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Last fall, DC Comics launched Represent!, a new digital first series designed to highlight underrepresented voices and provide an outlet for creators to tell stories that exist outside of more conventional superhero narratives we might expect from DC. More news: DC's Represent! returns, Magic: The Gathering comics, and more! It all comes together to set up an ambitious, particularly enticing new comics project that has the potential to be one of 2021's best. Subsequent issues will be written by all-stars including Kelly Thompson ( Captain Marvel), Ed Brisson ( Murder Book), and Lemire, who also just wrapped up a brilliant horror comic with Gideon Falls. The first issue of the book will feature art by Walsh and a script by Chip Zdarsky, who recently proved his horror chops with the excellent Stillwater. The Silver Coin begins in 1978 with the story of a rock band whose luck is turned around by the discovery of the title object, and then expands from there with each subsequent issue. Itching to do a horror comic with top writers as collaborators, Walsh devised an anthology format that would use a shared universe framework, allowing each writer to add their own characters and scenarios to an ever-widening tapestry of terror. The Silver Coin is the brainchild of Eisner-winning artist Michael Walsh, who said in an interview with IGN that he devised the series after completing work on Black Hammer/Justice League with writer Jeff Lemire. The good news there is that we're still living in a really great time for horror comics, and last week Image Comics proved that again when they announced The Silver Coin, a new horror anthology series with an all-star roster of talent and an intriguing storytelling angle. Regular readers of this column will know that I'm a particular fan of comics as a delivery vehicle for scary stories, and I'm always on the lookout for ambitious new horror projects.

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Juggernaut' and 'Infinity Rings,' plus Aaron's endless talent to make even the most bonkers concepts in Marvel Comics somehow not just meaningful but flat-out emotionally resonant, and I'm there with bells on. That's a brilliant choice right from the top.

And so begins his search for the cause behind this ominous shift in reality.ДЇirst of all, I simply can't wait to read about a world in which Blade is the only guy who realizes something is amiss, especially Aaron's blade, who has become one of the most entertaining parts of Avengers comics in recent years thanks to his swagger, his ability to walk in both the monster world and the superhero one, and his frankly incredible dialogue. Blade is the one man alive who seems to remember that the entire world has somehow beenвЂ¦ reborn.

Juggernaut, the Black Skull, the Silver Witch and Thanos with his Infinity Rings. And now the Squadron face an attack from some of their fiercest enemies, like Dr. Instead this world has always been protected by EarthвЂ™s Mightiest Heroes, the Squadron Supreme of America. And where Captain America was never found in the ice, because there were no Avengers to find him. Where Thor is a hard-drinking atheist who despises hammers. Welcome to a world where Tony Stark never built an Iron Man armor. Marvel announced earlier this week that the story will take the form of a miniseries event from Aaron and his original Avengers artist Ed McGuinness, which will explore what would happen if the Marvel Universe took shape without Earth's Mightiest Heroes in it. Now, we know what to expect from the new Heroes Reborn, and it's another alternate universe story, one in which the Avengers never formed. Last week, Marvel began teasing out an upcoming project dubbed Heroes Reborn, which for many fans immediately called to mind the mid-90s event of the same name in which many of Marvel's key heroes were seemingly killed off in the pages of Onslaught, only to actually be shuffled off into a pocket universe where their origin stories were expanded and refitted for the modern age. well, maybe nothing, because it turns out they never existed. Now, Marvel has unveiled the next phase of Aaron's Avengers saga, in which our heroes will face. From the very first page, this run was set up to be massive, and this incarnation of Earth's Mightiest Heroes have battled everything from Celestials to an army of vampires to the moon deity Khonshu on the path to save the world. Jason Aaron's lengthy run on Avengers has always sort of felt like a series of major comics events even when the individual issues weren't wrapped up in crossovers with the rest of the Marvel universe. We've got what you need to know about huge crossovers, real-life issues facing the industry, cool first looks, the week's hot new comics, and everything in-between. Welcome to Comics Wire, SYFY WIRE's weekly comics column that gets at the pulse of what's going on in comics right now.

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