Marvel’s teenage superhero team the Champions will see a slew of changes in the months ahead—a new creative team, a new mission and a new enemy—which happens to be an app. The team of new writer Danny Lore and artist Luciano Vecchio take over Champions with issue six this April, sending the team up against an evil corporation trying to exploit Kamala’s Law in the first part of “Killer App.”
Kamala’s Law, named for Kamala Khan, AKA Ms. Marvel, has been making life miserable for the teen superheroes of the Marvel Universe. After being blamed for a terrible accident that hurt many people, Kamala being one of them (hence the name “Kamala’s Law”), the government implemented a law requiring all underage superheroes to register with the government and have an adult mentor. A special agency, called C.R.AD.L.E. was also established to enforce the law. A few have complied, but most have either gone underground or been captured and sent to prison camps. And it looks as if the Champions are far from done with Kamala’s Law and C.R.A.D.L.E.
A press release from Marvel details many of the exciting changes the incoming creative team plan to make. The first is a new threat—an evil corporation profiting off Kamala’s Law and who wants to keep it on the books. They have designed a software app to help enforce the Law, and it is up to the Champions to fight back. Rather than play nicely, the Champions plan to infiltrate the company and take it down from within. Complicating matters is the fact that the corporation is running a highly effective PR campaign that is turning the public against teen superheroes.
The Champions are pushing back against what they feel to be an unfair system, something on the mind of many young people today, and new writer Danny Lore notes this. Lore also stressed the importance of a team like the Champions, who are teens who actually have the power and can fight back, feeling that it shows teens can change the world when they work together.
The teen superheroes of the Marvel Universe, the Champions among them, have not had an easy time recently; thanks to Kamala’s Law, they have C.R.A.D.L.E. forces continually at their heels, and the threat of imprisonment and torture is real. Judging from the press release, matters are only going to get worse—people are profiting off the Law and making people hate heroes like the Champions. Will the Champions be able to convince the public they are not the problem? And will they be able to take down the corporation from within without losing what makes them heroes in the first place? These questions and more will be answered this April when Danny Lore and Luciano Vecchio take over the reigns of Champions.
Source: Marvel