KG: Angela is nothing but an ongoing struggle. I’m so excited we’ll have the chance to bring her to you, in her new glory.ĬV: Will it be an ongoing struggle to get over her hatred of Asgard and to accept her true heritage? I felt some trepidation that Angela’s notoriety, in some ways, might’ve eclipsed her potential for a lot of people. Neil Gaiman was a huge part of my childhood and youth-I read SANDMAN when I was thirteen or fourteen, and American Gods was my favorite novel in high school. What's there? What can be done with them? How can you make them sing? It's about making the character yours for as long as you write them. I mean, I felt similarly dancing with Marvel Boy or Abigail Brand.

It's the odd sensation in working in mainstream comics is touching on characters who were invented by people who were part of your way into comics. What's up with the title of being an assassin? We asked both writers some questions to find out more.ĬOMICVINE: What's it like to be involved fleshing out a character created by Neil Gaiman? Then in the ORIGINAL SIN miniseries, THOR & LOKI: THE TENTH REALM, we discovered that Angela is actually Thor's sister.Įven though we've seen her in the pages of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, with this new revelation, what's next for Angela? She's getting her own series, written by Kieron Gillen and Marguerite Bennett. As a result of AGE OF ULTRON, she found herself in the Marvel 616 universe. We saw her debut in the pages of SPAWN, courtesy of Neil Gaiman. Kieron Gillen starts in this book to make good on that promise.This November, Angela the warrior is getting her own series. She is definitely driven by very different things than either of those iconic lady warriors, and that difference is the story I've been waiting for. But Angela is complicated, and a little crazy. No that there's anything wrong with that mash up, because I would absolutely read that.

It is with this issue that Angela's story finally leaps away from the She-Ra The Movie / Red Sonja mash up feel that had put some serious drag on my excitement for this book.

But I think we're finally at that point, with a glimpse into the history between Angela and her dearest friend Sera. It makes for good science fiction, but it takes some warming up to wrap one's head around it. She's still being chased down by Thor, but it also turns out that she has a heart that has sacrificed for what she loves!Īngela is a strange character, raised in a culture with some seriously screwed up values. This series is young at its third issue, and I have been waiting for that first issue to come through that finally bursts forth as something I can point to that says 'This is what Angela: Asgard's Assassin' is all about.

Angela by Kieron Gillen