New Mighty Avengers

[azure_flame_god003]

 




On the one hand: interesting team lineup; Counter: LAND 

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=45933

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[freezer]

I assume Bottom Left woman is Monica Rambeau... who has been turned into Michelle Obama, apparently.

[shadowpsykie]

oooor.... Monica Rambeu wa modled after a time traveling Michelle Obama....

[captainbellman]

Oh Monnie...I miss your dreads and cool longcoat look. And that team you used to hang out with and try not to destroy. And those crazy wonderful adventures you all got up to.

I...can I just have a moment...

[Listens to the "Nextwave" theme song by Thunder Thighs on a loop for the next 7 hours]

[sun_man]

yall actually think she looks like Michelle obama?

They are both black women but outside of that I don't really see the comparison.

[flash_fan]

She doesn't really look anything like Michelle Obama though, aside from being a black woman.

[freezer]

So we've got a lineup of Luke Cage, Falcon, Dr. Spiderpus, White Tiger, Triathalon(?)*, a new(?) Ronin, She-Hulk, Photon and Blue Marvel*.

So we've apparently got a robot team, a mutant team, and now, a black team, along with the upcoming female X-team.

Marvel: The House of Segregation?

* Whom I would've sworn was dead...

[thezmage]

Not Triathalon, Power Man (the new one). Also White Tiger, Spiderman, and She-Hulk are not black

[long_silence]

Triathlon isn't dead.

He became the new 3D-Man in the Initiative just in time for Secret Invasion. And then he joined the Agents of Atlas just before they were canceled

[stolisomancer]

A black woman; two black dudes, both of whom are or were married to white women; one Afro-Dominican kid from Hell's Kitchen; a Puerto Rican woman (Ava or Angela, whoever it ends up being); a white woman who's green most of the time; a white guy; and whoever ends up being in the Ronin suit.

That doesn't sound like segregation to me so much as the average population of a New York City subway car.

Mod Note

[salinea]

Don't imply that several characters of colour in the same team is the same thing as segregation.

[ensiform]

All I get out of this lineup (aside from a brief "Huh, a lot of faces of color, that's good") is: "So... the Avengers lineup is pretty much whichever characters the writer likes now."

Yes, it's always been a changing roster, but ever since Bendis' New Avengers it's been moving away from a core historical lineup with occasional additions, to a team made up with a Random Character Generator (With Previously Loner Characters Given Weighted Chances To Get a Place On the Team).

[darkknightjrk]

Another reason why we should lament the rise of Spock: We'll be missing out on so many "token white guy" jokes.

[theflames]

The team is fine, no one I'm interested in though.

The art and graphic design is lack luster though.

[jlbarnett]

Is Echo still alive? Maybe she's Ronin again?

When did they kill Triatholon/the new 3-D Man?

Monica Rambeau should become the new Ms. Marvel since Carol is the Captain now.

[protogarrett]

She was fridged to make Moon Knight a more noble white guy. Yes, they killed the only deaf superhero in publication in a minor book.

[urkonn]

I remember Kieron Gillen said he couldn't use Patriot for Young Avengers because he was planned to be used somewhere else. I'll bet he shows up here.

And this just in, the Sinister Six are renaming themselves The Sinister Avengers.

Also, a new book will chronicle the adventures of Tigra's son and his friends in Avengers Daycare .

[auggie18]

Also, a new book will chronicle the adventures of Tigra's son and his friends in Avengers Daycare.


You joke, but I would read the shit out of that book.

[sir_razorback]

Isn't the 'Fired' storyline happening sometime before this?

http://www.newsarama.com/10723-marvel-now-teasers-return-spider-man-is-fired.html

Wonder how that relates to this. Also wondering if they stated for sure that's SpOck, and not Kaine?

[stolisomancer]

He's wearing Ock's new Spider-outfit from the solicits, but September's a ways off.

[paradoxrealm]

What?
A team book *without* Wolverine?

Flee! The end times are upon us!

[long_silence]

Shh, before you know it they'll bring in a kid of his and Storm's from the future

[dewinged]

I know, I know, boo Land he's the great evil ect, ect.

I don't care. Monica...the hair, the new costume (new name too: Spectrum)...she looks fucking AMAZING.

[icon_uk]

I'm sure that Genis Vell will be along to take her latest name off of her before too long.

[stolisomancer]

I like the idea of a team that has both a hero and his legacy on it, although I'll admit I hoped Fred Van Lente would be writing this thing.

Al Ewing did a nice job on those two recent issues of Avengers Assemble, though, so I'm tentatively hopeful for this. I'll have to hold my nose and deal with Land's not-art.

[bizarrohulk]

So ... we have two absurdly powerful characters, two upper-midcarders and a bunch of street-level guys who are completely redundant?

[stolisomancer]

It's always going to be more about playing them off each other than sheer power levels, particularly these days. What I'm going to be interested in is how Ewing gets away with Blue Marvel in a team setting, since nobody's ever written the character before besides Grevioux and Grevioux got... a little carried away.

[cypherfdp]

Dr. Fate, what are you doing here?

[akodo_rokku]

Yeah, that's a weird take on the Blue Marvel costume. Also the last time he was seen he wasn't wearing a mask any more.

[spidermanwashere]

Good to see White Tiger out and about.

[big_daddy_d]

Initially groaned but once again the line up has made me want to buy this book.

[nyadnar17]

How is Marvel getting so good at taking my money every month? There must be a spy....

[starwolf_oakley]

I"m curious about this, because Luke Cage and Victor Alvarez don't like each other. They are both from the streets, for reals, dawg. But Luke went on to sip champagne with Tony Stark.

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I wonder Victor's attitude towards Luke Cage is Fred Van Lente's "take" on how Bendis would have Luke Cage call everyone he didn't like a "sellout."

[nyadnar17]

Good point. I hope they really play up and explore Blue Marvel's, Luke Cage's, Falcon's, and Power Man's different perspectives on what it means to be "black".