NEIL GAIMAN returning to Marvel, bringing ANGELA with him.

Neil Gaiman.

I didn’t see this one coming. I suppose that isn’t surprising, since I cannot see much through the womb of caffeine and masturbating that I exist within. Neil Gaiman is returning to Marvel, and the good man is bringing Angela with him. Yes, that Angela. The one he co-created with Todd McExpensiveBaseBalls way back in the day.

CBR:

Later this year, writer Neil Gaiman makes his return to Marvel Comics. According to The New York Times, the “Sandman” and “Eternals” writer will re-enter the Marvel Universe with a collaboration on the final issue of “Age of Ultron” with writerBrian Michael Bendis before co-writing “Guardians of the Galaxy” #5.

Perhaps even more intriguing is the announcement that Gaiman plans to introduce Angela to the Marvel U, a character the writer originally created as part of Todd McFarlane’s “Spawn” mythology. Gaiman won a long-running legal battle in 2012 , awarding the co-creator 50-percent ownership of the character with McFarlane. While a crossover between two publishers is hardly unprecedented, this is the first time a character from another publisher has been introduced with the intent of being a larger part of the other’s universe.

“We were looking for a good entry point to tease our fans and to let them know [Angela] was going to be a major player [in the Marvel Universe],” CCO Joe Quesada told the Times. Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso likened Angela’s appearance in the final issue of AoU to “the post-credit scenes in one of our Marvel studio movies,” saying it’s designed to get fans hungry for more.