EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios are teaming on a Unbelievable 4: First Steps comedian which is launching on July 2. Right here’s why it is a huge deal: It’s the primary time that the comics facet and the studio facet have labored collectively on a comic book set on the planet of a particular MCU film.
Matt Fraction (Hawkeye, Unbelievable 4) wrote the Unbelievable 4: First Steps comedian with drawings by Mark Buckingham Unbelievable 4, Fables) and canopy artwork by Phil Noto. It’s a one-shot comedian ebook that’s revealed by Future Basis.
The one-shot comedian ebook is designed to be an artefact from the world of the upcoming film and confirms a number of issues that followers have speculated about, together with that The Unbelievable 4: First Steps will not be an origin story, however will decide up 4 years after they develop into heroes. Marvel Comics labored intently with filmmakers on the comics, pulling within the tone and really feel of the pic’s really feel from manufacturing designer Kasra Farahani. Fraction and different expertise from the comedian even visited the set of the movie.
The primary in world ebook from Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios is only one aspect of how The Unbelievable 4: First Steps is exhibiting up in different elements of Disney together with Parks, which introduced at SXSW that the Unbelievable 4 will seem as characters in Tomorrowland at Disneyland.
These superheroes are vastly important to Marvel; the publication of The Unbelievable 4 in 1961 kicked off the Marvel Period in comics, and Marvel’s First Household launched what would later develop into hallmarks of Marvel storytelling: relatable characters with actual, human drama.
Marvel Comics Editor in Chief C.B. Cebulski mentioned, “As Marvel’s First Household, the Unbelievable 4 and their tales have all the time been on the very middle of the Marvel Universe. With The Unbelievable 4: First Steps coming later this summer season, we at Marvel all felt this was the right alternative to carry our groups collectively in honor of their legacy in each the world of the movie and inside our comics. It’s been a blast to have our groups in Publishing and Studios bounce concepts backwards and forwards to create one thing really particular and one-of-a-kind, and we are able to’t look forward to followers to have the ability to dive in to this comedian—squarely on the planet of the MCU—and expertise the Unbelievable 4 like we’ve by no means seen earlier than this summer season.”
He added, “The center of Marvel has all the time stemmed from the comics, and Kevin and the staff have been bringing these pages to life in extraordinary methods with each movie. With this comedian, we’re bringing these two worlds collectively in a method we expect followers will love.”
