{"id":652334,"date":"2025-12-24T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652334\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:04:18","slug":"avengers-36-will-officially-mark-the-end-of-jed-mackays-run-on-the-series-epic-new-variant-cover-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652334\/","title":{"rendered":"AVENGERS #36 Will Officially Mark The End Of Jed MacKay&#8217;s Run On The Series; Epic New Variant Cover Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar writer Jed MacKay (Black Cat, Moon Knight) closes out his time with Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes this March in Avengers #36. Three years of dark mysteries, epic quests and cosmos-shattering battles will come to a head in a giant-sized, can&#8217;t-miss final issue, featuring artwork by current series artist Farid Karami.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate this pivotal moment in Avengers history, original series artist C.F. Villa returns with a special farewell variant cover that mirrors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Frog2zga9dada1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Immonen&#8217;s cover for the debut issue<\/a> of MacKay&#8217;s run.<\/p>\n<p>From the introduction of the Twilight Court and the Ashen Combine to Kang&#8217;s temporal machinations and Blood Hunt, it&#8217;s been an era of dramatic triumphs and epic stakes. Now, everything Jed MacKay has built comes crashing down in this startling finale that will redefine the Avengers&#8217;\u00a0future.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing his Avengers departure, MacKay said, <strong>&#8220;It\u2019s sad to say goodbye to the Avengers after the last few years of chronicling their adventures, but we certainly had some fun- introducing them to the Impossible City, putting them against their old nemesis, Kang, and even putting them through their paces in the blood-soaked first-ever Red Band event.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I got to work some of the best artists working today on some of the biggest characters Marvel has,&#8221;<\/strong> the writer continued, <strong>&#8220;and I&#8217;ll always remember my time with Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes fondly.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avengers #36 will also set up the next era of storytelling for Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes. Fans curious about what&#8217;s next should look no further than this summer&#8217;s Armageddon, including upcoming lead-in stories to the event like Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon; Captain America #6, the start of the next arc of Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti\u2019s Captain America run.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the recently announced &#8220;Comics Giveaway Day&#8221;\u00a0title, Armageddon\/X-Men #1 CGD 2026. The publisher has yet to reveal who Avengers&#8217; next creative team will be (Brian Michael Bendis is a contender ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbookmovie.com\/comics\/marvel-comics\/brian-michael-bendis-officially-returning-to-marvel-comics-for-avengers-800-alongside-mark-bagley-a224777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>his long-awaited Marvel Comics return<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Check out Villa&#8217;s variant cover below, and be sure to pre-order Avengers\u00a0#36 at your local comic shop today. Stay tuned in the months ahead, too, as there&#8217;s more to come about what&#8217;s on the horizon for Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgbox.com\/4H7Zcxog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image host\" class=\"lazyload blur-up\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4H7Zcxog_o.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AVENGERS #36<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWritten by JED MACKAY<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nArt by FARID KARAMI<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWraparound Connecting Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFarewell Variant Cover by C.F. VILLA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOn Sale 3\/4<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Superstar writer Jed MacKay (Black Cat, Moon Knight) closes out his time with Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes this March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[27929,77,6766,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-652334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-marvel-comics","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115774218512751573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}