The last of earth left to discover

brianmichaelbendis:

i did see this cover as a young man and made it so :)

Cover of Avengers: Endless Wartime by Warren Ellis and Mike McKone. 2013.

Avengers vs. Strange by Mike Deodato.

Chibi Avengers by marisolivier on DeviantArt.

Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man).

fairestcat:

In Avengers v5 #2, Steve tells Tony they need a solid base of experienced Avengers on their expanded roster and Tony pulls up a preliminary list of past and present Avengers he recommends.

Tony: Already there. i’ve done the initial vetting of everyone on this list. We’ll want to get into it a bit more…but for now, I think we’re find using this as a launching point.
Steve: All right.

— From Avengers v5 #2 by Jonathan Hickman, art by Jerome Opeña. February 2013.

Since I’m curious who else Hickman is planning on bringing into his expanded Avengers team, I tried to put together as much of the list as I could. Some of the partially obscured names are easy to figure out, but some were harder.

My best guesses:

Wanda Maximoff
Pietro Maximoff
Hercules
James Howlett
Kelsey Shorr aka Lionheart (the only former Avenger I can find whose name ends in “orr”)
Angelica Jones. (I’d originally thought Jessica Jones, but this makes much more sense)
Delroy Garrett Jr. (another character of color, but not a very interesting one in my opinion)
Vance Astrovik (figuring out Angelica made this obvious)
Crystalia Amaquelin [Thanks ucarim!]
[unknown]
[unknown] (Maybe Walter Newell aka Stingray?)
[unknown] Reed Richards?
[unknown] Sue Storm?
[unknown] Ben Grimm? (not a lot to go on with these three, but it fits and they have all been Avengers before)

Marc Spector
Bonita Juarez (another character of color. An interesting choice)
James Rhodes
[unknown] (I have a dark suspicion this is Barbara Morse listed as Barbara Barton and if so I am decidedly unimpressed.)
Monica Rambeau (yes please!)
Jennifer Walters
Carol Danvers
Samuel Wilson
Simon Williams
Patricia Walker
Brian Braddock
Matthew Murdoch
Daisy Johnson
James Barnes (I didn’t know Tony even knew Bucky was still alive)

I laughed to see Marc Spector there.  I’d like to see them pick either Monica Rambeau or Carol Danvers … and Wanda and Pietro.

The Avengers by David Aja

philmfotos:

The Avengers (2012)

Posted by: @Moloknee

Cover of Avengers #3 by Jock (February 2013).

Tony Stark [in caption]: It started with an idea.  the spark that started the fire was expansion.  Our Captain spoke, and gave the idea form.  He said the words, and made it real.  He said… 

Captain America: Assemble at dawn.

Tony Stark [in caption]: Assemble at dawn.  And how could we not?

- From Avengers #1 (2012) by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena. (February 2013).

From Avengers (2012) #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Jeome Opeña. (February 2013).

(Source: insannito)

fairestcat:

Jessica: F-f-fainting g-g-goats… G-g-genius, right? I-instead of h-hulking out or r-running off to M-madripoor th-th-they f-f-freak out and t-t-take a n-nap until the feeling p-p-passes. Why can’t in-instant n-mapping be m-my s-super-power? Or g-good choices? L-like w-why didn’t I pick the team with r-rocket b-boots…?
Hulk: Spider-woman cold?
Jessica: It is eighteen-b-bazillion degrees below zero, big guy. Spider-woman is f-freezing her—
[Hulk wraps his warm hands around Jessica’s head and shoulders.]
Jessica: Oh, wow. This is not humiliating at all.
[Hulk lifts his hands up]
Jessica: No! Keep them three. Just…pick up the p-pace. I s-suddenly feel the need to p-punch Tony Stark for this.
[Hulk picks Jessica up under his arm and runs, roaring]

— From Avengers Assemble #9 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, art by Stefano Caselli.