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Marvel Comics Is Letting Angela Fly Once Again

Marvel Comics Is Letting Angela Fly Once Again

As part Marvel's new creative relaunch, the fan-favorite Queen of Hel gets to headline a new supernatural solo comic.

What a year for Marvel characters famously written by Neil Gaiman. After Miracleman joined the Marvel universe with Armageddon and the newly launched Avengers book, now it’s time for Angela to get her first solo book in over a decade.

Written by Wes Craig (Kaya) and drawn by Pere Pérez (Amazing Spider-Man: Spider-Versity), the book will see Heven dispatch Angela to Earth to handle a new demon outbreak in New York. Slaying demons is something Angela’s more than happy to do—and if this mission also requires she learn why Heven and the new demon lord Abraxas are suddenly interested in Earth, she’ll try to find the time for that, too.

Created in 1993 by Gaiman and Todd McFarlane, Angela’s real-world history is pretty complicated due to a long legal dispute between her two creators that ended in Gaiman’s favor and her in Marvel comics. Since then, she’s been a Guardian of the Galaxy and retroactively a sister of Thor, often showing up in Pride Month stories, as a guest star in other comics, or as part of a team in short-lived books. Outside the comics, she joined the Marvel Rivals roster just last year in the same season as Daredevil.

“Angela’s an old school warrior: stoic, no-nonsense, she doesn’t suffer fools, doesn’t have time for BS, and she’s tough as…

In brief

What a year for Marvel characters famously written by Neil Gaiman. After Miracleman joined the Marvel universe with Armageddon and the newly launched Avengers book, now it’s time for Angela to get her first solo book in over a decade. Outside the comics, she joined the Marvel Rivals roster just last year in the same season as Daredevil.

This is the opening of the story, shared with credit to Gizmodo. The rest of the report — with every detail — continues on the publisher’s website.

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