Marvel Teases New Creative Teams on CAPTAIN AMERICA, FANTASTIC FOUR & X-MEN: LEGACY

We have come to the final day of Marvel NOW! teasers and the publisher clearly intends to go out with a bang. Today’s teasers come from all over the Internet, with USA Today, iFanboy and MTV all getting a piece of the pie.

The first is from USA Today with the keyword being “family.” And no, it isn’t an Olive Garden advertisement.

This one's actually an easy one to decipher – Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley will be taking over the adventures of the Fantastic Four.

With Fraction moving on from both INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, which Kieron Gillen is taking over, and THE MIGHTY THOR, which Jason Aaron will be helming, it frees him up to write Marvel’s first family. As for Mark Bagley, his energetic and colorful art should fit in nicely with the overall tone of a book like this. It still remains to be seen if Bagley will continue working on Avengers Assemble with Brian Michael Bendis come November.

It’s also worth pointing out that Matt Fraction definitely has his work cut out for him on Fantastic Four. Jonathan Hickman is about to wrap up a four-year stint on Marvel’s first family that has spanned two series and reached all kinds of epic heights. Fraction better have something good hidden in the chamber if he wants to make an impression on Fantastic Four fans right out of the gate.

Next up: iFanboy has the exclusive on what appears to be the new Captain America creative team of Rick Remender and John Romita Jr.

However, this could be Marvel's way of throwing us a curveball. Maybe this is a teaser for a new Winter Soldier series. Or, maybe it's for Cable, who is also a soldier and was featured prominently on that original Marvel NOW! teaser image. For now, though, we're going to assume this is for El Capitan.

UPDATE: Brubaker mentioned on Twitter that these fellows are on CAP. Looks like Brubaker will still be on WINTER SOLDIER.

Lastly, MTV has the scoop of the new team taking over X-MEN: LEGACY -- Simon Spurrier and Tan Eng Huat. This one's surprising because these teasers have primarily focused on the big guns of Marvel's portfolio. But it looks like Marvel will be making a bigger push with X-MEN: LEGACY come November and Marvel NOW!

So that does it for this week’s Marvel teasers. If you need to play catch-up, here's the breakdown on everything you might have missed from earlier this week:

• Kieron Gillen and Greg Land on IRON MAN.
• Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic on THOR.
• Mark Waid and Leinil Yu on HULK.
• Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore on DEADPOOL.

What say you, True Believers? Satisfied with the creative team reveals? Sound off in the comments below.

UPDATE

One more has surfaced. You can bet this has us very very excited!

Erik Norris is a freelance writer for sites such as ComicVine, IGN and CraveOnline.com. You can stalk him on Twitter@Regular_Erik.

Bwahaha at Fantastic Four XD
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Also there are rumors that Fraction and Mike Allred will take on FF.
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I'm digging these new creative teams! My wallet is going to be taking a beating in November.

I think the one I'm looking forward to the most is Waid & Yu on Hulk. I've never really been that interested in Hulk as a character (never disliked him, just never felt particularly drawn to him), but if anyone can knock it out of the park its these guys...

Remender on Cap?

With what he's done for X-Force and Venom I'll be picking that up.

Also I really hope the teaser is for Cap (I'm about 99 percent positive it is) and not Winter Soldier. Brubaker is killing it on WS!

I was worried about Cap post-Brubaker but Remender's got a good track record. I feel sorry for Fantastic Four fans though.

Bummed about Romita on anything

Weren't there rumors about Nick Spencer taking on FF?

Remender and Romita on Captain America.....Hell YEAHHH!

@Billy Batson: yeah apparently there was a teaser with "extended" for Fraction and Allred, although I wish FF were getting cancelled, I love the series but it served a purpose and the only reason it's continuing is so marvel can make more money.

Was gonna drop Cap but with Remender on the book I'm sticking with it, except I'm gonna hate Romita's art, wish we could get new artists in and not one's living of an old legacy (like Walter Simons on avengers)

Soldier could mean a lot of things. Is it Cap, Cable Winter Soldier, all three of them???????? Man the suspense is good. So Matt Fraction is going to be writing Fantastic Four & FF?? Should be interesting. Is Legacy talking about X-Men: Legacy or something new that I'm not aware of?

@Billy Batson: @MrArrogant: The image has been added. I CANNOT wait for more Allred.

Help me out here. What is Extended supposed to mean?

and extended means?...

@DerfelMacklin said:

Help me out here. What is Extended supposed to mean?

@notarandomguy said:

and extended means?...

Future Foundation.
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:-( Matt Fraction on Fantastic Four? The only thing I've read of his was Defenders which I thought was totally awful. This is a real bummer. I'm loving Fantastic Four and FF as they are now.

If Romita is on Winter Soldier... heads will roll.

@Billy Batson said:

@DerfelMacklin said:

Help me out here. What is Extended supposed to mean?

@notarandomguy said:

and extended means?...

Future Foundation.
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He's gonna be writing FF and Fantastic Four?

Brubaker tweeted awhile ago he was staying on Winter Soldier and that he had years of script already written out and that it was his best work yet.

Sucks Romita Jr will be on Cap, but with Remenders awesome dark and gritty writing, it should be good.

What the hell could the 'Extended' one be?

Dang. I was hoping for Legacy to end so that would be one less comic for me to get! Now they're going to be pushing it forward? For goodness sake.

I thought Legacy was supposed to be ending/canceled in a few months along with the New Mutants title? Don't get me wrong I'm thrilled its not but whats going on?

@Billy Batson: I don't follow Marvel's first family, but how does "Extended" time in with FF?

Hmm, guess I'm hopping off, in October, with Hickman. It was a fun ride.

We are up to 7 new series in November, I thought Marvel promised only 1 new book a week? I haven't looked at a calender but you usually don't see 7 Wednesdays in a month...

Don't care about any of these annocements except maybe hulk. Would of given captain america a chance but romita on anything is bad.

Dan Slott and Caselli would of been great for Iron man.

as long as slott doesnt leave ASM everythings okay by me

i bet the soldier is falcon

@Billy Batson: What are you basing that on? That Extended means FF?

i wont be reading any. sorry, marvel isnt my cup of tea anymore. they ended x-statix too soon years ago, and now all they do is just re hash crap. somehow, i think this will be their mix of the new 52, heroes reborn and heroes return. and 5 months later everyone will be burning their books in anger and rage.

@zombietag said:

as long as slott doesnt leave ASM everythings okay by me

I asked this question at SCC, and they wouldnt comment on it. I am assuming he is leaving shortly after issue 700. Marvel and Slott just keep saying he is going into "hiding" for awhile shortly after 700. Which makes me sad if its true.

well since its red I guess Extended could be spider man

I hate Romita Jr. art. That basically eliminates Captain America for me, even though it has Remender on it.. I'm getting All-New X-Men so I won't get X-Men Legacy. I also don't like Fantastic Four. So out of the new titles I want to get Thor, Uncanny Avengers, Iron-Man(Kinda want it)and All-New X-Men. I can't get all of them so this is a tough choice since I refuse to drop all my DC titles.

Bagley doing FF is pretty awesome...Fraction is hit or miss...his X-men was bad but his Iron Man has been great so we'll have to see how he does with the FF....Remender on Cap is freaking awesome and I'm one of the few I guess who loves Romita Jr's work so I'm cool with that...I don't really have any opinions on Spurrier so I'll have to wait and see what direction that goes in....overall most of these creative team announcements have been alright

Any chance "Extended" is Daredevil?

Hulk for me. Maybe Deadpool, but seeing that DC's bleeding me dry as it is I might have to pass on it.

Why would Extended be Daredevil, Spider-Man or god knows half the stuff suggested.

It's FF. It obviously means "Extended family".

EXTENDED? Whats that? I get the others. Whats Extended? I must get that, maybe.

@PrioritySeven said:

Any chance "Extended" is Daredevil?

Waid already confirmed he is still doing Daredevil.

Remender win

Romita I am not buying this.

Pretty pumped for Remender on Cap. Bru is my favorite writer so to see him leaves hurts a little but Remender is a good choice for the follow-up. Really the only title I care about except for Winter Soldier which is fantastic.

Matt Fraction writing Fantastic Four .....

I hope this is just a rumor cause if isn't I'm sorry F4....

Fraction's not the right writer for the FF IMO. I'll drop it once Hickman's finished. I wonder what the extended teaser is about? It's the only one I can't place.

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@zombietag said:

as long as slott doesnt leave ASM everythings okay by me

I asked this question at SCC, and they wouldnt comment on it. I am assuming he is leaving shortly after issue 700. Marvel and Slott just keep saying he is going into "hiding" for awhile shortly after 700. Which makes me sad if its true.

HE BETTER NOT. he's the best thing thats happened to ASM in a long time! i guess it dopends on whos writing it though...

i can see the teaser now: RESPONSIBILITY with two names above it

Why in the hell is anyone still giving Romita jr. work? He sucks, majorly.

I saw Remeder and shouted YES! but then i saw Romita and went oh.....

Might buy Legacy when it comes out.

Personally i have the highest hopes for Deadpool. It seems as its gonna be awesome :D

Sounding good... I'll need to see some previews before I decide to buy any of them or not. My pull list stretches out my budget pretty thinly as is