Phil Coulson and his team from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. leap into a brand new ongoing series by Mark Waid.
Marvel shared a look inside S.H.I.E.L.D. #1. Waid says Coulson will be joined by Fitz, Simmons and Melinda May along with Avengers, X-Men and more comic book icons.
As we learned in The Avengers film, Coulson is a “fanboy” of Captain America but as an operative how does he regard the costumed heroes.
“He values them all, and his own personal “super-power” is that he studies them relentlessly and knows more about each and every Marvel hero’s abilities and capabilities than they themselves do. Every mission counts on Phil being able to assemble the exact right team for the task at hand, and to him, every Marvel hero and villain is a potential S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. His choices will often surprise the readers, but everything rides on Phil being able to size up any threat and know exactly, precisely who to draft,” Waid told Marvel.com.
“That means he can’t play favorites. That said, very much like Coulson [on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.], Phil is more deferential to those who came before him than he is with the newer heroes, who often need to earn his full trust.”
The new comic book arrives just in time as the television show goes on hiatus to make way for Agent Carter for eight episodes.
S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 arrives December 31st.
By Editor