Fans for a long time have been demanding to have more and more female characters into the comic books and one such incident came to light a few days ago when a small eleven year old girl wrote a letter to DC stating that she’s a girl and she is ‘upset because there aren’t very many girl superheroes or movies and comics from DC.’
Marvel is about to bring that change in the comic book industry with an all female Avengers team, titled the A-Force, the comic will launch in May. The events of the big multiversal reboot Secret Wars will see every current Avengers team disband, and in their place a legion of women will band together as the new Avengers.
The poster which was released contains known female heroes which include The Avengers’ Scarlet Witch and Wasp; X-Men’s Phoenix, Storm, Rogue and Dazzler; Alpha Flight’s Aurora and Guardian; and Runaway Nico Minoru and probably every female superhero from the Marvel roster. Also, She-Hulk, Medusa, and Singularity, a new superhero who’s “cosmically powered” are seen prominently on the poster and will lead the way for the A-Force.
Co-written by G. Willow Wilson (the writer behind Ms. Marvel) and Marguerite Bennett (Angela: Asgard’s Assassin), and X-Men artist Jorge Molina will provide art for the series.
“We’ve purposefully assembled a team composed of different characters from disparate parts of the Marvel Universe, with very different power sets, identities and ideologies,” Wilson said in a press statement. “Singularity is an interesting character. She’s not a flesh and blood human being, but a cosmological event that gains self-consciousness,” tweeted Wilson.
The Marvel press statement read: “And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, A-Force was born—to fight the foes no single Super Hero could withstand! Their glory will never been denied! Heed the call, A-Force Assemble!”
Though A-Force is the first all-women Avengers team, Marvel has featured other all-female teams, including the recent all-women X-Men.