Marvel is conjuring new details on the new Scarlet Witch ongoing solo book.
Evil mutant, Avenger, Hero, Villain, Victim, Wife, Mother.
Wanda Maximoff has played many roles in the Marvel Universe. Writer James Robinson is taking her in new direction in her first solo series. Wanda will become a guardian of other witches in a globe-trotting adventure.
The former Avenger is tied to her past and former relationships.
As Robinson explains he’s not letting Wanda’s past define her future.
“If you ask most people to describe the personality of any of the main Marvel heroes, any of them—Captain America, The Vision, Hawkeye, The Wasp—fans of those characters can give you, ‘Oh, he’s this or that. He’s this or that,’” the writer says. “She-Hulk, Starfox, you name it, no matter how obscure you go, you can describe them. People can describe the personality of D-Man, for God’s sake. But when you get to Wanda, well, what is her personality? She’s kind of aloof and quiet?” Robinson told Marvel.com.
“Then they start going, ‘She was married to The Vision,’ or ‘She dismantled the Avengers,’ or whatever. And to a lot of people her personality is her back story. Who she is as a person, it’s all about her back story. There’s nothing current about her. There’s nothing about her as a human being, as a woman, living in the world, interacting in the world. And I think now that her father’s no longer Magneto, I think that it’s the perfect time to showcase her as an independent character, as a witch, and give her adventures that are unique to her, that could only be adventures that she would have.”
As for Wanda’s new mission, Robinson says something is wrong with witchcraft in the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now and “She wants to fix it, because it’s important to her as a witch,” Robinson says, “But [she] also [needs to] discover how it was broken, and if someone broke it, who that was. Also, she suffered from periods of mental instability, and she wants to know if that’s something that she needs to treat herself with the established ways that you treat mental illness, or if the practice of witchcraft is affecting her mentally as well. She has a personal stake, as well as a sense of wanting to fix it in the big picture.”
Robinson says he will create new villains and a supporting cast for Wanda including the ghost of Agatha Harkness who will be a “spectral Alfred.”
Kevin Wada will be the cover artist but no interior artist or launch date has been revealed yet.
What do you think of Wanda’s redemption from the Avengers “Disassembler” to the “No More Mutants” culprit to now a hero in her own book?
By Editor