

Don’t get me wrong – I’m for anything that draws attention to this corner of the Marvel U. These characters have spent too long playing second fiddle to the x-milking cows of the House of Ideas, and it’s great to see a bit of a paradigm shift in their direction. What I am a little apprehensive over, is that the mass-marketing of Marvel’s ‘Avenging Trinity’ as the core of the team, that may put the Avengers in the same predicament as DC’s Justice League. With the JLA, fans are forever split between those who believe the teams nothing without the trinity of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman (or to another extent the ‘Big 7’), and fans who just want a decent writer with an interesting mix of faces.

Sure all the egg counting before the hatching takes place could end up in vain, as there will probably still be at least one title, like Mighty Avengers, that still has that ‘classic’ feel to it. Just as a fan who’s collected Earths Mightiest, on both coasts, through the 80’s and 90’s until Heroes Reborn, then jumped back on when Kurt and George took over, you always get a little nervous when a little ‘new coke’ flavour starts heading your way.
*Sigh* – retaining old fans, while attracting the new – remind me why anyone wants to be a comicbook publisher again?
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