User blog:ARTaylor/NYCC 2017 Marvel Animation Panel News

Last Sunday, Marvel Animation held a panel at New York Comic-Con hosted by Senior Vice President of Animation and Family Entertainment Cort Lane, story editor Mairghread Scott, and voice actresses Vanessa Marshall and Kathreen Khavari. They talked about Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers Assemble, and several upcoming projects.

They showed a clip from an upcoming episode of Spider-Man where the wallcrawler could encounter Venom while also beginning to tutor Flash Thompson. They revealed that the series would crossover with Guardians of the Galaxy in a symbiote-centric story. This raises certain questions about the continuity of the shows as the new Spider-Man is separate from the recently ended Ultimate Spider-Man that does exist in the same world as Guardians, but when asked Lane said their main focus is providing shows and stories that fans will connect with while trying to be consistent. Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada will play Joe of Cup of Joe's coffee house. However, there are currently no plans for Silk to appear though Miles, Gwen, and Anya are on the path to becoming superheroes.

The panel talked about the third season of Guardians tying into the recently opened theme park ride in California Adventure. In the upcoming season, the team finding game and fortune but one of them screwing it up. The season will feature shorts of the prisons that Collector has designed for them. They showed a clip that has Star-Lord and Gamora trying to convince one of Collector's guards, modeled after some guy named Stan Lee, to let them into a forbidden area. They talked about a storyarc called the "Black Vortex" that has the team getting separated and trying to get back to each other. Gamora will be sent to a world where she is a Disney princess and will feature an appearance by Tara Strong.

Moving onto Avengers Assemble, they revealed that a series of shorts, told from the perspective of Ms. Marvel, will introduce the season. They discussed how Avengers: Black Panther Quest will focus on the Wakandan King and his sister. The Avengers will also take a visit to Battleworld.

Lane also revealed that Ms. Marvel will be in other projects that they were not able to announce.

There are big plans for Squirrel Girl.

They announced more Funko shorts with Spider-Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, Captain America, Venom, Loki, and Doctor Strange.

The showed a new trailer for Lego Marvel Super Heroes – Guardians of the Galaxy: The Thanos Threat. The cast of the Guardians series will return for this video. Additionally, Black Panther will get his own Lego special with Black Panther: Trouble in Wakanda.

They launched Marvel HQ, a destination of YouTube that will feature full episodes of Guardians, Spider-Man, and Avengers.

More announcements were promised in the coming months.