Fasten your seat belts, true believers: If you haven’t flipped through a comic book in a while, you might be in for a surprise come May. The entire Marvel multiverse is collapsing and for the first time in history, the group known as Earth’s mightiest heroes — the Avengers — will be composed entirely of women. And they’ll be going by an entirely new moniker: the A-Force.

A-Force co-writer G. Willow Wilson tells NPR’s Arun Rath about the team’s new, genderless character and the growing community of female comic book writers. 

The Woman Behind Marvel’s Newest Team Of Heroines

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