Get hyped about the new Marvel Rising and Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors

While you may only be familiar with Marvel’s cinematic universe, the comics and cartoon sides have some incredibly exciting things on the horizon.

Despite how popular comic book movies are in our society, sometimes the comics universe gets a little ignored. But Marvel’s announced a new animation franchise: Marvel Rising.

Marvel Rising will consist of six, four-minute digital shorts and a feature-length animated film. The digital shorts will spotlight Spider-Gwen and her new name, Ghost-Spider. The film, “Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors” will follow. We also had a half-second glimpse at a version of the Secret Warriors in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, so seeing a more fleshed-out version is awesome.

I love this description from the emailed press release:

"Powered teens Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Quake, Patriot, America Chavez, and Inferno join forces as an unlikely, but formidable crew of aspiring heroes. When a threat no one could have expected bears down on the Marvel Universe, this ragtag, untrained band of teens have no choice but to rise together and prove to the world that sometimes the difference between a “hero” and “misfit” is just in the name."

And yes, we’re talking the Kamala Khan version of Ms. Marvel. The voice cast for this is stellar as well.

Firstly, we have Chloe Bennet, Quake herself from Agents of SHIELD, voicing Quake. We also have Ming-Na Wen, the boss Agent May from SHIELD, voicing the villain Hala, a Kree Accuser who wants nothing more than galactic domination (which she can totally pull off).

You also have the likes of Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf) as Inferno, Booboo Stewart (Twilight and X-Men: Days of Future Past) as Exile, and Kim Raver (24 and Grey’s Anatomy) as Captain Marvel.

Piqued your interest yet? Check out this “meet the characters” video:

There’s so much to like about this new Marvel endeavor. Squirrel Girl in action? Lockjaw somehow involved in everything and a better version than what he was in Marvel’s Inhumans? Yes please!

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Marvel Rising launches sometime in 2018.