Scarlet Witch #10
Scarlet Witch (2024) #10 serves as the finale of Steve Orlando's second consecutive Scarlet Witch solo series, capping a ten-issue run that deepened Wanda Maximoff's role as a teacher and protector rather than solely a figure defined by tragedy. Most significantly, the issue delivers the long-awaited revelation of Amaranth's true cosmic origins — she is identified as Aaf Capmi Piap, daughter of the Abstract Entities Chaos and Witchcraft, positioning her as one of the most inherently powerful new characters Marvel introduced in the 2020s. By framing Wanda's rescue of Amaranth as a mirror of the support Wanda herself never received during her own magical crises, Orlando's script adds genuine thematic resonance to a character who had historically been reduced to her disasters. The issue's conclusion also set the table directly for The Vision & the Scarlet Witch (2025), marking it as a deliberate bridge point in Orlando's extended, multi-volume stewardship of Wanda.
In Scarlet Witch #10 (2025), Wanda faces a deeply personal challenge as she works to stabilize Amaranth’s unraveling powers, uncovering the hidden source of the chaos. With emotional stakes running high, she confronts the crisis head-on while navigating the fragile trust between herself and Darcy. Written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Jacopo Camagni with inks by Elisabetta D’Amico, colors by Frank William, and letters by VC’s Ariana Maher, the issue features a striking cover by Russell Dauterman.
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The 2024 Scarlet Witch series launched in June 2024 as a direct sequel to Orlando's 2023 Scarlet Witch run and the intervening Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver miniseries, all sharing the same core creative team under editor Alanna Smith. Russell Dauterman served throughout as cover artist and series visual anchor, providing a consistent aesthetic identity across the relaunched volume. Jacopo Camagni handled interior pencils and inks for issue #10, with Dauterman also contributing interior color work, and letterer Ariana Maher and colorist Frank William rounding out the production team. The issue arrived on March 5, 2025, with a cover date of May 2025, and was subsequently collected in the trade paperback Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando Vol. 5: Amaranth Rising (ISBN 978-1302961039), which gathered issues #6–10 of the 2024 series.
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- Released March 5, 2025 (cover-dated May 2025); the tenth and final issue of the Scarlet Witch (2024) series, published by Marvel Comics under editor Alanna Smith and editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski.
- Written by Steve Orlando; interior art by Jacopo Camagni with additional pencils/inks/colors by Russell Dauterman and inks by Elisabetta D'Amico; colors by Frank William; letters by Ariana Maher (VC); cover by Russell Dauterman.
- The issue reveals Amaranth's true cosmic origin: she is Aaf Capmi Piap ('Among Power, Balance'), the daughter of the Abstract Entities Chaos and Witchcraft, created by a prior Scarlet Witch as a truce between those two warring cosmic forces.
- Amaranth (full name Amaranth Hawlut) first appeared in-universe in Scarlet Witch (2024) #6; she was originally conceived by artist Jen Bartel as a hypothetical sidekick for the New Champions variant cover program on Scarlet Witch (2023) #9.
- The issue resolves the 'Amaranth Rising' arc, in which Amaranth — having been drawn to the Tri-Crown of the Chaos Godhead in Wanda's magical vault — is overwhelmed by its power while the Black Cat is simultaneously driven to a rampage by Amaranth's madness-instilling abilities.
- Thematically, Wanda saves Amaranth by drawing on her own long history of magical catastrophe, offering her apprentice the acceptance and guidance no one extended to Wanda herself — a motif reviewers across multiple outlets cited as the emotional core of Orlando's entire run.
- The series was followed immediately by The Vision & the Scarlet Witch (2025), continuing Orlando's unbroken tenure writing Wanda across Scarlet Witch (2023), Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver (2024), Scarlet Witch (2024), and the 2025 series.
- Collected in Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando Vol. 5: Amaranth Rising (trade paperback, ISBN 978-1302961039), which gathers Scarlet Witch (2024) #6–10.
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Reprinted in Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando #5 (2025)
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