THE MIGHTY AVENGERS aka THE BLACK AVENGERS
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About ? time we have a majority Minority Avenger Team, and I am not a big Avenger fan but it's about time.
But with Blue Marvel, Monica aka Captain Marvel bka Photon now goes as Spectrum and Luke Cage is one of Marvels Strongest and Powerful Avenger group. With only Blue Marvel and Monica they would stomp out a whole lot super teams and villians in the whole marvel universe.
Adding the Mighty Avengers to the Pull List
here's the PLAYERS on the TEAM
BLUE MARVEL
Superhuman strength, speed, flight, energy projection, antimatter manipulation, and invulnerability
LUKE CAGE
Superhuman strength, stamina, and durability
Unbreakable skin is highly impervious to damage and temperature
Accelerated healing factor
Excellent street fighter and hand-to-hand combatant
Monica Rambeau
Can convert body into any form of energy within the electromagnetic spectrum.
Energy generation, absorption & manipulation.
Travel at speeds up to the speed of light while in her energy form.
Able to travel in energy form through the vacuum of space
FALCON -
Empathic link with pet falcon
Ability to see through the eyes of nearby birds
Flight
Skilled martial artist and gymnast
POWER MAN (Victor Alvarez)
Gains superhuman levels of strength and durability by abosorbing chi
SHE HULK
Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, and durability
Regenerative healing factor
Power-switching
Breaking the fourth wall
SUPERIOR SPIDER MAN
WHITE TIGER
RONIN
But with Blue Marvel, Monica aka Captain Marvel bka Photon now goes as Spectrum and Luke Cage is one of Marvels Strongest and Powerful Avenger group. With only Blue Marvel and Monica they would stomp out a whole lot super teams and villians in the whole marvel universe.
Adding the Mighty Avengers to the Pull List
here's the PLAYERS on the TEAM
BLUE MARVEL
Superhuman strength, speed, flight, energy projection, antimatter manipulation, and invulnerability
LUKE CAGE
Superhuman strength, stamina, and durabilityUnbreakable skin is highly impervious to damage and temperature
Accelerated healing factor
Excellent street fighter and hand-to-hand combatant
Monica Rambeau
Can convert body into any form of energy within the electromagnetic spectrum.Energy generation, absorption & manipulation.
Travel at speeds up to the speed of light while in her energy form.
Able to travel in energy form through the vacuum of space
FALCON -
Empathic link with pet falcon
Ability to see through the eyes of nearby birds
Flight
Skilled martial artist and gymnast
POWER MAN (Victor Alvarez)
Gains superhuman levels of strength and durability by abosorbing chiSHE HULK
Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, and durabilityRegenerative healing factor
Power-switching
Breaking the fourth wall
SUPERIOR SPIDER MAN
WHITE TIGER
RONIN
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For the past several days, Marvel Comics has been teasing fans with a graphic labeled "Mighty" featuring a growing number of icons representing their superheroes and assembled in the design style championed by writer Jonathan Hickman. The accumulated images have led many to expect that the publisher will be launching a new "Mighty Avengers" title out of their incoming "Infinity" event series, and today they confirmed it.
As part of their latest "Next Big Thing" press call, Marvel assembled writer Al Ewing, SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort to confirm that a new volume of "Mighty Avengers" will debut this September from the writer and artist Greg Land and will feature a team including Power Man, She-Hulk, White Tiger and Blue Marvel.
"It's a fairly key 'Infinity' component," Brevoort said of the book. When the core Avengers team leaves earth to deal with the threat known as the Builders and Thanos attacks the planet they leave behind, this team forms around Luke Cage in order to battle back again the Mad Titan. "That will be the core cast that makes up this book...really the course of our first number of issues will show our cast coming together."
The editor said that it was him who saw the potential for another Avengers team to roll out of this event, and after working out the place within the larger "Infinity" framework, he recruited Ewing to write. "Immediately, I thought of a niche. I'm pretty sure this was the niche you guys were going for anyway, but it was for a team of Avengers on the ground as part of the community – almost a community outreach thing," the writer said.
The call promised that many more characters beyond the ones teased this week would be a part of the team including Monica Rambeau who Ewing was very excited to write. "She's got a new costume and a new name, but she's kind of rejoining the superhero set in terms of rebranding herself. She's basically coming back as Spectrum, which we batted around possible names, and you could tell that one had a kind of hard science-fiction feel to it. One of the things I love about Monica...is that she was once the leader of [the Avengers] team, and it's great to have her in that position again." He added that he's finding new ways to use the former Captain Marvel's powers and ways to incorporate her history into the group and book.
The series will also use Falcon and a new version of the mystery hero Ronin which Ewing joked was "the character find of 2013" but the identity of the hero would remain in shadow. "We'll find out why we don't know who he is and why he's remaining hidden" in the first issue, the writer noted adding that there will be some costume changes and identity changes over the first issues and first year of the series.
Greg Land's standard and Bryan Hitch's variant covers for "Mighty Avengers" #1.
Overall, the team will be full of heavy hitters, though Luke Cage won't take the field leadership role due to his responsibilities as a father. But Ewing said the Blue Marvel would be a take charge character in the adventures of the new Mighty Avengers. Meanwhile, the Falcon and Power Man represent two sides of the coin in that the former is a team player who follows orders well while the latter bristles at being told what to do. "They're all going to have different ways of putting their ideas forward, and a lot of sparks will fly," he said.
"It's a very idealistic assortment of characters which is embodied by Luke," Brevoort said. Cage has an idea for what the Avengers can be, and this series will allow the character's view on the role of the organization going back to Brian Bendis' issues of "Avengers" focusing on his home neighborhood of Harlem to be seen in a better light.
The call spoke to Land's role in the series as this is the artist's first "Avengers" title. "He's got a really tight looking superhero art style," Brevoort said. "He can do action. He can do storytelling...and as he's done for us in the past, Al is writing this book in classic Marvel Style. He's working plot first, so hopefully Greg is getting an opportunity to flex some storytelling muscles he doesn't always get to use.
This will be Ewing's most recent Marvel project focusing on many fan favorite heroes after his "Age of Ultron" tie-in for "Avengers Assemble." "It's something I take very seriously," he said. "I've never been a fan of A-list or B-list or C-list character...you never say to the first firefighter that comes along to save you 'Oh no, you're a C-list firefighter.'" He said that his previous work at Marvel utilizing characters like Captain Britain and the Black Knight were because they were personal favorites, but with the Blue Marvel, he had to be introduced to the character. Since then, however, he's fallen in love with the hero. "He's almost the opposite of the Sentry in that instead of the mental instability that marked that character, this is a guy who thinks very carefully and seriously about everything he does." The writer said he knows what it's like to have a favorite character that never shows up that much, and he's happy to bring back a hero certain fans have been clamoring for.
Brevoort said it was "no accident" that this team is very diverse in its makeup saying that he's used to fielding questions about Marvel doing a team of "Black Avengers" or any other group with a minority focus. He said that he'd always felt the concept was fake and forced, but "The reality is that he people who are interested in these characters and want to see heroes that reflect them have a genuine point. We first started conceptualizing this book in February around Black History Month, so there was a lot of talk around that." He said particularly a huge inspiration for the book was the late writer Dwayne McDuffie. Brevoort said he wanted to make a book that McDuffie would have made in terms of there being at least 50% non-white, non-male characters. And as it turns out, the final balance is more than 50%. Brevoort promised the series didn't mean that more diverse characters won't show up in other titles, but this series needed that as an anchor thanks to the guiding presence of Luke Cage.
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Speaking of which, asked about the presence of the new Power Man on the same team as the original hero to hold the name, and Cage will not likely take to his spiritual successor. "It's not the kind of teach/student relationship that Danny [Rand] and Vic have. When we first see them, Vic is doing an internship for Heroes For Hire...it's like when you're running a business and there's a slot for your friend's kid who you don't really get along with because he's kind of a ? ," the writer said.
The Superior Spider-Man will also take a part on the team, though with the mind of Otto Octavius in the driver's seat, questions abound as to his motivations. "He's not going to miss a giant, horrible thing happening in the middle of New York," he said of the "Infinity" launch for the series. From there, Otto takes a "Who do you people think you are?" approach to the new team trying to protect "his" city, and his place on the team will be a rather antagonistic one as he forces his way into the proceedings.
As for the overall team dynamic, the creators promised that would develop over time since they first come together amidst a crisis. "It's going to be a classic, free-form Avengers team of the sort you would have seen in the '70s or '80s," Brevoort said.
Ewing said that he jumped into writing in the "Marvel Method" of plotting when he got his first gig on "Avengers Assemble." Now "There's a lot of dialogue in it, but it leaves plenty open for Greg to do what he wants," the writer said. "So far, we've got a few pages that are kind of thrilling. Every time I get a new page, I get what everybody is saying [about the process]. I'm quite enjoying it so far." He spoke about one sequence in an early issue featuring the villain the Plunderer where Land drew Ewing's request for the bad guy to be "ranting" in a way where the writer said the final text would be "One of my top ten all time rants." Ultimately, he called the style of scripting much more dynamic than writing out everything for an artist to follow to the letter.
The call confirmed that Iron Fist will not be a big part of this series. "I think it's inevitable that eventually he will turn up in the book...but not initially," said Brevoort.
Ewing said that there is potential for a lot of strange pairings and complex character relationships as each member of the team has a different role. She-Hulk will be along for both her brawn and her legal knowledge since this team will not be associated with S.H.I.E.L.D. like the classic Avengers.
On the villain side of the equation, Thanos and his "Infinity" generals will appear, but some new villains are showing up as well as some classic bad guys – one with a connection to White Tiger. "The Plunderer is not the toughest threat they'll ever face in their time as a team," Ewing deadpanned.
The writer also said that of the lessons he's learned from his years writing for "2000AD" is to write with a certain density to the stories in each issue as well as working in some humor bits amidst the action.
Locale wise, the team won't be restricted to the streets of New York. "There will almost certainly be some kind of terrible hidden mountain," Ewing said. "I'm thinking in terms of who they'll be fighting and where that might take them."
They also revealed that one character who was in the mix early on but didn't make the cut was Wolverine, which led to quite a bit of laughter as this may be the only Marvel franchise expansion that doesn't involve the X-Man. The book will feature Jessica Jones at moments, and Cage's wife won't be entirely happy that he's getting back in the superhero team game. But she does support Cage's vision for a new kind of Avengers and a new kind of superheroing.
"Mighty Avengers" #1 ships in September from Marvel Comics. -
Will purchase this in the vain attempt to help it last past 12 issues. That being said this is a GREAT idea with a powerhouse team
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dope.....
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Cool team, but the powersets are too similar IMO. Four out of nine characters on there are bricks. They are supposed to be going up against Thanos so having a lot of muscle isn't a bad thing, but they'd do better to have more brains on their team too if they want to contend with him.
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »Cool team, but the powersets are too similar IMO. Four out of nine characters on there are bricks. They are supposed to be going up against Thanos so having a lot of muscle isn't a bad thing, but they'd do better to have more brains on their team too if they want to contend with him.
Spidey-ock and photon act as the brains. -
Doc Spidey has exactly 0 experience with cosmic level threats. And is Photon really a top tier intellectual/strategist?
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Spidey or Spock doesn't seem right on this team.......Iron Fist should replace him
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race war?
blacks losing -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »Cool team, but the powersets are too similar IMO. Four out of nine characters on there are bricks. They are supposed to be going up against Thanos so having a lot of muscle isn't a bad thing, but they'd do better to have more brains on their team too if they want to contend with him.
@TheLoniousMonk do u or anybody know if Monica power level is still the same when she led The Avengers in the late 80's i know they said that she was to powerful to write because her power she was one of the most powerful beings in marvel universe she was going up against skyfathers and celestials they tried to depower her some.
With her and blue marvel that's a whole lot of power on one team -
Spidey or Spock doesn't seem right on this team.......Iron Fist should replace him
Dr. Voodoo might join later and Ronion might be Elijah Bradley but i think it will be the depowered mutant Prodigy who retain the knowledge of the fighting skills of Wolverine, Psylocke, and Shadowcat and The beast and Professor X knowledge and whoever else he was in contact with. -
idk she hulk is black
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she hulk is not black she still cacazoid
also photon aka monica is still powerful like her old self, i think she has been with the defenders
this team is just stepping in for the avengers while they are off in space
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »Cool team, but the powersets are too similar IMO. Four out of nine characters on there are bricks. They are supposed to be going up against Thanos so having a lot of muscle isn't a bad thing, but they'd do better to have more brains on their team too if they want to contend with him.
cs Black Panther needs to be on this team, although Blue Marvel is enough power if written correctly -
Looks dope. Def checkin out.
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wait they going up against thanos? You have the White superheros and some of the most popular superheros getting they ass kicked by Thanos what do u expect to happen to this group
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dalyricalbandit wrote: »wait they going up against thanos? You have the White superheros and some of the most popular superheros getting they ass kicked by Thanos what do u expect to happen to this group
Yeah, no offense to the Minoriteam because it's tight they went in this direction, but still, ? wouldn't be right if Thanos got beat by the B team.
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Dope ass thread, B
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CottonCitySlim wrote: »she hulk is not black she still cacazoid
also photon aka monica is still powerful like her old self, i think she has been with the defenders
this team is just stepping in for the avengers while they are off in space
Infinity is shaping up to be a good event
That's great that her power level is the same as when she led the Avengers, she was one of the first character that villains truly feared in The Avengers when she was Captain Marvel -
dalyricalbandit wrote: »wait they going up against thanos? You have the White superheros and some of the most popular superheros getting they ass kicked by Thanos what do u expect to happen to this group
I don't consider this group secondary or a B Team. Luke and Monica led The Avengers, Monica went up against Skyfathers and the living tribunal was in awe of her power and thought she was a ? , she took the full blast of lightning, planet busting from Mjonir and was unscathed
Blue Marvel is on the same level as Icon, Superman and Sentry
She Hulk is the strongest female in Marvel Universe and can get to the 100 ton range with her being angered at max levels
This is not b league team at all
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waterproof wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »wait they going up against thanos? You have the White superheros and some of the most popular superheros getting they ass kicked by Thanos what do u expect to happen to this group
I don't consider this group secondary or a B Team. Luke and Monica led The Avengers, Monica went up against Skyfathers and the living tribunal was in awe of her power and thought she was a ? , she took the full blast of lightning, planet busting from Mjonir and was unscathed
Blue Marvel is on the same level as Icon, Superman and Sentry
She Hulk is the strongest female in Marvel Universe and can get to the 100 ton range with her being angered at max levels
This is not b league team at all
It is the B team dude. They may not be pushovers, but it's the B team. The only reason they even exist is because the A team is going off in space to help fight a Universal threat. -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »waterproof wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »wait they going up against thanos? You have the White superheros and some of the most popular superheros getting they ass kicked by Thanos what do u expect to happen to this group
I don't consider this group secondary or a B Team. Luke and Monica led The Avengers, Monica went up against Skyfathers and the living tribunal was in awe of her power and thought she was a ? , she took the full blast of lightning, planet busting from Mjonir and was unscathed
Blue Marvel is on the same level as Icon, Superman and Sentry
She Hulk is the strongest female in Marvel Universe and can get to the 100 ton range with her being angered at max levels
This is not b league team at all
It is the B team dude. They may not be pushovers, but it's the B team. The only reason they even exist is because the A team is going off in space to help fight a Universal threat.
I get what u are saying in that Luke Cage is putting them together while The Avengers are in space and making them an 2nd or
B team by default... I'm just saying these are not no B list\league Characters, these are former Avenger leaders and first team Avengers that are powerhouses there's people who don't know the history of Luke, Monica, Blue Marvel, She Hulk because they been out the spotlight. And not knowing Blue Marvel served The Avengers and Sentry ect...or the others.
They can easily be mistaken as a B list team with b list characters that is a B team of the avengers who couldn't cut it on the first team
Now Falcon that ? was and always be that token black sidekick, c list character he's up there with black lighting.
The Puerto Rican women who's the White Tiger need to be showcase more i can see how she might be looked at as a b lister.
But the afro Dominican Power Man have lots of potential i want to see more from him -
Wonder if Blue Marvel fights Sentry when he comes back, Sentry and Thor supposed to get a rematch soon
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Will be copping
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Wonder if Blue Marvel fights Sentry when he comes back, Sentry and Thor supposed to get a rematch soon
It's bout to happen there is to much ego and powerhouse on these Avenger teams not for some ? to pop off.. Blue Marvel, Hyperion, Sentry and Thor the odds are great for a fight to break out and it's The Avengers it's bound to happen.
I want to see Sentry vs Thor and Sentry go all out to his max like when he fought the world breaker.
I think Sentry is going to win they ain't going to let him have another bad outing after the showing he had in WWH and in Heroic Age against Blue Marvel.
Thor fanboys bout to ? on themselves
And Blue Marvel already beat King Hyperion, took on Iron Man, Ares, Wonder Man, Ms Marvel for solo and was laying them down, then got with Sentry. He's bound to face thor also
