Here's you weekly roundup of comics news, from a Marvel secret superhero to hints at the state of Spider-Man's 'One More Day':
Mark Millar unveils a minority Kick-Ass
Writer Mark Millar has announced that he will be re-teaming with artist John Romita Jr to introduce a new Kick-Ass – one that is a black woman.
The unnamed character will be replacing their original superhero Dave Lizewski in the Kick-Ass: The New Girl comic.
"Comics is not short of white males aged around 30 – that demographic seems pretty well catered for in popular culture," Millar told The Hollywood Reporter. "I don't think many blonde white guys around 30 feel under-represented when they pick up comic or watch a movie.
"Being older or younger or female or African-American just seems more interesting to me as a writer because this character is quite unique and opens up story possibilities that hasn't been tried in almost eighty years of superhero fiction. This woman has a completely different take on Kick-Ass."
Millar will also be teaming with American Vampire artist Rafael Albuquerque on a new Hit-Girl series. Both comics will arrive in January.
Marvel reveals its new Inhuman solo series
After a series of mysterious teasers, Marvel Comics has announced Mosaic, a new title featuring the equally new eponymous character.
Morris Sackett – a former athlete who loses his body and finds he must possess other people after his Inhuman powers are awakened – will make his debut in Uncanny Inhumans #11.
Screenwriter and novelist Geoffrey Thorne will write the series with art by Khary Randolph (We Are Robin).
The Inhumans have increasingly become central to Marvel's storytelling – especially with the new character Ulysees's central role in the ongoing Civil War II event.
Mosaic #1 will be released in October.
Fables returns to comics
The 13-year-long run of Vertigo's Fables may have come to an end in 2015, but it seems that there are more stories waiting to be told from Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham's world.
Fables: The Wolf Among Us writers Matthew Sturges and Dave Justus are teaming up with artist Travis Moore on Everafter: From the Pages of Fables.
The description posted on the Vertigo blog reads:
"In a post-FABLES world where magic abounds, it can be wielded for the greater good or used to sow the ideas of anarchy and terrorism. Enter The Shadow Players, a global network of agents — both Fable and mundane — tasked with policing a newly enchanted world and protecting humanity from itself. The series will feature fan-favorite characters, including Bo Peep, Peter Piper, Hansel, and Connor Wolf, as well as exciting new characters and a terrifying new villain."
Everafter: From the Pages of Fables will begin in September.
Is Spider-Man's 'One More Day' coming unravelled?
In 2008, the infamous Spider-Man story 'One More Day' saw Peter Parker make a deal with Mephisto (aka the Devil) to save his Aunt May's life – a deal that resulted in the erasure of his marriage to Mary Jane Watson from reality.
And now we've had some hints that the very unpopular storyline might be getting rebooted (debooted?).
First, Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness's Spider-Man/Deadpool #6 in May saw Mephisto taunt Parker (via CBR).
"I am the architect of your ultimate fall," he says. "And I'm going to tell you a secret about your life... about why you'll never find true happiness... You will always be missing something. Incomplete. Unfinished. And ultimately, no matter how hard you fight, which cause you choose, the battle will always end with your facing... emptiness."
And in Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli's recent Amazing Spider-Man #14, Parker's sometime Avengers ally Iron Man reacts with confusion to the information that Mary Jane used to live with them in the Avengers Mansion.
"That doesn't sound right," he says before reluctantly accepting the information.
And the recent hints that Aunt May might be seriously ill could suggest that Mephisto's deal will soon be voided.
What do you think? Is Marvel finally ready to undo the unpopular Spider-Man story. Or was Slott's subsequently adored run worth the heartache?
