New York Comic Con News:  At the Avengers panel at the NYCC Marvel Comics announced a bunch of new titles including Loki: Agent of Asgard by Al Ewing and Lee Garbett, a new Black Widow series by Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto, Avengers World by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer, and Stefano Caselli, and Avengers Undercover, which Dennis Hopeless is writing.  Plus Avengers #24 will become both Avengers #24.NOW and Avengers #1 (the 30-page issue ships in December), and Dennis Kot will be writing a new Secret Avengers series that will also start with a #1 sometime in 2014.
 
Loki: Agent of Asgard will be the first of these books to hit when it debuts in February.  This ongoing series is cleverly designed to take advantage of the popularity of Tom Hiddleston’s screen incarnation of Loki, the trickster god, which has exploded since Hiddleston’s bravura performance in Whedon’s The Avengers.  Creator Al Ewing promised that the book would "trick" readers every issue, but is he telling the truth?
 
Marvel plans to talk more about the new Black Widow #1 series at a "Women of Marvel" panel, so the only reveal today was that it will be written by Nathan Edmondson and drawn by Phil Noto.
 
The aptly titled Avengers World, a new on-going series from Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer and Stefano Caselli, takes place in the aftermath of the Infinity event.  Hickman claims that he came up with the title, but little else, and the panelists made clear that Spencer will be doing the heavy lifting in the writing this saga that explores the landscape of Earth post Infinity.
 
Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker, the creators behind the non-stop throwdowns of Avengers Arena, are moving on to Avengers Undercover in which some of the survivors of Avengers Arena go undercover in the Masters of Evil.  Since they are pretty much all suffering PTSD after their arena battles, their erratic behavior shouldn’t raise too many eyebrows with underworld types.