Marvel Comic Book and Superheroes News: Female Avengers Team A-Force Introduces Hero With No Gender, Unites She-Hulk, Dazzler & More
Marvel Comics is bringing women to the pages of comic books: This time as the Avengers.
She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa and Nico Minoru will be the superhereos comprising a team called A-Force, USA Today reports. The series will be written by G. Willow Wilson and Marguerite Bennett and drawn by Jorge Molina.
The setting takes places in a time where the Avengers have disbanded. This leaves an uncertain Marvel Universe known as Battleworld. A threat to Arcadia, a place that Wilson describes as a feminist paradise, has occurred. This causes the need for the A-Force to be formed.
"It feels almost like a great honor to be given the reins on something that has become so central to the narrative at Marvel and a big cinematic property as well," Wilson said.
Wilson and editor Daniel Ketchum were given extreme flexibility by Marvel to pick their team of superheroes. Marvel made just one requirement: The heroes had to be all women.
"[Marvel has] become very committed in the last couple of years to telling new stories, to gender diversity, to getting more voices out there so they said, 'Here's the roster. Go nuts,'" Wilson said.
They even created a new character, Singularity. Singularity is not human but a "cosmological event." Singularity chooses to identify as a female but has no gender. She must learn how to be a human and understand relationships with other people, Wilson said.
"Her entire existence is so unlike that of ours that she really has to learn about what we think of as being an individual and having an identity from the ground up, with no point of access except those she meets," Wilson explained.
Besides Singularity, familiar faces from past Marvel comics will join the A-Force. She-Hulk has been on The Avengers and Fantastic Four in the past so she will fit in just fine, Wilson said.
Meanwhile, Dazzler is "everybody's favorite disco girl" from "X-Men" and should be liked by most readers.
"This is an opportunity to put people who would normally have no reason to interact with each other on one team," Wilson said.
A-Force will be the 15th female-led comic published by Marvel.
According to The Verge, the comic book will come out this spring.
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