the fight that will change the life of Steve Rogers forever after!
Captain Marvel #3 (5/14/2014)
Captain Marvel & The Guardians of the Galaxy! Carol takes her mysterious alien passenger home... and lands in the middle of an uprising against the Galactic Alliance! Does our good soldier obey orders - or defy the Avengers and side with David against Goliath? Two guesses. First one doesn't count.
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 (of 4) (5/14/2014)
MURDER! MYSTERY! MARTIAL ARTS! A former lover of Shang-Chi's is murdered in cold blood while working deep undercover for MI-6. When Shang-Chi travels to England to pay his respects he learns all is not as it seems, and if he's not careful he may be next to die! Old friends, new enemies, espionage and kung fu collide in this riveting story from Mike Benson and Tan Eng Huat!
Deadpool #28 (5/14/2014)
Deadpool and his bride go on a honeymoon…to Japan! How will married life agree with our mouthy merc? Will he start doing the 'take my wife' joke all the time?
Fantastic Four #4 (5/14/2014)
'THE FALL OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR' PART 4 FLAME OFF!!! JOHNNY STORM has lost his powers! The HUMAN TORCH is no more!!! With one member down, a new threat emerges -- the WRECKING CREW...with powers mysteriously elevated to A-level destruction as they team-up with the WIZARD to be a new, devastating version of the FRIGHTFUL FOUR! And as BEN and ALICIA'S romance rekindles, so looms the PUPPET MASTER with dark plans for both of them. All this and the return of FF members ANT MAN, MS. THING and SHE-HULK.
Iron Man #25 (5/14/2014)
THE NEW EPIC CONTINUES, 'RINGS OF THE MANDARINS' When the DARK ELVES grow tired of tales of joyous torture and want to scare each other, what do they talk about? 'The Night Of The IRON MAN.' Also: THE MANDARINS have had enough. Time to say hello.
New Avengers #18 (5/14/2014)
In all of creation, only one Earth has successfully met and triumphed over each Incursion that has threatened it: the Earth of the heroes of the Great Society! Guess which Earth is on a collision course with ours?
Nightcrawler #2 (5/14/2014)
Someone is hunting down Nightcrawler's loved ones...and Nightcrawler and Wolverine are determined to find out who and to what ends! Classic X-Men characters meet contemporary threats as the newly-resurrected Nightcrawler crosses the globe to save his nearest and dearest from suffering the fate he just escaped...
Secret Avengers #3 (5/14/2014)
'POST-NUCLEAR' A post-nuclear warhead has gone missing in the Middle East. Eighteen S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are dead. Who you gonna call? What happens when Black Widow and Lady Bullseye meet? Sparkles. And what happens when you get too many sparkles? Explosions, that's what. While Phil Coulson struggles with his new problem, Maria Hill deals with her old one: MODOK is up to something.
Wolverine #6 (5/14/2014)
THE MADRIPOOR JOB - Part 1 As his plan to take down Sabretooth takes shape, Wolverine goes undercover in Madripoor - but he's not the only one with his eyes on Sabretooth's empire - what do PETE WISDOM & MI-13 have to do with it? Paul Cornell (WOLVERINE: KILLABLE) and Gerardo Sandoval (CABLE & X-FORCE) bring you a two part epic that'll push the mortal Wolverine to his limits!
X-Force #5 (5/14/2014)
X-Force comes face-to-face with Volga, the mastermind who's been weaponizing superhumans and using them in the undercover war that's being waged across the globe. But little does X-Force know that Volga has already weaponized one of their own. . . And by the time this issue is through, one member of X-Force will meet their end!