Announced over at Newsarama, it looks like General Comics Misanthrope and Good Morning Sinner Warren Ellis will be joining the game once again with four issues of “Avengers Assemble” in December for the line-wide “Inhumanity” event. Co-written with Kelly Sue DeConnick, who will be writing the first issue of the arc alone in November with #21, this is Ellis’ first single issue comic in quite some time, having left comics to focus on novels a couple years ago.
Of course, this has us asking what MC Favorite and All Around Excellent Lady Kelly Sue DeConnick is up to in order for Ellis to be brought on as co-writer. Kelly Sue is a rather busy writer, with “Pretty Deadly” right around the corner and her new “Ghost” ongoing (co-written by Chris Sebela) at Dark Horse coming down the pipeline as well, but the ostensible purpose of a co-writer brought in on a book like this is to lighten the load of a single writer. Not only that, but “Captain Marvel” is currently AWOL with the promises that something is occurring, leaving “Assemble” as DeConnick’s only other title at Marvel.
With Ellis jumping in and a vague announcement that there will be something to clarify the future direction of the series attached, one can only ask — what else is Kelly Sue doing? And is it possible that with whatever she has planned next with the publisher, that this the new home of Captain Marvel as well?
Either way, we look forward to Ellis’ return to monthly comics and with Marvel to boot, as both Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction — the lead writer of the “Inhumanity” event — come from the Ellis School of Thought. Stands to reason that his work in “Assemble” will be very much in line with whatever the company has planned for the line-wide occurrence overall.
