Though we attended the Mondo Marvel panel at the Baltimore-Comic Con on Saturday afternoon, by the time we arrived inside the panel room, people were overflowing and we were relegated to being wallflowers. We stayed long enough for the creators to discuss anything that they are currently working on, but left early in the Q&A due to poor volume control in the panel rooms, which were adeptly placed right in the middle of the showroom.

The panel began with Marvel’s Arune Singh, the manager of Sales & Communications, which, in his own words, “basically means I do marketing stuff.” Singh served as the panel host, and wasted no time introducing the panelists, which included Marvel fanboy favorite Chris Claremont (X-Men Forever), Brian Michael Bendis (Spider-Woman, New Avengers), Jeff Parker (Agents of Atlas), Lauren Sankovich (editor of the Avengers books), Jason Aaron (Weapon X, Ghost Rider) and Matt Fraction (Invincible Iron Man, Uncanny X-Men).

Singh started off by having the panelists discuss what they were currently working on, beginning with Claremont, who rambled a bit about what is going on in X-Men Forever. He made a joke about continuing onto year two of the series but only if he didn’t kill all of the characters first. He did point out that if it does continue into its second year, the first arc would be about what Storm has been doing.

Bendis livened up the scene with a mocking statement of character deaths saying, “Let’s see. New Avengers, Luke Cage is gonna die in issue 60, Dark Avengers, Sentry dies in issue 13, Ultimate Spider-Man Peter dies in issue 10, and Powers is on sale November 27, and what else do I write?” At his point Matt Fraction chimed in and asked when Spider-Woman would die, to which Bendis replied “Spider-Woman dies in issue 5 of her own book.”

Moving on, Jeff Parker mentioned how his Agents of Atlas were currently battling the X-Men, which garnered the first real reaction from the crowd. Afterwards, Parker also announced he would be taking over Thunderbolts from Andy Diggle, as well beginning Spider-Man 1602.

Lauren Sankovich plugged both Nomad: Girl Without a World by Sean McKeever and David Baldione, and Strange by Mark Waid and Emma Rios, a must-read for Dr. Strange fans.

Jason Aaron picked things up next, declaring it was “fun times” in Weapon X with Wolverine in a mental institution. He also mentioned “Wolverine’s version of The Joker, who likes to cut people’s brains out and do weird things with them.” Aaron also joked sarcastically about his use of “A-list” villains like Scarecrow in the next issue of Ghost Rider. He then plugged his Punisher MAX, launching next month with Steve Dillon, which we got the chance to talk to him about with our interview with Jason Aaron.

Matt Fraction told us that Invincible Iron Man #19 would wrap up “World’s Most Wanted” with an extra sized issue, which leads into “Stark: Disassembled”, which we talked to him about in our interview with Matt Fraction. He also mentioned the return of Magneto in the next issue of Uncanny, whom he promised would have “plenty to say about stuff.”

Singh took the mic again and deemed that in order to come up and ask the panel a question, you have to recommend a Marvel book that everyone else in the room should be reading. Being the clever fox I am, I slyly muttered “Daredevil, seven years ago,” under my breath.

The first question, which perhaps set the tone to the rest of the Q&A, was a younger child asking if they were planning on reviving Steve Rogers. The panel sort of looked in awe, and even asked him to repeat the question. They then requested to see a show of hands of those reading Captain America: Reborn, to which a majority of the room raised thier hands, including the kid that asked the question.

Bendis saved the boy some embarrassment by simply saying “you know, if the book’s called Reborn...” and shrugging.

The panel then called a decked out Star Wars cosplayer to come up, humming the Imperial March while he walked, who asked about the future of the Marvel Motion Comics. The Astonishing X-Men motion comic, based on Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s mind-blowing run, has its first episode going on sale on iTunes on October 28. Singh also said there’s big stuff to announce regarding their motion comics, just not quite yet.

At this point, we were struggling to hear any of what was going on in the room, so unfortunately we pushed our way out.