Marvel has released an official trailer for the revamp of its Heroes Reborn event by Jason Aaron and Ed McGuiness.
The trailer opens with Robbie Reyes, better known as the Ghost Rider, cycling by a mysterious figure. That figure turns out to be Blade, who reveals that he woke up two weeks ago in a world where the Avengers never existed -- and where the Squadron Supreme became Earth's Mightiest Heroes instead. In the pages of Aaron's Avengers run, the Squadron Supreme of America were created to be a counter to the Avengers
The Squadron are shown leaping into battle against Dr. Juggernaut, a version of Dr. Doom who possesses the Gem of Cyttorak. The trailer also reveals what happened to the Avengers in this world; Steve Rogers' frozen body was never found and Tony Stark never became Iron Man, while Carol Danvers is still an air force pilot. Blade is also shown talking to a drunken Thor, who never lifted Mjolnir in this universe.
Prior to the official announcement for Heroes Reborn #1, Marvel had released official teasers for the event. These teasers featured extremely different versions of Marvel's heroes and villains, including Phil Coulson as president and Wolverine leading a new version of Alpha Flight.
"I got to cut loose on this and release my inner comic-reared child in a really profound way, and together with a cadre of immensely imaginative artists, we built a world that I'm pretty confident in saying is quite unlike any version of the Marvel Universe you've seen before," Aaron said about the genesis of the series. "It grew out of the pages of my Avengers run, but kept getting bigger and bigger as it went, and the more pieces I put in place for this Reborn world, the more gleeful and excited I became. This project really stoked the fires of my love for comics in all the right ways."
Heroes Reborn #1
- Written by JASON AARON
- Art by ED MCGUINNESS
- Triptych Artwork by IBAN COELLO & ESPEN GRUNDETJERN
- Welcome to a world where Tony Stark never built an Iron Man armor. Where Thor is a hard-drinking atheist who despises hammers. Where Wakanda is dismissed as a myth. And where Captain America was never found in the ice, because there were no Avengers to find him. Instead, this world has always been protected by Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Squadron Supreme of America. And now the Squadron face an attack from some of their fiercest enemies, like Dr. Juggernaut, the Black Skull, the Silver Witch and Thanos with his Infinity Rings. Blade is the one man alive who seems to remember that the entire world has somehow been… reborn. And so begins his search for the cause behind this ominous shift in reality.
Heroes Reborn #1, by Jason Aaron and Ed McGuiness, goes on sale in May from Marvel Comics.
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