Last week , Marvel announceda new Exiles book , bringing with it a new squad of realness - crossbreed heroes to fight alongside long - clock time Exiles appendage Blink . One was kept a enigma , however , until now … and if you saw Thor : Ragnarok last year , she ’s go to calculate very , very intimate .
Valkyrie has been affirm as the 5th member of the team , but it ’s not the traditional Valkyrie of the comics — the design , from series artist Javier Rodriguez , is a blend of the classic strip turnout of Valkyrie with Tessa Thompson ’s portrayal of the character as assure in Marvel ’s film Thor : Ragnarok , with the grimace rouge and swanky half - cape to fit .
As Exiles writer Saladin Ahmed explains , it ’s not just visually that the new Valkyrie resembles her Ragnarok twin , but in fictional character too — and is even explicitly “ maiden - suit ” in ways the moving picture characterwasn’t allow to be :
Valkyrie ’s a character who ’s always appeal to me . Her iconic warrior - woman look — fizgig ! sword ! flee horse ! — but also the apposition of a kickass ancient fantasy Hero of Alexandria operate in contemporary New York City . She ’s a Greco-Roman Marvel heroine , but the Exiles version of Valkyrie is a bit different from what we ’ve seen in comics thus far . Our Valkyrie is known as the Lone Defender of Asgard , and she ’s a tankard - draining , maiden - wooing , gargantuan - slaying thunderbolt of a adult female . Though she ’s not technically from the Marvel Cinematic Universe reality , she ’s essentially the literalization of the large - than - her - physical - frame swagger that Tessa Thompson display in Thor : Ragnarok , turned up to 11 .
Marvel ’s usually a bit more reserved when it come up to acknowledging theinfluence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on its comedian , but hey — Ragnarok strike a winning convention with its take on Valkyrie , so why not have fun with it for a loopy , alternate - world caper like expat ? So far Thompson has n’t commented on her semblance show up in the ledger but she unremarkably hitch on to these fun thing pretty rapidly .
deportation # 1 is set to hit shelves April 25 .
[ Comicosity ]
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