Chelsea Cain will team up with her husband and fellow writer Marc Mohan for a new series at Marvel starring the Vision and his family. Ultimates 2 artist Aud Koch joins the duo, while Marcos Martin (The Private Eye) will provide covers. And Jordie Bellaire, who colored the previous Vision series, is here for this one as well.
The announcement was made in San Diego this weekend, and it follows the news from last month that Cain and the former Mockingbird creative team are working on a new series at Image Comics called Man-Eaters.
Cain is the author of several novels, including The Night Season, Evil at Heart and One Kick. She also wrote Mockingbird for Marvel, and her final issue featured the now-famous cover of the title character wearing an “Ask me about my feminist agenda” T-shirt. Many terrible people took offense to the shirt and subsequently began harassing Cain on social media; she detailed the lengths one person went to on Twitter yesterday — as well as the support she received during that time:
Someone once sent me a terrible picture, a drawing of Mockingbird raped, murdered. Inked, colored— Someone spent hours on this. “Ask me about my feminist agenda,” was spelled out above her corpse. I wanted to post it, to share it, to communicate the stakes…so I did a search…
— Chelsea Cain (@ChelseaCain) July 22, 2018
…I couldn’t find it. Instead I found all your messages of support. Understand, I wasn’t here for 99% of the Mockingbird Twitter thing. I’d left. I’ve been afraid to search through any of it…
— Chelsea Cain (@ChelseaCain) July 22, 2018
…because I was afraid of what I might find. Until tonight. So, wow. Thank you. For all of that. Thank you for creating so much content that the picture I was looking for is buried…
— Chelsea Cain (@ChelseaCain) July 22, 2018
…and my daughter – fingers crossed – will never have to see it.
— Chelsea Cain (@ChelseaCain) July 22, 2018
Still, it will stick with me. Funny. How one person can lodge in your head. That guy, I think about him all the time. I think, I hope you get help. I think, this is why we need more stories. I think, okay. Let’s do what we can.
— Chelsea Cain (@ChelseaCain) July 22, 2018
It’s good to see her back in comics, and not letting these assholes win.
As for The Vision, this series sounds like it picks up where the character’s excellent previous series, by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez-Walta and Bellaire, left off. It will follow Vision, his daughter Viv and their dog Sparky, as the Vision deals with being a single parent. The new six-part miniseries is due to begin in November.
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