Marvel will be introducing new characters this May and one of them happens to be a kickass Filipina.
Named Wave, she will be introduced in the new series War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas, the comic book behemoth announced in an article published on Friday.
Though not much is known yet about Wave, she was described as a “mysterious new Filipino heroine” and will be teaming up with heroes from China named Aero and Sword Master.
The story will be set in Asia and will center on the New Agents of Atlas led by Amadeus Cho (aka Brawn, previously the Hulk).
The series is part of the upcoming Marvel storyline War of the Realms and will have four issues, with the first one coming out in May. The first issue was written by Greg Pak and Gang-Hyuk Lim, with a cover by Billy Tan.
“War of the Realms is this big, big Marvel universe story involving all the heroes from the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Wolverine, the whole line,” Marvel Editor Wil Moss said about the bigger War of the Realms story in an interview published on Marvel’s website.
Filipino characters are hard to come by in international pop culture but this isn’t the first time one was featured in a Marvel comic book. The Triumph Division is a superhero group based in the Philippines that debuted in Invincible Iron Man #2 in June 2008.
