Marvel’s first post-Bendis issue of Avengers, written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Jerome Opena, will be in comic stores tomorrow. But is Marvel taking it easy and banking on the fact that the pre-Marvel Now version of the book was one of their bigger sellers, or that its being written by one of their A-List creators, or that it shares the name with a near-billion dollar movie that just came out just six months ago to sell the thing? Fuck no; that would be lazy. Besides, why rest on your laurels and prior achievements when you’ve got motion comics algorithms, a microphone with a dude with a semi-deep voice, and possibly and purely by speculation a pile of pure flake cocaine burning holes in your pocket and / or nose (if you believe the rumor that I made up just now)?
Stack on top of those assets about 15,000 comic Web sites looking for something cool to talk about on a lazy night before New Comics Day, and it means that Marvel’s created a trailer for Avengers #1, which you can check out after the jump.
Okay, so it looks like Hickman is planning to stay true to his usual form and make Avengers a big idea book, with more than its share of outer space / cosmic action. But the one thing that stuck out for me in that trailer was the reference to Hyperion – the Superman pastiche from Squadron Supreme. This could go… badly. I think we all learned from Sentry’s appearance in Bendis’s Avengers (and his eventual death) that the last thing The Avengers, if not the entire Marvel Universe, needs is a Superman knockoff. As a one-off crossover, fine… but here’s hoping that Hickman thinks long and hard before having Tony Stark hand Hyperion over an Avengers ID.
One way or the other, we’ll see tomorrow when the book hits shelves. And if Hyperion joins The Avengers? Hell, even I start might believing my made-up cocaine rumor.
Update: Yeah, it turns out that Hyperion in The Avengers is a thing that is happening.
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