Shang-Chi will star in a new ongoing series this May — and it will pit him against the other heroes of the Marvel Universe.

The series will be written by Gene Luen Yang (Batman/SupermanSuperman Smashes the Klan) and illustrated by Dike Ruan (Black Cat). Yang and Ruan previously collaborated with Philip Tan (SpawnUncanny X-Men) on a Shang-Chi miniseries that debuted last year, which the new ongoing will spin out of.

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"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 said in a statement. "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."

In the previous Shang-Chi miniseries, Shang-Chi took up the mantle of leadership of the Five Weapons Society that his father Zheng Zhu founded, reuniting with his brothers and sisters, as well as on-again/off-again love interest Leiko Wu. The ongoing series will explore the fallout of this decision, with heroes from Spider-Man to the X-Men questioning Shang's motives.

Written by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Dike Ruan, with a cover by Leinil Francis Yu, Shang-Chi #1 goes on sale on May 19 from Marvel.

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Source: Marvel