If it was anyone other than Al Ewing doing this, I'd be "meh." But given his past output -- he gave us American Kaiju! -- I feel he'll treat with with as much satire as it deserves.
Definitely a strange announcement, but Ewing's great and it's safe to expect there to be a strong vein of satire in this.
The team lineup looks fun, I'm especially glad to see Danielle Cage's Captain America and the Golden Skull from the excellent Ultron Forever miniseries. Toni Ho as the new Iron Patriot is a cool move, and a series with a (presumably) satirical bent is right place for the Iron Patriot identity. And is that Pod featuring a slimmed down new design? I'll miss her old look.
Also, with that white streak in his hair, Sunspot is looking even more supervillainous. I wonder if his being born and raised in Brazil will be mentioned given the USA theme of this series.
I love Red Hulk's glorious 'stache so much, I want it retroactively added to all his previous appearances. Yes, it might spoil the mystery of who he was, but let's be honest. The mystery was crap and most of us figured out who it was early.
My only concern is where did half of the New Avengers cast go? (Okay, I've a feeling that Songbird is still triple agent so they couldn't put her on the cover, but the others?)
My guess is that Wiccan, Hulkling, Power Man and White Tiger are staying in New Avengers possibly joined by Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales and Nova from ANAD Avengers, plus America Chavez and Kate Bishop. Think Young Avengers under a different name.
So now not only has Roberto changed skintone, but also nationality? He's not American, he's from Brazil, though his mother is American IIRC (and whatever happened to her, she was AWESOME), so maybe he's dual nationality or something.
I mean, I haven't seen much of Roberto since the Simonson run on New Mutants, but it's worth noting that lots of Americans were born in other nations. It's one of the things about America that we *should* be proud of, but, y'know, sometimes my country makes me sad.
Not sure what the citizenship process for a mutant would be (nightmarish, I assume) but being rich never hurts these things.
One possible way: she started using "Toni" in school because her peers couldn't pronounce her real (Asian) first name correctly.
Or she could be his granddaughter and had both an American and Asian name from birth. As Ho Yinsen was originally quite a bit older than Stark, I'd go with that.
I imagine that Sunspot will be the leader since he's the giant image hanging over all of them. She might be field leader I suppose, though I'd have thought that Captain America would fill that role.
Given the number of people with sentient tech wired into them in comics; Omega Sentinel, Blue Beetle, Douglock, Hank Pym (at the moment), and now this Pod person (no pun intended)... there really ought to be a support group or something.
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Date: 2016-07-03 03:19 am (UTC)And POD now looks like White Tiger with a glowing facehole.
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Date: 2016-07-03 03:28 am (UTC)(Dani Cage! Yay!)
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Date: 2016-07-03 03:54 am (UTC)And Rulk with the shades and mustache is hilarious.
But Danielle Cage growing up to be Captain America is the best thing ever.
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Date: 2016-07-03 04:01 am (UTC)The team lineup looks fun, I'm especially glad to see Danielle Cage's Captain America and the Golden Skull from the excellent Ultron Forever miniseries. Toni Ho as the new Iron Patriot is a cool move, and a series with a (presumably) satirical bent is right place for the Iron Patriot identity. And is that Pod featuring a slimmed down new design? I'll miss her old look.
Also, with that white streak in his hair, Sunspot is looking even more supervillainous. I wonder if his being born and raised in Brazil will be mentioned given the USA theme of this series.
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Date: 2016-07-03 01:28 pm (UTC)Not sure what the citizenship process for a mutant would be (nightmarish, I assume) but being rich never hurts these things.
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Date: 2016-07-03 01:40 pm (UTC)I'm surprised it took anyone this long to do a title like that, I had a fanfic idea for that title over a decade ago
surprised Songbird isn't in this. I personally expect her double/triple/quadruple agent status will just be her way of following her conscience
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Date: 2016-07-03 01:52 pm (UTC)Or she could be his granddaughter and had both an American and Asian name from birth. As Ho Yinsen was originally quite a bit older than Stark, I'd go with that.
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