Top 10 new comics to keep an eye on in 2014

ANOTHER SUBJECTIVE LIST! You thought I was done but I CAN MAKE LISTS ALLLLLLLL DAY. Anyway, I find myself really excited by some of the prospects of this coming year from Marvel so let's dive in. I'm only going to be mentioning the new comics that are coming even though I am excited for a lot of continuing comics - you can read my last few days' posts to find out which ones those are. I'm not planning this one out as rigidly as I planned out last year's top 20 so LET'S SEE IF I ACTUALLY HAVE 10.

All-New Invaders
A new Invaders book starring the original Invaders? Dude, I am so onboard with that. The first arc (or one of the first arcs, promises to even bring in Aarkus, the original Vision most recently seen in X-MEN LEGACY and an original INVADER himself. Plus Bucky, Cap, Namor, and Human Torch! Ahhhh, so excited.












Black Widow
Black Widow's one of those characters who, for some reason or another, struggles to sustain a solo book. I'm hoping she's able to sustain this one as she's certainly a character worthy of more airtime in the Marvel Universe and someone that I think fans would connect to more if she had some time to spread her wings. She's also just one of a handful of new female-driven books to be excited about, which in and of itself is exciting.











Inhuman

This one's been pushed back a bit to accommodate a change in writers as Matt Fraction, previously confirmed to the book, has stepped back, leaving Charles Soule in charge. As much as I enjoy Fraction and think he'd've brought something special to the book, Soule has done a bang-up job on THUNDERBOLTS and I think he'll likely do a similar job on INHUMAN. This Axel Alonso column from CBR goes into further detail about the switch and it seems like it's probably for the best (Marvel and Fraction weren't really seeing eye-to-eye on how the story needed to go so it's probably better that Fraction stepped down rather than work on the project he didn't want to work on, though I'm sure his would have been amazing anyway).







Ms. Marvel
Really excited to see a book spawning from CAPTAIN MARVEL, and another female-led book (this one actually booted ELEKTRA from the list when I remembered it too was coming). This one has been all over the place, with various news outlets covering the arrival of a new woman teenage, Muslim superhero. Should be really interesting, looking forward to it.











Moon Knight

I love Moon Knight as a character so I was glad to see that he was getting back into an ongoing. I was even more glad when it was announced that his book would improbably be done by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire. What an amazing creative team. Very excited to see where it goes.














New Warriors

With SCARLET SPIDER gone and Yost seemingly stepping down from SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN TEAM-UP (in the very least, the latest PREVIEWS has Kevin Shinick by issue 11) where am I going to get my Chris Yost fix now? Why, NEW WARRIORS! Also, Scarlet Spider will be joining with that team so I'M COVERED EVERY WHICH WAY.













She-Hulk

I know, I'm as surprised as you that this book is here! Still, She-Hulk is a pretty well-liked character and books that came out in the last year with "She-Hulk" in the name somewhere served me well so I'm happy to give this one a look. On top of that, Charles Soule will also be taking the reins on this one and, on top of a fun writing style he brings to the game, Soule runs his own small law practice so he'll know what he's talking about in the lawyer-parts of the book.











Silver Surfer

Dan Slott and Michael Allred team up to bring us a brand new SILVER SURFER series. I'm a Silver Surfer fan so I'm glad we'll get to see a bit more of him and I'm very interested to see Dan Slott as the writer for another ongoing as he's stuck so firmly to Spider-Man over the last few years. His writing history, of course, is much more varied so it's not like this is only the second book he'll ever have done but it's been quite some time. Here's hoping it's neat!











Winter Soldier: Bitter March

I considered not putting this book on this list in favor of putting another ongoing on here but, I mean, I'm pretty excited for this one and it's my blog so, you know, whatever man. Glad to see Winter Soldier getting a story of his own, a spy story set in the 1960s as the brainwashed Bucky does his business for Russia in something that will tie into Remender's CAPTAIN AMERICA series in some way or another (Remender will also be the writer of this one). Should be a good time.











X-Force

So glad that this worked out so appropriately even in alphabetical order. I get to bookend this list with the two upcoming books I'm most excited about as ALL-NEW INVADERS brings one of my all-time favorite teams back into the mainstream and X-FORCE will bring one of my favorite teams with a solid (and surprisingly small) roster and a phenomenal writer. Si Spurrier working with, among others, Fantomex? Totally sold.











Should be a fun 2014, you guys. And that's just from the books that have been announced for the early part of the year. AND, oh man, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men Days of Future Past and eventually Guardians of the Galaxy are all slated for release this year. Whaaaaaaaat?