In 2020, Marvel Boy was featured as a member of a new Guardians of the Galaxy team alongside Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Moondragon, Phyla-Vell, Hercules and Nova. It was written by Kelly Thompson It was during this run that it was confirmed Noh-Varr is bisexual, since he started dating Kate Bishop's former boyfriend and teammate, Fuse. In 2019, he returned in the third volume of the West Coast Avengers, he met the team while he was masquerading as Graviton, who was a member of the Masters of Evil, he would aid the team and eventually join them in the last story-arc. Marvel Boy starred alongside the Inhumans in 2013's Royals written by Al Ewing and drawn by Jonboy Meyers.
Noh-Varr appeared as Marvel Boy in the 2013 Young Avengers series by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie where he begins to date Kate Bishop and reveals that, like the majority of the team, he is "not completely straight". As Protector, he appeared as a regular character in the 2010-2013 Avengers series, from issue #2 (August 2010) through his dismissal from the team in issue #27 (August 2012) during the Avengers vs. In the Dark Avengers Annual, Noh-Varr changed his codename to the Protector. It's like, 'You hate Skrulls? Well this guy kills Skrulls for a living! He came to our planet to kill Skrulls!'." He appeared as a regular character in the Dark Avengers series from issue #1-6. The writer Brian Michael Bendis has said "what he represents is Norman can put an alien on the team, whose one of the Anti-Skrulls. He took a big part in the finale of the Secret Invasion, which leads into his new role as Captain Marvel in the Dark Avengers title. įollowing his own mini, he was featured in Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways and the New Avengers: Illuminati. I wanted to go back and explore some of the possibilities of comics as music. They do not need to look like storyboards. Instead of Orson Welles, op art and spy movies, J.G.'s using digital editing effects, percussive rhythms, cutting the action closer and harder, illuminated by the frantic glow of the image-crazed hallucination of 21st century media culture and all that.
is doing is like an update of the whole Steranko Pop Art approach to the comics page. We've only started to experiment but already MARVEL BOY looks like nothing else around. Marvel Boy's visual style becomes more like MTV and adverts from #3 on its filled with all kinds of new techniques rapid cuts, strobed lenticular panels, distressed layouts, 64 panel grids, whatever.
Jones' preposterous genius to its best effects and decided to rethink the prevailing vogue for cinematic/ money shot panel structures and page layouts. hat was the issue I really began to utilise J.G. The whole thing really becomes something new with issue 3, however, which I'm unusually proud of. Not only am I working with one of the best comics artists ever, the colouring gauntlet has been thrown down once again with the most incredible video game lighting and atmospherics. In a 2000 interview, Morrison described their stylistic intentions for the book: Jones (with Sean Parsons) and colored by Matt Milla of Avalon Studios. The series was written by Grant Morrison, illustrated by J.G. Marvel Boy was a six-issue limited series published from August 2000 to March 2001, as part of the experimental Marvel Knights line. As Marvel Boy he was a part of the Young Avengers, West Coast Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy.
He was a member of the main Avengers team as Protector. After his appearance in Secret Invasion, he joined the Dark Avengers as Captain Marvel.
He later appeared in the Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways and the New Avengers: Illuminati limited series. 2000) and was created by writer Grant Morrison and artist J.G. Noh-Varr is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics who most commonly uses the codename Marvel Boy. Noh-Varr (center) on the cover to Marvel Boy #1Įugenic/Microtech Enhanced Kree physiologyĪccess to advanced extra-dimensional technology