Ares mini>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Drax and the sentry Mini.
I was never that big a fan of the Marvel gods before reading the mini but after hearing so many people recommending it to me I decided to check it out. I'm glad I did.
and it's worth reading just to see Herc and Ares version of the fastball special.
in an interview with a large number of the minds behind civil war, bendis started tossing around some strange ideas about what might happen post-CW. including suggesting that stark and cap might be changing roles, as each of them personifies a certain aspect of america. "who's to say it's even tony wearing the armor, or steve wearing the suit?" i believe that was the quote.
so don't get your minds to racing too hard, because you could all be looking in the wrong directions.
My point is that u dont have to have class 100 characters to have a good storyline. JLA has too many powerhouses, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Superman, Martian Manhunter, characters that hardly have any weakneses. The most recent incarnation of the JLA is the more diversified since it has a couple of heroes that aint level 100. The DC teams i like the most are Birds of Prey and Teen Titans, teams that dont necesarily are the most powerful. DC overpower its characters, Marvel characters are more believable.
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But you'll very rarely find them sorting out problems with their fists, so i think you'll find, youre still 'chasing shadows' with youre point. Infact I think youre arguement is far more appropriate when applied to the LAST volume of the Avengers. If u read most of the stories created by Brusiek they often followed certain a formula involing 'miraculous' escapes, generally followed by a serries of unorginal punch ups. Infact power creativity has never really been associated with the Avengers. On the other hand, Morrisson and Waid showed they where masters of it, during their respective JLA runs.
The JLA IMO, has always been the last resort team that deals with the Uber problems that the other teams can't handle. Infact i think Metzler put it brillaintly, when he considred why a character; who could move planets and can travel at near light velocities would need team mates ? He concluded that the JLA is all bout threats and problems that the Gods cannot 'tackle'. Which is why you need the uber characters on the team and wide diversity in 'fire power'. For example, Aquaman is not on the team becasue of his strength and durability, but because of his other abilities and resources. The same applies to the M.M and G.L.
I dont have problem with the general 'weakness' of this Avengers team, infact i think its considerably stronger than the last one. But it does lack adaptability espcially in the useage of powers. I think Bendis has dug himself a hole, as i think many of the fights/battles are going to descend into nothing more than Baroom brawls.
Rubbish .... Powers provided by radioactive Spiders, Nuclear Blasts and Cosmic rays are not more believable.
I hate when people pull out this, 'I read Marvel because D.C.overpower their heroes and marvel is more beilevable' card. Its Ironic they are the ones who usaully state that characters like Thor, Hulk, Wonderman, Hercules Silver surfer e.t.c. could easilly beat D.C. higher teir characters, in the vrs forum.
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That is quite cool .... Although i think he could do with a KANG/Forge power. I.e. Kang can pull any appropriate weapon/shielding from any point in time, and Forge's mutant powers is to create any weapon he can think of. It could be some sort of quantum probability power, where he literally alters probability (Maybe with his godlike magic) to provide himself with the weapon he needs. What does everyone think ?
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