LOS ANGELES — Not since Pulp Fiction's fictitious "Fox Force 5" has an all-female hero team-up sounded this kick-ass.

Marvel Comics, which is already light years ahead of the entertainment industry when it comes to awesome female characters, announced its first all-women Avengers team on Friday. And they are very much in charge.

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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 announced the news Friday morning.

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?”

Though A-Force is its first all-female Avengers team, it's not the first team title to feature only women. In fact, it's the fifteenth; the most recent was last year's X-Men run, which was comprised of all women. Marvel says its female fanbase has been exploding recently, and with the emergence of Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Black Widow and more — and it's easy to see why.

The full poster for the all-female Avengers team, "A-Force."

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