CBR: Heroes We Need: Slott Talks Mighty Avengers

[CBR News]

With "Mighty Avengers" #24 on sale now, CBR speaks with writer Dan Slott about
his plans for the series, including a run-in with the Fantastic Four and more guest
stars from fan-favorite Marvel books.


Full article here.

[marvell2100]

It was a pretty good article but the one thing that bothered me was the remark Slott made about Triathalon, Dr. Druid and Deathcry not rising to the challenge of being Avengers. How can you blame the characters when it's the writers who don't know how to use them or what to do with them? 3-D Man and especially Druid's tenure with the Avengers we some very good stories imo. Cassie's history with the Avengers is that her father was an Avenger, not that she was a former Avenger herself. Even this new Vision can't be considered Avengers material just because he looks like the original android. Still I liked some of the ideas and direction he's taking the team. I just wish he hadn't made that comment.

[Dr. Chaos]

GOTG/MA Team up?

Rocket Raccoon and USAgent together?

Book it.

[Babylon23]

Great interview. Slott is finally giving me an Avengers book I can enjoy reading. Despite my annoyance that it wasn't actually the Scarlet Witch in that first story, I'm still really enjoying this series.

[jackolover]

Quote from CBR
In “Mighty Avengers” #25, on sale May 20, Slott sets his cast up for an encounter with another of Marvel's premier super teams, the Fantastic Four. It won't be a friendly visit, though. “In one corner, you have Hank Pym's brain, and in the other you have Reed Richards's brain. That's like putting two positively charged magnets together,” Slott explained. “In 'Earth's Mightiest' Iron Man said to Pym, 'I can explain why you shouldn't be leading the Avengers in three words: You’re hank Pym.' But Reed Richards is going to say something a million times worse. What Reed says is on a whole different magnitude. After he says that it will be like, how could they not go to war?” End Quote

How can Tony Stark and Reed Richatds start to criticize Hank Pym, when they both worked with him on the 100 point ideas thing through Civil War. Did they hate Hank then too?

And I'd just like to aske Dan Slott, will we eventually get the Scarlet Witch, the real one, showing up in the MA and getting her redeemed in his book?

[Mark_S]

Truthfully I'm still a bit puzzled. Hank, Reed and Tony were friends for years, suddenly Reed and Tony don't seem to think much of him. That's just puzzling to me.

Mark_S

[CaptainCanada]

I'll wait and see, but the Reed thing, on the face of it, doesn't really sound to me like something Reed would do; he's not one to stick his nose into other people's business like that.

[jackolover]

Truthfully I'm still a bit puzzled. Hank, Reed and Tony were friends for years, suddenly Reed and Tony don't seem to think much of him. That's just puzzling to me.

Mark_S

This whole failure of the 100 point ideas must have embittered both Tony and Reed, and they take it out on Hank. Hank missed all the Clor, Goliath, 42 stuff and Hank comes off as clean as a whistle, while Tony and Reed are made out as the bad guys. That to me, says Tony and Reed have been deeply wounded by the whole SHRA experience, and the humiliating realisation that they weren't able to save the super heroes established carriers, as well as tainted their own reputation, and Hank Pym avoided all that. Tony has started mindwiping all his memories, - that's his punishment; and Reed has degenerated into a self-reinforcement exercise with a thing called the Bridge - Reeds punishment is that he is doing self-aggrandizement, like a spoilt kid who was criticized in front of the class. Reed has turned into the Mad Thinker.

[Fatguy]

Truthfully I'm still a bit puzzled. Hank, Reed and Tony were friends for years, suddenly Reed and Tony don't seem to think much of him. That's just puzzling to me.

Mark_S

I agree. I hated the way Tony was written in his scenes with Hank, it was ridiculous. Now we get the same thing from Reed? Is this what has to be done to promote Pym, force him into the underdog role by turning his once friends into sudden heels and complete dicks? I hope not.

[Mart]

I'm willing to hang fire and see what Slott has Reed say - it could be something terribly nice that comes across as patronising. Slotty doesn't usually get characters wrong.

My thoughts on 24:

http://dangermart.blogspot.com/2009/...24-review.html

[I am MODOK]

This is one of my favorite comics every month and one of the few that feels like the books I loved as a kid. Great villains, varied casts, and while it bothered me at first, I love that a character can show up that I don't know (Black Jack). Fantastic stuff.

My take on issue 24:
http://comicperday.blogspot.com/2009...engers-24.html

[Jay Dogg]

He'll probably just throw out the whole Bill Foster getting killed by their creation or something.

Either way, can they please cut out the whole "Everybody trashes Pym just to make him rise to the occasion"? I would like to see a Hank Pym story where he does something good or heroic without having the whole "I'm Hank Pym, maybe I'm not competent enough to do this" hanging over his head.

[jackolover]

He'll probably just throw out the whole Bill Foster getting killed by their creation or something.

Either way, can they please cut out the whole "Everybody trashes Pym just to make him rise to the occasion"? I would like to see a Hank Pym story where he does something good or heroic without having the whole "I'm Hank Pym, maybe I'm not competent enough to do this" hanging over his head.

I don't know how they got him out of the lab, let alone fronting a super hero team. Hank has had issues of legitamacy as a real super hero, but I suppose the endorsement of Jarvis, the Tony Stark employee, must have given Hank the confidence. There was also the fallout from Jan's death, for Hank. Not the guilt, mind you, just the depression, should have made him more a Bob Reynolds type of character. But no. Instead, Hank Pym comes across as arrogant and all business, and that after the Skrulls had kidnapped him and Jarvis, and they both missed out on CW and WWH and the SI ground war and it's fallout. Maybe Hank and Jarvis are in the ideal position to be free of all the baggage the other heroes have, with the emotional trauma associated with their friends being deceptive? (wrong word). Maybe the whole MU folks are in depression, and Hank and Jarvis are in a high, in comparison. Maybe Hank has a good reason for being arrogant, considering what he knows his friends stooped to do, and that's why he has refrained from seeking out Cap, Luke, Spider-Man, Ms Marvel, and Reed Richards. Hank has heard about what they did, and found THEM to be inferior.

[Hybrid2]

I agree. I hated the way Tony was written in his scenes with Hank, it was ridiculous. Now we get the same thing from Reed? Is this what has to be done to promote Pym, force him into the underdog role by turning his once friends into sudden heels and complete dicks? I hope not.

I realy dont understand the Your Hank Pym thing.
What do that even mean?

And coming from a murderer and a terorrist(Tony)that's even worst.

[Mark_S]

And this is the challenge Slott faces, how to make Hank a good leader without making Reed-as he made Tony (though he really didn't have to work that hard) an abusive and patronizing friend. If he fails the title falls apart for me.

Mark_S