New ANT-MAN series announced, FANTASTIC FOUR cancelled, new HAWKEYE creative team

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Cover by myself and @fatheadwilson to the just announced new Ant Man series by Nick Spencer and Ramon Rosanas. (Scott Lang's new costume design is by yours truly as well :)

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A new ANT-MAN series was announced at New York Comic-Con this weekend. The series, which will debut in January 2015, will be written by Nick Spencer with art by Ramon Rosanas. This is a move that isn't unexpected as we're closing in on Ant-Man, the major motion picture set to come in the back-half of 2015. Spencer, of SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN and AVENGERS WORLD, seems a really good fit for the book, which will focus on Scott Lang and undoubtedly will want the sort of humor Spencer can bring to a book.

In other news, FANTASTIC FOUR has been cancelled by Marvel in a news story that no one finds surprising. It has, of course, led to a number of articles speculating (or claiming as fact) that Marvel has done it to keep promotion of Fox's upcoming Fantastic Four movie down, which continues to sound like the worst reporting in the whole wide world and continues not to be a rumor I buy in the least. Instead, I think the book is just not good and it's getting cancelled because, you know, it's not good.

The other big news I've seen is the announcement of a new creative team on huge Marvel hit book HAWKEYE. Matt Fraction and David Aja will end their hugely acclaimed run soon, leaving Marvel with the challenge of wanting to continue a great series that has found a huge following but losing the talent that put it on the map. At NYCC, they've announced that they're committed to putting top talent back on the book with Eisner-nominated writer Jeff Lemire (SWEET TOOTH, ESSEX COUNTY) and Eisner-winner Ramón Pérez (JIM HENSON'S TALE OF SAND). It's a huge decision and one that could prove excellent for Marvel as it allows Fraction and Aja to finish their story without it dragging on and still keeps top talent with big followings themselves on the book.

Also announced at NYCC is that February will see a line of 20 books with Phil Noto variants. Pretty excited about that, you guys.