Re: Agents of SHIELD season 2 News, Rumors, Pics, etc. until release..
By the way, Marvel is going to be adding versions of May, Fitz, Simmons, and Skye to the main Marvel (616) Universe in a
S.H.I.E.L.D. series to be written by Mark Waid:
http://comicsalliance.com/marvel-ma...ops-layman-death-of-wolverine-next-big-thing/
Looks like it's basically a comics-universe version of the show's premise -- Coulson leading a small team -- but with the difference that it has full access to all of Marvel's characters and will have the team partnering with major superheroes in every storyline. So it'll be doing the kind of stories the show can't do. (And the cover -- poster? -- makes a point of featuring Spider-Man, Storm, and the Thing, characters that other studios have the screen licenses to.)
I know there's a long tradition of adding characters from mass-media adaptations to the original comics, going clear back to Perry White and Jimmy Olsen, but it's surprising to get all four of these characters added to the universe within a year of their introduction. (Coulson was added to the 616 universe a couple of years ago along with a black "Nick Fury Jr.") It seems to me that it usually takes more time for a character created for TV (or radio) to show up in the comics. It took Harley Quinn seven years to make the transition. Although, then again, both Renee Montoya and
Young Justice's original Aqualad were picked up by the comics so quickly that they debuted on the page before they appeared in their respective shows. And Perry White took less than a year to show up in comics, Jimmy Olsen about a year and a half. And then there's Batgirl/Barbara Gordon, who was created for the comics at the request of the TV show producers so they could then introduce her to the show. So it's been known to happen quickly, but I'm not sure it's ever happened so quickly with four characters at once.
Although it looks like these characters could be a little different from their counterparts -- Fitz & Simmons are shown charging forward with big guns, Simmons is in a combat jumpsuit, and May doesn't look very stoic. On the other hand, Fitz actually gets a helper monkey!
