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Marvel Comics’ Avengers famously have a constantly-rotating line-up. Now, the crew has some perennial figureheads — Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor are the crew’s key trinity in each the comics and Marvel Cinematic Universe. However ever since 1964’s “The Avengers” #16 (when the crew’s founding members all stop, leaving Captain America to steer Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch), “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” hasn’t been as unique a membership because the title implies. Avengers take leaves of absence, new ones be part of within the interim, and so on. The MCU is at the moment discovering that film audiences is probably not as receptive to this revolving door as comedian readers; there is a purpose Chris Evans is returning in “Avengers: Doomsday.”
The present “Avengers” comedian collection, written by Jed MacKay, began off with a really classical crew line-up: Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Captain America (Sam Wilson), Thor, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, and Imaginative and prescient. In “Avengers” #18, MacKay (who’s additionally writing “X-Males” proper now) added Storm to switch the departing Thor. In “Avengers” #22, the crew is getting one other, sudden new member: Black Cat.
Also referred to as Felicia Hardy, she is Spider-Man’s personal Catwoman, a typically grasp thief, a typically antiheroine infatuated with the superhero she additionally fights. Apart from her acrobatic abilities, she will subconsciously induce unhealthy luck in others. (“Spider-Man: The Animated Sequence” as a substitute had Black Cat’s powers come from the identical Tremendous Soldier serum that empowered Captain America.)
MacKay beforehand wrote a “Black Cat” solo collection, so it is no shock that he is bringing her onto the Avengers for the primary time. The problem synopsis reads:
BLACK CAT JOINS THE AVENGERS?! For a cosmic caper! The Avengers attend an intergalactic public sale in an try to get forward of a few of these Tribulation Occasions… however they’re in for a shock when Black Cat reveals up on SOMEONE’S arm! Essentially the most surprising date of 2025 — and the yr has solely begun.
The problem’s cowl, drawn by Valerio Schiti, reveals Black Cat casting a number of enjoying playing cards with the Avengers’ faces painted on them.
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Avengers #22 follows the Avengers and Black Cat at an intergalactic public sale
The problem’s opening inside web page is a recap, going again to the primary arc. Again then, Kang The Conqueror warned the Avengers of coming “Tribulation Occasions” (terrifying threats that even Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cannot deal with). The collection’ first arc was in regards to the first occasion, the place the Avengers confronted the alien warriors named the Ashen Mix. The subsequent Tribulation hasn’t come but, but it surely will be coming.
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The subsequent pages set the stakes. Scarlet Witch has found {that a} information archive, as soon as owned by Kang, is up for public sale at a on line casino owned by the Grandmaster. If the Avengers can get their palms on it, they’ll put together for the approaching Tribulation Occasions. However since they cannot win the public sale, which requires “wealth on a planetary scale” (an excessive amount of even for billionaire Tony Stark), they will simply steal it. As Storm excitedly declares, the Avengers are about to set out on a caper.
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Wanda and Imaginative and prescient arrive on the On line casino, with Wanda utilizing her infamy all through the multiverse to get an official invite. As they purchase time within the on line casino, Wanda notes how the setting is ripe for her probability-altering powers. Imaginative and prescient agrees that “A girl who alters luck is certainly one to control in a on line casino” — which feels just like the cue for Black Cat to enter, particularly for the reason that preview web page ends with Wanda bumping into somebody unseen.
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This “Avengers” arc, tellingly known as “The On line casino Job,” will likely be three elements based mostly on solicitations for “Avengers” #23 and #24. Black Cat is the deal with all three problem covers, so it’s important to marvel: is she being arrange as a brand new primary character? Or maybe she’s only a visitor star, and the Avengers will likely be saying “bye Felicia” after “The On line casino Job” concludes.
“Avengers” #22 will likely be out there in print and digital on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.