Marvel's First Warhammer 40K Comic Is, Not-Surprisingly, About the Ultramarines
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It's been eight months since it was first announced that Games Workshop had cut a deal with Marvel Comics to create some new series set in the worlds of Warhammer - both 40,000 and Age of Sigmar. There's finally some more news on this, namely with the first project that is coming out of the deal.
In what will undoubtedly cause no surprise to any fan of Warhammer, the first series is dedicated to the most popular chapter of the most popular faction in 40K: the Ultramarines. More specifically, it’s about Marneus Calgar, the Chapter Master of the Ultramarines who was also the first Space Marine to undergo the genetic enhancement to become a Primaris Space Marine, which is a move that still seems to have fans divided
Warhammer 40,000: Marneus Calgar will be penned by Kieron Gillen - who, aside from writing one of our favourite series in recent memory with Marvel’s first Darth Vader series, is also working on Boom’s Arthurian fantasy Once and Future, is also an avid Games Workshop fan which can only bode well for the series - and will feature art from Moon Knight’s Jacen Burrows.
A legendary Space Marine Chapter Master of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Marneus Calgar leads his elite Ultramarines against humanity’s greatest threats and has had his dark past shrouded in mystery…until now. This October, writer Kieron Gillen (Uncanny X-Men, Journey Into Mystery, The Wicked + The Divine) and artist Jacen Burrows (Punisher: Soviet, Moon Knight) will unite to tell Marneus Calgar’s never-before-told origin story - from his beginnings on the world of Nova Thulium, his campaigns in the Black Crusades, and to the unfolding mystery of the Black Altar as a deadly threat from his past reemerges to threaten the present of the Ultramar system.
Warhammer 40,000: Marneus Calgar releases sometime this October, and we can't wait.
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