Broken Frontier

For the past week, Marvel Comics has been sending out teaser images to Brian Bendis and John Romita Jr.'s new Avengers ongoing series starting in April, unveiling one character a day. That's new Avengers proper, not new New Avengers.

All signs point to a true core Avengers team being established, with Captain America, Spider-Woman, Iron Man and Hawkeye already having been announced as team members. Bendis is bringing back the classic Avengers of yore, along with his pet-peeve Jessica Jones.

But rest assured, with so many Avengers teams having been active in recent years - New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Dark Avengers, and Avengers: The Initiative - there's more than a fair chance we'll see at least one Avengers teams next to the classic one post Siege. The franchise remains as popular as ever, and Marvel won't be foolish not to capitalise.

BF has received indications that Marvel will put different teams together: the teasers the publisher has been releasing these past four days will continue into next week, with a second Avengers teaser wave planned for a few weeks in March. Even Bendis would have problems juggling that much dialogue in one book.