Even though Marvel is ramping up for the world-shattering "Secret Wars" event next year, the publisher has announced plans (via Hero Complex) for a new-three part series to debut in 2015, throwing a gaggle of assorted Avengers together to take on one of their oldest adversaries, Ultron.
Spinning out of the events of this year's Avengers #31, "Ultron Forever" will debut next year in three 30 page issues under the "Avengers: Ultron Forever," "New Avengers: Ultron Forever," and "Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever" titles. Al Ewing of "Mighty Avengers" and "Loki: Agent of Asgard" will write the epic series, which sees "Wolverine" and "Savage Hulk's" Alan Davis handling the artistic chores.
The team in the story will travel through time (in Doctor Doom's time machine...I guess he just loaned it to them?) to a future where Ultron has enslaved humanity, but he'll meet his match in this team which consists of the current iterations of Black Widow, Vision, and the new female Thor...in addition to the Walt Simonson version of Thor, a pre-Avengers, Stan Lee version of the Hulk, a pre-War Machine James Rhodes as Iron Man, and a never-before-seen future Captain America, Danielle Cage, the daughter of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.
"My first thing with teams is if you put two of them in a room together, have you got a story? And I think with this bunch, it's definitely true," Ewing said. "There are in the story reasons why they've been taken from the particular times and places they have been. It turns out to have bearing on the story."
The three issues will debut in April and May of next year, in conjunction with Marvel Studios' next film "Avengers: Age of Ultron" which hits he big screens on May 1, 2015.
