Marvel Comics and Heroes Reborn #1 Spoilers and Review follows.
Squadron Supreme Replace Forgotten Avengers.
What Are The Sad Fates Of The Avengers?
The book has a fair number of variant covers.
Plus the main cover.
The book opens with a creators credits page.
Looks like only Blade remembers the old world and he’s looking to bring the Avengers back together, but his first recruit Robbie Reyes doesn’t even remember his Ghost Rider persona.
In this world, Phil Coulson is President of the United States and the Squadron Supreme of America protect the United States, and perhaps the world, from threats like Dr. Juggernaut (a Doctor Doom and Juggernaut amalgam).
While Hyperion battles him, Nighthawk takes on the Black Skull (a Red Skull and Venom amalgam).
As we see Dr. Spectrum race to the skies to tackle a threat, we read through Blade’s narration what happened to the Hulk and She-Hulk…
…Captain Marvel and Iron Man…
…Ghost Rider, Starbrand, Black Panther, Iron Fist, Captain America, but no word on Thor or the Phoenix.
We get the Blur taking on the Silver Witch (an amalgam of Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver).
Power Princess takes on the new All-Father of the Norse Gods, but not Odin or Thor, but the All-Gog.
Turns out the Blur is confronting Thanos in space as wields something the Infinity Rings (an Amalgam of the Infinity Stones / Gauntlet and the Mandarin’s Makluan rings).
Blade tries to recruit Thor, who just is wallowing on being thrown to Earth with nothing by his father Odin; he doesn’t seem to learning the lesson of humility his father wanted.
Later, Blade confronts Nighthawk during his battle with Black Skull and his forces; it looks like the Squadron Supreme may not be aware this is not the real world, but an altered world.
However, it is clear that their benefactor President Coulson knows this world is a newer one, one likely created somehow by Mephisto; this is not revealed in the issue, but implied with Mephisto adorning a few of this issue’s variant covers and since he and Coulson have been a duo in the Avengers series from shortly after the series launch in May 2018 building to Heroes Reborn since then.
The book ends with Mjolnir somehow seeking out Thor while Blade finds the frozen body of Captain America.
We then get a nice checklist of all things Heroes Reborn.
Next week we get a Heroes Reborn #2 and some of other one-shots.
Here’s our Heroes Reborn checklist above and below with the confirmed dates as of last month.
The Pulse:
The build-up has been longstanding and impactful full of intrigue. This first issue delivered in setting the stage for readers of this new world and who’s who and what’s what. The art was amazing, but I think Ed McGuinness is not penciling the whole mini-series. A satisfying and fun read. 8 out of 10.
