Avengers vs. X - Men enwrap up this week , and both Earth ’s Mightiest Heroes and ( most of ) Marvel ’s spanking mutants dodged a fiery demise at the hands of a resurrected Dark Phoenix .
But after a slobber - bosom throw - down with an tempestuous avian primeval force , who ’s still willing to compensate their Avengers membership dues ?
In a league call today , io9 joined author Jonathan Hickman ( Nightly News , Fantastic Four ) and Marvel editor in chief Tom Brevoort to discuss Hickman ’s coming scripts for both Avengers and New Avengers , which hit stores December and January , respectively .
The former “ utopian ” title admit a stamp that will balloon up to 24 superheroes several issues in . The latter “ apocalyptic ” comic consists of the Marvel Universe ’s Illuminati , or behind - the - setting power brokers like Captain America , Iron Man , Doctor Strange , Black Bolt , Namor , Mr. Fantastic , the Beast , and Black Panther . Some of the Illuminati are n’t pals right now — see : Namor , who flooded Black Panther ’s realm of Wakanda while stoned out of his gourd on the Phoenix Force — but Hickman promises that an impending emergency brake will leave in strange bedfellows :
The accelerator is an event in Wakanda with Black Panther , the only human beings who narrate the original Illuminati it was a mistake . Something occurs so earth - shattering , he sees no other course of action than to call on them [ … ] This result is so huge than even the people in the Illuminati who do not presently like each other are forced to put divergence by .
As for the public and idealistic Avengers , they ’re draw from conversant faces like Hawkeye , Hulk , Spider - Woman , Thor , and Iron Man , as well as two lesser - sleep together mutant — Sunspot and Cannonball , former members of X - Force and the New Mutants . Brevoort explain why reader will see these two novel military recruit :
cannon ball and Sunspot are at least chronologically younger character . It ’s always good to have those type of figure in Avengers to bring a fresh standpoint . That said , they ’re also lay down Marvel fictitious character [ … ]
When Brian Bendis bring Luke Cage and Spider - Woman into the Avengers , they were n’t the most democratic characters , but they had legitimacy . I think it will be the same thing with Cannonball and Sunspot .
Hickman would n’t dilate on the catastrophe that would unite this improbable gang of heroes , but the ersatz Superman Hyperion ( of Squadron Supreme / Squadron Sinister celebrity ) will be postulate in some capacity . Knowing Hickman ’s proclivity for all - comprehend galactic heftiness , here ’s hoping evenThe Black Monolith from Jack Kirby ’s 2001 : A Space Odysseycomic book adjustment gets sworn in to preserve the day . *
- The Black Monolith ’s superpower would be to germinate things extra - fast . Like , if Wolverine was drinking a beer and needed to fell to Latveria at the drop of the chapeau , “ Old Blocky ” would transmute his lager into a sentient F-15 made of hops . “ You ’re the best at what you do , ” Logan would grunt demurely , “ Transforming Labatt Blue into fighter jets ! ” ( Man , I should really write this down . Like , not in a public forum . Really pip myself in the foot here . )
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