Marvel Comics have recently announced that this August a new comic series is set to release telling the definitive origin story of one of Marvel’s greatest villains: Kang The Conqueror.
Kang The Conqueror will be written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, the popular duo known for books like Joyride, Green Arrow, and Star Trek: Year Five, with art by Carlos Magno (Avengers Mech Strike). Together, this all-star creative team will unravel Kang’s enormous legacy from his expansive backstory to his various alternate selves, tying everything together and catapulting him into his biggest era yet.
A synopsis for the series reads:
The man called Kang the Conqueror has been a pharaoh, a villain, a warlord of the space ways, and even—on rare occasions—a hero. Across all timelines, one fact seemed absolute: Time means nothing to Kang the Conqueror. But the truth is more complex. Kang is caught in an endless cycle of creation and destruction dictated by time and previously unseen by any but the Conqueror himself. A cycle that could finally explain the enigma that is Kang. And a cycle that begins and ends with an old and broken Kang sending his younger self down a dark path…
In a recent interview composer writer Lanzing had this to say:
“Time may mean nothing to Kang, but Kang means everything to us. This is the book we’ve been wanting to write for years. It’s a total dream come true for Collin and I to be making our Marvel debut – we’re best friends who first met through a mutual love of Young Avengers, Runaways, and Ultimate Spider-Man. But to make our first mark with a character as storied as Kang the Conqueror, on a very personal pitch we never in a million years thought would be greenlit, is a genuine honor. Carlos Magno is delivering jaw-dropping work that recalls the exacting detail and operatic emotion of Kang’s co-creator Jack Kirby. We’re genuinely stunned by every new page. Add the brilliant colors by Espen Grundetjern, letters by the Marvel master Joe Caramanga, and the insightful leadership of our editor Alanna Smith, and you’ve got a team worthy of one of Marvel’s greatest unsung characters.”
Kang The Conqueror #1 (OF 5)
Written by COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art by CARLOS MAGNO & ESPEN GRUNDETJERN
Cover by MIKE DEL MUNDO
On Sale 8/18.
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