Marvel Comics gathers 'all-female' Avengers team to fight evil

Marvel Comics has assembled an all-female team of Avengers, who will begin saving the world from evil in May 2015. Marvel superheroines She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa and Nico Minoru will form an the team in the upcoming run of A-Force, the Verge reported.

The series, which will debut this spring in Marvel's The Secret Wars event, is written by Marguerite Bennett and G. Willow Wilson and drawn by Jorge Molina. Wilson said that the writers were allowed to choose any characters they wanted for the squad, but it was Marvel that required all of them be female.

Wilson added that Marvel has become very committed in the last couple of years to telling new stories, to gender diversity, to getting more voices out there and so they said, "Here's the roster. Go nuts." 

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