I actually just re-read all of Hickman's Avengers Run and realized that the last substantial thing that happened in New Avengers happened in issue 8. It's been spinning its wheels for 10 issues and issues 7-8 slowed down quite a bit from the greatness of the first 6. The problem with Hickman is that he seems much more interested in writing New Avengers when I'm sure that marvel editorial wants him to be more focused on Avengers. His Fantastic Four run was great because the FF aren't the epicenter of the entire marvel universe and so he had more freedom to do what he wanted. The Avengers under Bendis however became THE MARVEL BOOK to read, the same way that JLA/Justice League has been for DC. Not that it was the best book published, but all the ongoings (Besides X-Men) basically assumed you were reading New Avengers/Avengers. Hickman's Avengers are much more self-contained, in line with his FF run. Tony Stark is arguably the main character of Hickman's entire run, yet Kieron Gillen's Iron Man run makes more reference to Guardians of the Galaxy which Tony was in for about 7 issues (which also seemed to **** over Gillen, because he couldn't do anything substantial with Tony because Hickman had the reins). And while it's fine for Bendis to write the Avengers as the center of the Marvel U connecting with a lot of characters and events, and it's fine for Hickman to write a very contained Avengers with very certain specific plot and character points, it sucks for a Hickman story to undergo a editorially-mandated expansion to become more like a Bendis story. Which is why Infinity was okay at first read, but now is a chore to go through.
It certainly looks like Hickmans Infinity has a lot to do with this. Maybe the Great Destroyer WAS Thanos, and the Black Swan didn't recognize him, that time Thanos bypassed her locked in a cage?
and get to the point where -- as Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort puts it -- "time runs out for everybody."
Hickmans architecture of Time displacement, started when Bendis introduced the notion of breaking Space-Time, and continues in Aaron's Original Sin, where The Watchers involvement in the Multiverse is added. As Aaron states in OS #1, the Watcher has been witness to all of this, and knows whats coming, so his death was not a surprise. (But you do wonder, who takes over the mantle of The Watcher, now that he's dead[or is he])?
This whole re-emergence of the All New Marvel Universe, is peppered with uncertainty, linked to Fractures in time, time displacements, and now as Aaron reveals, dark clouds are forming that Captain America is wholly unprepared to confront, one being the Incursions, and Steves naivety that Hope Will Win Out. But it's more than that. I get a flavor throughout the OS books that the characters are unaware of what is going on around them. They can't get a handle on it, and they are reacting to the shifting circumstances, instead of analysing them. Cap punching Stark is evidence of this, because Stark is the least of their problems, and what does punching Stark get you? Nowhere. Then suddenly, the Avengers are thrust into the future, because the Time Gem suddenly appears. Doesn't this set off a lot alerts in everyone? No. They just string along by circumstance and the whole thing feels like an inevitable destiny.
There's no mention of a final Incursion in the body of the article, just in the headline.
Last edited by jackolover; 06-05-2014 at 04:29 PM.
That was my thought too; that Thanos was the god of the Black Swans.
No just a renumbering. All-New Avengers or something.
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