AVENGERS: TWILIGHT Covers And Preview Reveals Future Thor For Marvel Comics' KINGDOM COME

AVENGERS: TWILIGHT Covers And Preview Reveals Future Thor For Marvel Comics' KINGDOM COME

Marvel Comics has revealed new cover art and preview pages for next January's Avengers: Twilight, and we're sure you'll agree that the event series is giving off major Kingdom Come vibes. Check it out...

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By JoshWilding - Nov 18, 2023 04:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

Yesterday, comic book retailers were invited to an Avengers: Twilight "Retailer Conference" to learn more about the upcoming event series.

Writer Chip Zdarsky and Marvel Comics VP Executive Editor Tom Brevoort were both on hand to tease the upcoming saga's biggest mysteries, while also discussing its scope and impact. Attendees got an exclusive look at never-before-seen covers along with interior artwork and design sheets, and this morning, we can now share those with you ahead of the title's launch next January! 

In Avengers: Twilight, readers will leave the Marvel Universe they know behind as they follow an aged Steve Rogers through a dark future where the Avengers' dream has been twisted into a nightmare. Along the way, Zdarsky and artist Daniel Acuña will introduce a fascinating new cast of characters, including future versions of familiar faces as well as future Avengers members who have startling connections to the heroes of today.

Instead of protecting the world, the new Avengers of Avengers: Twilight use their power and influence to control it, driving Steve to come out of retirement to end their rule and restore the Avengers' legacy to its former glory. However, even after assembling the few friends he has left, Captain America will be hopelessly outmatched by the system the Avengers' ruthless successors built.

Described as a "bold and thought-provoking saga," we're getting major Kingdom Come vibes from a story which promises to tackle the very nature of being a superhero as it slowly peels back the layers of a shadowy history, exposing the shocking events that caused Earth's Mightiest Heroes to fall so far. 

"My goal with anything is to create a story that is both new reader friendly and also welcomes in older readers who will enjoy the references sprinkled throughout," Zdarsky says. "I think if you have a base knowledge of Marvel superheroes, there’s really something for you here."

"And getting a chance to do something that’s self-contained in six issues with one consistent artist throughout is my favorite kind of project because those are types of books you can sell forever."

Below, you can take a first look at the future Thor, see new interior artwork, and some design sheets for Captain America's new allies and enemies. Are you excited about to check out Avengers: Twilight?

AVENTWIL2024004-Cover-Acuna
AVENTWIL2024004-Cover-Ross
AVENTWIL2024004-Bianchi
AVENTWIL2024003-Interior-A
AVENTWIL2024003-Interior-B
Avengers-Twilight-Designs
Avengers-Twilight-Designs-Defenders
Avengers-Twilight-Designs-Iron-Cops

AVENGERS: TWILIGHT #1 (OF 6)
Written by CHIP ZDARSKY
Art by DANIEL ACUÑA
Cover A by ALEX ROSS
Cover B by DANIEL ACUÑA
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lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 11/18/2023, 4:48 AM
A mix of not just Kingdom Come vibes but also mixed in with Justice Lords as well.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 11/18/2023, 5:20 AM
Cool! Nobody will read it lol
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/18/2023, 8:58 AM
@bobevanz - Could be true but they can still look at the pics if they can't read, lol, but not like comic sales are rock bottom or anything



Yeh prices are higher these days than we all recall as kids which accounts in part why sales figures are over $2B now compared to around $300M in the 90's but physical comic sales by volume have been 85 to 100 million copies per year in America for the last couple decades with solid growth and increases in volume on digital format on top of that.

In regard to US market share last I checked Marvel had 40%, DC 30%

Dunno if any of them are good or not compared to decades past but stuff is still selling :D
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 11/18/2023, 9:53 AM
@bobevanz -

I will
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 11/19/2023, 5:54 AM
@Apophis71 - US comic sales are in the toilet. Comic stores are collapsing around the country. Any chart or stats that you see that show massive sales IS INCLUDING Manga and independent creators that broke away or were pushed away from the big companies.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/19/2023, 6:28 AM
@WarMonkey - I mean obviously stats on comic sales are going to include ALL comics not just marvel and dc but the figures do show that although indie and manga has grown, A LOT, DC has a 30% share of those total sales, Marvel 40%.

How and where they are sold is a whole other matter though, physical stores are struggling in all sectors and the figurs will include online purchase and direct delivery subscriptions I assume. Maths tends not to lie although obviously open to spin to certain degrees and not negating perception due to our experiences with specialist comic stores and/or what is on the shelves in non-specialist stores.
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 11/19/2023, 6:47 AM
@Apophis71 - Manga was never included in the sales charts until a couple years ago when they decided to add them without informing anyone they changed it. They did it to be deceptive so they could claim the industry was strong. The industry is diminishing and the rise of the independent creator is taking off. For example, they included Eric July's ISOM novel in those stats, he's sold enough to become a multi-millionaire now and is outselling Marvel and Dc comics. I wish it wasn't true but the people running the the big companies have pushed out so many fans that only a small % of them still remain and they aren't gaining new fans or the younger crowd like the industry has been doing since forever.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/19/2023, 7:02 AM
@WarMonkey - I mean if there has been hidden changes to figures published your point could have validity but hard to fact check.

All I know directly from personal eperiences is all comic stores were closing or shrinking in the 90's onwards but a few more new ones seemed to start popping up again 10yrs ago for the first time since the 80's around me and the main one I go to stocking a LOT more comics and a LOT busier than it was 20yrs ago but where I live could be an exception I guess but also not American so could be totaly different state of affairs, lol.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 11/21/2023, 8:08 PM
@WarMonkey - Independent creators still count as American comics no? You’re basically saying that American big 2 superhero books don’t dominate the market like that’s a bad thing, when what you’re describing is a monopoly ending lol
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 11/21/2023, 8:14 PM
@WarMonkey - See, I don’t think they’ve pushed out fans, I think that Big 2 cape books just keep having the same old dudes writing their books and they just don’t appeal to kids as much so they don’t have as much of a growing fanbase. Plus comics are just more expensive than manga and prone to way more shakeups while still being bogged down in hard to penetrate continuity. It’s just harder to invest $4 in 22 pages when the art or writer you like might not last a full year vs $10 for like 200 pages with a single creator’s vision that you know you’re gonna be able to see all of.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 11/21/2023, 8:18 PM
@Apophis71 - As I said above, I think the thing that’s hurting comics is their price point compared to content and ease of accessibility, plus the inconsistency of the work for hire model. I think for every Immortal Hulk you’ve got a book that keeps changing creative teams that drop plot threads so you don’t get a real sense of artistic vision. Have you seen those new digest sized books DC is gonna release? I think those could be a real game changer, especially if they start collecting not just classic arcs but also serialize their regular line.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/22/2023, 2:31 AM
@OmegaBlack13 - Yeh I can see that and in America from what I have read the entire model is broken where sales figures are to stores not to actual readers, stores have to guess what will sell with the shorter runs and oft multpile different ones at once with the big names like Spiderman etc.

There seems to have been an attempt to fix that with digital and pushing a bunch of newly created characters mostly online like Ms. Marvel to work arond some of all that and seen some theorise that her comics and Miles' have sold more download copies than the top print copies of A listers but the actual numbers impossible to know for certain.

Anyway even if the big two monopoly is over, not a bad thing at all to my mind anyway, they don't seem to be in danger of going under again on the actual comic side like the 90's from what I can tell but if there is fudging of published figures to make things look better than they are that is never a good thing that can oft backfire.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 11/18/2023, 5:55 AM
Man look at how this character is portrayed in artwork compared to how disney marvel studios protrays him. The disrespect is real, if stan lee and steve ditko were black they wouldnt take as many liberties and turn the characters into jokes I think
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 11/18/2023, 7:31 AM
@Matchesz - ha! Did you see what DaVinci did to Jesus???

At MARVEL: anybody can get it.


100% chance they will push for Storm/Shuri marriage in 5 years or less.

slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 11/18/2023, 7:11 AM
Nice look to Thor there… makes me wish they could figure out a way to keep a helmet on Thor when he’s fighting in the MCU.
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 11/18/2023, 12:31 PM
@slickrickdesigns - yeah, but they value the actor over the character, so you must see his face.
videovac
videovac - 11/18/2023, 7:43 AM
Hmm. Saturday morning. Slow news, so far. Did you guys know, that The Marvels is on pace to earn less than Morbius? The Marvels is on pace to earn 82 million, Morbius earned 85 million.

Re-title The Marvels The Flash so we can get some more articles on it.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 11/18/2023, 8:01 AM
@videovac - Most folks have noticed that no-one's favorite hack and professional Marvel shrill (Josh) is noticeably more quiet concerning THE MARVELS collapse than when he was posting multiple negative articles a day for weeks on end while dancing and celebrating on the corpse of THE FLASH. 🫤
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 11/18/2023, 7:57 AM
I am always up for a dark, dystopian future featuring twisted versions of our favorite super-heroes but Marvel Comics; please don't even pretend that it's a first. We've all ridden this horse before so, just don't cock it up! 🤨
dragon316
dragon316 - 11/18/2023, 8:10 AM
Nice helmet thor looks galtacus helmet loos intersting
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 11/18/2023, 8:37 AM
I love how in the comics Thor IS A GOD. Not to be [frick]ed with…
And then in the last 2 Thor movies he’s a clown.
PapaBear562
PapaBear562 - 11/18/2023, 8:49 AM
Why is Marvel continuing to push the Ms Marvel character when she is clearly not one of the classic characters from their glory days? Are they that bent on pushing islam on the public? Just another reason why I no longer collect comics.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/18/2023, 9:22 AM
@PapaBear562 - Likely as she had been the top download on their digital comics more oft than not where she was primarily marketed at first (tendng to be between her and Miles for the top spot) so trying to transfer some of that over to physical more? As to the religion thing never thought Daredevil was pushing Catholicism or Moon Knight and Thing were pushing the Jewish faith, just liked their characters regardless their faith.

Islam does however account for 25% of the global population, Christianity 31% with Judaism down below 1%

Sure US specific is another matter with Muslims down at 1% to Jews at 2% I think but there has always been a bunch of Jewish Marvel characters and tons of Christian ones so don't see the issue of one who is Muslim esp as her parents are NOT from the Arab regions thus likely considered less problematic.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/18/2023, 9:34 AM
Looks good, got a great creative team working on it, if only Marvel put this much effort into the rest of their comics,movies and shows.
breakUbatman
breakUbatman - 11/20/2023, 4:17 AM
That Ms. Marvel costume looks wrong in the crotch area

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