At Marvel’s Next Big Thing panel at New York Comic Con, the company announced further details about Avengers: Twilight, a project that had been teased a month earlier from Chip Zdarsky and Daniel Acuña.
The project is now officially revealed to be a miniseries starting in January that will see Steve Rogers stuck in a future where the Avengers as he knows them are gone, and he hasn’t been Captain America for years. Can he bring back the Avengers when it seems that the world has passed them by?
Marvel released a promotional image for the series, showing an older Steve Rogers walking with his Captain America costume on underneath his jacket, stuck in a world where the Avengers mean something else entirely. Obviously, as people well remember, Captain America was first brought into the Marvel Age of Comics in 1964 when the Avengers found him encased in melting ice in the ocean in Avengers #4. The hook that Jack Kirby and Stan Lee used in that story was to place Captain America as a Man Out of Time, having lost decades of his life while in suspended animation.
In Avengers: Twilight, Steve Rogers is once again a Man Out of Time, only this time, he was around to watch the society change around him, seeing his familiar world be stripped away piece by piece to the point where he might as well have shown up after 20 years in suspended animation for how much the world has passed him by.
Marvel released an official trailer for the six-issue miniseries, showing Steve Rogers an old man, staring at a campaign poster for “Senator Rogers,” suggesting that he gave up a superhero career for a career in politics. The trailer then explains that the Age of Heroes is over, and shows Rogers’ former Avengers allies being hunted down.
Now, the Avengers still exist, but they appear to just be a tool of a totalitarian regime. However, if this is all that the world knows now, how can even Captain America assemble a new Avengers team if no one even knows the Avengers of his era anymore? That is obviously the question posed by this series, which Marvel is hyping up as “a bold and thought-provoking new limited series.”
Avengers: Twilight #1 is due out on Jan. 17
Source: Marvel
