TVA #5 (of 5)
(W) Katharyn Blair, Ryan North (A) Enid Balam (A/CA) Pere Perez
RATED T+
In Shops: Apr 30, 2025
SRP: $3.99
A TIME TO FIGHT!
The R&D Team is circling in on the cause of the Madness and its connection to the TVA’s not-so-nonexistent Department of Deferment. But as they dig deeper into the TVA’s secrets, they’ll find that some dangers should never be uncovered.
TVA #5 (of 5)
(W) Katharyn Blair, Ryan North (A) Enid Balam (A/CA) Pere Perez
RATED T+
In Shops: Apr 30, 2025
SRP: $3.99
A TIME TO FIGHT!
The R&D Team is circling in on the cause of the Madness and its connection to the TVA’s not-so-nonexistent Department of Deferment. But as they dig deeper into the TVA’s secrets, they’ll find that some dangers should never be uncovered.
TVA #4 (of 5)
(W) Katharyn Blair, Ryan North (A/CA) Pere Perez
RATED T+
In Shops: Mar 19, 2025
SRP: $3.99
A TIME TO FIGHT!
The R&D Team is circling in on the cause of the Madness and its connection to the TVA’s not-so-nonexistent Department of Deferment. But as they dig deeper into the TVA’s secrets, they’ll find that some dangers should never be uncovered.
TVA #3 (of 5)
(W) Katharyn Blair, Ryan North (A) Enid Balam (A/CA) Pere Perez
Rated T+
In Shops: Feb 26, 2025
SRP: $3.99
A KILLER OUTSIDE TIME?!
A murderer stalks the halls of the TVA! Is anyone safe? Or perhaps more importantly, can anyone be trusted? The answers could lie in the secret floors below the R&D department. But with the TVA denying their existence, the field team has to question: Are they simply rumor? Hallucination? Or is the TVA hiding something far darker than any of them could possibly imagine?
TVA #2 (of 5)
(W) Katharyn Blair (A) Enid Balam (A/CA) Pere Perez
RATED T+
In Shops: Jan 22, 2025
SRP: $3.99
EVERYTHING GOES TO HELL!
Dreams have begun haunting the TVA, and tracing the truth behind it has led the team straight to Hell-literally! Does the Son of Satan have the answers they need? Or perhaps the mysterious stranger following Gwen and Gambit has something to reveal?
The Time Variance Authority has long watched over the timeline, protecting it from dangerous variations that could cause the end of EVERYTHING. Now, as the organization begins to expand its tolerance of variants, it’s enlisted some new recruits from timelines that have been wiped from existence: Captain Peggy Carter, Super-Soldier of her world; Gambit, despondent and aimless from the loss of his lady love; and… this can’t be right… Spider-Gwen?!? Has her world been destroyed?!? TVA #1 delivers a confusing first issue that’s full of variant ideas.
Written by Katharyn Blair, TVA #1 is a frustrating comic in multiple ways. While the idea of the TVA goes back decades in comics, this version of the TVA looks more like what has recently been seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Is this comic a spin-off of the MCU or is it in the comic universe? Is it both? Who knows and that’s part of the frustration. As a whole, the TVA in the Marvel comic universe makes little sense considering how many times the universe has been reset or timelines shifted around. But, this TVA has plucked character from defunct timelines to solve problems. In concept, it could be fun and feels like an echo of the beloved Exiles team.
In this story, nightmares are cropping up across timelines and giving people visions of the TVA that they shouldn’t know as well as having them confront personal nightmares. It could be interesting and all points to the character Nightmare behind everything. But the execution of this story feels like being dropped into a new season of a show after a reboot and new characters being introduced. While you think you should be able to dive in and get it, you feel rather lost and you’re missing something.
The art by Pere Pérez with color by Guru-eFX and lettering by Joe Sabino is good. Everything looks good and some scenes with Spider-Gwen as she crawls around are interesting visually. But, like the story itself, the visuals feel a little disconnected at times. There’s a choppiness visually that matches a choppy narrative.
TVA #1 isn’t a bad comic and there’s potential for the concept but overall it’s a frustrating comic in far too many ways.
Story: Katharyn Blair Story: Pere Pérez
Color: Guru-eFX Letterer: Joe Sabino
Story: 6.0 Art: 7.0 Overall: 6.0 Recommendation: Pass
Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Purchase: Zeus Comics – Kindle
TVA #1 (of 5)
(W) Katharyn Blair (A) Pere Perez, Enid Balam (CA) Pepe Larraz
RATED T+
In Shops: Dec 18, 2024
SRP: $4.99
FOR ALL TIMES, ALWAYS!
The Time Variance Authority has long watched over the timeline, protecting it from dangerous variations that could cause the end of EVERYTHING. Now, as the organization begins to expand its tolerance of variants, it’s enlisted some new recruits from timelines that have been wiped from existence: Captain Peggy Carter, Super-Soldier of her world; Gambit, despondent and aimless from the loss of his lady love; and… this can’t be right… Spider-Gwen?!? Has her world been destroyed?!? Writer Katharyn Blair (LOKI Season Two) and artist Pere Pérez (CARNAGE, SPIDER-WOMAN) bring a touch of cinematic flair to the bureaucracy at the end of time!
The Time Variance Authority is under new management! This December, behold the adventures of the agency tasked with upholding the timestream in TVA! Announced by Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige and Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski at the Marvel Fanfare Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, TVA will be a five-issue limited comic book series written by Marvel Studios’ Loki writer Katharyn Blair and drawn by acclaimed Marvel artist Pere Perez.
The series will represent an evolution for the Marvel Comics’ version of the TVA as its blended with its Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart, as depicted in the Disney+ series Loki series and Deadpool & Wolverine. The series will mark the Marvel Comics debut of various MCU characters, including breakout Loki star Miss Minutes. The mysterious all-knowing entity who keeps the TVA ticking like clockwork will recruit a new band of heroes charged with monitoring and regulating all realities and timelines. Join Ghost-Spider and other universe-displaced entities including Captain Cater, a heartbroken Remy Lebeau, and more as they’re sent throughout the multiverse on vital missions to repair wild temporal anomalies and keep reality itself from shattering!
Check out the newly revamped TVA on superstar artist Pepe Larraz’s cover and stay tuned for news about the series in the months ahead!
