Marvel has shared new details about its revamped Heroes Reborn, including the creative team and when readers can expect to see Issue #1.
Written by Jason Aaron with art by Ed McGuiness, Heroes Reborn will launch in May.
"Maybe the wildest story I've ever put on paper," Aaron said. "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. 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."
"I’ve been having an absolute blast designing and drawing some new spins on old favorites Jason Aaron has brought to the table," McGuiness added. "They are all with a purpose story wise which makes them really cool to get into from the art side of things. He may be the maddest scientist of all!"
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.
The original Heroes Reborn was a massive crossover published between 1996-1997 with titles featuring such Marvel mainstays as the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom and The Hulk. Marvel famously outsourced the event to Jim Lee's WildStorm Studios and Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios after the two former employees left the company to found Image Comics. During Heroes Reborn, Marvel relaunched Fantastic Four, Avengers, Iron Man and Captain America with new #1 issues, and Thor was retitled Journey Into Mystery. The story began with the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom being reborn after seemingly dying while fighting Onslaught. In reality, though, they were transported to a pocket universe by Franklin Richards.
Heroes Reborn #1, by Jason Aaron and Ed McGuiness, goes on sale in May from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel