Fans ask about a possible new Cloak & Dagger series all the time at conventions, and Marvel usually has the same answer each time: not opposed to the idea, but waiting for the right pitch to come along. Apparently, they’ve found it: as reported on sources including the blog Comics Vanguard, writer Nick Spencer (Morning Glories, Iron Man 2.0, and, as of this past Thursday, a four-time Eisner nominee) and artist Emma Rios (Osborn) are working on a three-issue Cloak & Dagger miniseries, starring the titular cult faves and tying in to the upcoming Spider-Island story in Amazing Spider-Man. The news was announced at this weekend’s currently ongoing Kapow convention in London, and was confirmed by Spencer on his Twitter account.
Cloak & Dagger have deep connections to Spider-Man, starting with their debut in 1982′s Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64, and their supporting roles in the ’90s “Maximum Carnage” crossover. They starred in three different series in their ’80s heyday, the longest one running 19 issues. Most recently, they were the subject of a March 2010 one-shot by writer Stuart Moore and artist Mark Brooks.
April 9th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
This dude has to stop doing so much things at once.
Prioritize man.
April 9th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
@Ziyad:
That’s because his huge ego demands it… ;-P
April 9th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Ziyad – well, his Secret Avengers stint is ending in August when Warren Ellis takes over, so presumably this takes that slot in his schedule.
April 9th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Well, in all honestly, most of the things he’s doing are short term. His Secret Avengers run is only a few issues, sans Morning Glories most of his creator owned is mini-series, his only real honest to god ongoings are Morning Glories, Iron Man 2.0 and Thunder Agents, which is apparently losing him soon. So I think he’s doing fine.
April 9th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Since when is there a limit to how many titles a person can write? If he can get his scripts in on time and they’re good there isnt any reason he cant write as many as he can handle, let the man work.
April 9th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
3 issue mini-series means nothing.
That doesn’t sound like a company behind a product.
Hell, they’ve launched plenty of new series recently with no real idea of actual support (Black Widow and Hawkeye and Mockingbird being two).
Maybe that means they are finally learning and going the mini-series route to try and gauge support.
But 3 issues? That sounds like serious doubt in terms of audience.
You can’t even get a trade out of that.
If they are not going to give it at least a 5 issue test run (which would give them a small trade to recoup additional monies if the mini fails), then they might as well not even bother.
April 9th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
I would do a Cloak mini-series or one-shot, to focus more on the Tyrone character, he has gotten the short-shrift in attention/development over the years compared to dagger.. one day, I’ll get my story in. it’ll happen..
April 10th, 2011 at 1:06 am
And broken on Bleeding Cool shortly before the announcement,,,
April 10th, 2011 at 7:14 am
Speaking of ties to Spiderman, in the meh Dark Reign miniseries with Mr. Negative it was revealed the same experiment that gave C & D their powers gave Mr. Negative his. In fact he escaped with them.
April 10th, 2011 at 7:30 am
I have no problem with him doing multiple series because brother needs to get payed or needs the work but I don’t want him to do too much lest the quality of his other work drops. But its this and iron man 2.0 so it’s not that much.
I do agree with skulldaggerry because a 5-6 test run would be more efficient in gauging if he and cloak and dagger could support a ongoing and if they cant then 5-6 issues would be a good length to write a complete story on.
April 10th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
nice to see even if its only three issues cloak and dagger back running around the marvel universe. though cloak did hang out with wolverine in his battle with romulus and dagger did keep the x-men company when they were setting up utopia. plus thought marvel had okayed a cloak and dagger series with Valeria d orto
April 10th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Who the heck in Nick Spencer anyway? Why are DC and Marvel so hell bent in getting him? And now that he’s Marvel’s exclusive, then the heck is he still allowed to write for DC and Image?
Is Marvel so desperate for new blood and untested talent, that they’ll scoop up any new writers? They did this with Fraction and frankly, I was incredibly underwhelmed with his Uncanny X-Men run. What exactly happened during his run? Did any of signifance happened, other than the X-Men moving to San Francisco??
Seriously, Marvel, are you folks really that desperate?
April 11th, 2011 at 5:58 am
Spencer is Marvel exclusive, yes.
But part of his deal allows him to continue doing Morning Glories for Image and Thunder Agents for DC.
And DC is going to either cancel Thunder Agents when his arc is done or give it to someone else.
Relax, pal.
April 11th, 2011 at 7:15 am
Wow Luke,
Nick Spencer is far from “untested,” and has received plenty of critical and fan praise for his DC and Image work. If you don’t know who the heck he is, then you should probably lay off the snark.
Willful ignorance is silly. So is expressing a strong, negative opinion when you don’t know WTF you’re talking about.
April 11th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I would much rather hear that Cloak and Dagger was on going or MAX rather then a miny series I still will look forward to reading this though Nick spencer has one me over big time
April 12th, 2011 at 12:17 am
“Exclusive,but allowed to work elsewhere”, doesn’t really sound exclusive at all.
Thrilled to see more C&D , and intrigued that Spencer is the one to bring it.