Last year, Marvel Comics launched a new Shang-Chi series which was supposed to be released in time for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings starring Simu Liu. That didn't happen due to COVID-19, and what was originally believed to be an ongoing title became a miniseries. Now, though, writer Gene Luen Yang and artist Dike Ruan will reunite for an actual ongoing series this May: Shang-Chi #1.
However, this new series will kick off a surprising new journey for Marvel's greatest fighter as he finds himself on the opposite side of the heroes.
After the events of his latest series, Shang-Chi has finally taken his place as the leader of the Five Weapons Society, but using an evil secret organization as a force for good won’t be easy. And it’s about to get a lot harder when Shang-Chi’s fellow superheroes, from Spider-Man and the X-Men to the Avengers, start to question the Master of the Martial Arts' true motives.
"I'm very, very thankful for all the support that we got for the Shang-Chi miniseries. I mean, the first two issues sold out," Yang says. "I'm thrilled that we get to continue the story of Shang-Chi and his siblings in the Five Weapons Society. We're going to show how Shang-Chi's brand-new role affects the rest of the Marvel Universe. We'll have him interact with old friends and new foes...and even old friends who become new foes. Dike Ruan and I are already hard at work. The stuff I've seen from Dike so far has been his best yet."
This should be a series worth keeping an eye on, and the prospect of Shang-Chi fighting the heroes pictured below has an awful lot of potential. We'll hopefully have more on this series for you soon.
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