Neil Gaiman Joining Guardians of the Galaxy

spawn9 Neil Gaiman will be writing issue #5 of the newly relaunched €œGuardians of the Galaxy€ comics series this summer, Marvel have confirmed to The New York Times. Gaiman and Todd MacFarlane€™s (creator of €œSpawn€) character Angela will feature at the end of the Marvel Event €œAge of Ultron€ and then enter €œGuardians of the Galaxy€ for a special one-off issue co-written by Brian Michael Bendis and Neil Gaiman. Angela is a heavenly bounty hunter and featured in several Spawn comics written by Gaiman in the early '90s. After a protracted legal battle over who owned the character, both Gaiman and MacFarlane were credited as co-creators in a court ruling from 2002. By hiring a high-profile writer like Gaiman, the move is a conscious push by Marvel to put the Guardians in the spotlight well in advance of their debut feature film next year. Axel Alonso, the Editor-in-Chief at Marvel, said: €œMarvel is really putting a huge concerted effort to show the cosmic universe and how it ties to the regular universe,€ Mr. Alonso said. €œIt€™s called the Marvel universe for a reason.€ The issue will mark Gaiman€™s return to comics after a 4 year break. His last comics work was €œBatman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?€ with DC Comics. Gaiman will continue his comics output this year by returning to his critically acclaimed, bestselling Vertigo series €œSandman€ by writing a prequel telling the story of how Dream wound up in the glass cage in the first book. JH Williams III is confirmed as the artist for the mini-series. Guardians of the Galaxy #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Steve McNiven will be released Wednesday 27 March. The Guardians of the Galaxy movie is scheduled for release on 1 August 2014.
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