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Avengers Arena#1

By Dennis Hopeless(w) And Kev Walker(a)

In December

(Battle Royal With The Marvel’s Twist)

Characters trapped in Arcade’s Murder World include Avengers Academy vets Hazmat, Mettle, Reptil, Juston and his Sentinel and X-23; Chase and Nico from Runaways; Darkhawk; Cammi from Annihilation and new characters including the “Braddock Academy.” 

“Arcade has spent a lot of years building “Murder Worlds” that yield very few actual murders,” Hopeless told Marvel.com “He’s decided it’s time to get back a little self-respect. It’s time for a new kind of Murder World.  Avengers Arena is about the unlucky kids he’s chosen to help him try it out. I don’t want to give too much away, but I can promise a lot of murder in this new Murder World.”

“Murder World looks like the real world, but Arcade can’t help himself, smoke and mirrors are in his blood,” Walker said. “Nothing makes sense in this place, tropical beaches and arctic wilderness sit side by side, dry desert and lush forest overlap.” 

“These kids were chosen carefully and with specific story beats in mind,” Hopeless continued. “We definitely plan on taking advantage of the broad personality spectrum we have in play. Even the characters [that] die off early make their mark on the story. I didn’t throw anyone into the book as cannon fodder.”