Meet the New Thunderbolts

Last week, Marvel showed off this teaser:

Now, they've revealed over at Newsarama that writer Daniel Way and artist Steve Dillon will be relaunching Thunderbolts for Marvel NOW! with quite an impressive new line-up. The team will be led by Red Hulk ("Thunderbolt" Ross!) and have membership by Elektra, Venom, Deadpool, and Frank Castle himself, the Punisher. I've never considered Frank much of a team player, but perhaps the outcome of Punisher: War Zone will be leaving him in a different place.

In any case, the book's editor, Jordan White, told Newsarama, "T-Bolts has gone through quite a few shifts over the years, some more radical than others. This one is going to be a pretty big change in that none of the characters or plotlines from the previous series are carrying over. It's a new take, but one that is grounded in that original idea that has always been woven into the fabric of the series, the hero/villain dichotomy, and characters bridging the gap between them. If you look at our roster, every one of our characters is a character who started out as a villain in their first appearances but who has, over the years, made the shift to hero... or at least antihero."

Now that one of the books behind the latest teasers has been revealed, I would expect to hear about the rest very soon. I should note that it's unclear whether or not this will have any effect on Jeff Parker's Dark Avengers series, which was renamed from Thunderbolts earlier this year.

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Source : ign[dot]com