[SPEAKER_00]: New Avengers lineup revealed alongside new creative team, controversial writer Moro Montella back on Bloodshot.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Comic Book Club News for June 8, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: Writer Gypsidarsky and Artist Marko Chichetto are relaunching the Avengers with a new number one issue in the wake of Avengers Armageddon.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that lineup, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Quote, and all new heroes set to make their explosive debut soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which come on, it's David Colton, aka the Captain America of the 2000s, aka Superdate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Editors don't not as actual hero names, and our skis mission?
[SPEAKER_00]: He thinks Avengers should be a book that, quote, leads the Marvel Universe, where big things happen and surprises keep hitting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, please pass that note to Justice League as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're a little lost here, Avengers Armageddon is the new five-issue event launching this week, and we'll find Red Hulk taking over Lot Varian fighting the rest of the world for control.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that, when the mix are David Colton, aka Super Dave, don't know that his actual name.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Wolverine, and Marvel has been teasing that this new Avengers title will be the biggest shake-up since Avengers Disassembled.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I guess that's technically accurate because the team that came out of that event called the New Avengers is very similar to this team.
[SPEAKER_00]: New Avengers number one introduced an out of the wreckage team that various points included Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Daredevil and Wolverine, as well as Spider-Woman Captain America and Century.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, Focke Nelson.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where's Focke on this new team?
[SPEAKER_00]: Darzki loves Focke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure enough, the new book will feature true believers' blind bags featuring exclusive and sketch variants.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nearly a year after valiant Ann published her alien books where it was serious blowback online thanks to what was seen as anti-trans text and bloodshot number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right here in Moro Montella is back on the book with the June release of bloodshot number four man-made hell number one, a new three-issue series with art by Christian Rossi.
[SPEAKER_00]: To briefly review what went down in August of 2025, a rebooted bloodshot featured a storyline about vampires fighting the nanotech powered warrior with his own nanites.
[SPEAKER_00]: While a lot of it skirted cultural commentary slash santaire, one-bit in particular stuck in readers' claws, were it seemed to be specifically aping anti-trans messaging.
[SPEAKER_00]: An Argentinian writer Mantella came under fire for including it.
[SPEAKER_00]: For their part, Alien books immediately offered a statement of the dialogue and laid out several steps for addressing the issue, including updating the dialogue for the trade and undergoing quote, a more intense review by our proofreaders as part of our editorial process.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, immediately following that, it came to light that Mantella had repeatedly retweeted,
[SPEAKER_00]: anti-trans and anti-vaccine memes multiple times in the past and in response to that Mantella deleted his Twitter account and posted a lengthy response explanation about his reposts as well as the offending line of dialogue in Bloodshot.
[SPEAKER_00]: While the next two issues of Bloodshot were absent from valiant solicits for the rest of the year,
[SPEAKER_00]: Bloodshot number 2 was released in stores in October of 2025, with issue number 3 hitting a December, wrapping up the arc.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, after that absence, bloodshot is back and so is Madtella.
[SPEAKER_00]: The new issue hitting stores on June 24, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: While this is pure speculation, it seems likely this fourth issue is the first completely craft since the fallout from everything we detailed previously.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether this controversy will be addressed in the issue or referenced in any way, TBD.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Alvin.
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