Age of Marvels: New Universe – April 2021 Solicitations

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We present to you Age of Marvels: New Universe, a collection of all new fan-made issues on “sale” this month for APRIL 2021!

What is “Age of Marvels” and how does it work?

Age of Marvels is a fan fiction universe and solicitation game that has been in existence on the CBR boards for well over a decade! It has gone through several iterations and has survived forum reboots! The way it works is that “plotters” write short solicitations for monthly comic books! Then participants “buy” the books they want to read! The books with the most buys get rewards. Sounds fun, right? So let’s do this! Which of this month's solicits interest and excite you? Let us know by posting which books you'd pick up in the virtual Age of Marvels Store (this solicitation thread). You can pull as many as you'd like, but also consider your "virtual budget" when making your selections, as sales are used to reward our titles and plotters. Registers are open all month and sales are tallied at the end of the month.

Absolutely anyone can make purchases right here in this thread - so please do!. It’s free and is basically just saying “I’d read this” or “I like this!” So let us know! There has never been a more excelsior time to join the fun!

If you want more information on Age of Marvels or are interested in plotting yourself, please visit us at the Age of Marvels Bullpen Thread.

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Behold! Our monthly archive!
This is the repository of our prior work; a compilation of all the monthly solicitation posts since the forum was reset in 2014.

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Age of Marvels and Next Dawn have an OFFICIAL WIKI!



Now, this month’s solicitations:

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AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #28
Plot by NX01A
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by JEROME OPEÑA
Theme Song: Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
"IF I BE WASPISH, BEST BEWARE MY STING."
•Everyone in the US wondered where the murder hornets disappered to back in 2020. When a small swarm of them appears in Saitama, the locals aren't worried by these familiar so-called 'sparrow insects'. But when the swarm takes the shape of a hornet which grows to the size of a skyscraper? If anyone knows how to flee from giant monsters, it's the Japanese.
•After a quick X-Jet jaunt from the mutant-run island of Krakatoa, the SCARLET WITCH hexes NIGHTCRAWLER's brimstone to envelop and placate the murder swarm but it only makes the hornets more agitated. Luckily, her hex inadvertently opens a portal to another dimension! Enter THE VISION! Generating his own smoke, the entity known as AARKUS calms the swarm before freezing its constituent hornets solid. As they fall and shatter like hail, Nightcrawler realizes he may have competition for the Scarlet Witch's affections.
•Who would weaponize murder hornets? As DOCTOR STRANGE investigates, it may be the same people who made them disappear from America in the first place... and they may make him disappear, too!
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99

AGENTS OF FURY #7
Writer: CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
Artist: STEFAN CASELLI
Plot: MARVELL2100
“I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE!” Part 6
Nick rushes back to America after the warning from Madam HYDRA and the message he received from Diamondback. Rachel believes Nomad has been compromised and is a willing follower of Sen. Kelly. He's risen in the ranks of her organization and is now the deputy campaign manager. If Jack has been converted then the entire team is in jeopardy! Elsewhere, Scorpio and Roz Solomon are following a lead on trail of dark money behind Kelly's sudden rise. One name keeps coming up over and over in their investigation: Shadow Cabinet! A tip has led them to one of the Senator's offices in a high rise in Chicago. They pose as a couple wishing to contribute to her re-election when armed men burst into the room surrounding them. They hear the sound of heels walking across a high polished, slick floor getting closer. Viper, one of the most dangerous people on the planet and leader of various terrorist organizations enters the room and smiles. It's not everyday you capture a couple of Fury's flunkies and even better when you get to kill them!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99

BLACK PANTHER: KING OF WAKANDA #20
Written by MALCOLM JONES
Plot by MARVELL2100
Art by ADI GRANOV
“STURM AND DRANG!” Part 4: “ALWAYS AIM FOR THE HEAD!”
Military Installation outside of Denver, CO: Kasper Kole and the HZ team have rescued Okoye and Kyen and are trying to make their escape. But things have turned south real quick when the U.S.Agent and a squad of elite soldiers arrive! Everyone else has gotten out except for Kasper and Okoye. Outnumbered and out-gunned the two try to fight their way free but the odds grow increasingly against them! Suddenly one of the soldiers turns against the others, quickly taking down six of them. This gives Kasper and Okoye the chance to escape, leaving the lone soldier to face Walker and the remaining squad members. Walker tells him that he will face court martial for his actions but is stunned when the soldier removes his helmet to reveal...The Black Panther!
In Europe, Viper returns from her trip to the U.S.(see Agent's of Fury #7) to meet with Adrienne. She has a problem with Killmonger having a seat in the Hellfire Club and says that he can't be trusted. Adrienne laughs and tells her not to worry. She plans for Killmonger to get her to the Wakandan throne and once he does that, he will be as dead as The Black Panther!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99

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CAPTAIN AMERICA #28
Plot by EXCITER
Written by FRANK MILLER
Art by SEAN GORDON MURPHY
“I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE SHAREHOLDERS”
Steve Rogers is no stranger to waking up in a world he doesn’t recognize, this being the second time he’s been frozen and thawed out decades later. The second time, however, is decidedly not a charm. So much has changed in the year 2099... so much for the worse. The planet is run by megacorporations - Alchemax, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. They control everything: what you see, what you read, what you eat, and what you think. Any deviation is considered dangerous villainy - the kind superheroes fight. And foremost among superheroes are the colluding Corporate Avengers! Steve has to avoid them at all costs while trying to find a way back to 2021.
His only ally? Jake Gallows, a former member of Nueva York’s privatized police force - a corporate enforcer, known for brutalizing criminals. Raised Thorite, a faith disfavored by most big boardrooms due to controversial male empowerment beliefs, Jake nonetheless wouldn’t change his ways until finding old War Journals from Frank Castle. For all his other faults, Castle’s refusal to compromise inspired Jake to realize that his corporate overlords were the real criminals all along. He became... the Punisher 2099!
Jake plans to lead Steve to the only group who may be able to help him: the Free Radicals. They don’t 100% agree with approved corporate positions and want to see, read, eat, and think what they want. For that crime they’re condemned to eek out a meager existence on the fringes of society; in the sewers, in the darkness. However, they might be able to locate one of the old, dead heroes’ time machines - and when Steve finds out who their leader is, he has hope for the first time since being defrosted. She’s 96 years old but still spry due to Feurtona biology. She wears the banned colors: red, white, and blue. She calls herself Ms. America and she’s an old ally! But plot twist: she blames Steve for letting everything go to hell! Can Cap survive the wrath of America Chavez??
Little do they know, Google Android was tracking their every movement... and now they’ve led the Corporate Avengers right to the Free Radicals’ leader!
Plus: A Frontlines Op-Ed by Sally Floyd, “If You Don’t Like It, Build Your Own 2099: Why Private Companies Can Do What They Want with Their Platforms in The Future.”
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

FANTASTIC FOUR #28
Written by KELLY SUE DECONNICK
Plot by CAPTCLEGHORN
Art by TOM GRUMMETT
Surprises for all the members of the FF as they discover…
“THE SECRET ORIGIN OF THUNDRA!”
As we saw last issue, Ben found Amazonian Thundra with a swastika laden uniform and punched her through a wall. Seeing how we create stories, we figured Thundra should have a chance to explain. On her Earth, adolf hitler was assassinated in 1941. The next level of nazis decided to take things a bit easier and not do anything dumb like attack the Soviet Union. In a few years, the Germans not only developed an A-Bomb, they had the rockets to launch them almost anywhere on the planet. By the turn of the millennium, Earth was an ugly nazi run world.
In the year 2431, some of the last few surviving minorities had stolen an atomic bomb and exploded it in Germania, killing tens of millions. The government’s only hope was sending one of their superhuman Valkyrieguild, Thundra back in time to save the martyred and idealized Hitler and bring him forward in time to reinvigorate the German planet. Hitler’s life was saved in 1941, and he was willing to accompany the statuesque Thundra 500 years in the future. But her return device did not work and she spent the next few decades on this Earth.
As the story went on, the FF assembled to hear it and on the penultimate page, we see Thundra drop to her knees and kiss the hand of Susanne Storm. Susanne has been making contact with Rhona Burchill and her brand new beta version of a next level Baintronics Doombot. Susanne has also taken a meeting her rival and political opposite Sharon Kelly.
And there’s a big surprise on the last page. Well, technically two surprises. One big, one tiny.
This arc is based heavily on an idea from whitecrown.
32 PGs./ Rated T...$3.99

FANTASTIC FOUR volume 3: “GOVERNMENT, GRAVITY, AND A GORILLA”
Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Plot by CaptCleghorn
Art by Tom Grummett
New US Senator Susan Storm, MD is discovering that although her plan to get Gregory Gideon out of the US Senate succeeded, she now has an actual job to do which does not allow for much of a learning curve.
Sue finds herself replaced by Josephine, a telepathic gorilla formerly in the thrall of Ivan Kragoff, the Red Ghost.
A mad scientist has gotten control over gravity and in his agitated state poses a threat to the entire planet.
Baintronics CEO and founder Sunset Bain is selling humanoid like robots called Doombots to both Latverian chancellor and dictator Victor Von Doom as well as the US Government which finds itself dealing with robots almost indistinguishable from actual humans.
Also featuring…

FRANKLIN RICHARDS – SON OF A GENIUS: “I’m Going to Disneyland”
Written by CHRIS ELIOPOULOS
Plot by CAPTCLEGHORN
Art by CHRIS ELIOPOULOS
Soundtrack: Dizz Knee Land by Dada
Franklin Richards’ adventures with trying to hack into Disney + have led him to the conclusion that he must go to the fabled “happiest place on Earth”, Disneyland. Can HERBIE talk Franklin out of this, and if not, can he at least get a discounted ticket? #robotsgotpriorities
Reprints Fantastic Four issues 13-18 with an all-new Franklin Richards story.
160 PGs./ Rated T...$4.44

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HULK IN HELL #3
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MATT KINDT
Art by RON GARNEY
“SINS OF THE FATHER”
“You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?” - Acts 13:10.
The Hulk has nearly smashed his way to the final Circle. Only Mephisto’s children stand between the green Goliath and their demonic father. Blackheart would battle him. Jezebel would seduce him. But the Hulk has never been angrier and is ready to smash both their brains out in different ways!
His damned father, Brian Banner, smiles. It’s only a matter of time before the monster he created throws down with Mephisto himself. And the beauty is, no matter who loses, Brian wins! His revenge is fated either way, for both of those devils are responsible for sending him to Hell!
On Earth, the Ghost Rider stares deep into Bruce Banner’s soul - to a memory long ago suppressed. A bruised boy, scared and suffering, praying to anyone who could make the abuse stop. He didn’t remember, but the angry part of him did strike a bargain that night. The beatings ended... because Mephisto killed young Bruce’s father in exchange for his soul.
As Bruce is wrought with guilt, the Rider encourages him to think more like his lawyer cousin. A child can’t consent to a contract. Indeed, Banner is quite fortunate that the “One More Day” Event “killed” the Hulk. It allowed the earthbound Spirit of Vengeance to discover that the contract was void ab initio before Banner’s entire soul was sent to Hell - and the exploitation of innocent children just so happens to be what the Rider likes avenging the most! It’s time to blaze a path into Hell and bring the Hulk back - and Banner’s riding bitch!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

INFINITY WATCH #6
Plot by KALAI
Written by RICK REMENDER
Art by FRANK QUITELY
“THE STARHAWK NATION” part two
The Nation of Dark Starhawk rules the whole universe in Year 3021,
the suns are being caged for energy, black holes are mined by gravity mining ships for hyper-material.
They are building a mighty Legion of Starhawks, greater than anything seen in any timelines.
The Dark Starhawk is preparing for something, something far more terrible than Death.
Eros uses his powers to hide him and Starhawk when they infiltrate the Nation's Home world.
Starhawk is trying to find out how the future changed, and Eros seems to realize something.
Meanwhile, Thane is welcomed into the Library of Worlds, the Church of Black Swans,
a hyper-structure in the pan-dimensional corridor and a nexus to all realities.
The Starhawk Legion begins to build a dimensional door into the Library of Worlds.
Using the remains of the Thanes they have hunted from different future timelines,
they were able to lock onto and track Thane beyond the veil of time and space.
The Church of Black Swans believes Thane will lead them into the Second Golden Age of Swans.
He will become a new Rabum Alal and that is why the Legion of Starhawks is coming after him.
Thane believes there is a way for him to protect himself, but he will need a more concentrated strain of Terrigen Mist.
Genis-Vell and Pip decide to travel to a Kree for Terrigen, Hyperion and Angela decide to go after the Inhuman.
On Kree, among the ruins of the cities, Ronan the Accuser awaits with a mysterious hooded figure.
Revelation! Mar-Vell, the first Captain Marvel!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #20
Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Plot by MARVELL2100
Art by SALVADOR LARROCA
“I DON'T NEED YOUR WAR MACHINE!”
For the first time in over a year, Rhodey is back in the War Machine armor! And it couldn't come at a better time as he takes on Sunset Baines and her Iron Raiders so that Tony can go after his brother Arno, The Superior Iron Man. But after so much time not wearing the armor, how can Rhodey hope to stand against Baines and her team? Tony, in his newest armor, is going after his brother after everything he's done to ruin his life. He attacked his friends, tried to destroy his business and tried to kill him. There's only one place where Arno would go after all of this, the one place he would go to for approval: The graves of their parents, Howard and Maria Stark!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99

LIONHEARTS #4
Plot by KC
Written by DAN SLOTT
Art by TY TEMPLETON
“TOUGH TASK”
The Team has to fight the Taskmaster but they are not yet a top fighting unit. Add in the civilians around and this fight is way more difficult than normal. And the Taskmaster manages to get his hands on the Toad. Is the Toad loyal to his new team or will he sell them out to the Taskmaster?
32 Pgs./ Rated T...$3.99