Earlier this yr, Marvel introduced a deal with manga publishing big Viz Media. This month, we’ll lastly see the primary launch from that take care of a manga dedicated to Captain Marvel’s cat Goose releasing subsequent week, however Marvel isn’t stopping there.

Following the discharge of a Deadpool manga early subsequent yr shall be a Spider-Man/Iron Man team-up referred to as Secret Reverse. The story sees the wallcrawler and Armored Avenger journey to Japan to battle an “evil gaming magnate” and the evil new know-how beneath his possession. Originally printed in 2019 as a part of a collaboration between Marvel and Shonen Jump, the manga was revealed to be hitting North America subsequent summer time at Viz’s New York Comic-Con 2021 panel and got here with a splashy cowl that includes the 2 heroes. The ebook comes from Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!, whose anime adaptation continues to have an incredible meme impact. It’s an extended shot, however it could be type of wonderful if it turned out they had been preventing the overdramatic billionaire Seto Kaiba. 

The new manga push comes as Marvel makes an attempt to return to a medium it sporadically dips into in North America. Outside of that 2014 one-shot crossover with Attack on Titan, their greatest foray into manga was the Mangaverse of the early-to-mid 2000s, and it had some wild ideas behind it. Black Panther might turn out to be the Falcon because of a totem, and Helstrom and Ghost Rider had been Satan’s sons. For Spidey and Iron Man particularly, issues had been…attention-grabbing. Spider-Man was the final member of a ninja clan whose Uncle Ben was killed by Venom on Kingpin’s orders. As for Mangaverse Iron Man? He turned a floating head in a jar whereas his sister Toni took the mantle. He nonetheless acquired fits of armor, although, and so they all simply seemed like well-liked mechas from the time, and so they might mix into an excellent larger mecha referred to as Ultimate Iron Man.

Look for Secret Reverse to hit cabinets in summer time 2022.

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