Marvel Teaser: The Avengers Need to Assemble to face Thanos with a Cosmic Cube

@Dernman: Right?

They're pushing the movie canon just a little bit too much..

@Mutant God: I personally think the Nova that appeared in the Marvel Now! tease is Garthan Saal. He appeared in Nova #25 . He was wearing the same black-ish costume when he was talking with Malik Tarcel.

I'll pick up the trade when it's all set and done.

I've been picking up Avengers vs Xmen because I respect the legacy of Marvel. So yeah...

But, I'm going to buy Infinity Gauntlet because I'm nostalgic and I haven't read it since I was a kid.

wow. right on time for the dvd release. great job! not. FAIL. another reason i do not read marvel anymore. its nothing more than another crappy cash in for their films.

I have a hard time thinking this is cannon.. i mean is it past cannon or what?

Does anyone actually read this book? I won't be surprised if it gets canceled when Marvel cancels all of their other crappy books in October.

Pushing a movie, pushing a movie, pushing a movie..... but who cares, Thanos is cool.

Thanos and a Cosmic Cube? Absolute greatness! Merchandise ploy? Of course, but so what?

I'm excited about this and will be checking it out but i also am not surprised since we all know Thanos will probably be fighting the avengers in the next film. So this a good way to advertise him. In fact he has the cosmic cube which is the comic book version of the tesseract.

@Mercy_ said:

I refuse to accept this as canon. It is so blatantly pandering to the movies.

Of course it is. Guardians of the galaxy are in this story and it deals with the cube as well as the avengers? Joe Q is nothing but predictable when it comes to him selling out the company to people who would never pick up a comic book in their life.

Thanos has an artifact of infinite power, and an assortment of heroes must try to stop him. The only twist here is that it's something he's already had before. Apparently, even the Mad Titan must go back to his greatest hits to stay relevant.

Not picking this up because Bendis pandered to the Movie and made Hawkeye and Black Widow hook up, even though Natasha is in the most stable relationship in comics with Bucky.

marvel tries to consolidate all their future movies/tv shows plots and characters into one series?

@dewboy01: Except Living Tribunal doesn't show up when someone grabs a hold of the cosmic cube.

Cosmic cube and infinity gauntlet does have the same infinite capabilities.

...This is a teaser for Avengers 2, right? .....right? It's not? What?

Who needs the Infinity Gauntlet? well if he doesn't want it, I'll sure as heck will take it.

@Quntumking said:

@X35: The Infinity Gaunlet was in THOR. You might already know this , why not feature both.

Yeah but the Cosmic Cube was in a film even MORE.

@X35: The Infinity Gaunlet was in THOR. You might already know this , why not feature both.

@Nova`Prime`: I was going to post the same thing. The Gaunlet has always been like 10x as powerful as a regular Cosmic cube.

is this series worth reading?

i think the only thing that's gotten me interested is thanos

A great man once said that history repeats it'self, first time as tragedy, second time as farce. This is something Marvel might want to remember. 

You know benis you could of at least taken one page to explain how thanos and starlord escaped the cancerverse.

This series is crap. The worst Avengers-related title. Bad characterization, a dissapointing Hulk, stupid plot, meh art from Bagley and Bendis' boring dialogues. I hope Waid takes over the title and change the roster, or else we are screwed.

If this book is "canon" it can be only in the loosest possible sense of the word. It can't be current 616 continuity because this is not the current line up of the team. Possibly these are supposed to be past adventures (and maybe some of them could be considered as such) but I'd argue against that theory as well: there are just too many inconsistencies to be reconciled. For one thing, Banner hasn't been involved with the Avengers during their fights against Thanos (that I can remember, anyway). That leaves only two options: either previous 616 continuity is being discarded in favor of that being newly established by this book, or this book takes place outside 616 (and is canon there). I prefer to think of this book as taking place in or very close to whatever universe the MCU exists in.

@Mr. Kamikaze said:

Thanos isn't the only one that shows up in Avengers Assemble, Star Lord also showed up with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Star-Lord, Nova, and Thanos all died at the same time...so if two are back, assuming this is in fact canon, then Nova has to be back too.

If it is canon, it's kinda stupid they gave no explanation to this at all. Also, Hulk in this book is ALLL WRONG when compared to his own title. If this is canon...then someone isn't paying attention.

That said, the book did get a little bit better as it went on. Wouldn't be all that torn up about it if it were cancelled though.

Bendis doesn't pay attention to continuity, not even current continuity.

It seems like this series is really trying to get the Avengers movie goers to buy this comic

@Mercy_ said:

@DocFatalis said:

The name Bendis shall block me from reading this until a gazillion educated fans tell me it's not the piece of crap it is likely to be given the writer.

It absolutely is. I've been reading it in shop because I refuse to pay money for it.

You know what annoys me the most: they are already making billions with this movie, what do they need to put out a whore like sseries in addition to that. Don't they realize it is actually harming their image (and their fans)?

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here, hasn't this exact story been done before...?

@Novemberx2: @gui22:

Nevermind. A friend mentioned some rumors and after I looked into it they were false.

this book drives me insane.

For on one hand if it is a book about the "Movie" Avengers in their universe then this is a fun read. BUT if they are trying to tie the events of this book into the main universe this is a piece of sloppy writing in the highest order.

1) HULK doesn't act that way

2) When does this tale take place

If the Avengers are knee deep in dealing with the X-men, and as last we knew the Gaurdians of the Galaxy where wearing matching uniforms ( a small gripe, I know) and star lord, thanos, and nova were all trapped ( yes, I said TRAPPED) In the cancer verse

When would this have taken place??

They really dropped the ball on this book by not making it clear where it stands in the grand scheme, Because how can you not love Marc Bagley on the Avengers?

The more and more time moves on I am thinking they really need a new creative vision at Marvel and get the House of Ideas in order

@Mercy_ said:

I refuse to accept this as canon. It is so blatantly pandering to the movies.

So..i'm guessing no Marvel books are canon to you right now......

@DocFatalis said:

The name Bendis shall block me from reading this until a gazillion educated fans tell me it's not the piece of crap it is likely to be given the writer.

It absolutely is. I've been reading it in shop because I refuse to pay money for it.

I refuse to accept this as canon. It is so blatantly pandering to the movies.

Yes. It's canon. Bad canon. You know, like everything Bendis has written since Daredevil.

The name Bendis shall block me from reading this until a gazillion educated fans tell me it's not the piece of crap it is likely to be given the writer.

Didn't think they would actually do this so soon

here we go again.....

@Mr. Kamikaze: Its just as much in continuity as joss whedons astonishing x-men was, as in it actually isn't in continuity at all but marvel will act like it it because it sells more books

@Prodigy P said:

Is this title canon?

I'm pretty sure its in the 616, but it seems like it took place in the past. Or at least if it is in the past, I'm not sure where to place it.

@jamzdageek: I agree. This is why patience is important for this series.

@Pwok21 said:

What is it with all the upcoming epicness?

First Doom and Magneto are teaming up, then it's Minimum Carnage, then it's Deadpool versus the Marvel Universe and NOW THIS!

When are doom and magneto teaming up? i've not heard of this.

Deadpool vs Marvel universe isn't canon.

Thanos isn't the only one that shows up in Avengers Assemble, Star Lord also showed up with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Star-Lord, Nova, and Thanos all died at the same time...so if two are back, assuming this is in fact canon, then Nova has to be back too.

If it is canon, it's kinda stupid they gave no explanation to this at all. Also, Hulk in this book is ALLL WRONG when compared to his own title. If this is canon...then someone isn't paying attention.

That said, the book did get a little bit better as it went on. Wouldn't be all that torn up about it if it were cancelled though.

My theory is that Thanos is going to try something new with the cosmic cube. They didn't exactly say that the cosmic cube was better then the infinity gauntlet. I think they`re just saying that he won`t need the gauntlet to cause major damage. The series is getting better and better.

@HortonDrawsAWho: yeah they say Sam is the new Nova but if they retcon Thanos dying they also have to retcon Rich's death

@Nova`Prime` said:

Who needs an Infinity Gauntlet?!?!?!?! The Infinity Gauntlet was always more powerful then the cosmic cube... hell Magnus gathered cosmic cubes in Infinity War just to get his hands on the Infinity Gauntlet.

*shakes fist at Marvel*

The Cosmic Cube was in a movie. THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS.

-_-

What I want to know is why come to  Earth for the Cosmic Cube and not just make his own. If Earth scientists could so easily make it then so could he.