User blog:ARTaylor/New York Comic Con 2016 Wrap-Up

Marvel Animation held a panel at New York Comic Con hosted by Cort Lane and Stephen Wacker. There they discussed their existing shows as well as upcoming projects.

The first announcement was that Marvel is partnering with the Funko toy company to bring a series of shorts. The first, titled Spellbound will feature Spider-Man and Iron Man confronting Loki. Another will feature Deadpool and Venom in a chimichanga truck. A third has Rocket Raccoon and Groot fighting the Collector.

They also revealed that Marvel Cinematic Universe actress Hayley Atwell will join the cast of Avengers Assemble reprising her role of Agent Peggy Carter.

The panel revealed that for the upcoming Ant-Man shorts Josh Keaton will be playing Ant-Man while Melissa Rauch is Wasp.

They announced that the second season of Guardians of the Galaxy will feature Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock while going deeper into the cosmic side of Marvel. The season premiere was screened for the attendees and had Captain Marvel, Rocket, and Groot imprisoned by High Evolutionary with the Guardians and Avengers helped save them.

After the screening, Fred Tatasciore joined them to talk about the upcoming Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell, which is being screened tomorrow during the convention. He said of the film "What’s amazing about it is, Hulk and Doctor Strange are friends...Hulk and Banner are separated by magic and they have to deal with each other...and a very frightening, amazing villain — Nightmare...it’s very creepy...it’s a very Halloween kind of film." They showed a clip of the film featuring Nightmare taunting Hulk into going after Bruce Banner while Doctor Strange tries to stop it. The clip also had Bruce putting on the Hulkbuster armor. Wacker then had Tatasciore read the script of a deleted scene, while having a young fan dressed as Ant-Man play along with him.

They then discussed Ultimate Spider-Man. Season four will end with a two-parter called "Graduation Day", which has Spider-Man fighting the Sinister Six in a damaged New York City. Not only will this end the fourth season, but it seems to be the end of the series. That's right, while the show beat Spider-Man in episode numbers, it will not beat it in length.

Lane and Wacker revealed that they are working on a new series simply called Spider-Man. This series will follow Peter Parker as he starts off as Spider-Man. It will pull a lot from Dan Slott's run on the comics. Kevin Shinick, of Robot Chicken fame, will be the story lead. They showed a clip from the new series featuring Peter in an early version of the costume, similar to the first version in the 2002 Spider-Man film, taking on a group of thugs. The clip then showed a moment between Peter and Uncle Ben before Spider-Man follows the thugs in a car while then featuring Vulture attacking.