Marvel Comics has announced plans for a new Avengers ongoing series this September that promises to launch us straight into the most thrilling missions of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
All-Out Avengers will be written by award-winning novelist Derek Landy, known for his work in the recent Captain America & Iron Man limited series. Landy will be joined by Greg Land and, together, they're going to take us on some of the Avengers; most pulse-pounding adventures to date.
From page one, panel one, the Avengers will be knee-deep in the action with no setup, no explanations, and no time for questions, according to a press release sent out by Marvel. The opening issue will star Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Blade, and Spider-Woman as they overcome the odds and struggle to diffuse a chaotic situation caused by a deadly new Marvel villainess, and this series sounds like exactly what many fans have been asking for.
"When Tom Brevoort approached me with this concept, I thought it was an inspired idea, a slice of creative genius, and also totally unworkable," Landy says of the series. "But the chance to launch a new Avengers title, and the chance to write any character who'd ever been an Avenger, was impossible for this particular Marvel fanboy to resist. Add in the fact that Tom wanted to get Greg Land on art and my fate was pretty much sealed."
The trick was to work within the confines inherent in the concept, but also to find a way to deliver what everyone would expect: a continuity of ideas and the development of an overarching storyline," he adds. "I needed to find the hook that drags the reader from issue to issue, and I figured the best way to do that was to put the Avengers in the exact same situation as the reader: they are aware that this is happening, but they don't know why..."
Marvel Comics has shared some interior art from All-Out Avengers ahead of its launch this September, promising that a first taste of what's to come will arrive on May 7 for Free Comic Book Day.