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Get ready for Avengers 2099...even if that's not actually the series' title.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=59001

But, hey, it's Peter David, so I'll at least read the first issue.

Oy!

That mysterious G. Willow Wilson project that we assumed would be an X-book? It's actually an Avengers book, and it sounds horrible. What a waste.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=59095

Yea, agree on that. No real interest here.

Thanks, Cobie.

When are the Big Two going to learn that nobody wants a team that's all one gender??

Agree completely. There should be one token female character in a male group and that's it... What?



tee hee

Why, those aren't my words! There are no typos!

I recognise those from another of your music posts. I mean her, I recognise her from another one of your music posts...darn typing...

I think Her (the Marvel Comics character, not Soraya) would have made a good Avenger.

In honor of John Byrne, who would often refer to Sue Richards as the 'distaff female' member of the Fantastic Four, the token dude should have a staff.

And get kidnapped and need to be rescued by the ladies a lot.

On the other hand, we've *almost* had an all LBGT Avengers team...

Although I know the name, I'm not familiar with Her too much. Sadly, a quick wiki search indicates she's spent a lot of her time searching for her perfect mate, a sad female comic character stereotype.

Him, on the other hand, seems to have been the Ultimate Avenger at some point. So that's gender equality Avengers style for you

What made Her interesting was that she was essentially comics' first super-powered transwoman. She was originally the male Paragon, the second attempt at genetically engineering a super-person by the same people who created Him/Warlock. Then Paragon reformed the cocoon, and emerged as Her. So basically she was learning how to be a woman, and took on stereotypical behaviors. Her evolution pretty much stopped after her "adoptive father", writer/editor Mark Gruenwald, died.

There's a very disturbing scene in an issue of Quasar's solo book where Moondragon beats up Her while calling her "a parody of womanhood" or somesuch. I think it could be considered a coded representation of lesbian hostility towards transwomen.

More on PAD's mini-series introducing the Avengers 2099:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=59326

I'd say that there's no future in reading Marvel books until their relaunch, but this is set in 2099.

Okay so, I'm going over some stuff after reading She-Hulk #12, and, I'm getting the sense that Doctor Druid is a #$%^&^%%&.

Anyone have any thoughts on the character?

The only Avengers book I've read with him in it, had him playing a practical joke on She Hulk. She thought he was a #$%^&^%%& then too.

I killed him in my first Marvel Universe fanfic.

His son's an adorable mess, though.

I've never read a comic with his son in it.

The Adventures of Undergraduate Druid!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...round-out-all-new-all-different-avengers

So apparently Mark Waid is getting a second chance at writing the Avengers.

And the current Ms. Marvel is joining the team.

That's all very well, but I just can't bring myself to feel anything but ennui.

Waid has had yet another rennassiance these last few years but I feel the same way.

The line-up alone looks like yet another garbage one.

I think the new lineup is Marvel's attempt to appeal to the youth demographic. I wonder how successful it will be though.

Good point, Stalgie.

I know Cobie's not impressed by the new Ms. Marvel. I myself give Marvel and A for effort but a B minus for what they've achieved with her to date.