The Vision is by far the most "Avengery" character on the line-up. Wasp did cross my mind, and they did explain why Ant-Man wasn't on the team. Leaving Sentry out was a good idea, he hasn't been dead long enough. I would actually have thought about trying to work Hawkeye onto the team; yeah, he's alive right now, but he's been dead a lot lately. Could be some good story potential there.

I just hope all these characters aren't being resurrected permanently (other than Vision, he can stick around!). I admit I have to wonder if the line-up is partially being picked due to copyright renewal reasons...







Hopefully, but I've bought title before that were solicited one way and didn't work out that way in execution. For example, I thought Siege was going to be about the reunion of Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor. Turns out that Avengers Prime is the series that happens in, and we're 2 issues in and the characters have shared about 3 pages together so far (they've been scattered across the nine realms of Asgard).




Don't expect the Scarlet Witch to be a part of the series. While it's called Chaos War, there is a mini-series being published right now called "Avengers: Children's Crusade", which is about the Young Avengers trying to find Wanda. I would expect Wanda is off-limits elsewhere for the most part until this mini is resolved (which being bi-monthly will be awhile, it's a 12-parter).

Chaos War is about a "God Squad" of Hercules, Thor, Silver Surfer, Sersi, and one or two more characters I think, and Galactus is apparently a member too. They team together to prevent the Chaos King (the god Mikaboshi from Japanese legend) from destroying reality. It feels rather fanboyish to me, honestly (let's put Thor and Silver Surfer on a team with Galactus!). Apparently the new Hulk Family will also be a part of the story (because the Hulk and crew get involved in cosmic stories so often...).

I think Pak and Van Lente were going for a wow factor with their God Squad, but it feels lame to me. DnA's cosmic team-up that's been teased for Thanos Initiative actually captured the feel the God Squad was going for, which was a "holy crap that's awesome" reaction. Nova, Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill, Quasar, Ronan the Accuser, and I think I'm forgetting one other character. With all the work that's been done on these characters by DnA (and the addition of Bill) it really is an exciting team-up.




I will probably give it a flip at the store and make it a game-time decision on whether I pick it up or not.

~Hat~