TVA #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeTVA #5 closes the five-issue limited series that formally merged the comics-native Time Variance Authority with the version established across the Disney+ Loki seasons and Deadpool & Wolverine, a historically unprecedented blending of Marvel's print and screen continuities in an ongoing narrative. The issue delivers the series' central twist: the TVA staffer known as 'Ingrid' is unmasked as Dreamqueen, Nightmare's daughter, revealed to have engineered the 'Madness' haunting the agency from within. It also contains a charged character beat in which a Wanda Maximoff variant verbally resigns from the Avengers, and the TVA's cat Maggie is revealed as a Flerken — a creature whose comics history stretches back to Captain Marvel's corner of the Marvel Universe. As the finale of the first standalone TVA comic series, it caps a run that brought several MCU-originated characters (Miss Minutes, B-15, Ouroboros) into their first sustained comics existence.
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The TVA limited series was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 jointly by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski, signaling an unusual degree of cross-divisional coordination for what became a five-issue miniseries. The primary creative team was writer Katharyn Blair — an executive story editor on Loki Season 2 making her comics-writing debut — and artist Pere Pérez, with a recurring backup feature written by Ryan North and drawn by Enid Balam. Blair has described the series as her comics interpretation of the organization following Loki's sacrifice at the end of Loki Season 2, and the book was edited by Jordan D. White under editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski. The series was subsequently collected as TVA: For All Time, Always.
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- TVA #5 is the finale (issue 5 of 5) of the TVA limited series, published April 30, 2025, with a June 2025 cover date.
- The issue reveals that TVA staffer 'Ingrid' is in fact Dreamqueen (Earth-616), daughter of Nightmare, who is confirmed as the architect of the 'Madness' afflicting the agency throughout the series.
- The TVA's cat Maggie — who appears unnamed from issue #1 — has her name revealed and is unmasked as a Flerken in this issue, swallowing Nightmare and depositing him into a specially prepared cell.
- A variant of Wanda Maximoff (confirmed in-series as a comics variant, not the MCU Scarlet Witch) verbally quits the Avengers during the events of this issue.
- The issue is co-written by Katharyn Blair (Loki Season 2 writer) and Ryan North, with interior art split between Pere Pérez and Enid Balam, colors by Guru-eFX and Rachelle Rosenberg, and editing by Jordan D. White.
- The broader TVA series — of which this is the conclusion — marks the Marvel Comics debut of Miss Minutes, the MCU's animated AI mascot, as well as the sustained comics integration of MCU versions of B-15 and Ouroboros.
- The series was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 by Kevin Feige and C.B. Cebulski and is among the first Marvel publications to formally treat MCU and comics continuity as part of the same evolving TVA organization.
- The entire five-issue run was collected in the trade paperback TVA: For All Time, Always, published by Marvel/Penguin Random House.
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Reprinted in TVA: For All Time, Always #[nn] (2025)
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