Just a bit of fun fanwork here.
Imagine Marvel decides to give the Avengers line a big relaunch in the template of Dawn of X. Let’s go with six books to match, for simplicity’s sake. What what you do?
I’m not going to bother saying what my House of A / Powers of A books would be, that’s perhaps too much thinking for this time of day, but...
- Shining Avengers — this is the main book, the big heroes, the smiling faces, the shining examples of heroism for the world.
- Shadow Avengers — This would be the Avengers analogue to X-Force, the new CIA tinged version, not a kill squad. More Secret Avengers and Strikeforce than Dark Avengers. (You could honestly just call this the Ultimates, or Strikeforce, or Force Works, but I like new adjectives and this pairs well with the one I want for the main book)
- Zodiac — inspired by DoX taking the Marauders name and repurposing it, this would be a book of a bunch of Avengers and Avengers aligned characters coming together at the call of Leonardo do Vinci. Like the Zodiac we saw in Secret Warriors, it would be a mix of heroes and unheroic characters. The one thing I’d do is avoid putting former Illuminati members on the team. I’d also branch out beyond your standard super characters: Okoye, Count Nefaria, Victoria Mantesi, an eclectic mix of people you can buy being in a secret cabal.
- Liberators — a reworking of the Lady Liberators with a less corny name. I’d make the name more literal and also give it a cosmic slant, having it been an interdimensional/interstellar team of freedom fighters.
- Next Avengers — I think I’d have this as a new version of Avengers Academy / the Initiative. It would be something like a youth program or summer camp in that you’d have one generation of young heroes as a mentor to even younger generations. Young Avengers mentoring the Champions, for example.
- Thunderbolts — I like the thunderbolts
Part of me does want to rework this so less books have “Avengers” in the title.