Champions

This week's Marvel Comics titles listed ads for upcoming tie-ins to the Outlawed event, with ads for the launch of Champions, Power Pack and tie-in comics Ms Marvel and Miles Morales: Spider-Man. But Bleeding Cool has a few pages from them to share… first from the Outlawed launch of New Warriors, which includes a very new […]

Marvel has announced the new Champions series we've all been waiting for, and as expected, coming off successful runs on Ironheart and Ms. Marvel Team-Up, Eve Ewing will write the book spinning out of the Outlawed one-shot and setting the direction for Marvel's teen heroes, with Simone Di Meo on art. Marvel media partner Screenrantcrush […]

Marvel Comics have often enjoyed a politician to play off, especially when they have a point. Senator Robert Kelly is probably the classic example from Chris Claremont and John Byrne, the sponsor for the "Mutant Registration Act," whose murder was said to precipitate the then-dim-and-distant future of 2013 from whence Kate Pryde came from. Far from a villain, […]

Marvel has revealed that secret new Eve Ewing project the writer teased on Twitter last week. Coming in March, Outlawed will be a one-shot by Ewing, artist Kim Jacinto, colorist Espen Grundetjern, and letterer Clayton Cowles in which a tragedy causes the government to outlaw teen superheroes. The AV Club's Eisner-winning cozy journalistic relationship with […]

Champions #10 hits stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Jim Zub, Steven Cummings, Marcio Menyz, and Clayton Cowles… and for the last time, as the series is canceled with this issue, perhaps to be replaced next year by Young Avengers instead? But that's to be sorted out later. For now, we've got a series to […]

It was promised last year. Marvel Comics #1000 initially had a much greater tease for a new Young Avengers series, but that was edited back before publication. But now we hear that yes, Marvel Comics is planning to publish a new Young Avengers series next year. Just don't expect Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, there's […]

Another day, another part of Marvel's Incoming puzzle, their big new Point One-style anthology for December 26th, leading into whatever it is Marvel has planned for 2020. And this has the Champions clustered around a TV screen featured what appears to be a politician at a podium making the sign of… well what? Middle and ring […]

Champions #9 is in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics, the penultimate issue of the series, by the creative team of Jim Zub and Steven Cummings. But if you can't wait three days, we've got a preview of the issue below. For the second-to-last time, get caught up with the recap page. And we find […]

The Champions are having some problems… and we're not just talking about the book's unfortunate and untimely cancellation with issue #10. With various team members suffering crises of conscience, Viv has been left as team leader, but in this preview of Champions #8, when Ironheart comes calling, she finds that Viv may be… a bit […]

October's Champions #10 will be the final issue of the series starring a team of Marvel's teenage superheroes, writer Jim Zub revealed on his blog Thursday. Zub said that the book "didn't click the way we hoped" and that his "long-term plans for the series have been cut short." Once the October solicits arrived online, […]

Crying is a right of passage for superheroes. Superman, the original superhero, does it all the time. And in next week's issue of Champions #7, it's Ms. Marvel's turn. Following the Champion's exploits during War of the Realms (and a super-mega-crossover event could make anyone cry), Ms. Marvel is quitting the Champions! At least, temporarily. […]

Trouble is brewing in the pages of Champions #6, in stores next week, as we see in this preview. It begins with a calm scene, the mighty warriors of the Disir standing guard in Brazil, doing their duty for their leader, Amora the Enchantress, Queen of the Dead. The Disir are a pretty big deal… […]

Comic book writer Jim Zub took to Twitter Wednesday to complain about comics piracy, asking readers who enjoy books like his Champions, the fourth of issue of which went on sale to day, to support the book by actually paying for it, lest it not be around to "deliver on its potential." In his Tweet, […]

You would think that Scott Summers would have a lot on his plate having just returned from the dead into a world where the X-Men have disappeared, forcing him to team up with Wolverine to rebuild the X-Men from the ground up. But back when Scott was a time-displaced teenager living alongside his adult counterpart […]

It's hard to come up with an idea more damaging to America's reputation in the Middle East than Donald Trump making Jared Kushner the regional ambassador, but in next week's Champions #2, the titular superhero team does its best. Seen in this preview below, the superheroes have taken one of their massively destructive battles to […]

Marvel Comics revealed plans Thursday to celebrate International Women's Day in the most appropriate way possible: with a variant cover. Okay, maybe there are technically more appropriate ways, but variant covers are one of three Marvel solutions to everything, and since there's already an unrelated super-mega-crossover event in the works and you can't simply reboot […]

In next week's Champions Annual #1, Snowguard returns home for the first time since joining the Champions, but if you thought that being a famous superhero would excuse her from dealing with the same bull@#$% everyone else does when they get together with family, you'd be dead wrong! Snowguard is barely back when her family […]

The Champions are stuck in Weirdworld, where they've lost their memories (except for Ironheart) and have been split apart. But thanks to everyone's favorite Mad Titan, all is not lost. Wait, what? Yes, that's right, it's Thanos who seems to be the key to getting the Champions back together and out of Weirdworld. Er… sort […]

Shots have been fired in the Marvel vs. DC war, at the former announced plans at New York Comic Con Saturday to move into their rival's territory. It seems that Champions is relaunching with a new number one issue, having dared to hit double digits, a big no-no at Marvel. And according to writer Jim […]

Ant-Man and the Wasp have returned to Earth…or so they think. They're larger than the planet, but they're not suffocating in space. They are still in the Microverse, and they're still entangled. Scott nor Nadia can shrink or grow without the other willing it. Their memories are becoming muddled, and it's only a matter of […]