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A new Scarlet Witch costume, "Immortal Sovereign", has been announced for Marvel Rivals. The costume is part of a K'un-Lun-themed set and is being released alongside Adam Warlock's "Immortal Avatar". This will be the first totally original design for Wanda, not counting her default look, and it's her first new costume that wasn't part of the original batch of leaked designs.

I like the red and gold, especially her golden gloves, and the mask is really cool, but the blonde hair looks strange and feels like a weird choice.

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Magda was mentioned in a Dead Wives poll if you are interested:

https://www.tumblr.com/dead-wives-tourney/783778011620196352/round-1-side-a

This poll feels weird to me, in both premise and character selection, and it's not Marvel/comics-specific, but Magda could use a win these days. Go vote here.

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Vision & Scarlet Witch (2025) #1 preview

Whew! This preview is five pages long AND includes a look a the snazzy new title page. The retro-horror aesthetic makes me wish this series was coming out in October, but I'm glad we don't have to wait that long.

To the best of my knowledge, this biker gang, the Dead Wings Motorcycle Club, are new original characters. The Powers-That-Be are an abstract entity that was introduced in last year's G.O.D.S..

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Vision & Scarlet Witch (2025) #1 preview

Whew! This preview is five pages long AND includes a look a the snazzy new title page. The retro-horror aesthetic makes me wish this series was coming out in October, but I'm glad we don't have to wait that long.

To the best of my knowledge, this biker gang, the Dead Wings Motorcycle Club, are new original characters. The Powers-That-Be are an abstract entity that was introduced in last year's G.O.D.S..

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Hulkling and Wiccan featured on the cover of IMPERIAL (2025) #3

As the conflict begins to spread out to the wider universe, find out who’s really orchestrating the great game of cosmic houses as the last chance to stop a universal war presents itself. Will our heroes be able to stop it in time? [...] The issue will reveal who’s really been pulling the strings and using the universe’s most powerful empires—from the Shi'ar to the Kree/Skrull Alliance—as mere pawns! [source]

This is the first official mention of the Alliance in any kind of promotion for IMPERIAL. Thus far, it's seemed as though the story will be more focused on the Shi'ar-- no surprise, considering this is a Hickman project-- and reviving storylines about Sakaar and Wakanda. Billy and Teddy were featured in some preview art, where they were shown attending some kind of conference or meeting alongside other galactic leaders. I'm hoping they don't come to any serious harm, and that all the positive developments with the Alliance will not be undone by this event.

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Tales of Roma Women’s Resistance-- FRIDA

Romani Resistance Day Is About More Than Memory-- Margareta Matache

May 16 is Romani Resistance Day, which commemorates the uprising of Roma and Sinti prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In May of 1944, Roma and Sinti prisoners staged an armed resistance against the planned "liquidation" of the gypsy camps, which would have led to the mass murder of approximately 6,000 Romani. Thanks to the efforts of the Roma and Sinti interned at Auschwitz, these execution plans were staggered and delayed for several months. We hold this day to honor their bravery, mourn their deaths, and memorialize that which the Romani community endured under the Nazi regime.

You can learn some more about Romani Resistance Day, and the ongoing effort to preserve the Berlin memorial to murdered Roma and Sinti against Deutsche Bahn's railroad development, by listening to this episode of Smith's Kushti Podcast.

The ERRC's Romani Tea Room has also put out an episode collecting stories from descendants of Romani Holocaust survivors.

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Critical update

Marvel Meow #27 on Marvel Unlimited

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Post-Blood Hunt would be a good time to check in with Kate's vampire mom. This whole time she's been trying to find a way to become a daywalker-- well, now every vampire's a daywalker, so where's Eleanor at? What's going on with the Temple? Can I please have another good Hawkeye series? Questions abound.

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comic tumblr yearns for latverian citizenship

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So there is a possibility of foul play during the poll, not to mention the surge of unknown Magneto votes and the last minute boost of them at the final hour doesn't help, so clearly we need to settle this with an even playing field for just one more day.

Mass Propaganda, Discord sharing, and Promotions are allowed on ALL sides.

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I BESEECH YOU RABBLE TO VOTE FOR THE ONE AND ONLY DOCTOR DOOM - DON'T HESITATE! JUST DO IT! VOTE NOW!

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Still fantasizing about a Arthurian space-fantasy series about Billy and Teddy's lives and adventures building the Alliance, enacting reforms, uniting and liberating all these different worlds... could have really been the start of something huge. 🥲 It still could, but it's been a few years and it really doesn't feel like Marvel's interested in investing in this material, or even honoring any of the big-picture worldbuilding that Ewing achieved during that era.

Anyway, I just feel like them, Lauri and Mur-G'nn would be such a fun little team. They could bring Tommy in, do more follow-up with Goebig and Eidolon, tie in with Karolina and Nico after Karolina goes to space.....

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I wrote that x force anon but just realised it might have come off as antagonistic towards you, sorry that wasn’t my intention!

I appreciate you for following up with this-- and I apologize in being so late to answer these. I wasn't sure at first if I really wanted to contribute to this conversation, since it seems like such a non-problem to me-- but I've seen a few different people now make the same claim, and I wanted to address it.

I feel like there's a problem in fandom social media where a lot of people lack certain kinds of literacy, or don't want to do their due diligence when it comes it research, checking sources, etc., and it leads them to make incendiary claims about an issue that they've exaggerated or misrepresented. The discourse about Romani characters is still so volatile and delicate, and I feel like the conversation about Wanda and Pietro's skin color has become especially touchy. When people make noise about this in a way that isn't productive or informed, it's actually detrimental.

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That x force book still whitewashes the shit out of pietro how is he ‘coloured correctly’😭 sick of artists who only colour wanda brown and think they can still get away with lightening pietro, how is that in line with the current designs ??

Please take a look at these color swatches that I have taken directly from the the artwork in X-Force #10. Wanda and Pietro's skin tones are at the top, and the white Brotherhood members, including Magneto, are on the bottom row.

Now, what do you see?

Will you explain to me how, exactly, this artist has "whitewashed the shit" out of Pietro? He is, as you can see here, given a much cooler tone than Wanda, but these colors are actually very, very close in value. I will admit that this is an odd discrepancy, but if you actually at the panels, you can see how the characters are lit differently depending on their placement in the composition. Reading the comic, I think they look like they have the same skin tone, and any difference in local color is just a matter of lighting and rendering. Wanda has red light around her or reflecting off of her in both images.

Regardless, I think it should be very plain to see that the color artist, Arciniega, intentionally distinguished both twins from the white characters on the page. Maybe the coloring isn't perfect. Maybe it looks weird to you, or it looks different in print vs digital, but Wanda and Pietro look more like each other than they do anybody else in these scenes. If color alone, is the metric, Pietro absolutely does not look more white than his sister.

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Tommy featured on a newly-released variant cover for Marvel United: Pride Special by Mateus Manhanini

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I'm not sure about Grim Reaper return in the SW series given that having the brother of another character to be a villain in ur series seems lazy, sure they've fight before, and Simon does have history with Wanda, but this is from the Avengers franchise, Marvel in general (and fans to some extend) always downplayed the idea of solo characters getting their own rosters of villain due to Marvel is a "shared universe" but that is just an excuse for lack of creativity, and a solo series that keeps on reusing existing villains, especially ones that are irrelevant to your own lore, makes you interchangeable and definitely won't sold well to the audience in the future.

I'm really sorry, but I don't know what to say except that I think you're wrong, and it sounds like you're coming at this with a bad attitude.

Eric Williams, aka the Grim Reaper, will be featured as an antagonist in the upcoming Vision & Scarlet Witch miniseries. I already explained how and why the Grim Reaper is a good fit for this title, and what I anticipate Orlando will do with him. Eric has personal history with both Wanda and Vision, and he was recurring antagonist in both the previous Vision & Scarlet Witch title in the 80s, and in 2015's Vision. After dying, working for Mephisto, and spending time imprisoned in Valhalla, Eric is more powerful, and is more directly involved with the supernatural and various afterlife realms than ever before. So, he's got history with both title characters and connections to a lot of the big themes that V&SW is going to explore. I don't expect that he will be main antagonist or the true big-bad, but it makes perfect sense for him to show up here.

I don't know you, because you're on anon, so I'm not saying this is you, specifically, but I feel like this fandom just makes up reasons to be unhappy. You complain when Wanda faces original characters and obscure deep cuts because it doesn't make use of her history, but then you complain when she faces a villain she's got decades of beef with because it's "uncreative." What do you want?