Last time I really kept up with the Avengers, Black Knight wore a jacket and had a light saber, and there was a foil cover that had an embossed picture of Vision on it. I have absolutely no recollection of who they were fighting, or what was happening. I also have no recollection of the issues being particularly bad, so I have no ill will towards the Avengers. I just can’t really remember anything about them.
What I’m sayin’ is I have no Avengers anchor, no personal connection to who the Avengers “should” be. So when I hear people (JORDAN D. WHITE and other people not named JORDAN D. WHITE) complain that some Avengers teams aren’t the “real” Avengers, it doesn’t mean anything to me. I figure if you've got a group, and you've got something that needs avenging, let 'em avenge that, and we can call them the Avengers.
So now that MARVEL ADVENTURES THE AVENGERS (a team that was initially built for the purposes of marketing our more popular characters, with the noticeable exception of the awesome Jeff Parker creation, Giant-Girl) and MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR are going away, I’m funneling a lot more energy in the remaining MA titles, Spidey and Super Heroes. And I’ve decided to make Paul Tobin the regular writer of both, because we seem to get each other and he’s bald.
And we figure it’s a good idea to make MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES a book about the BEST hero team we can think of. We’re not necessarily calling them The Avengers at the beginning, but for the purposes of creating a super-team, we may as well call them that.
With all of this in mind, I’ve been going around the office this week, asking people to give their ideal 7-person roster of Avengers. “Seven” is the only restriction; any Marvel character is invited. I wanted to get a sense of who people really wanted to see on the team.
So before I bring Paul onto the blog to discuss how we ultimately chose our magnificent seven, here are a few of the options I was given. Some are pretty good, and some are really really really really really really really really really really bad (especially Jordan’s, which may need a blog post of its own):
LAUREN SANKOVITCH
CAPTAIN AMERICA (S.R.)
IRON MAN
THOR
CRYSTAL
SHE-HULK (JEN WALTERS)
HAWKEYE
BEAST (BLUE, NO CAT-FACE)
(note: Very strong list, 'cept Crytal)
JORDAN D. WHITE
CAPTAIN AMERICA (STEVE ROGERS)
IRON MAN
THOR
SHE-HULK
WONDER MAN
VISION
SENTRESS
(note: HAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
CHARLIE BECKERMAN
DEADPOOL
ROGUE
WICCAN
MOLLY HAYES
AMADEUS CHO
STORM (90’S VERSION)
BLACK BOLT
(note: He doesn’t know anything about Marvel Comics. And he’s influenced by the current Deadpool fad.)
MARK PANICCIA
GALACTUS
M.O.D.O.K.
WEREWOLF-BY-NIGHT
DEATHLOK
LADY CABLE
CASSANDRA NOVA
KITTY PRYDE (IN THE GIANT BULLET)
(note: I am stunned Monica Rappachini isn’t on this list)
TIM DILLON
CYCLOPS
ICEMAN
BEAST
JEAN GREY
CANNONBALL
WARPATH
BISHOP
(note: Tim is an idiot that lives in the '90s X-Men animated cartoon)
ARUNE SINGH
HAWKEYE
BLACK PANTHER
CAPTAIN AMERICA (S.R.)
CAPTAIN MARVEL (ORIGINAL)
BLACK WIDOW
THUNDERSTRIKE
IRON MAN
RICH GINTER
CAPTAIN AMERICA (S.R.)
IRON FIST
BLACK WIDOW
BETA RAY BILL
HAWKEYE
INVISIBLE GIRL
WAR MACHINE (ORIGINAL)
JEFF SUTER
WASP
HULK (ORIGINAL)
THOR
IRON MAN
CAPTAIN AMERICA (S.R.)
BEAST (BLUE)
THE SENTRY
(note: Jeff Suter is a fan-favorite. He once killed a bear with a blade of grass. You have never heard of him.)
C.B. CEBULSKI
WASP (NON-CROSS-DRESSING VERSION)
IRON MAN (DRUNK VERSION)
THOR (SIMONSON VERSION)
BEAST
WONDER MAN
HAWKEYE
MOCKINGBIRD
JIM NAUSEDAS
HAWKEYE
CAPTAIN AMERICA (S.R.)
HERCULES
VISION (WHITE/WITH TOES)
NOVA (CURRENT)
IRON MAN ('90S)
QUICKSILVER
CHRIS ALLO
CAPTAIN AMERICA (S.R.)
PHOENIX (PRE-DARK PHOENIX)
HULK (PANTHEON)
THOR
MS. MARVEL
WOLVERINE
QUICKSILVER
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