Marc-Oliver Frisch follows up on his post about DC’s convention announcements with one on Marvel’s, where he covers the new Spider-Man creative teams, Millar & Hitch on Fantastic Four and the new Astonishing X-Men creative team:

Rather than putting all their eggs in one basket (see the competition’s Final Crisis), Marvel announced a whole bunch of potential free-standing sales juggernauts at the recent major conventions. Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi doing Astonishing X-Men: Second Stage certainly fits that bill. Although it likely won’t be up there with the Whedon/Cassaday run commercially, I wouldn’t underestimate Ellis’ appeal. The British author is currently seeing something of a second spring, with a slew of critically acclaimed projects like Fell, Nextwave and Thunderbolts under his belt, most of which are also selling respectably, and a well-received novel out. Coupled with up-and-coming newcomer Bianchi, who knows, maybe it’s just the right mix to get people excited. Creatively, Ellis tends to be hit and miss with existing work-for-hire concepts; we could end up with another Thunderbolts, or we could end up with another Iron Man.

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