Enjoyable as it’s, the pop-art nature of Mighty Avengers #1 is greater than a mere nostalgia play. Somewhat, it serves a thematic objective, each for Tony Stark and for Marvel Comics. The formation of the Mighty Avengers comes as a part of The Initiative storyline, the follow-up to the Civil Conflict storyline. As in the MCU film that bears its identify, the Civil Conflict in Marvel Comics noticed Iron Man and Captain America come to blows over the problem of superhero registration.
Nevertheless, author Mark Millar, who served as architect for the Civil Conflict occasion, was rather more prepared than Kevin Feige to have followers hate the belligerents. Framing himself as a futurist who noticed what the folks would demand, Stark demanded that his fellow superheroes unmask and register with the federal government. He went thus far in his quest that he hunted down different heroes, he enlisted Reed Richards to create a secret jail within the Detrimental Zone for many who wouldn’t register, and created a clone of his recently-deceased ally Thor to assist him perform his plan. His actions even led to the demise of Steve Rogers, a demise that lasted fairly some time by comedian guide requirements.
Briefly, issues appeared fairly grim for Iron Man on the finish of Civil Conflict. Thus, The Initiative provided an opportunity at redemption, as Stark—who took the place of Nick Fury as director of SHIELD—begins to offer the world its superheroes once more. And the flagship of The Initiative was the Mighty Avengers.
The Mighty, The Fallen
As enjoyable as the primary challenge of Mighty Avengers is, the collection by no means forgot its relationship to the superhero Civil Conflict. In actual fact, Marvel revealed one other Avengers guide on the similar time, New Avengers, which targeted on a crew of heroes who stored up the battle, regardless of refusing to register. These heroes—led by Luke Cage, and together with Spider-Man, Spider-Lady, Wolverine, Iron Fist, Physician Unusual, and Clint Barton in his Ronin guise—did their good deeds figuring out that the Mighty Avengers would arrest them on sight.
Certainly, each collection gave loads of time for the characters to marvel concerning the morality of their selections. Because the extra street-level heroes, the New Avengers noticed themselves because the genuine group, a place that Marvel appeared to endorse by having Cage and firm uncover a hidden Skrull assault lengthy earlier than the Secret Invasion crossover started in earnest. For his or her half, the Mighty Avengers insisted that they have been doing the required work of superheroes, that they put apart their very own private emotions about secret identities and authorities laws to avoid wasting the world.
At its finest, Mighty Avengers operated one thing like a superhero deconstruction. Bendis and Cho, the latter ultimately changed by the ever-reliable Mark Bagley, would serve up a heaping serving to of two-fisted motion. Problem after challenge pit the crew in opposition to monsters and Ultron and symbiotes, to say nothing of the Skrulls. On the similar time, the collection would cease for the heroes to contemplate their ethical positions.
