Captain America and Iron Man rallied to create a bigger roster of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and declared Earth as Avengers World in Jonathan Hickman’s first arc. The new and improved team isn’t big enough to handle what’s coming in the six-part event Infinity.
The Avengers will need to become a universal team to face Thanos. Marvel is revealing new details about the event that will bring Black Bolt and the Inhumans into the cosmic clash with the Mad God of Titan (and the villain behind Loki’s invasion in The Avengers movie.)
“Events stories simply don’t come bigger than Infinity,” said Axel Alonso, Marvel’s Editor in Chief, “ Jonathan Hickman is joined by three of our top artists — Jim Cheung, Jerome Opena and Dustin Weaver — to deliver an epic tale that covers all corners of the Marvel Universe and narrows the gap between Earth and the cosmos like never before. It’s called the ‘Marvel Universe‘ for a reason.”
“I’m very excited about Infinity for a number of reasons,” said Hickman. “First, I think it’s wonderful that the story is coming organically out of what’s been going on during Marvel NOW!. Things that we’ve seen unfold in AVENGERS, NEW AVENGERS, THANOS RISING, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and others are the catalyst for Infinity. And second, for me personally, Infinity is the first big step in a series of big steps that make up the long term plans for the Avengers books I have the privilege of writing. It should be a lot of fun.”
You can get your first look at Infinity on May 4 in Marvel’s Free Comic Book Day issue with an all-new story by Hickman and Cheung and the a reprint of the first Thanos solo story. This is the first salvo in the upcoming war between Thanos and the heroes of the Marvel Universe.
Thanos Rising #1 arrives this Wednesday. This is an exploration of the child who would grow up to become the Mad God of Titan by Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi.
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Infinity begins this August.
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