SDCC '13: Marvel Announces LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE Limited Series

SDCC '13: Marvel Announces LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE Limited Series

This November will see the release of Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe from writer Christopher Hastings and artist Jacopo Camagni. Hit the jump to check out the cover for issue #1 and details on the series from Hastings.

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By JoshWilding - Jul 22, 2013 03:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Source: Newsarama



"Longshot seems to have stretched his luck a bit too far, and set off a very, very unlucky chain of events that he feels responsible for fixing. Unlikely heroes are the most exciting heroes! It has been incredibly fun for me to start with the biggest most terrible threat for Longshot to face down and *then* figure out a way for him to realistically handle it. Well, as realistically as superhero stories get, anyway. There are plenty of very cool moments in the series, but I must say the way he saves the day at the end of the second issue is particularly badass. (And I don't feel like I'm bragging, because it was editor Jordan White who suggested it to me.) But I'm sorry, I cannot spoil it. You have to read it to enjoy it in full."


For more from Hastings, be sure to click on the link below to read the interview in full. What I found particularly interesting about this cover is that it's the second to feature the AMAZING Spider-Man (the other being the one for Inhuman). Could Marvel finally be planning to bring back Peter Parker this Winter? Be sure to sound off with your thoughts on this news in the usual place!

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ablee337
ablee337 - 7/22/2013, 3:28 AM
He is an Art Adams creation from the 80s.
I think he's from the Mojo world.
musashi
musashi - 7/22/2013, 3:37 AM
If you call it Longshot saves the Marvel Universe, aren't you giving away the ending??
davideodus
davideodus - 7/22/2013, 3:38 AM
also he's the member of excalibur
(captain britain)
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 7/22/2013, 3:40 AM
Great, a story about the worst X-Character ever created saving the MU. Just what everyone wanted...
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 7/22/2013, 3:40 AM
Okay?............
JonasWepeel
JonasWepeel - 7/22/2013, 3:51 AM
Longshot is awesome.
youngavengers
youngavengers - 7/22/2013, 3:58 AM
SOME ONE IS GONNA BE IN A NEW MOVIE HMMMMM?
OrsonRandall
OrsonRandall - 7/22/2013, 4:03 AM
Was great in X-factor.
revloveR
revloveR - 7/22/2013, 4:16 AM
looks like brandon routh in scott pilgrim.
Starbrand
Starbrand - 7/22/2013, 5:14 AM
Longshot is one of my favorite B-Role X-Men.
Blackvoid
Blackvoid - 7/22/2013, 5:52 AM
He looks like Dexter
WakeUp
WakeUp - 7/22/2013, 5:53 AM
More like a Macgyver rip off...Mullet for the win!
pepe
pepe - 7/22/2013, 5:53 AM
so... who da h*ll is Longshot?
TelaVizion
TelaVizion - 7/22/2013, 6:02 AM
How the hell do ppl not know who Longshot is?!?!?! Anyway, being both the son and father of Shatterstar is crazy. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I'll be sure to finish that story arc and definitely will be reading this.
AlcoholicA
AlcoholicA - 7/22/2013, 6:11 AM
Liked him in 80's X-Men and current X-Factor as well. Will be reading this.
plasticman
plasticman - 7/22/2013, 6:49 AM
Don't you people know what a search engine is? This is a so-so character from the X-Men's past. I wouldn't say he's a great character or a bad one. He has a unique storyline that is interesting. Nothing huge though. I'd rather have a new ROM series but that isn't going to happen.
plasticman
plasticman - 7/22/2013, 6:50 AM
Oh, and I had the Forearm action figure, and yes...Rob is a jerk for how he dumbed down my childhood view of comics.
J0RELLC00LJ
J0RELLC00LJ - 7/22/2013, 6:56 AM
Longshot is way cooler than Deadpool. The O.G. Mojoworld mutant.
HugeCapfan
HugeCapfan - 7/22/2013, 6:58 AM
IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!!!!

After mini-series, one shots and whatever, ...characters like Punisher, Cable, Hulk and even Fred Hembeck had been destroying the Marvel U for years. Sooo, I welcome someone, anyone, even Longshot (A forgotten character from a Wonky period of X-alternate universe/cities/communities/nations) to save the Marvel U!!!

What he's saving, ...anyone's guess, therein lies the fun!!!
astromerc
astromerc - 7/22/2013, 7:33 AM
Who is Longshot? No would you morons think FOX/ Bryan Singers version of the X-Men is cool. LOL!
SpideyQuad
SpideyQuad - 7/22/2013, 7:38 AM
Longshot, to me, IS the 80s
mdwilliamson24
mdwilliamson24 - 7/22/2013, 7:38 AM
Longshot is awesome. I had thought Marvel had forgotten about this character.
When he was originally used in the X-Men in the late 80's, Chris Claremont wrote him pretty good. Then some of the writers after him had no idea how to write him and he got phased out and replaced with this idiotic character named Gambit. Gambit became a kind of fan favorite, lord only knows why, and Longshot was rarely ever seen much after.
And, yes, Deadpool sucks too while we are at it.
DarthTesla
DarthTesla - 7/22/2013, 8:00 AM
Oh, cool! I love Longshot.

Still have my old Longshot action figure with his rockin' mullet!
HellBoyzBetter
HellBoyzBetter - 7/22/2013, 8:02 AM
Longshot... ugh... bring back awesome characters like NIGHTCRAWLER... BTW Gambit is 100x better than Longshot because he's awesome and doesn't have the lame ass Superman mentality. And while we are at it Deadpool sucks way less than your mom.
Aeyan
Aeyan - 7/22/2013, 8:33 AM
@davideodus: He is NOT Captain Britain, and he has absolutely NOTHING to do with Excalibur.
MiVigilante
MiVigilante - 7/22/2013, 9:27 AM
@ musashi no different from deadpool kills the marvel universe
Rhys
Rhys - 7/22/2013, 10:40 AM
...apparently less people on this site read comics than I thought.

Anyway, Longshot's cool, but not "Saves the Marvel Universe" cool.

And am I the only one who thinks he looks like Ian Somerhalder.
dezdigi
dezdigi - 7/22/2013, 10:52 AM
Will he still look like an 80's butt rocker?
Namor
Namor - 7/22/2013, 11:12 AM
jesus, some of you don't know who Longshot is?
Mindbombable
Mindbombable - 7/22/2013, 11:13 AM
Wow, got an immediate flashback of him fighting the Reavers. Hmmm, The whole MU huh?

Not expecting nor anxiously awaiting this... However, I would rather have a full Longshot and Dazzler story arc in X-men for a year than seeing Jubilee ever again.

@RodimusPryme
Nightcrawler IS back.
ParisSun
ParisSun - 7/22/2013, 11:28 AM
Longshot is Gambit lite and is the equivalent to DCs Booster Gold. What a terrible character to base a series around. I'm sure Singer will want to star him in a triology.

And when did Racer X become a Marvel character?
Crescendo
Crescendo - 7/22/2013, 11:36 AM
Finally got rid of his mullet! I'm intrigued with this new outing for LS.
nld3
nld3 - 7/22/2013, 12:55 PM
Longshot never was a fan. I have to say who cares, really. These writers dig up some the oddest heroes no one seems o care about.
SoulAlone
SoulAlone - 7/22/2013, 11:40 PM
Still better than Nightcrawler.
J0RELLC00LJ
J0RELLC00LJ - 8/7/2013, 4:44 PM
Can't be any worse than the queer "Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe." Heyzeus Christo!
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