It’s the 15th new comic book day of the new year! This post covers Marvel Comics April 10 2024 releases. Missed last week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics April 3 2024 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: Modern Black Widow Epics, actually classic Daredevil, Carnage’s identity struggle, Star-Spider, X marks the Stark, Ms. Marvel vs. Mojo, and more!
This list includes every comic and digital comic out from Marvel this week, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats. For each new release, I’ll point you to the right guide within my Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect each character in full – and, if a guide is linked from this post, that means it is updated through the present day!
Marvel Comics April 10 2024 Collected Editions
Black Widow Modern Era Epic Collection Vol. 3: Chaos
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302956431 / digital)
See Guide to Black Widow. This collects all of Nathan Edmonson & Phil Noto’s 2014 Black Widow series. I enjoyed it. It often played Widow as someone whose plans were constantly ruined, but that came across less as a character flaw and more as the theme of the series – “chaos”!
This being “Vol. 3” has interesting implications for what two volumes before it will contain! While Vol. 2 could wind up being a verbatim reprint of Widowmaker (2020 paperback, ISBN 978-1302921446 / digital), which collects all of her 2009-2010 material, I wonder if perhaps they would shift the first series in that book – Black Widow: Deadly Origin (2009) #1-4 – out of that and into Vol. 1 to make room for Captain America & Black Widow (2012) #636-640 even though it is part of Cap’s line and not Natasha’s.
Daredevil Omnibus Vol. 3
(2024 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302955182 / digital)
See Guide to Daredevil. This collects what I consider to be the first truly great run of Daredevil – his entire San Francisco period, including Black Widow as his co-star (and her solo stories from Amazing Adventures (1970) #1-8). If you really want to read classic Silver and Bronze Age Daredevil, I’d just skip the first two omnibuses and start with this one!
Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 1 (Re-Masterworks)
2024 “Re-Masterworks” hardcover, ISBN 978-1302951382 / digital)
See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner. Marvel hasn’t reprinted Masterworks volumes since prior to 2010 with some of the big lines like X-Men and Spider-Man, but their new Re-Masterworks program is giving them an excuse to both revise and expand the contents of these early Masterworks volumes by upgrading the artwork throughout.
I’ve just ordered my first of these re-issues, so I’ll be able to comment on the art restoration soon. From what I’ve seen online, it’s mostly just cleaner, thinner, more-defined ink lines – so, if you’re not the kind of person who would notice that sort of thing, there’s no reason to rush to buy these if you have the original Masterworks or the omnibus that was reprinted in 2022.
Predator vs. Wolverine
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302955045 / digital)
See Guide to Wolverine – Logan. I believe this marks the first time Marvel has mashed up any of Disney’s newly-acquired FOX properties with a Marvel hero. I wonder if this is a one-time thing or (more likely) if this was testing the waters before we get series with Alien, Planet of the Apes, and more!
Star Wars: Darth Vader by Greg Pak Vol. 8 – Dark Droids
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302954758 / digital)
See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. This is maybe the first time I think Pak has lost a step on this series due to needing to line up with one of the events that crosses through all the books. The idea that Vader almost loses his humanity to some sort of ancient AI infection stretched the credulity of the Star Wars universe a bit much for me – and that’s saying a lot! I wish this plot had taken Vader’s participation in another direction. Definitely my least-favorite bit of a series I really love.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian Vol. 2 – Season Two, Part Two
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302952327 / digital)
See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics.
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics April 10 2024 single issue and digital releases!
Marvel Comics April 10 2024 Physical Comic Releases
Aliens: What If…? (2024) #2 – See Guide to Aliens comics. This is a single What If? story rather than a series of one-shots, all co-written by original Alien actor Paul Reiser!
Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #47 – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). I’m having the opposite problem with this Zeb Wells run as it presses into its back third compared to my problem with the prior Nick Spencer run at the same point. In Spencer’s run, the plot was a serpentine, decompressed mess mired in decades of retcon-upon-retcon about the Osborn family.
With Wells, it feels like there’s barely any ongoing plot at all aside from continuous knife-twisting about Peter’s lost relationship with the now-heroic MJ, and Wells’ new focus on the Sinister Six requires us to ignore recent decades of development for each member. In fact, last month’s issue was all about reversing the status quo for Sandman – and it featured a vicious Doc Ock with no hint of his recent Superior Spider-Man series (though I haven’t read the last issue; maybe he gets mind-wiped).
At least it’s mildly amusing – and, last month’s unconventional jailbreak issue was pretty clever. I think Wells is at his best when being clever with obscure characters (as he was on Hellions), which is not too different from how Spencer got famous in part for writing Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Hopefully Wells can keep up the clever turns like last issue’s to keep this run readable through the end, even if I don’t care for this plot developments.
Carnage (2023) #6 – This new Carnage series is having an identity struggle that mirrors the struggle of its main character. Is it a book about Carnage’s villainous monologues or about the sociopathic black hole he creates in society and its ensuring gravimetric pull?
I think the best beats in this series so far have been ones focused on other characters reacting to Carnage, like Flash Thompson, but the current story is more about monologuing as Carnage hunts Eddie Brock through time and space. Last issue purported to be part of the current direct crossover with Venom, but it just recapped the prior Venom issue nearly panel-for-panel. Normally I’d wonder if that was down to bad coordination between writers, but Torunn Grønbekk is writing both books! I’m always rooting for Grønbekk and this series has shown glimmers of a spark, but I think it is still struggling mightily with its identity.
Edge of Spider-Verse (2024) #3 – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). Justina Ireland introduces an intergalactic Star-Spider, who sounds pretty rad. And, Steve Foxe returns to the fabulous Web-Weaver from the last round of Spider-Verse. I might actually pick up this issue!
Fantastic Four (2022) #19 – See Guide to Fantastic Four. Ryan North’s excellent on this book continues. Last month he took Dan Slott’s thorny Franklin Richards retcon and spun straw into gold with an issue about the restraint that comes with Franklin’s newfound maturity and the idea that the Fantastic Four will always find a way to win in the end.
This run is so wholesome and so clever that it’s quickly becoming my favorite F4 run of all time. I think if you really love Mark Waid’s mid-00s run on the title that the vibe of this book will be for you.
The Incredible Hulk (2023) #11 – See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner.
Invincible Iron Man (2022) #17 – See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark. I’ve made some noise on Twitter recently about how this, X-Men (2021), and Fall of the House of X (2024) are really all one book that only makes sense when you’re reading all three comics together. Last month’s issue drove that home – an issue full of splash pages of Tony’s climactic battle with Feilong that felt like it was missing the gravity of understanding what the X-Men were doing at the same time to make Tony’s feint worthwhile. (The answer involves having read X-Men (2021) #32-33, which track where Emma has disappeared to out of this title.)
It’s interesting to think about how this run will read on its own in the long run. It doesn’t strike me as something that will be satisfying as its own omnibus, because so many of the plot developments are happening off-panel in those two other books.
Bottom line: If you are trying to follow the endgame of the Age of Krakoa, you can’t keep skipping issue of Iron Man… but, if you’re just trying to follow Iron Man, you might be out of luck.
Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace (2024) #2 – See Guide to Ms. Marvel – Kamala Khan. Iman Vellani and company hit a home run with the first issue of this book, which captured the feel and pace of G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel, referenced a ton of continuity from the past decade – both big and small – without making it a barrier to entry, and also had a nice slice of mutant nonsense without requiring the reader to have an encyclopedic knowledge of Krakoan current events. If you like Ms. Marvel at all or are curious about the concept of her as a mutant, pick up this series immediately!
Resurrection of Magneto (2024) #4 – See Guide to Magneto. Last issue was rough stuff – all rhetorical monologues against imagined foes that went in circles and did nothing to advance or reveal aspects of Storm or Magneto. It feels to me like Ewing is missing much more often than he is hitting lately. Everyone needs a vacation sometimes.
Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020) #45 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. I’m fascinated by the current arc of this series, which is focused on a group of people within The Empire that Vader has harmed, wronged, and defeated who have realized that “if you can’t beat him, join him.” Conflict within The Empire isn’t something we got to see much of in the films beyond the occasional Admiral who wasn’t a fan of Vader. Here, there are several levels to the manipulation between Vader and his uneasy allies, and all of them and Palpatine. Greg Pak keeps finding different beats to explore with Vader prior to his quickly-impending demise in Return of the Jedi, and I love them all.
Star Wars: The High Republic (2023) #6 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics.
Star Wars: Thrawn – Alliances (2024) #4 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. Jody Houser’s adaption of the novel continues.
Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 (2024) #2 – See Guide to Spider-Man 2099. This Peter A. David title is not an extension of the current continuity seen in Steve Orlando’s 2099 comics. It’s a specific insert into David’s own history writing Spider-Man 2099, fitting specifically after Spider-Man 2099 (1993) #43 and dealing with PAD’s original 2099 Venom (as well as Punisher 2099). The first issue really dropped you into the plot with very little primer, which means you’re dealing with threads that pick up directly from comics released nearly 30 years ago. Yet, it’s not like the threads are so confusing, and PAD is an all-time expert on this.
I think the only possible detraction here is that late in PAD’s run on the title Miguel was acting as CEO of Alchemax, which might make him slightly less accessible as a point-of-view character if you’re not already familiar with that story beat.
Ultimate X-Men (2024) #2 – See Guide to Ultimate Marvel. This one was squarely in the “not for me” zone, but it could be for you. Peach Momoko draws a Manga-influenced X-Men book focused entirely on Armor, a school student coming to terms with her mysterious amor made of the souls of her ancestors while being haunted by an evil spirit during a spate of death by suicide at her school.
I think even in the most “for me” comic I tend to check out when disembodied evil spirits monologue at our hero (see Resurrection of Magneto, above), so to pair that with Momoko’s art and an out-of-continuity story was just too big of a turnoff for me. It just didn’t feel “X-Men” enough to me to merit the title. But, if you love Momoko’s art and alt-reality X-Men, maybe you’ll have a different take on those scenes. I might give this another issue or two to see if it does anything “X-Men” that I enjoy, but sometimes comics just aren’t made for us.
Weapon X-Men (2024) #2 – See Guide to Weapon X. I am incredibly shocked to say that I was incredibly entertained by this comic. It follows from the Original X-Men (2023) #1 one-shot, also by Christos Gage, which saw our Marvel-616 Teen X-Men have their memory blocks lifted by an alternate-reality version of Phoenix to try to hunt down and defeat a multiversal version of rampaging Onslaught. They survived the experience, but didn’t enjoy it, so in this series Phoenix taps a team entirely made up of multiverse Wolverines to continue the hunt.
“A team of multiverse Wolverines” sounds like a comic I will absolutely despise, but issue #1 kept me turning pages and laughing heartily throughout. Gage made great picks in assembling this team, including an AOA Wolverine (whose continuity has me a bit confused) and a Marvel Zombies Wolverine (who is absolutely hilarious), plus some newly-invented ones – including an old-timey western Lady Logan. Then, Gage mashed that up with a whole alternate Earth full of intriguing X-Men – which makes sense, since the villain here is Onslaught.
For me, this worked in every way Ultimate X-Men failed – I loved the art, the writing was snappy and hilarious, and I find myself desperate to learn more about this Phoenix vs. Onslaught throwdown across the multiverse – a sentence I never expected to write.
Wolverine (2020) #47 – See Guide to Wolverine – Logan. The Sabretooth War that began in issue #41 presses onward. I almost enjoyed last issue, which was a nice throwback to early-90s Team X flashbacks of Creed and Logan together. But, the writing of the erstwhile Krakoan Exiles felt like a random fill-in book, and then we got to the part where Sabretooth was ripping off people’s arms.
I don’t find any fascination in mowing down mutant characters for the enjoyment of the gore – in fact, the absolute lack of weight those sorts of plots had in the Age of Krakoa due to resurrection is what made me love it so much! If you want to see an evil mastermind version of Sabretooth and enjoy minor character deaths, then I think this will resonate with you much more than it does with me.
X-Men ’97 (2024) #2 – Are you loving X-Men ’97? Do you want a mini-series where every issue is an in-continuity mini-prequel episode to the new season? Well, you’re in luck. Steve Foxe, Salva Espin, Matt Milla, & Joe Sabino are delivering a series that looks, feels, and sounds just like actual episodes of the show, and it pulls in tons of 90s mutants who might not get their time to shine on the official season.
Marvel Comics April 10 2024 Digital-First Comic Releases
This is a list of projected Marvel Comics April 10 2024 Digital-First releases based on the recent digital release schedule. Actual releases are not confirmed until they show up on the Marvel Unlimited app.
These releases have not been quick to be released in print, though we’ve now see print versions of a few of these series trickle out a year or more after they were released.
- Avengers United Infinity Comic (2023) #27 – See Guide to Avengers (2010-Present).
- Infinity Paws Infinity Comic (2024) #2
- Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic (2023) #32 – Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018-Present)
- X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #134– See Guide to X-Men, The Age of Krakoa
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