PHOTON: Monica Rambeau To Feature In Her First Solo Marvel Comics Series This December

PHOTON: Monica Rambeau To Feature In Her First Solo Marvel Comics Series This December

Ahead of the release of The Marvels next year, Marvel Comics has announced that Monica Rambeau will feature in her first solo comic series this December. Check out the cover art for Monica Rambeau: Photon.

By MarkCassidy - Aug 23, 2022 10:08 PM EST
Filed Under: The Marvels

We weren't too sure which superhero moniker Teyonah Parris' Monica Rambeau would assume in next year's The Marvels, but it looks like we now have our answer!

Marvel Comics has announced that the space-faring hero will feature in her first ever solo series, Monica Rambeau: Photon, which is set to hit shelves this December. The five-issue limited series will be written by award-winning author and scholar Eve L. Ewing and drawn by new Marvel talent, artist Michael Sta. Maria.

"From the New Orleans Harbor Patrol to the Avengers to the Ultimates, Monica Rambeau has been a leader and team player her entire life, but now she’ll face a reality-shattering crisis that she’ll have no choice but to take on single-handedly. In order to do so, Photon will need to reach new heights of her incredible abilities—and then surpass them!

In a revelatory journey spanning time and space, fans will behold Photon’s true potential. The adventure begins when Photon is charged with making a very special, very cosmic delivery. What should be light work (get it?) for Monica becomes increasingly complex and dangerous due to a threat from beyond and family drama."

You can check out the first issue's cover art, which may give us some idea of what to expect from the character's live-action costume, below.

“It's such an honor to be taking on the story of a legacy character like Monica Rambeau,” Ewing said. “Monica's character has a long history in the Marvel Universe, but she's way overdue for getting her own story told. I'm picking the pen up from the legend himself, Dwayne McDuffie, who put out the last Monica Rambeau solo adventure almost three decades ago. It's a privilege and I'm excited to tell the story in a way that both highlights her incredible cosmic abilities as well as her everyday, relatable struggles. I hope this will be a title that has something equal to offer to veteran readers and folks who may be brand new to comics.”

We'll next see Photon on the big screen in next year's Captain Marvel sequel, where she'll join Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) and Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) for her next MCU adventure after debuting (well, the older version of the character) in WandaVision.

Nia DaCosta, who also helmed the Ms. Marvel season finale's post-credit scene, will direct from a script by WandaVision writer Megan McDonnell.

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AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 8/23/2022, 10:50 PM
Love the cover❤️💪💥🔥
dracula
dracula - 8/23/2022, 10:50 PM
That is for sure a costume designed with the intention of being adapted into a movie costume
web3d
web3d - 8/23/2022, 10:57 PM
@dracula - I hope so, the movie costumes have gotten really busy and overly complex, this would look really good.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 8/23/2022, 11:05 PM
Better than the Spectrum moniker
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 8/23/2022, 11:08 PM
That costume is immaculate!!!
dracula
dracula - 8/23/2022, 11:39 PM
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 8/23/2022, 11:51 PM
@dracula - Sheesh. I dread what the underlying cause for this was...
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 8/23/2022, 11:46 PM
I like the costume but I miss the hair she had previously.

Glad to see however that she will be getting a codename again although I liked Spectrum
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 8/24/2022, 12:26 AM
Hell yeah. Great cover. Love me some Monica Rambeau. Crazy she hasn’t had a solo series in all these years. And so glad she is going by Photon again. It’s a much better name plus Doctor Spectrum already exists.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 8/24/2022, 6:05 AM
@NinnesMBC - Beauty being in the eye of the beholder and what not but.... Seriously. THAT cover impresses you??? 🤨

Single generic action-pose of figure with placid/fixed/blank facial expression, suspended in space. 🫤
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 8/24/2022, 1:37 AM
This could be our first teaser look at Monica's suit for The Marvels coming out next year.

Cool cover and art.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 8/24/2022, 3:30 AM
You've got myattention Eve...




DON'T MESS THIS UP!!! FOR CHI-TOWN!!!
MadThanos
MadThanos - 8/24/2022, 5:30 AM
You mean the real Captain Marvel?
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 8/24/2022, 5:58 AM
Should sell tens of copies. 🙄
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 8/24/2022, 8:05 AM
@SuperiorHeckler - We get it, you're a hater. Try harder.
ColdSlither
ColdSlither - 8/24/2022, 12:01 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - And this is why we can't have different characters, and the same old ones stay getting pimped out past their expiration dates.
MILESSPIDERMAN
MILESSPIDERMAN - 8/24/2022, 6:57 AM
Monica is better than Carol her powers are cooler too.
Radders
Radders - 8/24/2022, 7:02 AM
The art is nice but it's a pretty generic cover that's been done multiple times - and what's with the weird vacant expression and dead eyes?

The Logo needs some work too - design is fine but colour wise it needs to pop more

Plus Monica Rambeau did have her own series back in 1989 as Captain Marvel but I guess by saying "Photon" they can yell "first" again.

Also - anyone else bugged by them using the term "legacy characters" to mean derivative ones - I guess its about rebranding but when someone says "legacy" I always think it refers to the OGs
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 8/24/2022, 7:55 AM
@Radders - No she didn’t. She had a one-shot in 1989. And another one-shot in 1994. But this is her first series.

And no it just means characters that are continuing the legacy. In law, a legacy is something held and transferred to someone as their inheritance, as by will and testament. In this case a superhero name.
Radders
Radders - 8/24/2022, 11:02 AM
@TheUnworthyThor - Ah fair enough - I remembered seeing it at the time so clearly misremembered it being a series.

Yeah a redefining of derivative characters to assign some legitimacy. But we all know that only comes from well created/written and distinct characters who have a sense of their own identity
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/24/2022, 7:56 AM
Like costume but Star blends in with white on costume can barely see it glancing at it need look hard enough see star
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/24/2022, 8:48 AM
Leader of The Avengers at one point, a good character, hopefully the comic is decent.
MotherFuckerJon
MotherFuckerJon - 8/24/2022, 9:33 AM
Kinda hard to believe this character has been around since the 80s and has yet to get a solo. Not interested in reading it or anything, but still kinda jarring.
Blastaar
Blastaar - 8/24/2022, 9:51 AM
I know, suspension of disbelief..How can one's hair stay so nice & neat after flying at such high speeds....I guess the hair is super powered to, in order to stay put, I guess..Lol!....Looks good though.
Blastaar
Blastaar - 8/24/2022, 9:52 AM
@Blastaar - Maybe if she had cornrows...
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 8/24/2022, 11:14 AM
@Blastaar - She can turn into light when she flies through space.
Blastaar
Blastaar - 8/24/2022, 11:36 AM
@comicfan100 - That's true, even the regular image of her could be more light than an actual "solid" material form, so that actually would make sense..I'm just over thinking comic booky stuff.
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