New Champions Appreciation 2018

[Digifiend]

I wonder if Vision will take over funding the team? Amadeus lost his fortune so he can no longer do it. The other possibility is new power couple Iron Man and Wasp, as his protege and her step/adopted daughter are both on the team. But Kamala probably wouldn't appreciate it as it would give them a major tie to the Avengers. With Vision, it'd just be Dad doing daughter a favour. Of course, he can't earn anything from his government liaison job while he's in the repair shop though...

[Kurolegacy]

I wonder if Vision will take over funding the team? Amadeus lost his fortune so he can no longer do it. The other possibility is new power couple Iron Man and Wasp, as his protege and her step/adopted daughter are both on the team. But Kamala probably wouldn't appreciate it as it would give them a major tie to the Avengers. With Vision, it'd just be Dad doing daughter a favour. Of course, he can't earn anything from his government liaison job while he's in the repair shop though...

But couldn’t you say the same about Janet funding them? I mean, we saw in the last 2 issues of Unstoppable Wasp the lengths that Janet will go through to help Nadia. Plus considering she has the backing of Pym’s assets, I’m sure she’d be glad to help especially given the Champions stance on helping the world.

[Triniking1234]

Is Vision's wallet even on par with Rich Spidey , Iron Man and Stingray? Best solution is to ignore that part of Pak's run or say he started something else and made his money back.

[mreddie]

The timeline doesn't make sense - Miles no longer HAS a solo book, and the last arc of his last one can't be set at the same time as the Champions' Infinity Countdown issues, as the Champions guested in the last two issues (and with a lineup that still included Cyclops - though there's no real reason Nadia couldn't have replaced him). Planet Hulk II/World War Hulk II being then is fine though.

I wonder if Nadia will miss issue 22, due to events in her miniseries with Ant-Man? That's actually set during Infinity Countdown as well.

Well, that mini confirms time is faster in the microverse so it's possibly the entire mini could be set in a hour but weeks in the microverse.

Zub is basically confirming a Miles solo but not just yet. Plus, setting it before the Spider Man last arc is kinda messy.

[Magmaster12]

For funding if it were up to me I'd do an issue that parodies Shark Tank but with a bunch of D-List Super Heroes/Villians trying to get funding for a team, with Ahura as one of the judges.

[CrimsonEchidna]

The timeline doesn't make sense - Miles no longer HAS a solo book, and the last arc of his last one can't be set at the same time as the Champions' Infinity Countdown issues, as the Champions guested in the last two issues (and with a lineup that still included Cyclops - though there's no real reason Nadia couldn't have replaced him). Planet Hulk II/World War Hulk II being then is fine though.

That was a screwup on Bendis' part since by that part, the 05 should have been written up.

I’m pretty sure he just couldn’t think of anything for them to do - Miles always gets the short stick in this, like when Waid didn’t care about writing him so replaced him with Gwenpool in an issue explicitly about racism, without acknowledging he wasn’t there.

I mean, keep in mind that Sam, Kamala, and Scott were also not included in any of the Secret Empire tie-in issues. I don't think any of this is an intentional snubbing on Zub's part, just him trying to make a really messy timeline work.

[Digifiend]

Nadia's solo has been revived. Assuming Miles has one too, that means we're back to up four Champions family books (Kamala's obviously being the other one).

[J. D. Guy]

I hope Jim Zub is lying through his teeth because Riri's new costume is awful at least in terms of design but taste might differ of course. But if the functions can impressive and make her more set apart from Tony.

It's fine if you don't like it, but it's presumptuous to say you hope he's lying because you don't.

[Frontier]

Whenever a writer wants to do a big Sam-focused storyline, I ask myself "Is he ever going to really find his dad?"

[Digifiend]

^Bring back Novas, dammit.

[Dragonick]

Whenever a writer wants to do a big Sam-focused storyline, I ask myself "Is he ever going to really find his dad?"

That's a good question to ask I don't know when the answer will be yes but it's an excellent question to be asking.

[Michael Watkins]

Well, that mini confirms time is faster in the microverse so it's possibly the entire mini could be set in a hour but weeks in the microverse.

but they'd still only be gone an hour.

[Kurolegacy]

Whenever a writer wants to do a big Sam-focused storyline, I ask myself "Is he ever going to really find his dad?"

Yea I still remember how we wasted an Avengers arc in Waid's run on the plot point and it still went nowhere. Between that and Pymtron, I'm wondering if Marvel is just in a competition with itself to see which can blue ball the fans more.

[mreddie]

Whenever a writer wants to do a big Sam-focused storyline, I ask myself "Is he ever going to really find his dad?"

Sean Ryan's run sucks because of that bullcrap.

[The Dying Detective]

It's fine if you don't like it, but it's presumptuous to say you hope he's lying because you don't.

Understandable and I was thinking of Harry Potter when I wrote that really.