Marvel has confirmed the details of its impending
“Avengers: No Surrender” weekly story that launches in January 2018’s
Avengers #675, and runs for 16 issues, through April 2018’s Avengers
#690.
The series will be written jointly by Avengers scribe Mark Waid,
U.S.Avengers writer Al Ewing, and Uncanny Avengers writer Jim Zub, and
will feature the line-ups of all three teams coming together under the
banner of the core Avengers title.
The Earth has been stolen! That’s the kickoff to the
wildest Avengers epic ever put to paper, a widescreen adventure with a
massive cast and an unlimited budget,” said Marvel SVP and Executive
Editor Tom Brevoort in a statement. “Avengers past and present will be
called upon to cope with a threat spanning out of the pages of Marvel
Legacy #1. And like that oversized special, there’s a huge character
return or two along the way that fans have been asking for—and one that
they didn’t even know they wanted!”
Pepe Larazz will draw the first month of “No
Surrender,” followed by Kim Jacinto on month two, and Paco Diaz on month
three.
The artists for the April 2018 issues was not named in Marvel’s
announcement.
I did this homage to a splash page from Avengers #92 as a commission for my good pal. It’s nowhere near to the original page drawn by Sal Buscema, but I surely had fun modernizing characters’ looks.
I didn’t care for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Clunky performances. Cliche dialogue. Disappointing bro-humor. I watched it twice and still don’t understand Ultron’s deal. The only character in the movie that stood out for me was The Vision, who I never really cared about at all before.* He delivered, what I thought was the one great line of the film:
“I’m not what you intended.”
Which should be sort of terrifying. The a self-aware robot – a staple of science fiction – usually heralds in a rise-of-the-machines a style mankind-ending apocalypse.
Our self-aware creations would undoubtably see us as broken and stupid. Which we are. There’s no denying it, even on our best days. We can only grasp at self-awareness in a limited, subjective sort of way. Luckily for us, The Vision, who can scan us up and down and see all our meaty flaws, finds value in the absurdity of the human condition.
Instead of a superiority complex, his own super-human self-awareness has resulted in empathy, which, let’s face it, is probably the last thing his creator “intended.”
I think The Vision is refreshing. Despite being cast in a flawed, violent, BAM SMACK POW genre, he can glide through humanity’s detritus unfazed.
Those Celestial Bodies 