Marvel Retitles New Thunderbolts Comedian to New Avengers

Now that we all know why the Thunderbolts are really called that within the film, historical past’s repeating within the comics. Say good day to your New Avengers.

The comedian beforehand introduced as New Thunderbolts, asterisk and all, is in reality the most recent iteration of the Avengers offshoot group based in 2005. Written by Sam Humphries (Uncanny X-Pressure) and drawn by Ton Lima (West Coast Avengers), the continued collection sees Bucky Barnes—now going by the Revolution, and the one member carried over from the movie—assembling the “most harmful loners and antiheroes” Marvel’s bought proper now: Black Widow, Wolverine (Laura Kinney), Eddie Brock as Carnage, the Hulk, Clea Unusual, and Namor. Their mission? Take down the lately surfaced “Killuminati,” evil clones of Marvel’s collection of geniuses, and “usher in a revolutionary new period of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.” Take a look at the villains within the variant covers beneath.

“It’s a thrill and an honor to proceed the grand New Avengers custom of group dynamics which can be as explosive because the threats,” Humphries mentioned in a Marvel press launch. That is the primary iteration of the group since 2016, when Sunspot’s group was an extension of AIM, which he then owned and transformed into Avengers Thought Mechanics. That group, which included Squirrel Woman, Cannonball, Hulkling, and Wiccan, was later rebranded into the U.S. Avengers.

In keeping with the solicits by means of July, this new group’s going to construct its ranks all through the primary few points whereas determining what to do about its new adversaries.

Search for New Avengers to kick off June 11.

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