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DC Comics is bringing Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott back to DC for a new miniseries. Marvel has retitled New Thunderbolts as New Avengers. Ram V credits Tom King for key line in Resurrection Man.
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Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott reunite for DC.
Marvel retitles New Thunderbolts comic.
Ram V reveals Resurrection Man inspiration.
This is Comic Book Club News for May 8, 2025.
The team supreme is back together and ready to pull off the heist of the century. No, not writer Greg Rucka and artist Nicola Scott, though they are reunited and it feels so good. We’re talking about Cheetah And Cheshire Rob The Justice League, a new DC All In series.
Said Rucka via press release, “I won’t bury the lede. This is a crew of villains, or at least nominal bad guys. Not one of them has access to—let alone would be welcomed aboard—the Justice League Watchtower. We’re not making this easy on them. But for Cheetah especially, this is an all-or-nothing play—she needs to do this job, and she’s not going to let anything, or anyone, keep her from getting what she’s after.”
In the six-issue series, Cheetah and Cheshire are planning a heist on “the most secure facility in the DC Universe.” And they’re going to need a crack crew of villains to pull it off. The only thing standing in their way? The entire Justice League.
Rucka calls it, “a classic heist story told in a unique setting,” and you can expect plenty of twists and turns. Cheetah And Cheshire Rob The Justice League #1 hits stores on August 6, 2025.
What’s in a name? If that name is Thunderbolts, well… Nothing, really. Because as spoiled by Marvel Studios three days after the movie came out, so legally you can’t get mad at me for saying this, Thunderbolts* is “actually” titled *The New Avengers. And Marvel Comics has followed suit, revealing that the upcoming comic New Thunderbolts* is actually titled… The New Avengers.
Said writer Sam Humphries, “Plot twist–it’s been NEW AVENGERS all along! I promised surprises, and this is the first of many. It’s a thrill and an honor to continue the grand New Avengers tradition of team dynamics that are as explosive as the threats. And this era has two combustible teams: the New Avengers and the Killuminati!”
Written by Humphries with art by Ton Lima, the new team unites Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Eddie Brock Carnage, The Hulk, Namor, Clea, and Laura Kinney Wolverine, a team that barely made sense as Thunderbolts but perhaps makes slightly more sense as New Avengers. And as Humphries teases, they’ll be taking on a new threat: “corrupt clones of the Illuminati.”
New Thunderbolts* — sorry, New Avengers #1 hits stores on June 11, 2025.
Midway through DC Comics‘ Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #2, the title character, Mitch Shelley, asks an older version of himself a question: “You think falling in love and saving the universe are the same thing?” Answers the older version, “You’d be surprised.”
Turns out, not only is that exchange the key to the whole series, but it came from a perhaps not so surprising source: fellow DC writer Tom King.
“There’s a funny origin story to that line,” Ram V told Comic Book Club when asked about the lines of dialogue. “I was on a phone call with Tom King, and I was talking to him about pitching this book and this weird idea, and Tom said, ‘Well, what’s the idea? Tell it to me.’ And I gave him the pitch, and at the end of the pitch, I said, ‘This is what he does, and this is how he saves the universe.’ And Tom went, ‘It can’t be about saving the universe. It has to be about saving something he loves.’ And you can’t love the universe. You can only love finite, fundamental other people, things.
“In some way, whether [Tom] realized it or not, that is the quintessence of the story. The greater purpose versus finer details, which is more important when it comes to the idea of existence and why we live our lives. Do we live for the next day, or do we live for that one day in the future when we will accomplish something great? That line gets repeated throughout the [series], until it becomes more and more and more poignant until at the very end… I won’t spoil the ending, but I’m quite proud of where that ended up. So yeah, when there is a collection, hopefully I will have a chance to credit that phone call with Tom for for this underlying theme that goes through the story.”
Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #2 is in stores now from DC Comics.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And you know you rarely see a phone call credit in a comic book, but I guess one is incoming for King!
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