>Marvel heroes wear capes. Now they also wear aprons.
>Meet Anna Ameyama. The newest member of the Marvel Entertainment LLC universe will make her debut Aug. 8 on Marvel Unlimited as the star of T.E.S.T. Kitchen. Along with all the requisite comic book action, each installment will include a recipe.
>The news will be announced at San Diego Comic-Con Friday afternoon.
>“As Marvel continued to expand our efforts into the culinary space—from our original Food & Comics panels at comic-cons; to developing our food-centric Eat The Universe brand, products, and content; to the culinary concepts you see at places like Avengers Campus—creating an in-universe character to be at the front of all these endeavors only made more sense,” says C.B. Cebulski, editor in chief of Marvel Comics, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co.
>Marvel’s Infinity Comics, which launched in Sept. 2021, was designed as a vertical format to be streamed on phones and tablets, starring the likes of Black Widow, Captain America, and Deadpool. Infinity Comics titles break into the top 10 of most read issues on Marvel Unlimited, which has over 30,000 comics, on a daily basis.
>Cebulski says that Infinity Comics help broaden Marvel’s audience to a generation that consumes everything on screens. “Digital, vertical, and global are three areas in the market where we are currently seeing tremendous growth in comic book reading.” He adds: “A comic like T.E.S.T. Kitchen, which contains both stories and recipes, will hopefully appeal to a different kind of viewer/reader than we traditionally reach at Marvel.”
>Cebulski says that the vertical storytelling aspect of the Infinity Comics “works perfectly” to illustrate a concept like cooking, giving it a video-like aspect, especially if you’re quickly scrolling through a screen. “It also allows us to reach a wider demographic than our printed super hero comics,” he adds.
>In T.E.S.T. Kitchen, which was written by chef Paul Eschbach and illustrated by artist E.J. Su, Ameyama is introduced to the superhero team when Iron Man crashes into her food truck, parked on a Manhattan street. (She lets customers know that she cooked at high-flying places like Jean-Georges in New York and Den in Tokyo, the No. 1 restaurant in Asia, before going out on her own.)
>As she’s handing over the daily special—pork katsu torta on a handmade telera with secret sauce—Screech, Blat, KRASH—Iron Man falls from the sky and lands on her truck. He’s starving so she makes him a torta. (There’s a lack of shawarma places, he says, to keep the joke from the original Avengers film going).
That sandwich looks like shit. I don’t mean it looks like tastes like shit, I mean it’s not visually interesting in any way and that’s a big problem when your comic is based off food. It needs more detail imo. Although that “Pork Katsu Torta” sounds legitimately tasty.
Henry Campbell
no one will storytime it
Austin Lopez
I might do her
Xavier Foster
She's pretty cute. I will not read her comic, but I would be interested in pictures of her without clothes on.
I am genuinily interested. The art is web comic level, but the idea would make a nice, heartwarming slice of life if handled correctly. So I guess the will fuck it up bigly.
No shit retard, we can't storytime it because Infinity Comics aren't ripped anymore
Gavin Collins
Prietito just Torta de Carnitas with guacamole. There are many, many, MANY things wrong with my country but street food ain't one of them.
Isaac Perez
Why?
Ayden Butler
while it is a good thing that Marvel is at least aiming for a new audience with this slice-of-life webtoon the Marvel infinity service is still complete shit and I do not think will attract the audience this comic would naturally gather if it was on somewhere like Jump +.
Landon Smith
attract a new audience to their bad digital platform however the issue remains how would the audience that would be interested in slice-of-life food comic learn about it is anyone's guess
Austin Jones
there never Ripped so even if someone was interested you could not
Luke Evans
Rule 34 when?
Jack Edwards
That fucking meat is raw, eww
Ayden Miller
it's Pork user pork katsu when cooked looks like that
Landon Morris
>“As Marvel continued to expand our efforts into the culinary space—from our original Food & Comics panels at comic-cons; to developing our food-centric Eat The Universe brand, products, and content; to the culinary concepts you see at places like Avengers Campus—creating an in-universe character to be at the front of all these endeavors only made more sense,” says C.B. Cebulski All of this is news to me.
