A-Force - Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

A-Force #1

A-Force is written by Marguerite Bennet and G. Willow Wilson, penciled by Jorge Molina, Inked by Jorge Molina and Craig Yeung, coloured by Laura Martin and Matt Milla, lettered by VC's Cory Petit and published by Marvel. A-Force is the first all female Avengers team and is part of the Secret Wars special event. During the Secret Wars event several Marvel universes are combined into one patchwork planet called Battle World, with each section being run by a Baron or Baroness but all is under control of the world's leader Victor Von Doom. Read more about Secret Wars here.

The story takes place on the island of Arcadia, a paradise compared to the other horrors of Battle World, that is inhabited by civilians and mostly female super heroes with She-Hulk as the leader of both the A-Force team and Baroness of Arcadia. The A-Force work together to keep it's people and it's boarders safe. The peace of Arcadia is shattered when a meglodon suddenly begins attacking endangering both the heroes and civilians. During the fight with the meglodon Ms. America, aka America Chavez, throws the creature over the boarders of Arcadia into the Deadlands below causing damage to The Shield (the wall surrounding each area) in the progress. Those who damage the wall and breach the boarders of Battle World are sentenced to defend The Shield for the remainder of their days. Issue #1 ends with a mysterious woman crash landing in Arcadia and being found by Nico Minoru.

The art of A-Force is your classic Marvel style with well drawn backgrounds and highly detailed characters. Many of the characters are sporting their classic looks and I just love the cover of this one.

GIANT SHARK ATTACK!

A-Force has some of the most popular heroines of the Marvel universe including She-Hulk, Medusa, Dazzler, Loki (female Loki), Phoenix, Captain Marvel, Ms. America, Nico Minoru and many more. I'm especially excited to see Nico Minoru from the Runaways as I am a big Runaways fan and its nice to see this character in another comic.

When a comic is being hailed for something before it even hits the shelves it often sets the bar extremely high before anybody has even the opened the first page which was very much the case with A-Force. As the first all female Avengers team people were expecting great things and were going to be extremely critical of both the story and the characters from issue #1 but fortunately A-Force seems to have basically ignored the characters genders, they have not been written as women but as people. So far I'm extremely impressed with A-Force and I hope that it continues.

I'm loving the variant covers coming out

I give A-Force #1 3.5 out of 5 She-Hulks.

Find out more about A-Force here.

What character are you most excited about in A-Force? Did it live up to your expectations? Let me know in the comments section.