MARVEL ANNOUNCES FIRST ALL-FEMALE AVENGERS TEAM, THE A-FORCE

"The A-Force will consist of She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa, Nico Minoru and many others — including at least one new superhero, a "cosmically powered" heroine named Singularity.

As the Marvel Comics universe prepares to conclude its three-year Time arc and transition into Secret Wars, the new, all-female Avengers team will "take over and lead the way," according to the comic book publisher, which first announced the news Friday morning on ABC’s The View (the same place we first learned that a woman would take up Thor’s hammer).

A-Force will be co-written by G. Willow Wilson, who re-booted Ms. Marvel as a Muslim, and Marguerite Bennett, who wrote Marvel’s Angela standalone; X-Men artist Jorge Molina will be responsible for the art.

Secret Wars, billed as one of the biggest shake-ups in Marvel history, starts in May — and finds the old Avengers teams (some of which were all-male, some of which were co-ed) disbanded and no more. A-Force, assemble.

“We’ve purposefully assembled a team composed of very different characters — from disparate parts of the Marvel U, with very different power sets, identities and ideologies,” Wilson said. “They’ll all have to come together to answer some big questions: What would you sacrifice to succeed? What is being a hero worth?”