How very DC of you.
You may recall that, previously, Marvel announced that they would be ending 33 titles after their massive universe-colliding Secret Wars event, including personal faves Angela: Asgard’s Assassin, Captain Marvel, Legendary Star-Love, Storm, Thor, and the all-lady X-Men. Now, speaking with USA Today, EIC Alex Alonso said that basically the entire new Marvel universe is going to get a shiny new coat of paint.
“We’ve put the onus on the creators to come up with big changes in the lives of our characters, whether it’s Spider-Man or Ms. Marvel or Daredevil or the Hulk,” said Alonso. “You’re going to be looking at, in certain cases, new characters inhabiting those roles, and new characters dealing with profound changes in the relationships with others around them and where they live.”
Marvel will be starting between 55 and 60 books off with new #1s come fall, “to attract newbies and hardcore readers alike to a single, streamlined Marvel Universe of heroes and villains.” Which I understand, but some books (like Squirrel Girl and Spider-Woman) are less than ten issues into their current runs. Are they going to get re-set to #1s again, too? Or will they keep to their pre-Secret Wars numbering? Considering this is all meant to make Marvel less confusing, I’m pretty confused.
Characters we’ll definitely be seeing include Iron Man, new Thor, Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales, Sam Wilson, and Vision (all of whom we know will be on the All-New All-Different Avengers team), Steve Rogers, Agent Coulson, Ant-Man, Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen, a new wolverine, a new Hulk (about which Alonso said “All the same people who yelled about female Thor are going to do the same thing about this Hulk”), and Red Wolf, “a 21st-century version of Marvel’s first Native American superhero from the 1970s.”
Of the eight creators they mention that will definitely be working on the new titles, only one – G. Willow Wilson – is a lady. Despite that, Alonso says that they are bringing on a ton of new talent, and to expect “diversity in terms of gender and ethnicity.”
We sure hope so.
(via THR)
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