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"What If...?" Series Has Galactus Handing Out the Power Cosmic

Marvel Comics has announced a series of What If...? comic one-shots that explores what happens if Galactus turns various heroes into his cosmic heralds. The "lucky" recipients of the Power Cosmic are Hulk, Gambit, Moon Knight, Rogue, and Spider-Gwen. The heros' new cosmic looks are designed by Ron Lim, who also provides the comic book covers.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Hulk #1 hails from Mat Groom and Lan Medina. The Hulk has been conscripted into Galactus' service, but what is more dangerous, the Hulk's fury or Bruce Banner's brain?

What If...? Galactus Transformed Hulk #1 goes on sale on January 1, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Gambit #1 hails from Josh Trujillo and Manuel Garcia. Gambit's charm and unmatched thieving abilities have caught Galactus' eye. With the Power Cosmic can Gambit "steal the unstealable?"

What If...? Galactus Transformed Gambit #1 goes on sale on January 8, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Moon Knight #1 hails from Alex Segura, Scot Eaton, and Cam Smith. Galactus clashes with Khonshu and Moon Knight is caught in the middle. To keep the peace, Moon Knight becomes a herald of Galactus, but the Power Cosmic is manifesting in new ways due to his alters. Can Moon Knight conquer these powers and some former heralds in time to save the Earth?

What If...? Galactus Transformed Moon Knight #1 goes on sale on January 15, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Rogue #1 hails from Ann Nocenti and Stephen Byrne. Young Rogue has absorbed Silver Surfer's Power Cosmic, blessing her with incredible power, but also cursing her to be Galactus' new herald.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Rogue #1 goes on sale on January 22, 2025.

What If...? Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen #1 hails from Kalinda Vazquez and Daniel Picciotto. Spider-Gwen comes to the aid of a wounded herald, causing her to be enlisted into Galactus' service. During her new role of surveying the galaxy, Gwen encounters a world that reminds her of home. Can she ally with it's residents to battle against cosmic forces?

What If...? Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen #1 goes on sale on January 29, 2025.

(Images via Marvel Comics - Ron Lim's Covers of What If...? Galactus Transformed Hulk #1, What If...? Galactus Transformed Gambit #1, What If...? Galactus Transformed Moon Knight #1, What If...? Galactus Transformed Rogue #1, and What If...? Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen #1)

[evilhorse]

Can we hit pause on the nerd history lesson for a second?

(Avengers #6)

[joezy27]

HAWKEYE - Kate Bishop, Private Eye of Asgard

Avengers Unlimited - Infinity Comic (2023) #58 by Kalinda Vazquez, Alba Glez & Walda Wong

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SDCC 2023: New Marvel Unlimited Infinity Comics revealed!

SDCC 2023: New Marvel Unlimited Infinity Comics revealed! #marvel #marvelunlimited #digitalcomics #sdcc #sdcc2023 #sdcc23 #comiccon #comiccon2023

This weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Unlimited announced an exciting line-up of new Infinity Comics coming to the app! MARVEL MEOW #13 Writer, Artist, and Colorist: Nao FujiWeekly Series Returns for a 6-issue Arc on July 28 The Marvel Universe’s most fearsome foes finally meet their match… cute cats! Black Cat’s cats foil Doctor Octopus’ plans. LOVE UNLIMITED: GAMBIT & ROGUE…

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What if Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen? by Kalinda Vazquez and Daniel Picciotto arrives Jan. 29.

cover by Ron Lim

[jayisgayandtrans]

When I get you Paul T. Scheuring, when i get you Matt Olmstead, when i get you Nicholas Wootton, when i get you Kalinda Vazquez, when i get you Seth Hoffman...

Istg when i get you, for what you did in S4 Ep 22 of Prison Break. WOOO YALL ARE MESSED UP. WHY?

[keycomicbooks]

America Chavez Made in the USA #1 (2021) Variant Junggeun Yoon Cover & Carlos E. Gomez Pencils, Kalinda Vazquez Story, 1st Cameo Appearance of Catalina Chavez, 1st Appearance of The Santanas (the family who found America when she entered the mainstream reality of Marvel 616), & The Origin of America Chavez

#AmericaChavezMadeintheUSA #1 (2021) Variant #JunggeunYoon Cover & #CarlosEGomez Pencils, #KalindaVazquez Story, 1st Cameo Appearance of #CatalinaChavez, 1st Appearance of #TheSantanas (the family who found America when she entered the mainstream reality of #Marvel616), & The Origin of America Chavez WHO IS AMERICA? America Chavez is incredible - her origins, her strength, her dimension-shattering star portals! https://www.rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/America%20Chavez%20Made%20in%20the%20USA.html#1 Website Link In Bio Page If Applicable. SAVE ON SHIPPING COST - NOW AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL PICK UP IN DELTONA, FLORIDA #RareComicBooks #KeyComicBooks #MCU #MarvelComics #MarvelUniverse #KeyComic #ComicBooks

[katebishopeveryday]

Avengers Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #58 Kalinda Vazquez & Alba Glez

[why-i-love-comics]

Avengers Unlimited: Infinity Comic #54 - "Asgard Condifential" (2023)

written by Kalinda Vazquez art by Alba Glez, Walden Wong, & Erick Arciniega

[dotthings]

Robbie Thompson as ep on a horror show!!! Yesss!!! And ep Kalinda Vazquez wrote America Chavez comics for Marvel.

Also it's being produced by Amblin Entertainment TV, Steven Spielberg's company, and Spielberg was a producer/story developer/co-writer of the og film. Poltergeist is one of my favorite horror movies (the sequels are not terrible, but not nearly as good as the first one) and it'll be interesting to see how directly connected this is to the Freeling family and the events of the og film. (Y'all. Robbie's working for Steven Spielberg--well, his company. That's great for Robbie).

[mediamixs]

Poltergeist TV Series: what to expect

Amazon and MGM Studios are currently developing a new TV series based on the iconic horror film Poltergeist. The series is still in early stages, with no writer or release date confirmed yet.

Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Television, which produced the original 1982 film, will also produce the show. Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will serve as executive producers.

The Poltergeist TV series will be set in the same world as the original film, but no plot details have been revealed so far. It's possible that cast members from the movie like Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams could reprise their roles as Steve and Diane Freeling.

In a recent update, writers Kalinda Vazquez (Star Trek: Discovery) and Robbie Thompson (Supernatural) have been tapped as showrunners for the series. This marks the latest attempt by Amazon to adapt well-known MGM properties since acquiring the studio.

The original Poltergeist film, co-written by Spielberg, was a major success upon its release in 1982. It spawned two sequels in the 1980s and a reboot in 2015. There was also a TV series called Poltergeist: The Legacy that aired in the late 1990s.

While the Amazon MGM Studios project is still in early development, the popularity of the Poltergeist franchise suggests the TV series will likely come to fruition in the near future. Fans of the original film will have to stay tuned for more updates on the show's progress and casting.

[evilhorse]

We’re thinking maybe it’s a tribulation event.

(Avengers #6)

[scarlet--wiccan]

On America Chavez and the needless destruction of prior works

Just finished Made In The USA. I'm furious, and to be honest I'm mostly furious on behalf of Rivera, Quinones, and everyone else who worked on America (2017). I don't know if any of these folks would share my feelings of frustration, so I don't necessarily want to speak for them, but I do want to get this off my chest.

I know that audiences had mixed opinions on Rivera's book, but I think that it was imaginative, original, fun, and full to the brim with love for Black and brown LGBT folks. In creating America Chavez's backstory, Rivera expressed a heartfelt and deeply-meditated thesis on heritage and identity-- one which was at once fresh and also clearly rooted in generations of Latin American and Afro-Latine narratives.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the fantasies and futures that exist in art, and the people, places, and realities which are allowed to exist within those fictional worlds. This is at the core every version of the futurist principle-- "there are Black people in the future," per Alisha Wormsley. America is a the sort of fantasy where LGBT Black and Latine people take center stage, and Blackness, Latinidad, and gay identity are simultaneously the foundation and the fabric of the fantastical, utopian worlds that those characters occupy. Those worlds, and the story which unfolds across them, are truly unique, and in my mind, beautiful, and that is why I believe that Rivera's America is a work of great value to the canon of Western comics. I must stress, as well, that it was perhaps the first of its kind-- Rivera claims to be the first Latina to write for Marvel, and is also, to my knowledge, among only a few open lesbians to ever do so.

In five cramped, bleak little issues, Made In The USA has obliterated everything that Rivera and her collaborators built in America (2017). The retcon implemented by Kalinda Vasquez renders Rivera's story, and Gillen's earlier work in Young Avengers, totally moot. Little effort was made to reconcile with those texts-- Made In The USA simply buries them, along with America's pre-existing history, her motives, and several of her relationships-- under the cheap, tired excuse that "it was a dream all along."

I'm in no place to pass judgement on Vasquez's identity and perspective, and I would be remiss if I did not mention that her exploration of America's adoptive family was sweet, and in many scenes, beautifully executed. I must, however, say that the new backstory she has constructed lacks even an ounce of America (2017)'s heart, and that the entire premise is hackneyed and underdeveloped. She's not from outer space or a parallel world-- she was a traumatized child with a rare medical condition. We never really come to understand that what condition or its treatments actually are, and Vasquez fails to address America's connection to the Demiurge or the fact that Fuertona was demonstrated to be a real place-- nor the fact America's own grandmother, Madrimar, was a living person.

Overall, the undermining and destruction of continuity simply are not earned. It seems almost fitting that the series concluded with the abrupt disappearance, and possible death, of America's newly-discovered sister-- a grim and pointless death that needlessly punishes the title character, much as her fans are needlessly punished for their love and investment in such a unique and historically important superhero.

[smashpages]

Back in 1982 Marvel’s What If? series presented a unique pairing when they published “What if Dazzler became the herald of Galactus?” Get ready for five more unique pairings, as Marvel will publish a series of one-shots in January that find everyone from Spider-Gwen to the Hulk wielding the power cosmic.

The one-shots are:

What if Galactus Transformed the Hulk? by Mat Groom and lan Medina; arrives Jan. 1.

What if Galactus Transformed Gambit? by Josh Trujillo and Manual Garcia; arrives Jan. 8.

What if Galactus Transformed Moon Knight? by Alex Segura, Scot Eaton and Cam Smith; arrives Jan. 15.

What if Galactus Transformed Rogue? by Ann Nocenti and Stephen Byrne; arrives Jan. 22.

What if Galactus Transformed Spider-Gwen? by Kalinda Vazquez and Daniel Picciotto; arrives Jan. 29.

Read more about Marvel's January 2025 titles.

(all covers by Ron Lim)