Marvel’s ‘New Champions’ Assemble In January
by Tony Thornley
Just as we thought earlier this week, Marvel’s new teen sensations, the New Champions are getting their own series this January.
From Steve Foxe & Ivan Fiorelli, the series will draw together Liberty, Hellrune, Moon Squire and Cadet Marvel as they try to rediscover what their lives were before Hydra kidnapped them. The team quickly expands from there adding a Wakandan runaway, Scarlet Witch’s new apprentice, a cursed roller derby jammer and more. All that won’t matter though if they can’t stop the Cult of Hela’s devious plans!
“As soon as I saw the New Champions variants, my mind started racing dreaming up possible origins and powers and codenames for these imagined sidekicks,” Foxe explained. “Reverse-engineering the cast from the covers was unlike any other creative process I’ve ever been involved in, and I’m beyond stoked to debut a whole new class of Marvel heroes (and a few villains!) in NEW CHAMPIONS alongside Ivan Fiorelli, who makes each and every one of these new additions feel like they’ve been part of the fabric of the universe all along.”
“I’m really looking forward to diving into New Champions!” Fiorelli said. “What really excites me about this project is the opportunity to bring fresh faces into the Marvel Universe, and explore something completely new. These young heroes have their own stories to tell, and I’m looking forward to seeing how they’ll grow and evolve visually as the series unfolds. I hope readers will enjoy reading our pages as much as I will enjoy illustrating them!”
“I’ve been dying to write a teen hero team my whole career—it’s the time in everyone’s life when we’re figuring out who we really are, and adding Norse magic or jet-powered punches or accidental hell portals to that search for identity is a recipe for storytelling gold,” Foxe added.
Foxe’s recent Spider-Woman story featuring the initial foursome was a lot of fun, and all four characters showing a surprising amount of depth for guest starring in another hero’s story. All of these newly created legacy characters do add an interesting little twist to the Marvel Universe, though it does leave other teen heroes like Nova, Ironheart, Wasp and Viv Vision behind.
Check out the debut’s covers from Gleb Melkinov, Paco Medina, Luciano Vecchio, and Federico Vincentini, and watch New Champions on comics stands this January from Marvel Comics.
