First Look: Asgard’s Outcast Finds Her Path In Angela: Asgard’s Assassin #1
By Nick Tylwalk
What do you do when you’ve trained your whole life for a war only to find out you’ve been on the wrong side all along?
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That’s the TL;DR version of the back story of Angela, who prepared from birth to fight for Heven against Asgard until she found out she was actually the daughter of Odin. Talk about an awkward family situation.
No longer welcome in Heven and wanting only to forget about Asgard, Angela wants to find her own path. The trouble is, she has something that beings in both realms want, and they’re willing to put up quite the fight to get it.
That state of affairs sets the stage for Angela: Asgard’s Assassin #1, where the angelic warrior embarks on a new adventure devised by writers Kieron Gillen and Marguerite Bennett and artists Phil Jiminez and Stephanie Hans.
“The story is Angela is basically on the run,” Gillen said in an interview with Marvel.com. “It gives her a chance to interact with a lot of different people so by the end of the first arc we really get a sense of who Angela is vis-à-vis the Marvel Universe. You get a sense of who she is and where she fits into the larger picture.”
We’ll find out how many people might need to suffer some pain before she discovers her place starting on December 3, when Angela: Asgard’s Assassin #1 hits stores and digital. Tide yourself over for now with this first look at some interior pages and variant covers by Jiminez, Joe Quesada and Skottie Young.