Earlier this year, Marvel announced a comic book series dedicated to the first all-female team of The Avengers called A-Force. Now, Marvel offers a sneak peek A-Force #1, along with a glimpse inside its pages.
A-Force picks up after Marvel's "Secret Wars" storyline that saw the end of The Avengers after the group disbanded. But someone has to pick up the slack, so She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Dazzler, Medusa and Nico Minoru have joined together to keep the world safe from whatever might harm it.
"And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroines found themselves united against a common threat," writes Marvel on its website. "On that day, A-Force was born - to fight the foes no single superhero could withstand! Their glory will never been denied! Heed the call, A-Force Assemble!"
A new superheroine, Singularity, brings the group together, which will feature a variety of old and new female superheroes from Marvel's universe. Singularity is actually more of a "what" than a "who," a pocket universe that gained self-consciousness during "Secret Wars." And although such a thing probably wouldn't have a gender, in A-Force, she's chosen to become female, which means she'll have to question what it means to live life as a woman.
"Her entire existence is so unlike that of ours that she really has to learn about what we think of as being an individual and having an identity from the ground up, with no point of access except those she meets," said writer G. Willow Wilson to USA Today.
Although the current trend in the comics industry has brought more female-led comic book series, A-Force brings something that's still rare in today's modern world: a female-written comic book series. That ups the ante for A-Force, something Wilson is very aware of.
"You become aware of the toxic nonsense that you've internalized," she said to Time. "I have to keep in mind as I'm writing, I'm not just writing for this month or this year. People are ideally going to be reading these stories for decades to come, so I want to write to that future that I hope we will catch up with."
A-Force #1, which features artwork by Jose Molina, hits comic book stores on January 6. There's also a hip hop variant cover available by Adam Hughes, as well as other variant covers by Victor Ibanez and J. Scott Campbell.
