So Paul Tobin and I had a very healthy 2-hour phone call, figuring out who our new team of Avengers would be in MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES, starting over with Issue 17 in November. We were exhausted by the end, but finally got a REALLY cool team together. My favorite part of the conversation was when I tried to talk him into have Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, AND Marvel Boy on the team. I was kind of fooling around. Kind of.
I also told him that I’d asked about two dozen people who their super-seven A-Team would be comprised of, and several of the teams (like Jordan’s) were nigh-ridiculous.
I’m not going to reveal the entire team to you (Cap’s on it. That’s all I’ll say. I’ve said too much), but I will reveal that I got kinda obsessed with asking people about their perfect Avengers team. So much so that I started cold-calling creators and forced them to give me their teams with little-to-no preparation or time to think.
So this is the All-Star Avengers Selection List, I guess. Again, these are their real lists, I didn’t make them up…
CHRIS ELIOPOULOS (writer of Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers, writer/artist of Franklin Richards)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
IRON MAN
THOR
WASP
GIANT-MAN
HAWKEYE
HULK
(it should be noted that Chris is like me, in that he has not really read Marvel Comics in the past 5 or 6 years)
COLLEEN COOVER (artist for TONS of stuff, including Spider-Man Family, X-Men First Class, Power Pack, Lockjaw)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
IRON MAN
THOR
WASP
GIANT-MAN
SCARLET WITCH
QUICKSILVER
(Colleen and I are very similar, in the sense that we are both married to Paul Tobin. She in the literal sense, I in SO many different ways)
RALPH MACCHIO (the legendary editor of many definitive Avengers runs)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
SCARLET WITCH
HAWKEYE
THE VISION
QUICKSILVER
GIANT-MAN
BLACK PANTHER
FRED VAN LENTE (writer of Marvel Zombies, Amazing Spider-Man, X Men Noir, Eminem/Punisher, co-writer of Incredible Hercules)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
IRON MAN
THOR
DOCTOR STRANGE
SUE STORM
SPIDER-MAN
HULK
JEFF PARKER (writer of Agents of Atlas, X-Men First Class, The Hood, formerly Marvel Adventures the Avengers)
IRON MAN
HULK
SUB-MARINER
QUICKSILVER
MEDUSA
MS. MARVEL
GIANT-GIRL/WASP
GREG PAK (writer of World War Hulk, Incredible Hulk, War Machine, co-writer of Incredible Hercules)
HULK
REED RICHARDS
WAR MACHINE
THOR
NIGHTCRAWLER
ARMOR
MS. MARVEL (PHOTON)
SCOTT GRAY (writer of Uncanny X-Men First Class, co-writer of Fin Fang Four)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
HAWKEYE
MACHINE MAN
BETA RAY BILL
THUNDRA
MOONDRAGON
HELLCAT
CHRIS CLAREMONT (Seriously? You don’t know what he’s written? The man’s a legend.)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
IRON MAN
HAWKEYE
WASP
ELEKTRA (“just to be a scary person”)
MS. MARVEL
“UNKNOWN 3RD WORLD MYTHOLOGICAL PERSON” (because he doesn’t like Thor)
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