Marvel Comics Celebrates Women's History Month With Mighty Heroines Variant Covers

Marvel Comics Celebrates Women's History Month With Mighty Heroines Variant Covers

To mark Women's History Month, Marvel Comics has shared a first look at a series of Variant covers for upcoming issues featuring the likes of Shuri, Ghost-Spider, Ironheart, Squirrel Girl, and more...

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By MarkCassidy - Feb 01, 2024 04:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Source: Marvel.com

To celebrate Women's History Month, Marvel Comics' current class of "Stormbreakers" will pay homage to their favorite female superheroes in March’s batch of Variant covers, which feature some of the Marvel Universe's best and brightest, such as She-Hulk, Gamora, Ms. Marvel, Shuri, Ghost-Spider, Ironheart, and Squirrel Girl.

Launched in 2020, Marvel's Stormbreakers is the next evolution of the Young Guns program, highlighting the best up-and-coming artists in the comic book industry. The current group of artists includes Elena Casagrande, Nic Klein, Jan Bazaldua, Chris Allen, Martin Coccolo, Lucas Werneck, Federico Vicentini and C.F. Villa.

"Each of these artists embody the raw talent and creative potential to shatter the limits of visual storytelling in comics today! As the next evolution of the groundbreaking Marvel's Young Guns program, Marvel's Stormbreakers continues the tradition of spotlighting and elevating these powerful artists to showcase their abilities, artwork and prominence in the world of comic books."

Check out all seven covers and solicitations below, and let us know if you plan on picking any (or all) of these up when the arrive on shelves next month.

SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK #6 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Nic Klein

MS. MARVEL: MUTANT MENACE #1 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Federico Vicentini

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #16 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Chris Allen

DOCTOR STRANGE #13 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Elena Casagrande

CARNAGE #5 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Jan Bazaldua

AVENGERS #11 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Martin Coccolo

On Sale 3/6

AVENGERS #11 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Martin Coccolo

CAPTAIN AMERICA #7 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Lucas Werneck

DOCTOR STRANGE #13 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Elena Casagrande

MS. MARVEL: MUTANT MENACE #1 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Federico Vicentini

SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK #6 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Nic Klein

On Sale 3/13

CARNAGE #5 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Jan Bazaldua

On Sale 3/20

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #16 Stormbreakers Variant Cover by Chris Allen

"Over the past 15 years, Marvel selected and recognized 36 up-and-coming artists who went on to draw some of Marvel’s greatest events, iconic series, and beyond, solidifying their place as luminaries in the industry including Steve McNiven, Jim Cheung, Sara Pichelli, Ryan Stegman, and more. MARVEL’S STORMBREAKERS continues the tradition Marvel’s Young Guns set forth and recognizes its alumni today as honorary Stormbreakers in addition to their work as Young Guns."

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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/1/2024, 4:33 AM
So I get Black History month, because so much of the history that we teach in schools is white history up until a certain point. But Women's History month? Do they not teach anything about Madame Curie or Queen Elizabeth or Marie Antoinette in schools?
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/1/2024, 4:53 AM
@ObserverIO - Can't speak for schools now but certainly was lacking back in the day such as talking about Babbage with no mention of Ada Lovelace and similarly with multiple other cases when a male gets all the credit even when as much or in some instance more the input of females led to the breakthroughs. As a Brit we were taught a bit about all the Queens but way more on the Kings, but also very little if at all on the various stages of womens rights struggles. There was also very little literature by females covered back when I was a kid, typicaly you'd be talking one of the Bronte Sisters books and everything else male authors so has been an educational skew in the past, unsure of specificaly now.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/1/2024, 5:42 AM
@Apophis71 - I mean I know Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria, but Kings? Not so much. Henry VIII of course, of course. He's Henry VIII of course. But generally, if there's not Shakespeare play about them, I know nothing about them. And when I think of Shakespeare I think of Queen Elizabeth.

I know way more Queens than I do Kings. But then I do end up drinking in the strangest of places, so that might have something to do with it.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/1/2024, 6:08 AM
@ObserverIO - lol, seriously I was saying what I did based on the focus of education in the Schools I attended in the 70's and 80's. I know things were more balanced to some degree for our kids (certainly in regard to careers advice) but unsure how good/balanced and if things have changed more in the last decade or more.

I do however see some benefit to inspire young girls by highlighting the work of ones like Lovelace in computing and other females in the fields of science and mathematics. Tend to think there is still a perception those are educational and professional paths for males and there is a general lack of those entering into such fields at a time when the demand for them has been increasing. Many cases in history where as much or more of the legwork was done by females, astronomy for instance was at times almost entirely females analysing the images and data only for the male head to get the credit so...

...I am not wading heavily into all of this however as experiance and perceptions will differ greatly between generations and differing regions of the world.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/1/2024, 6:40 AM
@ObserverIO - According to DEI rules, every group that isn’t straight white makes gets a special category. If you notice, every race besides white has a month, every sex besides male has one, and every sexuality or gender besides straight.

Something similar happens at large corporations. They have these employee resource groups as a part of their DEI initiatives. Every single identity has a group dedicated to them except one.

It’s almost as if it’s non-inclusive or discriminatory. Actually it is that. Because that’s what DEI is.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/1/2024, 6:47 AM
@Apophis71 - I would hope the educational system is much better now than it was in the '70s and '80s, but I wouldn't be surprised. At least they have 2 months to teach about Harriet Tubman now. Lol, she gets 2 months, Donald Trump gets 10 months. Doesn't seem right.

We should definitely shine more of a light on the contributions to science that the fairer sex have made. After all, who better to contribute to the Matrix than those who generate an actual organic matrix in their own abdomen?

The only Lovelace I ever learned about was Linda Lovelace. Who is also a female pioneer (of the arts) and an inspiration to women everywhere.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/1/2024, 9:31 AM
@ObserverIO - Sadly, probably still needed. I don't have kids in school, and haven't been in grade school in, jesus, 28 years, but as I've said elsewhere, we can't undo 2000 years of wrong by pushing in the other direction for 10 or 15 years.
SATW42
SATW42 - 2/1/2024, 10:03 AM
@mountainman - god this is such a tired argument and if you actually knew how it worked instead of listening to the Ben Shapiros of the world who are just trying to rile you up for views and money.

Essentially everyone is in a protected category, I know because I sit through seminars once a year on the subject. You have to try not to be in a protected category. Like if you have IBS, you're in a protected category. Not trying to be funny, it's actually listed.

So if you somehow don't fit into a single protected category including the health ones, congratulations, you won the genetic life lottery.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/1/2024, 12:20 PM
@SATW42 - Hilarious that you think that I care about what Ben Shapiro thinks and am not sharing my experience from the real world.

In the last 10 years, I have worked at 3 different Fortune 100 companies who all had DEI programs.

At each of those three companies, there were Employee Resource Groups for every race besides white, for women but not men, and for LGBTQ but not straight. So…every demographic of employee has a resource group that represents them except for a straight white male. It is inclusive of every group besides that one. I could hypothetically join one of those groups as an “ally”, but there is no group for me. I am excluded.

Add to this the incredibly problematic content in these DEI trainings. One training I was forced to take once was based on the nonsense Robin DiAngelo “White Fragility” book. The training was literally titled “The problem with Whiteness” and contained all the nonsense privilege, oppression, and generalization of groups idiocy that all DEI contains. I’m sorry if I don’t think that as part of my job I should be forced to take a training that assumes things about me based on my race, sex, or sexual identity. That sure seems like the exact problems that DEI is claiming to try to fix. But it is guilty of those things if it is at one specific group.

I do not condone unfair discrimination or any bigotry. Those things are wrong. DEI does those things. We could simply address this problem by reinforcing the old MLK adage of judging people by their character rather than their personal demographic info.

A very clear example of how these things go wrong is certain colleges having higher admissions standards for some races than others. These colleges will accept black students with a much lower SAT score than a white or asian student. They claim this is fine to better represent these groups, but it is the definition of not taking in the best person when someone with better qualifications is rejected because of their race and someone with lower qualifications is accepted because of their race.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/1/2024, 5:21 PM
@mountainman - I unblocked you to see what SATW42 was responding to, and HOO BOY.

"there were Employee Resource Groups for every race besides white, for women but not men, and for LGBTQ but not straight."

This is because straight white men were the ONLY protected category until ~50 years ago. Sorry you missed out on the party.

I've never worked at a Fortune 100 company, but I've worked at companies where the straight, white, male management routinely speaks in cartoonish Indian, Hispanic, and Chinese accents in team meetings. I've been asked to manage new hires who were women because my boss had a bad track record of making women uncomfortable, to the point that they quit or asked to be transferred out of the department. I've seen people turned down for jobs EXPLICITLY because they were trans and might make customers or co-workers uncomfortable. This is all in the last five years. Does all of that sound normal and good to you, or do you think maybe some training might be in order? Could it be that the reason that the trainings seem unnecessary to you is because they're happening at all, and people are acting on what they learn?

"We could simply address this problem by reinforcing the old MLK adage of judging people by their character rather than their personal demographic info."

Glad to hear you're a big MLK guy. Here are some other quotes for you to consider. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." "Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."

"These colleges will accept black students with a much lower SAT score than a white or asian student."

It is widely known that socioeconomic status can have a significant impact on educational performance. It is also widely known that a disproportionate number of black folks live in poverty. Another cool thing that everyone knows is that lack of education leads to lack of economic opportunity, which leads to even worse educational outcome. Some of us would like to break that cycle. Others just cry about how it's not fair to little Kayleigh or Brooklynne that they couldn't get into their first choice school with their shitty grades. I know which side I'd like to be on.

ANYHOO, I know nothing I say will change your mind. Just didn't want all that horseshit to go unchallenged.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/1/2024, 6:55 PM
@ClintThaHamster - So you support present day discrimination to make up for discrimination in the past. You should have kept the block. Your propaganda won’t change the fact that discrimination is bad no matter who it happens to. It’s all good though. This nonsense is being destroyed in the courts and in the public sentiment. DEI is on its last legs. Enjoy the discrimination while it lasts.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 2/1/2024, 9:04 PM
@mountainman - You are 1000% right in every way. I am also high ranking in Corporate America. I dare you to stand up for yourself if you are a white male. You will instantly be fired.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/1/2024, 11:18 PM
@AvalonX - I’ve voluntarily left one Fortune 20 because they were far too woke. The company I’m at now isn’t too bad. They do all the stuff to virtue signal about it but they really don’t push the DEI nonsense too hard. I’ll click through my once per year online training. No biggie.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 2/1/2024, 11:44 PM
@mountainman - I just need to get my kids through school and its house money after that. Still a good 6 years but I cant wait to quiet quit on these Fkers.

We can't even say "hey guys" in meetings now because its a micro aggression kind of woke. Im an exec getting lectured by a 20 something nobody under the DEI umbrella. Its ridiculous.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/2/2024, 10:45 AM
@mountainman - Genuinely, sincerely interested in what you would consider "far too woke." What specific actions or policies did you object to?
mountainman
mountainman - 2/2/2024, 12:07 PM
@ClintThaHamster - An easy example is a training they forced all employees to take that was entitled “The Problem with Whiteness”.

Not discriminating against minorities is a good thing. So is not discriminating against white people. Racism is bad no matter which race it is against.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/2/2024, 12:41 PM
@mountainman - Probably not a great name for a seminar in the workplace. "Problem" in an academic setting doesn't necessarily mean something that is bad, but something that can be "solved for" through academic study. Math, science, logic, philosophy . . . A good definition I found online for an academic understanding of problem is, "an undesired (initial) state, a desired (goal) state, and the barriers in getting from the one to the other."

I see above that it was based on the book "White Fragility," yeah? The blurb for that book refers to "the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially . . . characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence." Sound familiar?

The book is not about saying "Every white person is the problem," but rather "white people get weird and defensive when ever anyone talks about racism." Think of the comments you'd see on social media around 2017-2021: "Not all men," "Not all white people," "Not all cops." Of course all of those things are true, but do nothing to address the concerns raised by MeToo, BLM, Defund, etc.

DEI isn't about laying blame on individuals, but merely accepting that there have been inequities in the past that have held some folks back, and giving those folks a hand up. But if you're not willing or able to accept the premise that "the effects of 20th century racism are still felt today," then yeah, there's no path forward.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/2/2024, 1:10 PM
@ClintThaHamster - Look we are just going to have to walk away from this one. We don’t agree. And it’s probably best for both of us and everyone else who reads this for it to just end.

I appreciate you being civil in this discussion. Let’s just agree to disagree on this. I find DEI to be toxic and to be making things worse. You think it’s needed and beneficial. No amount of CBM back and forth is likely to sway either of us on this.

I’m a big fan of voluntary associations. So I won’t work for a company, or give my hard earned money to companies that push this stuff. I also won’t support any politician that does. That’s it. I do not act hateful or discriminatory to any group of people.

Best of luck to you.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/2/2024, 1:29 PM
@mountainman - Right on. I work for a pretty conservative company now, but they put a big emphasis on DEI, and I've seen the benefit it's had on the culture. But each workplace is unique, and has unique needs. I guess I'll say that I agree that DEI training is probably not right for every shop, but disagree that it is intrinsically bad in general. And I'd add that those pushing the narrative that it is intrinsically bad (not individuals like yourself, but politicians and their media proxies) are doing so in bad faith.

Cheers.
Fogs
Fogs - 2/1/2024, 4:35 AM
I love that She-Hulk art.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 2/1/2024, 4:38 AM
Cool but when the trans history DLC coming out?
Origame
Origame - 2/1/2024, 5:13 AM
@HashTagSwagg - I'm using this as an excuse to watch the nutty professor this month. Eddie Murphy was such a stunning and brave woman then.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/1/2024, 6:41 AM
@HashTagSwagg - High odds that Marvel is going to use Mystique to represent trans people now.
Origame
Origame - 2/1/2024, 5:19 AM
Celebrating women for women's history month kinda loses the point when that's all the company does now.
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 2/1/2024, 5:49 AM
Can March come first?
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/1/2024, 9:32 AM
@Mrtoke - Right? Looks like they are doing Black History Month covers, but the solicitations for those went out in December.
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/black-history-month-variant-covers-2024-captain-america-luke-cage
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 2/1/2024, 4:49 PM
@ClintThaHamster - I get it now. Didn’t know how this goes down. Now I do
Tasmaniac
Tasmaniac - 2/1/2024, 6:50 AM
After the first few, I was thinking they were In Memoriam posters for failed Disney+ shows.
MaxPaint
MaxPaint - 2/1/2024, 7:07 AM
All these covers are mediocre at best
Matchesz
Matchesz - 2/1/2024, 8:15 AM
Good i'm glad they're doing this. Women just arent getting enough recognition these days.
PartyKiller
PartyKiller - 2/1/2024, 9:59 AM
@Matchesz - Trans women are getting the attention. Dominating biological women.
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 2/1/2024, 8:29 AM


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