Today’s Marvel Next Big Thing call has revealed that Captain America and Bucky is to undergo a revamp and become Captain America and Hawkeye for a storyline before bringing on a new co-star in future arcs… which makes me realize that Marvel’s real Next Big Thing is stealth team-up books. Not only do now have Captain America and, but November saw the launch of Avenging Spider-Man – which is a Spider-Man team-up title to all intents and purposes – and we already have X-Men, which is as close to an X-Men Team-Up as we’re likely to get anytime soon.

I’m actually a really big fan of Team-Up books when they’re done right (I was even tempted by Deadpool Team-Up numerous times, but could never get over my intense disinterest in Deadpool as a character. Sorry, everyone), so I find myself more taken with this trend that you might expect. I admit to preferring shorter team-ups than the six-issue arc model (in part because it means more team-ups on an annual basis, which generally produces more likelihood of obscure characters being dropped into the mix; I want to see Spider-Man and Nighthawk Team-Up, dammit), but Avenging, at least, seems fast enough on the changing of co-stars for now. But what character will get their own team-up ongoing next, I wonder…? I mean, surely Wolverine could do with one now that that franchise has lost both Daken and X-23 as ongoing titles…

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