A-FORCE... To Be Reckoned With... Appreciation/Celebration!!

[Heroine Addict]

WOW! If it wasn't already, it most definitely is NOW... OFFICIAL, that is, I'll be returning to my not-so-LCS after YEARS of... NOT doing so, due to lack of interest... compelling me to. I have been getting digital pretty regularly for a while though, mind you, mostly ANXF... and an occasional ANXM or UA. But thanks to the announcements of my girl Lorna joining her daddy's book — Cullen Bunn's well-received & much acclaimed Magneto solo, #17 in April and then #18+ starting in May for SW, under the "Last Days" banner — and then DC's upcoming & VERY promising Black Canary title — debuting in June! — and now THIS:

... well, my prayers have been answered, dreams really do come true, and I'm... IN HEAVEN! This'll be like the golden years for me, I haven't been this stoked in a long, LONG time! What basics we know so far & why I'm SO PUMPED:

Our Creators: Written by G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel, X-Men) and Marguerite Bennett (Angela: Asgard's Assassin) and drawn by Jorge Molina (X-Men)

For Hero Worship in regard to the writers:

G. Willow Wilson - Known for her works for Vertigo (Cairo, Air, and The Unexpected Volume 2) and DC works (The Outsiders Mini she helped write, as well as the awesome mini for Vixen) and we all know her marvel stuff so that's that. She's also a poet and a prose writer with two books under her belt, along with working for various magazine publications.

Marguerite Bennett - A new voice in comics. She was a student under Scott Snyder (I believe Graduate classes) who eventually came into comics via working with him on some material for DC. She's written for DC exclusively so far in her comics area (A special Lois Lane issue of Superman, Injustice issues, Talon issues, Earth 2: Worlds End, Lobo and Batgirl.) I'm not sure about her short stories or prose work as, again she's really new to the whole writers scene.

Our Known, Initial... Main Characters:
She-Hulk (Avengers/F4 association; Strength representation)
Dazzler (X-Men association; Energy representation)
Medusa (Inhumans association; Enhanced representation)
Nico Minoru (Runaways association; Magical representation)
Singularity (Cosmic association; Nexus representation)

Rogue, Storm, & Wasp?

• Marvel’s Mightiest Women finally get their own explosive series!
• In a secluded corner of the Battleworld, an island nation is fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes of which has only ever been glimpsed before…
• Fighting to protect the small sliver of their world that’s left, the Amazing A-FORCE stands shoulder-to-shoulder, ready to take on the horde!

The Premise, from USA Today: Female Avengers team comes to the fore with 'A-Force':

• In Arcadia — what Wilson describes as "this feminist paradise" — a familiar threat to Marvel fans arises again and because of it, the new team of A-Force is formed to be the superhero standard bearer.
• They... had a mandate to create a new character, and Wilson came up with Singularity. Instead of being a flesh-and-blood human, she's actually a cosmological event — according to Wilson, she is a pocket universe that gained self-consciousness during the radical upheaval of Secret Wars. ... She also doesn't have any real gender, yet Singularity chooses to be female. ... With her Wilson says they want to "strip it all the way down to the basics: What does it mean to be a woman and what would that look like to somebody who was learning about the human race as an outsider and is learning about what it means to have relationships with other people." ... In addition to giving her a "very cool power set," Wilson designed her to be an Avenger while also being, in effect, Avengers Mansion: Singularity can act as "a whole world within herself and she can also move between different worlds and dimensions like taking a walk," the writer says, "so she has access to all corners of the Marvel U in a way that other characters do not."
• In picking the mainstays for the team, though, Wilson went for a little bit of everything choosing favorites of hers and other fans as well as anchors of different parts of the Marvel Universe. She-Hulk is an iconic stalwart who's been on the Avengers and Fantastic Four at various times, Medusa is the queen of the Inhumans, Dazzler is "everybody's favorite disco girl" from the X-Men and Nico Minoru was the resident witch of the Runaways. ... "This is an opportunity to put people who would normally have no reason to interact with each other on one team," Wilson says. ... She also looked for a wide range of abilities, unlike her current X-Men team where all of them are telepaths. ... Not only did she prefer characters who looked interesting on the page, Wilson says, "I want people whose power sets really build on each other so that there are specific limitations that can only become overcome by working together. Nobody's so overpowered that it gets boring and nobody's so underpowered that they have to be saved all the time. I wanted a balance visually and practically." ... What's also going to be interesting is working out the power structure of the group, Wilson adds. "You have several people on it who are used to being either they're own bosses or in a leadership position, and all of a sudden they're together."

Other Articles:
• Time: Why Marvel Decided to Create an All-Female Superhero Team
• BuzzFeed: Women Are Taking Over Marvel One Comic Book At A Time
• CBR: Bennett Assembles Battleworld's Mightiest Heroes In A-Force

• NPR: The Woman Behind Marvel's Newest Team Of Heroines

Of Note, from CBR's Axel-In-Charge: The End of The Bendis "X-Men" Era, The Arrival of "A-Force":

Finally, today's announcement of "A-Force" certainly has a lot of people very excited. We've talked a lot in the past about increasing representation at Marvel of both female characters and creators -- how major of a step do you view "A-Force" in that larger movement? And just to clarify: Will this be "the" Avengers book during the course of "Secret Wars," and is this the G. Willow Wilson-developed project that was teased back in December with the news that she was now exclusive with Marvel?

Alonso: Yes, during the course of "Secret Wars" and beyond. And yes, "A-Force" is what we were alluding to back in December. This plan has been hatching for some time. We are… I am very excited.

And from CBR: Marvel Announces Female-Led "A-Force" from Wilson, Bennett, Molina:

Heading up the lineup will be She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa, Nico Minoru, a "cosmically powered" new hero named Singularity as well as other heroes yet to be revealed. ... “We've purposefully assembled a team composed of very different characters -- from disparate parts of the Marvel U, with very different power sets, identities and ideologies," said Wilson in the announcement. "They'll all have to come together to answer some big questions: What would you sacrifice to succeed? What is being a hero worth?”

Discuss, contribute, & SPECULATE — LET the PRAISE BEGIN!!!!