As a tangential point, it surprised me greatly to discover that (according to Bleeding Cool anyway) the female superhero with the longest-running solo series for Marvel has in fact been ... Spider-Girl.
We've got Bendis for Avengers, Brubaker for Secret Avengers, and I guess Slott/Gage for Avengers Academy. I wonder if Academy will get an A-list artist?
We've got Bendis for Avengers, Brubaker for Secret Avengers, and I guess Slott/Gage for Avengers Academy. I wonder if Academy will get an A-list artist?
Mike McKone is the rumored Academy artist.
And if they have McKone do 6 issues, and then Tom Grummett does a 2-3 issue fill-in, it will be pretty much Teen Titans again.
The question is, who needs Avenging in secret. Avenging is like justice, you should cry out it's name for all to hear.
edit: and it looks to me like Black Panther.
This is really nit-picking but avenging is not, by definition, justice. I've always hated the name Avengers because while it never fit the whole ethos of the team. Sigh .... I guess that is my problem.
[Before I start expanding on my issues with Marvel and the Avengers, I will point out that at the very least Marvel is publishing three pretty interesting Avenger titles while DC is currently incapable of holding any Justice League team together - so it is not all bad. Anyway ....]
The new titles seem interesting but I am only interested if they can last more than a year / year and a half. Marvel has gotten too use to drastically altering the status quo only for it to be changed again the next summer. There were still plenty of story opportunities to mine from Tony Stark being overseer of US superheroes let alone Osborne.
I can accept some titles having a short life-span (Dark Avengers was fun but could only last so long) but it really hurts a title like Mighty Avengers. Sure Slott's Avengers has been very hit and miss (probably more miss to be honest) but it is barely out of introducing the team and its setting and it is already canceled. It seems clear Slott had spent the majority of his run slowly expanding on where his team was going. Did no-one tell him he only had just over a year?
Anyway I look forward to Avengers Academy and I am curious to see why some Avengers need to be secret but Marvel needs to allow at the very minimum an extra year or two extra onto their current schedule of redoing the Avengers every year.
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You guys are nuts.
Ms. Marvel is the perfect selection for the alpha female in the Marvel world. Her powerset is the classic flying brawler, with a couple pieces of flair like costume manipulation and energy absorption thrown in for interesting detail. Her past sucks, I agree, but it's not like they highlight it all the time and shove it down the reader's throat. She seems to be the most believable character in the Marvel Universe, IMO. She went proreg because it was the law, but in almost all encounters with antireg heroes, she let them go, because she knew they were doing the right thing. She didn't flop over until it was very clear (Norman taking over) that shit went sour. I would have made pretty much the exact same choices.
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I agree with you, apart from the pro-reg thing. I think it's a good part of a characters but not a "good" part of her character, if you get my meaning.
Classic flying brawler is a bland powerset. Every generic superhero has that powerset, and yet none of Marvel's prominent male heroes share it. This is because they need unique gimmicks to stand out.
Nova is a flying brawler with energy blasts, and he's a great character. Sentry has those powers and is also another great character. Flying brawlers are fun, they have have big mid-air punch ups (though I do like them to have some energy based abilities)
And yet both are cool to read about despite their so-called "bland" powerset. I'm saying that the reason they are used a lot is because they are lots of fun.
But I seriously doubt either Nova or Sentry are going to become A-list characters either. Often non-A-list characters have far better story-lines but that doesn't mean they can become the 'face' of their company in the way someone like Spider-man did.
In fact, I would suspect the freedoms of having less important characters (at least from an editorial standpoint) is of a huge boon to writers. Nova, I would believe, greatly benefits from being a B or even C list character as there is probably far more leeway in terms of having to tie in to event books etc.
So I would never said Ms. Marvel cannot be entertaining - as pretty much any character. I also never said she couldn't become a more high profile first tier character - I would rather it be given to a different character. But ultimately
Truthfully my objections come from my fear that if successful, they would make a Ms. Marvel feature film. This would in turn mean my rather obsessive film buff friends would dissect her character history and bug me about the aforementioned incident in her past (as I am the only open comic book reader in the group). As two of them will often employ a feminist critical framework, it would leave me with some rather annoying conversations - which would be repeated for a few weeks
It may be selfish but I am already going to have to explain my fondness of Hank Pym when the Ant-Man film is released, so I am a bit weary of any other character with histories that I really don't want to have to explain / be berated for reading
EDIT
Okay posted that before seeing Furu's response ... which is probably closer to what I wanted to say than my own post - damn!
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Might be Moon Knight, could be a member of Osborns Initiative who has switched sides, hell, with a cloak and that tag line it could even be who I desperately want it to be but unless Rob Reynolds got a really dodgy manicure lately...
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Secret Avengers announced. Who could it be? More importantly, Deodato and Brubaker are the creative team. Yay!
So that's why he left Daredevil? Hmm... I'm okay with that, then.
I concur.
edit: and it looks to me like Black Panther.
That even looks like Venom but I don't think the quote matches him.
May be Secret Avengers = Thunderbolts?
What Avenger do we know that has one arm?
It's a funky pose - I'll go with Spider-Man since he's my fav.
Mike McKone is the rumored Academy artist.
And if they have McKone do 6 issues, and then Tom Grummett does a 2-3 issue fill-in, it will be pretty much Teen Titans again.
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This is really nit-picking but avenging is not, by definition, justice. I've always hated the name Avengers because while it never fit the whole ethos of the team. Sigh .... I guess that is my problem.
[Before I start expanding on my issues with Marvel and the Avengers, I will point out that at the very least Marvel is publishing three pretty interesting Avenger titles while DC is currently incapable of holding any Justice League team together - so it is not all bad. Anyway ....]
The new titles seem interesting but I am only interested if they can last more than a year / year and a half. Marvel has gotten too use to drastically altering the status quo only for it to be changed again the next summer. There were still plenty of story opportunities to mine from Tony Stark being overseer of US superheroes let alone Osborne.
I can accept some titles having a short life-span (Dark Avengers was fun but could only last so long) but it really hurts a title like Mighty Avengers. Sure Slott's Avengers has been very hit and miss (probably more miss to be honest) but it is barely out of introducing the team and its setting and it is already canceled. It seems clear Slott had spent the majority of his run slowly expanding on where his team was going. Did no-one tell him he only had just over a year?
Anyway I look forward to Avengers Academy and I am curious to see why some Avengers need to be secret but Marvel needs to allow at the very minimum an extra year or two extra onto their current schedule of redoing the Avengers every year.
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Ms. Marvel is the perfect selection for the alpha female in the Marvel world. Her powerset is the classic flying brawler, with a couple pieces of flair like costume manipulation and energy absorption thrown in for interesting detail. Her past sucks, I agree, but it's not like they highlight it all the time and shove it down the reader's throat. She seems to be the most believable character in the Marvel Universe, IMO. She went proreg because it was the law, but in almost all encounters with antireg heroes, she let them go, because she knew they were doing the right thing. She didn't flop over until it was very clear (Norman taking over) that shit went sour. I would have made pretty much the exact same choices.
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And the entire point of Sentry is that he is a Superman pastiche.
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You realize how silly this reads from an outsider's point of view?
"Characters with those powers are bland!"
"Well what about these not-bland characters with those powers?"
"That's different."
In fact, I would suspect the freedoms of having less important characters (at least from an editorial standpoint) is of a huge boon to writers. Nova, I would believe, greatly benefits from being a B or even C list character as there is probably far more leeway in terms of having to tie in to event books etc.
So I would never said Ms. Marvel cannot be entertaining - as pretty much any character. I also never said she couldn't become a more high profile first tier character - I would rather it be given to a different character. But ultimately
Truthfully my objections come from my fear that if successful, they would make a Ms. Marvel feature film. This would in turn mean my rather obsessive film buff friends would dissect her character history and bug me about the aforementioned incident in her past (as I am the only open comic book reader in the group). As two of them will often employ a feminist critical framework, it would leave me with some rather annoying conversations - which would be repeated for a few weeks
It may be selfish but I am already going to have to explain my fondness of Hank Pym when the Ant-Man film is released, so I am a bit weary of any other character with histories that I really don't want to have to explain / be berated for reading
EDIT
Okay posted that before seeing Furu's response ... which is probably closer to what I wanted to say than my own post - damn!
...I don't know.
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i thought this at first, but I think it would be hilarious to have magneto on the team.
It could be Moon Knight, I guess?
Now that I look at it, his fingers are really pointy. Maybe it is a green/hob goblin thing?
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It'll be hilarious if it's the Hood.
Although I really like him as the Peter Parker of the criminal world.
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