Avengers: Electric Rain is a webcomic from Marvel Comics, initially published as a Korean-language series in 2014. It was first republished in English in 2022, under Marvel's Infinity Comics imprint. The original series is by Go-Yeong-Hun and Black Monkey; the English translation is by Amy Chu.
The series, part of Marvel's Avengers superhero franchise, was first released in ahead of Avengers: Age of Ultron and broadly reflects the film's Avengers line-up. However, it's not quite in line with Marvel Cinematic Universe or the comics' Marvel Universe, instead existing as an Alternate Continuity of its own.
A building inexplicably animates in Seoul, catching the attention of local superhero White Fox. Meanwhile, Hawkeye goes missing on a solo mission to an island in the Yellow Sea. And the rain in Seoul simply won't stop. The Avengers are bound for South Korea, and they're going to find trouble when they get there.
Electric Rain was one of Marvel's very first webcomics, and uses a similar layout to later Infinity Comics - it's a single-column vertically scrolling comic, designed to be readable on a phone screen, rather than using a traditional comic book approach to panels and pages.
As an Infinity Comic, the English version is initially only available via the Marvel Unlimited app.
The first issue was released in Korean on October 10, 2014. The first issue of the English adaptation was released November 2, 2022.
Avengers: Electric Rain provides the following tropes:
- Asian Fox Spirit: South Korea's superhero White Fox, a Canon Foreigner, is said to be a Kumiho, a nine-tailed fox spirit.
- Canon Foreigner: Korean superhero White Fox is an entirely new character, not part of the existing Marvel Universe or the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The General has his science team executed once they’ve finalised the process that turns prisoners into obedient human bombs.
