Yup, It's The Mighty Avengers with Greg Land

So it's official there's another Avengers book coming out of the woodwork soon and it's something that's a bit of a surprise, in fact it's mighty-ly surprising. Mighty Avengers folks with Al Ewing and Greg Land. 

There's actually of bits and pieces that you need to analyze and read so I'd recommend you visit Newsarama for that. This is what I can say however, it's a team led by Luke Cage; It's spinning directly out of the events of Infinity and they have the Superior Spider-Man in it. Here's something of interest however, these characters are former and future and current Avengers, yet they've never functioned as a team. 

Also getting an 'Ultimate Spider-Man' vibe while looking at these promotional materials. 

Oh and is that -- Ronin? But who could be under the mask? That couldn't be Clint Barton as he's Hawkeye again and its not even Echo because she's like dead already. Interesting.

Marvel Legends Brings Out the Thunderbolts for SDCC 2013

One of my favorite iterations of the Thunderbolts aside from the classic team as well as the Civil War era one was the Luke Cage led version. That team was the best looking team not to mention had a variety of skill sets. Now Hasbro is bringing that version of the THUNDERBOLTS to their MARVEL LEGENDS line for SDCC 2013. 

This team will be composed of the following members:

Luke Cage Returns to the Avengers with Mighty Teaser

Not going to be outdone by DC's announcement, Marvel Comics released a new teaser dubbed as 'Mighty' together with the reveal that Luke Cage will be returning to the fold while the cosmic war known as 'Infinity' happens. 

From the battlefields of Infinity comes a new team to protect Earth! With the Avengers light-years away in space, contending with the Builders and Thanos’ marauders ransacking the Earth, who will stand in defense of mankind?"

We also get the hashtag to use for all Infinity related posts, discussions and topics with #marvelinfinity. 

There are a total of six different slots for this new team with Cage taking the first slot. If you'll notice it also follows the pattern that Jonathan Hickman has been doing in Avengers with a complex graph featuring each member's icon. 

Who are my bets for this new team which may or may not be the Mighty Avengers... So far the obvious choices are Iron Fist (Danny Rand, Luke's bestfriend) and Jewel (Jessica Jones-Cage). 

Source: Newsarama

Age of Ultron # 4 Spoilers

More death and drama in Age of Ultron. I swear this issue was good yet depressing. The book is written by Brian Michael Bendis with breakdowns done by Bryan Hitch.

Spoiler alert folks, check out the highlights after the cut...

AGE OF ULTRON # 3 SPOILERS

Wow! Twist ending that was. Here's some major spoilers for Age of Ultron # 3 by Brian Michael Bendis and Bryan Hitch.

In the third issue for the Age of Ultron, the heroes have started their move to learn more about Ultron and hopefully gain a foothold over their robotic enemy. During the discussion of what to do, the collected heroes list down some of the more powerful heroes who have fallen during Ultron's blitzkrieg attack...

We also find out what the plan is, which will revolve on Luke Cage and She-Hulk...

The heroes plan would be to 'trade-off' She-Hulk to Ultron for additional information and intel. This of course would be done with the help of Cage who also revealed that Jessica Jones Cage and their baby Danielle has also been casualties of Ultron's attack. Meanwhile in Chicago, we find out that Taskmaster, Black Panther and the Red Hulk have teamed up to get more intel about Ultron's cyborg army.

Rulk attacks a lone cybory and beheads said cyborg with T'Challa hoping to skim off data from the severed head. The plan runs afoul and Rulk is forced to fight dozens of Ultrons covering the escape of Taskmaster and Black Panther.

Too bad for T'Challa as he slips and dies during the escape.

Back in New York, Luke enters Ultron's citadel and finds out who's really running things and its none other than their teammate the Vision...

Looks nasty.

New Avengers Annual # 1 Shows How Badass the Iron Legion is

Seen the second trailer for Iron Man 3 with Tony Stark and Jim Rhodes (played by Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle respectively)? Awesome right? Too bad we have to wait till April 25 to see Iron Man 3. To whet your appetite for the so-called Iron Legion, here's some scans from the now hard-to-find New Avengers Annual  #1.

In this tale written by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel, we get a glimpse of the New Avengers during a down time.

Luke Cage and Jessica Jones at this point isn't married yet. They will be, however, at the end of the issue. Just right after the team fights off the attack of the vengeance seeking Yelena Belova, who also happens to be the second Black Widow. At this point in continuity, the New Avengers have just begun operating and foiled a conspiracy in the Savage Land. Poor, poor Yelena however is burned by Sauron during the encounter with the Avengers. Later, HYDRA offers to graft Super Adaptoid technology into her to get even with Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Yelena's managed to defeat the team's heavy hitter, The Sentry, by absorbing his powers...

Spider-Man uses his big brain to give Iron Man an idea on how to effectively stop the rampaging Belova...

Stark leaves the battle for a bit and makes a heroic return...

... together with the rest of the armors in his armory...

That's not even the coolest bit, as we find out that the billionaire playboy philantrophist is nowhere in the battlefield but is actually in the comfort of the Avengers Tower controlling the movements and the actions of each and every armor with the help of the Extremis virus in his system.

I also want to point out that Tony Stark here in this particular scene looks so much similar to the Tony Stark we're seeing in the trailer (during the parts where he's testing out the new armor, with the said armor shooting straight towards his hand).

Of course, I'm not going to spoil anything more than what I already know, but it does not end well for Belova. On a lighter note, the team later celebrates the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Cage.

The team even goes and get their picture taken, which is pretty, pretty sad. Sense of nostalgia and all that.

If anybody ever encounters this issue, don't go and think, just bloody the issue.

New Avengers # 34 Spoiler Heavy Review - Welcome Back Doctor Strange

While there might be a new volume of New Avengers looming in the horizon, we should look at how the final issue of the current volume ended.

So the other Brother Voodoo still has a raging mad-on for the the death of his brother Jericho Drumm (who became the new Sorceror Supreme around New Avengers # 1 Vol. 2). 


To make Strange suffer for this failure to save his brother, the insane Brother Voodoo mind controls every member of the two Avengers teams gathered in Avengers Mansion. 

Marvel Replaces Thunderbolts with Dark Avengers

Marvel Comics has announced that they are officially replacing the ongoing "Thunderbolts" book with a new title called "Dark Avengers" but retains the original numbering for the book.

The new "soft relaunch" will still be written by Thunderbolts team composed of writer Jeff Parker together with the rotating team of artists Declan Shalvey and Kev Walker.

The book will still show Luke Cage as the team leader and will now be taking over the Dark Avengers team that Norman Osborn brought together during the last story arc of Brian Michael Bendis "New Avengers" and "Avengers" books.

If you're wondering what the heck happened to the former Green Goblin and former Director of H.A.M.M.E.R. you'd be glad to know that he was transformed into a "Super Adaptoid" and later landed in a deep coma after absorbing ALL the powers of the Avengers including the special alien DNA coming from The Protector aka Marvel Boy.

Expect the New Dark Avengers to make an appearance in Thunderbolts # 175 which is going to be retitled as Thunderbolts # 175.

Meet Ultimate Spider-Man's Supporting Cast

Disney XD's Ultimate Spider-Man TV series is about to be released and to build up more hype, Marvel has released new images for Peter Parker's super powered supporting cast.

Luke Cage

In the TV series, Luke Cage reverts to his old school code name of Power Man and will be part of the teenage class that SHIELD will be teaching to be the next generation of metahuman heroes.

(Being that Brian Michael Bendis is lending a helping hand with the development of the stories for this, we should be expecting Luke to make an appearance.)