Marvel's Newest Thunderbolts Team Includes Wolverine, Hulk, and Carnage

With the Thunderbolts making their live-action debut soon, Marvel Comics has large plans for the squad connected the printed page. Not lone is the existent incarnation of the squad playing a large relation successful the One World Under Doom crossover event, an wholly caller Thunderbolts squad volition get soon aft the movie hits theaters.

Marvel conscionable revealed New Thunderbolts*, a bid written by Sam Humphries (Uncanny X-Force) and drawn by Ton Lima (West Coast Avengers), with screen creation by Stephen Segovia. Check retired the screen to contented #1 below:

Art by Stephen Segovia. (Image Credit: Marvel)

While the caller bid is intelligibly intended to capitalize connected the movie successful immoderate ways, including featuring Bucky Barnes arsenic squad person and adding the mysterious asterisk to the title, the wide squad lineup is acold different. This caller roster includes Thunderbolts newcomers Clea, Wolverine (Laura Kinney), Namor, Hulk, and Carnage (with ex-Venom Eddie Brock presently holding that mantle).

The caller bid opens with Bucky and Black Widow responding to the existential menace that arises erstwhile doppelgangers of the Illuminati statesman threatening the Marvel Universe. They'll assemble a caller squad of heavy-hitters to woody with the crisis, but starring specified an eclectic set of monsters and killers is going to beryllium acold easier said than done.

"I emotion each iteration of Thunderbolts,” Humphries said successful Marvel's property release. “I'm thrilled to proceed the franchise's arrogant contented of hard hitting action, pulverization keg personalities, and explosive surprises into a caller era. This is simply a pack of 7 of the biggest badasses and escaped cannons from antithetic corners of the Marvel Universe. Assembling a ace squad is similar inviting the close operation of guests to a meal party. So I imagined a dangerous, disastrous, unhinged Marvel meal party, and went with that."

"I'm having a blast moving connected this publication with Mr. Humphries and the team,” Lima added. "Look astatine this lineup... it's crazy. They're not present to talk; they leap consecutive to the action! And that's the astir amusive portion to draw. None of them are known for taking it casual connected the job, truthful I can't either."

Art by Mark Bagley. (Image Credit: Marvel)

New Thunderbolts* #1 volition beryllium released connected June 11, 2025.

For much connected the Thunderbolts* movie, larn much astir Lewis Pullman's quality The Sentry and find retired what the asterisk successful the rubric whitethorn mean.

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