Warning! Spoilers for Avengers Free Comic Book Day Special #1 below
Across Marvel's Multiverse, there is an uncountable number of versions of popular heroes, whose own different reality gives them a unique twist on a familiar face. In Avengers Free Comic Book Day Special #1, the Atlantean Avengers of Earth-10222 were revealed, and their version of the Hulk answers the question, 'What if the Hulk and King Shark became a single character?'
This week, Marvel teases a brand new story arc coming to Jason Aaron's Avengers run. In celebration of the Avengers 750th issue, the team will face off against villains from across the Multiverse called The Multiversal Masters of Evil. The team - who want to control the Multiverse - made a fiery entrance to the Marvel Universe by killing a group of Deathloks who fixed problems across different Earths as marshals of space and time. However, before the Multversal Masters of Evil arrived, Marvel teases a new Avengers team, the Atlantean Avengers.
In Avengers Free Comic Book Day Special #1 by Jason Aaron, Iban Coello, and Brian Reber, many Multiversal versions of Deathlok are stationed at Avengers Mansion at the God Quarry. After detecting something is wrong with the Multiverse, the group is called into action. The Deathloks jump through space and time to warn the local Avengers of Each Earth about a potentially deadly threat. One of the Deathloks sets his sights for Earth-10222, a paradise where Atlantis never fell, and the greatest heroes have found peace in a rapidly advancing human civilzation.
The Earth-10222 is a new Avengers team to the Marvel Multiverse, as it features Namor as Captain America (with a starfish on his shield), a version of Iron Man in a massive submarine suit, and a version of the Hulk who's a giant Shark man, like King Shark from The Suicide Squad. The Atlantean Avengers look like a formidable squad, and with a Hulk who's part shark, it's easy to see why. A King Shark-like hero with gamma powers (assuming it does) would be nearly unstoppable.
Unfortunately, readers don't see the shark Hulk in action, as the Deathlok's attempt to warn the Atlantean Avengers is cut short when the Multiversal Masters of Evil pulls him from the time stream and burns him alive. Thankfully, Deathlok is able to get his call out to the Avengers about the group before perishing. Nevertheless, the issue is quite the tease for the Multiverse playing a massive part in the upcoming Avengers run. Between the Multiversal Masters of Evil, the King Shark-Hulk hybrid, and the secret group of Deathlok's, readers are surely in for a wild adventure.