After the global box-office domination of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes it really is an Avengers world! Avengers World is the first arc of Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena’s relaunch of the series. The team will expand its roster, scale and scope.
“The premise of the book is that the Avengers need to get bigger, and they need to be able to handle not [just] global threats in the sense of there’s a revolution in Latveria that Doctor Doom is leading and it could spill over into all of Europe—what I mean [is] there are threats to the entirety of the planet is kind of the scale of what we are talking about. And so, that’s where we start. We’re moving towards Avengers Universe, where you see why you need a team with Hulk and Hyperion and Thor and all of these incredibly powerful characters. You see why the team has to be constructed that way, because of the stuff that we’re building towards. Again, the point of this is not your typical kind of international events that require the Avengers to globe-trotting and all that kind of stuff. We start out bigger than that and grow from there. [Laughs] That’s the best way I can describe it in abstract,” Hickman explains on Marvel.com.
Avengers #1 is out this week! Don’t forget New Mutants fans – Sunspot and Cannonball are joining the team too!
By Editor