npr:Fasten your seat belts, true believers. If you haven’t…

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Fasten your seat belts, true believers. If you haven’t flipped through a comic book in a while, you might be in for quite a surprise come May. The entire Marvel multiverse is collapsing.

Forget about seeing the Wolverine we knew any time soon. And the current Ghost Rider? Before long, his current story line will be gone like, well, a ghost. In the new Marvel universe, coming in May, characters and continuities will be reimagined.

Soon, even the Avengers, that A-team of Marvel’s heaviest hitters, will be all but unrecognizable. For the first time in history, the group known as Earth’s mightiest heroes will be composed entirely of women. And they’ll be going by an entirely new moniker: the A-Force.

Writer G. Willow Wilson is behind the big restructuring. She’s a heavy-hitter herself, having made a huge mark on the comics world with her graphic novel Cairo and the comics series Air. Just last year, she was responsible for another big superhero transformation, creating the new Ms. Marvel, an American Muslim girl. As an American Muslim herself, Wilson regards that character as a particular point of pride.

The Woman Behind Marvel’s Newest Team Of Heroines