Evidently, Minnesota's got its own superhero now. Marvel Comics is launching a new comic book series right after the first of the year. The new series is called U.S.Avengers, and will be yet another variation of the ever-popular Avengers comic book line.

To launch the series in a special way, Marvel has created 50+ different covers for issue #1. Each cover will feature a U.S. state, along with the official Avenger character for that state. And who is the superhero protecting Minnesota? Is it a well-known classic comic book character? Perhaps it's Spider-Man? Nope, he's been assigned to protect New Hampshire. Or maybe Thor? Sorry, he's guarding Oklahoma. How about Iron Man? He's looking after California.

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So, who's the Marvel Comics Avenger guarding the Land of 10,000 Lakes? Minnesota's official Avenger is Quake, a female superhero with the ability to generate earthquakes, or at least earthquake-like vibrations. Chances are, unless you're a hardcore comic book geek, you haven't heard of her...

She's not even featured in Marvel Comics website's list of characters. The character's real name is Daisy Johnson, according to a post on Wikipedia. That post also says that she first came onto the comic book scene in 2004 and that her biggest claim to fame was "as a supporting character in the 2010-2013 Avengers series, from issue #19 (January 2012) through its final issue #34 (January 2013)."

We don't get a lot of earthquakes in Minnesota, but we do get a lot of snow and cold for a good chunk of the year. So, I don't understand why we didn't get a superhero more suited to our climate, like Winter Hunter, perhaps. Instead, he's busy protecting Indiana...

Here are some of the Avengers Marvel Comics chose for other states around us:

Iowa - Hawkeye (Get it? The Iowa Hawkeyes get Hawkeye as their superhero? Clever!)
North Dakota - Machine Man (According to his bio, he weighs 850 pounds...)
South Dakota - Jack of Hearts (Wouldn't you think he should be looking after Nevada?)
Wisconsin - Quasar (This superhero is so mysterious that the only thing on the bio page is an image that says "image not found.")

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