Marvel To Announce New Hero Today, Anna Ameyama of T.E.S.T. Kitchen #1

Later today, Marvel Comics will announce a new hero at San Diego Comic-Con, Anna Ameyama, star of the new Marvel comic book T.E.S.T. Kitchen. Launching on the 8th of August on Marvel’s Infinity Comics digital distribution streaming app. A superhero comic book story – with a recipe in every issue. Along with all the requisite comic book action, each instalment will include a recipe. Smacks of a little of Comic Strip Presents: Detectives On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown and the Gourmet Detective…

T.E.S.T. Kitchen, written by chef Paul Eschbach and drawn by E.J. Su, Ameyama is introduced to the superhero team when Iron Man crashes into her food truck, parked on a Manhattan street. Anna Ameyama, who previously cooked at Jean-Georges in New York and Den in Tokyo, is preparing her daily special, pork katsu torta on a handmade telera with secret sauce, when Iron Man crashes into her truck. Torta, not shwarma. And he offers her a job…

“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 endeavours only made more sense,” Marvel EIC C.B. Cebulski told Bloomberg. “Digital, vertical, and global are three areas in the market where we are currently seeing tremendous growth in comic book reading. 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… It also allows us to reach a wider demographic than our printed super hero comics.”

Get the alliteration of Anna Ameyama’s name – got to be a superhero.

Later today, Marvel Comics will announce a new hero at San Diego Comic-Con, Anna Ameyama, star of the new Marvel comic book T.E.S.T. Kitchen. Launching on the 8th of August on Marvel’s Infinity Comics digital distribution streaming app. A superhero comic book story – with a recipe in every issue. Along with all the requisite comic book action, each instalment will include a recipe. Smacks of a little of Comic Strip Presents: Detectives On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown and the Gourmet Detective…

T.E.S.T. Kitchen, written by chef Paul Eschbach and drawn by E.J. Su, Ameyama is introduced to the superhero team when Iron Man crashes into her food truck, parked on a Manhattan street. Anna Ameyama, who previously cooked at Jean-Georges in New York and Den in Tokyo, is preparing her daily special, pork katsu torta on a handmade telera with secret sauce, when Iron Man crashes into her truck. Torta, not shwarma. And he offers her a job…

“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 endeavours only made more sense,” Marvel EIC C.B. Cebulski told Bloomberg. “Digital, vertical, and global are three areas in the market where we are currently seeing tremendous growth in comic book reading. 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… It also allows us to reach a wider demographic than our printed super hero comics.”

Get the alliteration of Anna Ameyama’s name – got to be a superhero.