Barely released ThunderboltsMarvel Studios has deployed a whole marketing campaign to establish the true meaning of the asterisk in the name of the team, revealing that the group led by Yelena is, in fact, a new version of the Avengers: the New Avengers.
As if that were not enough, The original comic of Thunderbolts It has also been renamed, showing us a group of antiheroes as unexpected as lethalwith the inclusion of carnage? and a Bucky Barnes whose aesthetic seems traced from its version in the MCU.
Meet the Thunderbolts New Marvel Avengers
After the end of Thunderbolts, It was clear that we are not facing a simple Marvelite suicide squad, but in front of the new official alignment of the Avengers. And Marvel Comics soon react: he also changed the name of the Sam Humphries and Ton Lima series, Thunderbolts, a New Avengers and formed an equal extreme team as the cinematographic. This new group is made up of Black Widow, Hulk, Namor, Clea, Wolverine, Carnage … and of course, Bucky Barnes. In their first arc, all of them will face the Killuminati, corrupted clones of the old Illuminati.
-The truth is that in its eagerness to accompany the release of the film, the dynamics posed by this comic promise to be as explosive as in the MCU: where in principle nobody trusts anyone, and each member seems to drag their own demons. Yes indeed, The resemblance between the two buckys (that of the comics and the scene post credits of the MCU tape) It is so specific that it is almost impossible to think that it is a coincidence: The design is the same, line per line, but not its plot actually.
At this stage Bucky has left the name of Winter Soldier to adopt the The Revolutionan alias that represents its definitive break with the past. Instead of serving the government as in the tape, here he leads a team on his own, determined to do justice without paying to anyone. This change is not only aesthetic: it is a psychological and narrative evolution. Bucky definitely leaves his identity as a reprogrammed weapon, to erect a man who has decided to rewrite from scratch.
On the whole, This new New Avengers alignment represents a bold turn for Marvel Comics: A team formed by broken pieces, marginalized absurdities and ancient villains who, far from seeking redemption, operate under their own rules, but what so much originality will offer us far from the novelty that is the change of name? With the first number of New Avengers Reaching specialized stores on June 11, the final result is still far from our view to know the response with certainty.
