Surprise, Marvel Comics’ New Thunderbolts Team Is Really Its New Avengers

Now that we cognize wherefore the Thunderbolts are really called that successful the movie, history’s repeating successful the comics. Say hullo to your New Avengers.

The comic antecedently announced as New Thunderbolts, asterisk and all, is successful actuality the newest iteration of the Avengers offshoot squad founded successful 2005. Written by Sam Humphries (Uncanny X-Force) and drawn by Ton Lima (West Coast Avengers), the ongoing bid sees Bucky Barnes—now going by the Revolution, and the lone subordinate carried implicit from the film—assembling the “most unsafe loners and antiheroes” Marvel’s got close now: Black Widow, Wolverine (Laura Kinney), Eddie Brock arsenic Carnage, the Hulk, Clea Strange, and Namor. Their mission? Take down the precocious surfaced “Killuminati,” evil clones of Marvel’s collection of geniuses, and “usher successful a revolutionary caller epoch of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.” Check retired the villains successful the variant covers below.

“It’s a thrill and an grant to proceed the expansive New Avengers contented of squad dynamics that are arsenic explosive arsenic the threats,” Humphries said successful a Marvel property release. This is the archetypal iteration of the squad since 2016, erstwhile Sunspot’s squad was an hold of AIM, which helium past owned and converted into Avengers Idea Mechanics. That team, which included Squirrel Girl, Cannonball, Hulkling, and Wiccan, was aboriginal rebranded into the U.S. Avengers.

According to the solicits done July, this caller team’s going to physique its ranks passim the archetypal fewer issues portion figuring retired what to bash astir its caller adversaries.

Look for New Avengers to footwear disconnected June 11.

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