[The Canadian Content]

Beta Ray Bill and Nova would be enough to get me to sign up. No guarantee it'll be an actual Avengers team, but the "Mightiest" tagline certainly suggests it.

My initial thoughts on it:

• Looks like an immensely powerful team -- maybe too powerful
  
• They're going to need to convince me that Gladiator can play nice with the others and that he's there because the Shi'ar want him there
  
• Isn't Silver Surfer back Heralding for Galactus?
  
• Who's the green dude on the right? Terrax?
  

Anyone else want to chime in?

[salmonjunkie]

The last time I read anything with Nova was the original New Warriors team. It seems like he's all over the place now, with his own series (which I understand is popular), the Annihalation story and the Avengers and now this. It seems like he's the current face of Marvel's cosmic stories where it used to be Silver Surfer.

So how'd that all happen? And does Surfer still not have his own book anymore?

[OpTard]

the guy on the right is ronan the accuser. he's kree.

fred van lente has said he'll be writing a new avengers ongoing. a galactic avengers can very possibly be that.

if true, my guess is the final team will be mostly this but with 2 or 3 differences in the line-up. that seems to be the M.O., putting a team together during an event (thunderbolts during civil war, x-force during messiah complex) then spinning into it's own book with a slight change in roster.

if nova stays on the team my guess is he would leave the secret avengers. based on just reading the first issue it looks like nova's role on the team is keep an eye on space stuff. if they decide to put a whole team together for that purpose then they won't really need someone in that role on the secret avengers itself.

and if i remember correctly, since war of kings gladiator is actually emperor of the shi'ar, so he can be part of any team he wants. but he seems like the type of guy to me that would be part of the team during the thanos imperative event, but not actually make it as a regular in the ongoing series.

and no, surfer hasn't had his own book for quite some time now.

[The Canadian Content]

Thanks for the clarifications, Zig. I'd completely forgotten about Ronan.

As for what's been going on with Nova, he has kind of been everywhere recently, and he's definitely been the cosmic poster boy for Marvel. He's been at least tangentially involved in all of the major cosmic events, and he pops up somewhat frequently in books like Guardians of the Galaxy.

He recently had some of his power stripped and divided up between new Nova recruits, which was actually a good thing because for a while there, he was just "unstoppable space guy."

So there's a Nova Corps, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and now, potentially, Space Avengers. Looks like the cosmos will be well taken care of.

[Stu]

The only Marvel ongoing I get is Deadpool (everything else I used to get was either cancelled or relaunched with a jacked up price, and I wait for the trade with Iron Man), so I'll just say I like Beta Ray Bill's hammer, I guess. Reminds me of Ultimate Mjolnir. Also I'm not fond of all the teams getting "Avengers" slapped on as their name. Secret Avengers for instance. Isn't that just Secret Warriors with better known characters? It'd be like if DC renamed The Outsiders as Justice Leage Covert.

[DevSop]

Secret Warriors and Secret Avengers are two totally different books. Secret Warriors is basically Nick Fury, Dugan, and a bunch of new heros. Secret Avengers is Steve Rogers covert Avengers team.

[Stu]

Jul 16, 2010 17:48:18 GMT -5 DevSop said:

Secret Warriors and Secret Avengers are two totally different books. Secret Warriors is basically Nick Fury, Dugan, and a bunch of new heros. Secret Avengers is Steve Rogers covert Avengers team.

I mean though, since Steve's now doing the job Nick used to, isn't him leading a covert team basically the same sort of thing as Secret Warriors?

[Lucky]

Jul 16, 2010 17:31:52 GMT -5 Stu said:

It'd be like if DC renamed The Outsiders as Justice Leage Covert.

[Stu]

Yes, exactly, though Justice Leauge Elite was actually good. Just not really Justice Leaguey. Why is there a basketball for an O in the Task Force one?

[Lucky]

Its a globe.

[The Canadian Content]

The point that they've really been driving home since the relaunch of all the Avengers teams is that these people get to be Avengers because Steve Rogers says they get to be Avengers. They have to live up to his legacy -- or try to, at least. No Fury-led team has that kind of emotional clout to it.

[Stu]

I knoew Steve got the SHRA abolished, but is the 50-states initiative thing still in place?