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This thread and the Avengers one are taking up my entire weekend as I'm jotting down notes and coming up with all sorts of stuff I'd love to see if I were ever granted the keys to the Marvel kingdom for a title or two. Now, am I willing to actually put it all together and write the proposals, put in time on independent series, or figure out what kind of flowers Axel Alonso or Dan Buckley likes? No. So, this was likely a lot of work for nothing. Thanks a lot, guys!!
Sigh. So, leaving all of that scheming and plotting aside, who would make for an interesting team of not-Avenger Avengers? I'd buy a book with...
Dragonfly and Mandroid- the Ben Grim and Johnny Storm of an alternate timeline where different personality aspects manifested themselves as the Fantastic Four's powers, in this case Ben's love of flight and Johnny's hobby as a mechanic. All the moxie and ever-lovin'-blue-eyed attitude of the never-say-die original Ben in a more vulnerable and yet still bizarrely transformed version, alongside the very-cool-looking, technologically savvy Mandroid. Yeah... maybe we'll give him a new name. "Johnny Five" maybe? We'll work on it... Thundra- I like Thundra. I have since the first time I saw her in an issue of Spidey Super Stories. Would she give this bat-winged version of Ben the same level of attention she used to lavish upon his rockier self? Probably not. But then again... The Impossible Man- Impy unchained! Yes, he has a wife and family now, but you know how he got them? Via mitosis. One more split, and bang! He's a free man again, or at least one of him is. Man, I love me some Impy... I met him in Spidey Super Stories as well, come to think of it... Satana- Because yeow, that's why. Which means we're also bringing in... Lilith- Why are these two figures of underworldly evil working for the forces of Good now? They're probably not. Best keep an eye on them... My guess is their fathers are up to something and they're looking to quash it. Besides, I can't complete the FF trifecta of "Ben's Kooky Quartet" with Tigra in this exercise since she had a memorable stint as an Avenger and an unmemorable one in the WCA. Rats... So I'll go with other early-70's horror-characters in her stead. Man-Thing- I like characters we don't have to write dialogue for. It might be interesting to have Man-Thing's presence on the team be tied somehow to that of an alternate reality Ted Sallis who became his world's Captain America after successfully recreating the Super-Soldier Serum. Of course, MT's real purpose on the team would be to safeguard and provide the combat skills lacking for... Howard the Duck- Who is on the team without pants. No pants whatsoever. What's Disney going to do? Sue itself? Shanna, the She-Devil- One of my favorite Marvel characters. Top-tier. I met her in a Tony DeZuniga illustrated story in Rampaging Hulk 9, and have been blown away ever since. So weird and yet so together at the same time. Ka-Zar- A new Nexus of Realities has opened up in the Savage Land and a whole bunch of people standing nearby just got sucked in. Hang on, folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride... with dinosaurs and bird-men and flying sharks and stuff. This title would have lots of call backs and reliance upon the Bruce Jones series from the 80's.
Edited by Brian Hague on 23 October 2017 at 12:58am
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