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James Cameron's Aliens Vs Marvel's Avengers For July 2024
Marvel Comics are launching Aliens Vs Avengers by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić in July 2024. The rest is a footnote.
Article Summary
- Marvel's 'Aliens Vs Avengers' by Hickman and Ribić debuts July 2024.
- First Aliens crossover in Marvel, following Predator Vs Wolverine.
- Series set in the future, introducing the Alien Engineers to Marvel.
- Marries Marvel's superhero action with Alien's cosmic horror.
Marvel Comics is launching Aliens Vs Avengers – or AVA – by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić in July 2024. The rest is a footnote. The first Aliens crossover with a Marvel comic, from their Fox imprint that also includes Predator and Planet Of The Apes comics, and follows their Predator Vs Wolverine series. Hickman, currently writing GODS and Ultimate Spider-Man for Marvel, is reuiniting with his Secret Wars artist, Esad, which should bring a fair amount of attention to the comic book series…
The four-part epic is set in a new timeline many years in the future and features older, grittier versions of Marvel characters. It also will be the first-time readers will see certain parts of Alien lore in the Marvel Universe – like the home of the Engineers. In this unmissable series, Xenomorphs reach Earth, and the perfect organism meets a planet of superhumans. But who will be first to fall?
"Probably one of the coolest things about the project is how we've found really fun ways to 'Avengerize' Aliens and 'alien-up' Avengers," Hickman shared with Entertainment Weekly. "I think fans will be surprised at how elegantly some of those things fit together. It really turned out to be a chocolate-and-peanut-butter situation."
"Hickman and Ribić are storytelling masters, and they bring a cinematic quality to this that seamlessly merges the high action and soap opera that Marvel fans expect with the deep terror and cosmic awe that the Alien universe so inspires," Marvel editor Sarah Brunstad said. "Watching them cut loose across the entire lexicon of these two great franchises is jaw-dropping. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK–get ready."
Aliens Vs Avenger #1 or AVA #1 will be published on the 24th of July just ahead of the premiere of the Alien: Romulus film.
ALIENS VS. AVENGERS #1 (OF 4)
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art and Cover by ESAD RIBIĆ
On Sale 7/24