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They needed somewhere to stick Cap Classic and apparently Nova is getting cancelled.
Im pretty sure thats the reasoning because theres no reason Cap or the other heroes have the right to be running spec ops in international territories.
Just make the V-Battalion the new SHIELD, they're already well equipped.
The level of secret-ness better be cranked up soon, that's all I'm saying.
And is it me or does Deodato do some really disturbing teeth every now and then?
Compare the covers of Avengers 4 and Secret Avengers 4.
It's probably nothing beyond a coincidence, but it's a pretty cool one.
Ha, nice! Noticed it too. Theres also a bunch of of painted covers coming up that i think make one continuous avengers image. Academy #1 cover looks like its links to new avengers on its right side and then something with the hood in it on the left.
Secret Avengers #1
Last variant cover on this page...
And Avengers #1 looks like its got new avengers on it's left...
...in this cover
Marc Spector and Richard Rider (and Eric O'Grady to a lesser extent) are what have attratced me to that team too.
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That's some sweet art though. Wouldn't mind getting all the variants.
edit: Gank, you could probably get the poster for cheaper. I think the variants are like $10 a piece or something (spanning like 6-7 titles)
double edit: apparently it was pre-order only and sold out
Hey so having read Avengers and Secret Avengers I gotta say Brubaker seems to be pulling it off better. That's possibly because I prefer the characters in the Secret Avengers but honestly the straight up Avengers seems to be very much the whole crew patting themselves on the back about how cool they are, whereas the SA actually get the shit done.
I really want O'Grady to get a crowning moment of heroism and gain the respect of the team though, right now he's trying to redeem himself a little so it would be fun if he got that moment when the rest of the team says "yeah, he's a good guy, he's got what it takes."
It does have a stupid backup in it from an X-Men Unlimited issue around 2000 (when Gambit was leading a team) where they don't even give you the whole story, they are padding this mini with one story broken up over the three issues, hella lame. And on top of it they make the coloring for this part even worse than when it came out years ago, in an attempt to make it a "classic" backup or something? It's like they lost the coloring file for the original print and gave someone 50 bucks to recolor it.
But the main story is good, the art is decent, and Atlas appears in the first part, so it's worth checking out.
I don't know. One of the reason why Irredimable was so awesome, was that Eric was that SPECIAL type of asshole. The kind that was a completley self serving jackass, but you can't totally hate him because hey, he's funny, and honestly, we wish we could be that much of a jackass.
As long as his moment untimatley gets fucked up because hey, he's actually a jackass, I will be completley cool with it.
It was cool when he was a jerk, but I'm a sucker for a hero, and we've had Eric as a loser phase, character progression is always welcome. It's one of the reaons why I find it hard to get behind older characters, the status quo is seen in some way to be a sacred cow and it never changes, there is very little actual character progression. That was where the Ultimate line could have been great, sadly in the case of Ultimatum the big setting changing event was really, really badly done.
As for Nova, I was kind of confused about his addition to the team in general because he's such a big character type it might serve as an unbalancing factor for the team overall and make him stick out like a sore thumb. For example, it makes sense to have a cosmic hero on the team for, say, a mission to Mars (which is what they're doing now), but how relevant will he be when the team doesn't really need cosmic stuff done? Will they start writting cosmic threats specifically so they can use the character? If they do it would kind of mess up the dynamic of the team as an off-books, shadow ops squadron of superheroes.
That said, the only way I can view a reconcilliation of the character Nova to the team is basically he acts as their Hulk. A big gun they use whenever they come up against some force that they can't deal with practically. This works for me, but I'm still afraid that Nova has the potential to unbalance the team in a way that makes the mission sets they go on unpractical concerning the current roster. And doesn't Nova still have the rebuilding of the Nova Corps to worry about? Was his book cancelled or not?
I'd rather he be off doing his usual awesome thing light years away with some kind of spooky-physics insto-transporter that lets him goof off with the Avengers once in a while between big cosmic events.
Comic _gold_.
I mean, besides the obvious point of contention of Civil War.
Tony says something about things being rebuilt better and having a new armor design, Steve decides to be a communist and say he won't let Tony have the suit, they fight and then says Tony let Osborn take over which is pants on head stupid logic.
Then Thor shuts the babies up and they go have an adventure in Asgard.
One says that he should keep his armour because he made it so screw you Cap! The other then says that Tony seems pretty big on civil rights when it's his rights being threatened, which is a pretty sick burn. Then Thor is all like "get a room or come with me to kick some ass, your choice," and leaves.
Brubaker has said that Nova won't be hanging around the team all the time, he'll just be there when they need to do cosmic stuff (and the same goes for other team members, if they're not needed, they won't be there).
I like this idea. Hopefully it'll open the door for more B and C list characters, like the JLU cartoon did. Rotate people in and out as they're needed, keeping a huge roster on call for anythng they might need them for.
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See, one the one hand that would be cool, but on the other hand every time I read an issue without Nova I would be thinking all the way through "needs more Nova."
Won't be new to me, that's how I live my life, man.
"This coffee needs more Nova."
"This band needs more Nova."
"This awkward sexual encounter needs more Nova."
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I... I thought I was alone...
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Definitely! I was just re-reading some of secret invasion, with 3D-man, demon-slayer, stingray and other state teams. I really wanna know what's going on with the wider initiative now Dark Reign's over. We saw a bit in Marvel Zombies 3, that American Eagle one-shot and the Last Defenders mini, and all that did was whet my appetite for 50-State initiative stories.
What the hell with the rotating teams all the time everywhere in every book by the big 2?
Acuna is too good of an artist to keep moving around like this.
See, I want to care about Black Widow, but I really just can't. I cannot get behind that character as a protagonist, and it sucks because my shelf is sadly devoid of female-centric ongoings apart from one She-Hulk trade which isn't going to get expanded on because a) crap art and b) not that well written.
Did you see the final issues of Ms Marvel? They stopped giving a shit about that comic before the last arc came out. The storytelling went to shit and the art completely fell the fuck off. In the final panel of issue 50, Ms Marvel suddenly turned into a black woman with blonde hair.
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