At Refinery29, Marvel have announced the first solo comics series for Thanos’s troublesome daughter Nebula, written by Vita Ayala (“Morbius”) with art by Claire Roe (“Batgirl and the Birds of Prey”). The miniseries, which starts in February, will see Nebula trying to escape the shadow of her adoptive father, and her sister Gamora.
Ayala said, “I think of her as someone who has been fundamentally traumatized and damaged, both physically and psychologically. One of the things I found really interesting about her was how she became kind of a cyborg; they went in and put robotic parts everywhere, including her brain. I wondered, What does that do to a person? Does that account for some of the really wild stuff that she gets up to later on? So the series has explosions and punching and shooting — it’s basically a space Western — but through all that stuff, I really want to show what trauma does to you, fundamentally as a person.”
Nebula was created by Roger Stern and John Buscema, and originally introduced in July 1985’s “Avengers” #257 as the alleged granddaughter of Thanos. The character went on to play a major role in “The Infinity Gauntlet,” and then in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies adapting the comic, where she was portrayed by Karen Gillan. Ayala said “you will see how those relationships [with Thanos and Gamora] affected who she is now and how she’s working her way out of it. But I think that it would be really boring if it was just kind of her brooding in space, so she does have people that she interacts with that you’ve seen before. That’s all I think I’m allowed to say.”
“Nebula” #1 will be released early next year, and for more from Ayala – who praises Roe and cover artist Jen Bartel for their “muscle ladies” and “space babes” respectively – head on over to Refinery29.
