Marvel’s Giving Monica Rambeau Her First Ever Solo Comic

Following her look on WandaVision as performed by Teyonah Paris, and forward of her upcoming soar to the films in 2023’s The Marvels, Monica Rambeau is now being given a much bigger push within the comics. In addition to serving as one of many members of the brand new, reformed Thunderbolts, she’s now on account of obtain her personal comedian ebook miniseries. The not too long ago introduced Monica Rambeau: Photon from Eve Ewing (Ironheart) and Michael Sta. Maria (X-Men Red),  will mark the character’s first time headlining a comic book all on her lonesome.

Monica was created in 1982 by John Romita Jr. and Roger Stern in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16. Though Carol Danvers has had the Captain Marvel codename for a decade now, Monica had the title in her very first look, and she or he’s the second Captain Marvel general. The five-issue sequence will see Monica face a “reality-shattering crisis” that she’ll must go alone in going through, and that journey is claimed to happen throughout house and time. In a press release to Marvel, Ewing talked in regards to the feeling of taking Monica on this new journey. “It’s such an honor to be taking on the story of a legacy character like Monica Rambeau. Monica’s character has a long history in the Marvel Universe, but she’s way overdue for getting her own story told.”

Throughout the many years, Monica’s been a recurring participant in Marvel comics and gone by means of quite a few codenames, embody Spectrum, Photon, and Pulsar. She’s regularly been an Avenger, most notably because the chief of the Mighty Avengers in Al Ewing and Greg Land’s 2013 run of the identical identify, and as a member of Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort’s Ultimates sequence from 2016. But these have all been staff titles, with the closest factor to solo tales being a pair of one-shot titles from the late Dwayne McDuffie and Mark D. Bright again within the 90s. On following McDuffie’s footsteps, Ewing known as it a privilege. “I’m excited to tell the story in a way that both highlights her incredible cosmic abilities as well as her everyday, relatable struggles.”

Monica Rambeau: Photon #1 will launch on December 7.

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