Marvel is Putting Together Yet Another Avengers Team
Because why not?
Apparently Marvel took a look at their exhaustive Avengers comic book franchise – Avengers, New Avengers, Dark Avengers, Secret Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, Avengers Assemble and Avengers Arena – and realized that they don’t have a comic using the adjective ‘Mighty’, which is the classic Avengers adjective. So faster than you can say “give me another Avengers comic”, it seems that Marvel is going to do just that.
All week long, Marvel has been unveiling the lineup for a new series that so far is only titled ‘Mighty’. But why else use that adjective if you’re not then going to combine it with ‘Avengers’? The new comic isn’t going to be called ‘Mighty Heroes 4 Hire, that’s for sure’. That would never sell. The concept for the team is going to revolve around the upcoming series Infinity, Marvel’s next Big Event comic. While the normal Avengers are out in space dealing with Infinity, Luke Cage is going to remain on Earth and assemble a new team. I guess that’s a good enough reason to pop out yet another Avengers comic.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t care less about the characters on the team.
We’ve got Cage, She-Hulk, Superior Spider-Man, White Tiger, the new Power Man and Adam, the Blue Marvel, a character you’ve probably never heard of before because he only ever appeared in a single mini-series several years ago as a Superman-esque hero.
Are you kidding me!? Brian Michael Bendis is taking an obscure, Superman rip-off who only ever appeared in a single old mini-series and turning him into an Avenger? Does he live in some kind of fantasy land where he thinks people actually liked the Sentry? The Sentry was terrible. How could Marvel possibly think the Blue Marvel could be any better?
Alright, enough angry ranting. I just wish I knew what rules are in place when a writer puts together a new superhero team. How many times has this been done before? A writer creates a new comic and throws in a bunch of random characters to make a team. Bendis himself does it at least once a year. His original New Avengers reboot was that exact thing. As was every iteration of the Avengers comic that Bendis ever wrote. What about Matt Fraction’s Defenders series from a few years ago? Or any of a bajillion different X-Men comics?
I just don’t think team membership means anything to anyone anymore. Where are the days when team members actually meant something to one another? When they could actually build bonds and stick together for awhile? Why are these characters so utterly interchangeable, and why does Marvel feel the need to just keep cranking out random assortments of superheroes and calling them Avengers?
Anyway, that’s my rant for today. Take it for what you will.
Posted on June 6, 2013, in Avengers, Comics, Marvel, Spider-Man and tagged Brian Michael Bendis, Mighty, Mighty Avengers. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
Henchman-4-Hire 
Ok, let’s take the hypocrisy down a notch. What’s Monet have to do with Madrox and X-Factor? What’s the lineup of Secret Six if not the most deliberately obscure supervillains the writer could find…and Deadshot? I think you’ve gone insane. Luke Cage getting all the street-level heroes for a Terrestrial Avengers team is not crazy. Yes, Bendis likes his obscure Superman rip-offs….and the Hood. But there is no way that the guy who’d add the Wonder-Twins to any comic book that DC would let him if given the chance, can tell Bendis “Don’t add the Blue Marvel, nobody likes him.”
Also you need to review and buy every comic with Superior Spider-Man in it. Because eventually Peter Parker is going to come back and I’m going to miss Octo-Spidey. So we need to relish it while we can.
I was only ranting against Blue Marvel and his similarities to the Sentry! I’ve always wondered what goes into letting writers put together a random superteam since all the way back during Banshee’s X-Corps. It’s a legitimate interest of mine.
Actually Dark Avengers recently ended and I bet that Mighty Avengers is just going to be a miniseries during Infinite, no way that team is going to become an ongoing.
No way? I think you underestimate Marvel’s desire to cash in on the Avengers name.
Agreed, it seems like everyone is a member now
I agree in that Marvel is going overboard with exploiting their popular IPs. There are so many X-men teams and Avengers teams now that it is just ridiculous. Pepperidge farm remembers when there used to be only two (Max) teams of Avengers and X-men, and even though that setup might not have been better, it was certainly less confusing. This new line-up that Luke Cage has assembled doesn’t intrigue me at all. I miss his New Avengers team from when they were on the run from the law.
It is my firm belief that we’re approaching a day when every single comic Marvel producers will start off with “Avengers Presents…” or “Spider-Man presents…” or “Wolverine presents…” That’s just the way it’s going to be.”The Avengers present…The Fantastic Four!”