Hey everyone, Mike here reporting from Chicago. Nick and I covered some panels today, so look out for his DC Nation post sometime soon.

Today, though, I hit up the Mondo Marvel panel featuring Jim McCann, Mark Paniccia, Dan Slott, Jason Aaron, Sean McKeever, Chris Yost and Craig Kyle. There was a little bit of information at this panel, just a bit more than the Ultimate’s panel, but nonetheless it was informative. I took notes on my iPhone so if I missed some small stuff, I’m sorry.

The convention covered a bunch of things, but I’ll just spit it to you as I got it:

Dan Slott featured a teaser for his arc that will be coming up in Amazing Spider-Man featuring none other than Mysterio! (But I thought he was dead?! Oh wait, this is Marvel mwhahaha). This should be showing up around issues #618 or #619.

Paul Toben and Patrick Scherberger will be putting out a 4 issue limited series called Spider-Man and the Secret Wars–yeah, from way back then–which will cover a bit of retelling of Spider-Man’s place in Secret Wars and his view of things.

More after the break

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I talked briefly about Ghost Rider #26 in my weekly preview this week, mostly because I wanted to feature a really good book that we don’t often talk about. To this end, I decided to go ahead and write a full review of Ghost Rider because a new (and ultimately important) arc is starting this week.

Fans of old school Ghost Rider (not me) will instantly recognize the main character of this month’s issue as Danny Ketch, the former Spirit of Vengeance and brother to our current Rider, Johnny Blaze. This arc has been previewed as the epic return of Danny Ketch and will also contain (in the second part, I believe) a battle between Blaze and Ketch. Sounds pretty damn sweet to me, and I don’t even know who the guy is.

My full review after the break.

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Trying out a new feature that I am hoping to write every Monday called Rapid Reviews. I intend to review the remaining comics from the previous release week that I read. These will most likely be the smaller comics, the ones that we didn’t find required a full review or just ones that we didn’t get a chance to write a full review for. So check out the reviews below and leave a comment to let me know if you like/dislike this form of reviewing.

Black Panther #39

Black Panther #39 began their Secret Invasion tie-in this month. Really bad-ass story which reminded me of an epic battle movie, like Lord of the Rings. The writing is excellent by guest writer Jason Aaron who will be doing the entire Secret Invasion arc. I was slightly disappointed in Jefte Palo’s art. It seemed very old school to me and just isn’t the kind of art I like. Bottom line: great story and I look forward to the continuation of the Secret Invasion arc, despite the lackluster art.

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