Marvel: The End is a six issue limited comic book series, published in 2003, by Marvel Comics . It was written and penciled by Jim Starlin and inked by Al Milgrom .
69-457: Marvel's Executive Editor Tom Brevoort has stated on his Tumblr blog that "Marvel: The End" (and all other "The End" series) is not in any way a part of the official Marvel continuity ." The Heart of the Universe is an energy source first discovered a millennium ago by a group of alien explorers who learned to harness its great energy. Becoming the "Celestial Order", the explorers decided to use
138-418: A "part" of Thanos. Ultimately, Thanos learns that the only way for him to repair the flaw in the universe would be to destroy and re-construct it. He is finally driven to mindless rage by an attempt of the cosmic powers to usurp his reign and decides in one fateful, final moment to absorb the entirety of the multiverse back into himself so that none might ever threaten his reign again. Thanos is thus able to use
207-590: A close, Spider-Man 's closely guarded secret identity is exposed to the world, and Bill Foster (one of Henry Pym 's successors as Giant-Man) is killed. Shortly thereafter, Captain America is seemingly assassinated. In the aftermath of the superhero civil war, the New Avengers become an unofficial group of unregistered heroes. The team moves to Doctor Strange 's Sanctum Sanctorum in Greenwich Village , recruiting
276-532: A deep-cover S.H.I.E.L.D. mole. The American Kaiju was defeated by forcing it back into human form. Rick Jones got cold feet about throwing in with A.I.M. and fled, and as a result S.H.I.E.L.D. successfully detained Hawkeye. The remainder of A.I.M. successfully evacuated to Avenger Two, a secondary base in the Savage Land run by Sunspot's old friend Cannonball. Hawkeye was fired from S.H.I.E.L.D. for his betrayal. He, Wiccan, Hulkling, and Squirrel Girl decided to reform
345-403: A distress call from Rick Jones when he is taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. Hawkeye decided to break with S.H.I.E.L.D. for good and supported a rescue mission. Hulkling, Wiccan and Squirrel Girl, the only three dissenters, were expelled from A.I.M. and teleported to the desert – Sunspot also conferred the name of "New Avengers" on them. The remaining A.I.M. field team successfully rescued Rick from
414-654: A group of the most powerful cosmic beings (including Eternity , Death , Galactus , and the Celestials ) to stop Thanos. Despite their virtual omnipotence, the cosmic beings are unsuccessful, since Thanos had, by absorbing the Heart of the Universe, not simply become more powerful than when he wielded the Infinity Gauntlet —but had actually become one with everyone and everything; even the Living Tribunal had become no more than
483-587: A member of the Illuminati. Faced with a number of multiversal groups also trying to survive the incursion crisis - the faceless sorcerers the Black Priests, the adaptoid robots the Mapmakers, and the mysterious Ivory Kings - the Illuminati built a device to allow them to view other Earths' pasts so they could see how incursions there were handled. They learned about Mapmakers and Black Priests, but also discovered that
552-575: A super-powered babysitter for Cage's and Jewel's baby and mansion housekeeper respectively, although they do not serve directly on the main lineup of the New Avengers. Spider-Man appears to want to leave the team prior to the Fear Itself event due to his distrust of Victoria Hand and his new responsibilities in the Future Foundation , but subsequent conversations with Wolverine and Luke Cage convince him to remain an active member. After Fear Itself ,
621-663: A team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The title has been used for four American comic book series . The first two were written by Brian Michael Bendis and depicted a version of Marvel's premiere superhero team, the Avengers . The third was written by Jonathan Hickman and depicted a group of characters called the Illuminati (formerly introduced in New Avengers vol. 1 #7, July 2005). The fourth
690-682: Is controlled by the intelligence known as Xorn (who once posed as Magneto ) and uses the energy-wielder Michael Pointer as a host. The Avengers manage to separate the two after the Collective/Xorn attempts to re-power Magneto. After the reckless actions of the New Warriors result in the deaths of over 600 civilians in Stamford, Connecticut , Congress passes the Superhuman Registration Act , which requires all superhumans to register with
759-702: Is declared officially dead so the team breaks up, but later reform as U.S.Avengers . Following a reign of destruction by an insane Scarlet Witch , the Avengers disband . Six months later, with the Fantastic Four and the X-Men unable to act, the supervillain Electro shuts down power at the Raft, a "maximum-maximum security" prison for super-powered criminals, allowing for a mass breakout. "Jessica Drew ( Spider-Woman )", an agent for
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#1732876410579828-559: Is looking for Brevoort to parlay his experience in overseeing large-scale superhero stories that impact the fabric of the Marvel Universe". Popverse commented that it is "hard to underestimate the influence Tom Brevoort has had on the modern era of Marvel, be it Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, or Marvel bedsheets even". Popverse speculated that "given Kevin Feige 's start at Marvel in helping shepherd 20th Century Fox's X-Men movies back in
897-495: Is written by Al Ewing and depicts the former scientific terrorist group A.I.M. , reformed as "Avengers Idea Mechanics", whose field team has appropriated the name "New Avengers" for itself. The New Avengers is a spin-off of the long-running Marvel Comics series The Avengers . The first issue, written by Brian Michael Bendis and penciled by David Finch , was dated January 2005 but appeared in November 2004. Finch penciled
966-537: The Time Runs Out storyline, a new group calling themselves the New Avengers emerge. This team consists of former members of the Avengers who broke away from the main team after Captain America partnered with S.H.I.E.L.D. to hunt down the Illuminati. As part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel event, Sunspot 's branch of the Avengers become the latest incarnation of the New Avengers. Their first opponent ended up being
1035-543: The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 's battlecarrier. In response, the U.S. military launched an attack on Avengers Island with the American Kaiju (a Marine corporal transmogrified into a giant lizard monster) – as A.I.M. evacuated the island, they battled the monster with the mentally-controlled giant robot Avenger Five. Meanwhile, S.H.I.E.L.D. also launched a counterattack as led by John Garrett, forcing Songbird to reveal that she had been
1104-731: The Avengers were killed by the Masters of Evil . The New Avengers defeated the Masters of Evil and remanded them to a prison on the planet Wakanda. The Ultimate Marvel version of the New Avengers called the New Ultimates . It was formed by Iron Man and Hawkeye to fight the Defenders who are being used by Loki to obtain Mjolnir. The Breakout storyline seen in The New Avengers issues #1 to #6
1173-535: The Black Swan and Terrax the Enlightened as Illuminati prisoners. The members of the Illuminati became increasingly cut off from the outside community as a result of their actions. Namor 's kingdom was destroyed by Proxima Midnight during Thanos ' invasion, and Black Panther was cast out of Wakanda for his alliance with Namor, with whom his sister Shuri was at war. Black Bolt and his brother Maximus faked
1242-539: The Black Swan had teamed up with alternate Illuminati groups in the past, and had even killed alternate versions of Iron Man and Reed Richards when they were no longer useful. Just before the team could confront Black Swan about her deception, another incursion occurred, this time pitting the Illuminati against the Great Society, a team of heroes which, like the Illuminati, had thus far fought off incursions to save its world. Following an eight-month ellipsis during
1311-554: The Registration Act having been revoked in the aftermath of the Siege of Asgard led by Osborn (who is incarcerated for his actions), Steve Rogers (the original Captain America , returned from his alleged death) reassembles the Avengers . Steve convinces a reluctant Luke Cage to be part of the new lineup after Tony Stark sells the reconstructed Avengers Mansion to Cage for a dollar, and Steve gives Cage carte blanche to maintain
1380-554: The Sentry , a powerful hero who erased all memory of his career from the world after he was manipulated by the mutant Mastermind and The General. With Xavier unable to repair the fractured psyche of the Scarlet Witch , the New Avengers and Cyclops' team of X-Men consider the alternatives. Fearful that the heroes are preparing to kill his sister, former Avenger Quicksilver convinces her to use her reality-altering powers to transform
1449-506: The " Siege " storyline. A one-shot titled The New Avengers: Finale was also released. In March 2010, Marvel announced the series would be relaunched in June as part of the company's rebranding initiative, " Heroic Age " . In the first issue of the series, the new team consisted of Luke Cage , Victoria Hand , Iron Fist , Jessica Jones , Mockingbird , Ms. Marvel , Spider-Man , The Thing , and Wolverine . Wolverine and Spider-Man operated on
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#17328764105791518-512: The Avengers Idea Mechanics, and their field team which has taken the name of the New Avengers. Sunspot is the new head of A.I.M., with Songbird as the field leader; other members include Wiccan , Hulkling , Squirrel Girl , Pod , Power Man , White Tiger , and Hawkeye as an open informant for S.H.I.E.L.D. Later, there is a schism in the team: Wiccan, Hulkling and Squirrel Girl are expelled from A.I.M. and informed by Sunspot that
1587-422: The Avengers of the year 20XX came back to the present day through A.I.M.'s new time machine, warning that Moridun would destroy Demiurge's soul completely and use his near-godlike power to almost completely destroy the world. Finding Billy already infected, the future Avengers tried to kill him; instead, with Hulkling's help, Billy was able to recognise Moridun's presence in his own mind and successfully defeat him on
1656-538: The Celestial Order before they found the Heart of the Universe and kills Akhenaten as he attempts to prevent Doom from killing his past self. However, contact with the Heart of the Universe allows Thanos to learn that, due to a fundamental flaw, the universe is doomed to end very soon and that this flaw could not be corrected even by the power of the Heart of the Universe. After a while, the Living Tribunal gathers
1725-532: The Heart's power to absorb the cosmic beings into himself—and, in doing so, he ingests the entire universe. The cosmic hero Adam Warlock , who was outside the space-time continuum when Thanos absorbed the universe, appears to Thanos and explains to him what had transpired. Adam then talks with Thanos, who decides to sacrifice himself in order to restore the universe. Lady Death herself, with whom Thanos has long been in love, had also managed to escape. Lady Death then caresses Thanos' cheek, kisses him, then disappears into
1794-878: The Inhuman king's death following the destruction of the Terrigen Bomb to allow the Inhumans to rebuild separately from the Illuminati's machinations. Doctor Strange , feeling increasingly cut off from his scientist-dominated colleagues, decided to empower himself to perhaps be able to solve the incursions, and so used the Blood Bible to travel to the Sinner's Market, where he sold his soul in exchange for godlike power. Upon discovering multiversal decay on his own after meeting an alternate version of himself, Bruce Banner confronted Tony Stark about what he'd been doing, and Stark brought him in as
1863-684: The Magus — leader of the Knights of the Infinite, a magical order of Kree-Skrull hybrids who revealed Hulkling to be their prophesied future king. When Moridun attacked them and attempted to devour their souls, repeating the phrase "Life is horror", the New Avengers apparently defeated him — but Moridun planted a seed of his consciousness inside Billy Kaplan's mind and began to slowly infect him. Billy changed his codename from Wiccan to Demiurge, and began to act increasingly amoral. They were alerted to Moridun's survival when
1932-479: The New Avengers and kills various evil sorcerers. Convinced that Daniel set his brother ( Brother Voodoo ) up to fail in his new role, Doctor Strange defeats him by using dark magic (recognizing that Drumm had only killed dark magic specialists while trying to frame Strange). As a result, Doctor Strange subsequently regains his position of Sorcerer Supreme. Under the Marvel NOW! label, a third volume of New Avengers
2001-602: The New Avengers team, leading it as he sees fit. Given the freedom to recruit almost anyone he wants for the New Avengers team (except Iron Man or Thor ), Cage selects Clint Barton (who has resumed the Hawkeye identity), Iron Fist , Jewel (Cage's wife Jessica Jones ), Ms. Marvel , Mockingbird , Spider-Man , the Thing (who maintains concurrent membership in the Fantastic Four), and Wolverine . Rogers also sends him Victoria Hand on
2070-483: The New Avengers with Wiccan as the new team leader after fighting the Plunderer together. Meanwhile, Songbird openly became a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, but was in fact still loyal to Sunspot. The New Avengers has been collected in a series of editions that had both hardcover and trade paperback releases. The New Avengers has also been collected in the following hardcovers : The New Avengers has also been collected in
2139-508: The University of Delaware, senior students were required to get and serve an internship at some company or institution related to the field of illustration. In our initial freshman orientation, the head of the department mentioned that they had previously placed one student at Marvel Comics, so I figured that was where I would set my sights." Brevoort worked his way up to an assistant editor and later an editor in his own right. From 2007, he held
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2208-456: The alternate Earth, and they used an antimatter bomb to destroy a dead Earth over Latveria . During the Infinity event, alternate-universe Builders destroyed an Earth for the Illuminati. The event ended with the defeat of Thanos' forces and the capture of Thanos and his generals Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive , all three of whom were imprisoned in amber by Thanos' son Thane. They joined
2277-404: The authentic Avengers because Captain America said they were. This statement is repeated when the team, believing Captain America (Rogers) is alive, attempts to rescue him. Spider-Man claims that if they get Captain America back, they can call themselves Avengers again. Luke Cage contends that they are Avengers already. The series ended with The New Avengers #64 (April 2010), at the conclusion of
2346-459: The dead in special crystals as part of a plan to create a new lifeform. The crystals were later destroyed by Songbird 's sonic scream. The Life-Minus experiment also conjured up Moridun, a dark entity from the Fifth Cosmos (the Marvel Universe having recently been reborn in its eighth iteration in the events of Secret Wars). The New Avengers encountered Moridun when he took over the body of M'Ryn
2415-535: The disappearance of its leader, Nick Fury . The New Avengers travel to the Savage Land to capture the reptilian mutant Sauron , encountering resistance from the Savage Land Mutates (led by Brainchild ) and a rogue squadron of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents led by Yelena Belova . During this conflict, Canadian mutant Wolverine joins the team (while maintaining concurrent membership in the X-Men). The group also recruits
2484-421: The federal government. Many superheroes comply with this law, but others oppose the law on the grounds that it violates civil liberties. This ideological split leads to a Civil War within the New Avengers and the superhuman community at large, with Iron Man leading those who comply with the law, and Captain America leading those who oppose it. By the time that open hostilities between the two factions come to
2553-407: The first six issues and issues #11-13. Succeeding pencilers with multiple-issue runs include Steve McNiven , Leinil Francis Yu , Billy Tan , and Stuart Immonen . The roster at first comprises Luke Cage , Captain America , Iron Man , Spider-Man and " Spider-Woman " (Veranke). Later stretches included the mutant X-Man Wolverine , the unstable and godlike Sentry , and the deaf ninja Echo , in
2622-405: The focal point, resulting in the destruction of both universes unless one Earth is destroyed, allowing the other to pass through. As the Illuminati consider darker and darker avenues to save the universe, Captain America's steadfast morals are put at odds with the other members of the Illuminati. Captain America is voted out of the group with a spell of forgetfulness cast by Dr. Strange. Faced with
2691-727: The following Complete Collections : The New Avengers has also been collected in the following Marvel Omnibus : On the unified Marvel 2099 reality of Earth-2099, the 2099 version of the New Avengers were formed by Moon Knight (Tabitha) and consist of Aero (Zhe Li), Black Panther (T'Shamba) , Captain America (Roberta Mendez) , an unidentified 2099 version of Captain Britain , Captain Marvel (Rowena Stern) , Gladiator (a Strontian named Kubark), Hulk 2099 , an unidentified 2099 version of She-Hulk , Spider-Man 2099 , Spider-Woman (Sivern Dru) , and Wave (MacKenzie Salgado) after most of her teammates in
2760-587: The formation of the New Avengers. Thus, Jessica Drew had never been a member of the team. Upon the Skrulls ' defeat, S.H.I.E.L.D. is dismantled and replaced by H.A.M.M.E.R. , a new intelligence agency. Norman Osborn (who has been Spider-Man 's archenemy as the Green Goblin ) is placed in control of H.A.M.M.E.R. and the Thunderbolts , while assembling a team of Avenger imposters composed of supervillains. Meanwhile,
2829-408: The grounds that she can provide the team with a unique insight from which Rogers feels they will benefit. Although Hawkeye leaves the team when a crisis comes up with the main Avengers team (claiming that he only joined them to spend time with his wife), the team later enlists a now-weakened Doctor Strange after he assists them in tackling a dimensional crisis. Squirrel Girl and Wong are hired as
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2898-434: The guise of Ronin . The team itself was not named the "New Avengers" within the series. A splinter group of Avengers that chose not to comply with federal superhuman registration, the team considers itself the authentic Avengers. A concurrent government-sanctioned team gathered in the sister series The Mighty Avengers . This series launched in early 2007 and was itself supplanted by a different government-sanctioned team in
2967-429: The international law-enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. , is at the Raft with attorney Matt Murdock ( Daredevil ) and "hero for hire" Luke Cage . They are joined by Captain America , Iron Man , and Spider-Man . They are also assisted by a mentally unbalanced Sentry , who is imprisoned at the Raft. The riot is quelled, although 42 inmates escape. Captain America declares fate has brought this group together, just as it had
3036-460: The late '90s and early '00s, and his well-known history as a comics fan turned movie studios exec, there is something bigger going on. Think about it this way: Marvel just moved their highest-qualified editor and shepherd of comics, characters, creators and fellow editorial/design/publishing talent to re-focus his energies centrally on the X-Men". The New Avengers (comics) The New Avengers are
3105-428: The main Avengers team as well as the New Avengers, and Doctor Strange accepted an offer to join the team after their first mission while searching for the new Sorcerer Supreme after the death of Doctor Voodoo . Daredevil joined the team in issue #16 after accepting an offer from Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Jessica left the team for personal reasons and was later joined by Luke Cage, thus ending that iteration of
3174-767: The mental plane, expelling Moridun from his body and mind. The Maker engineered the prison break of Angela Del Toro, the former White Tiger, and presented her with the Tiger Amulet from the Ultimate Universe. She fought with Ava Ayala in Rome, causing the Tiger Gods from the two amulets to merge into one, leaving Del Toro with the powers of the White Tiger and Ava powerless. In the Avengers: Standoff! crossover, A.I.M. received
3243-628: The now empty void of space while leaving Thanos awe-struck. Thanos speculates that the whole scenario was created by a higher power to fix the universal flaw. Thanos then restores the universe but wipes himself from existence, a sacrifice that is remembered only by Warlock. Tom Brevoort Tom Brevoort ( / ˈ b r iː v ɔːr t / ) is an American comic book editor, known for his work for Marvel Comics , where he has overseen titles such as New Avengers , Civil War , and Fantastic Four . He became Executive Editor in 2007, and in January 2011,
3312-460: The original Avengers. Most of the heroes agree to join the team. Daredevil refuses the offer and Sentry flies off. The team's first mission is to capture the remaining super-powered criminals who escaped during the riot. The unexpected emergence of an unrelated team of youthful heroes, the Young Avengers , is also a matter of concern. There is also a growing sense of unease with S.H.I.E.L.D. after
3381-530: The planet and its history. Instantaneously, Magneto rules the planet under the banner of the " House of M ", with mutants in the majority and non-powered humans as an oppressed minority. Reality is eventually restored, but the Scarlet Witch removes the superhuman abilities from over 99% of the mutants on Earth. These lost powers manifest as the Collective , the assembled energy of the depowered mutants. This energy
3450-468: The planet for years. In one confrontation, the team rescues several heroes who had been kidnapped and replaced by Skrull impostors at various unspecified times in the past. This includes the presumed-dead Mockingbird , wife of Clint Barton (Ronin), with whom she reunites. Additionally, it is revealed that Spider-Woman was replaced by the Skrull queen Veranke , prior to the prison break at The Raft that led to
3519-596: The possibility of having to destroy a world, the scientists of the Illuminati set about building a number of weapons, including a number of antimatter injection bombs similar to the one used by the Black Swan, a Dyson Sphere designed to weaponize the sun, a Builder Worldkiller ship kept in Jupiter 's orbit, and a rogue planet kept slightly out-of-phase with Earth. The Illuminati survived a number of incursions using these and other methods; at one near Liberty Island , Galactus ate
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#17328764105793588-567: The power to forcibly attempt to bring peace to the universe by appointing beings they deemed worthy of the Heart's power to rule sectors of the universe. The Order chose the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten as their agent on Earth. The power, however, corrupts Akhenaten, who arrives on present-day Earth and uses the Heart's power to conquer the world, killing most of Earth's heroes in the process. The villain Doctor Doom attempts to kill Akhenaten by traveling back in time to execute him while he
3657-536: The resurrected Clint Barton (now using the name and costume of Ronin). They eventually relocate to an empty apartment building owned by Danny Rand's ( Iron Fist ) Rand Corporation, but leased in the name of Samuel Sterns (the Leader , an adversary of the Hulk ). Following this, the New Avengers play a major role in repelling the " Secret Invasion " of Earth by the Skrulls , a shapeshifting alien race which has sought to conquer
3726-534: The revamped New Avengers roster consists of Captain America (Bucky Barnes) , Luke Cage , Ronin , Mockingbird , Ms. Marvel , Spider-Man, the real Spider-Woman and Wolverine . Captain America offers these "new Avengers" his home as a base of operations. Iron Fist announces he must leave the group to attend to personal business, but will remain on call. The team elects Ronin as leader (with Ms. Marvel as second-in-command), and persuades Spider-Man to once again reveal his secret identity to his fellow members. With
3795-494: The series Dark Avengers , which was launched in late 2008. At this time the team welcomed Clint Barton (recently returned from the dead) as Ronin, as well as Doctor Strange and Iron Fist . By the end of the first volume, the New Avengers team consisted of Ronin , Captain America (Bucky Barnes) , Ms. Marvel , Mockingbird , Spider-Man , Spider-Woman (Drew), Wolverine , and team leader Luke Cage . Writer Brian Michael Bendis said in an interview that these characters are
3864-459: The team as a replacement for the deceased Professor X . Black Panther discovers a second Earth hanging above Wakanda and witnesses the Black Swan destroy the alternate Earth. Black Panther captures and imprisons the Black Swan and reforms the Illuminati. Using the Black Swan's information, Reed Richards discovers the threat of Incursions, a multiversal chain reaction causing universes to collide with one another, with Earth of every universe at
3933-464: The team lineup shifts, initially with the addition of Daredevil to the team and later with Jessica Jones leaving the team out of fear for her baby Danielle's safety. Luke Cage leaves the team after the events of Avengers vs. X-Men to ensure the security of his wife and baby. The remaining New Avengers band together with Doctor Strange when the Ghost of Daniel Drumm returns. He possesses each of
4002-475: The team. New Avengers was renumbered as a new volume in January 2013, written by Jonathan Hickman and originally drawn by Steve Epting . The new volume shifted its focus to the powerful group known as the Illuminati , which includes Black Bolt , Captain America , Doctor Strange , Iron Man , Mister Fantastic , and Namor , who reassembled to confront the threat of incursions. Black Panther and Reed Richards discovered that universal decay centered on Earth
4071-607: The team. Bruce Banner joined the team in Avengers Vol. 5 #28 after discovering the universal decay on his own. Volume 4 of New Avengers launched in October 2015 as a part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel relaunch, written by Al Ewing with art by Gerardo Sandoval . The comic features a different team from the past three volumes: it focuses on A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics), a former super-villain group which has been rebranded as
4140-409: The terrorist organization W.H.I.S.P.E.R. (short for World Headquarters for International Scientific/Philosophical Experimentation and Research) that was founded by Mister Fantastic's Earth-1610 counterpart Maker and consisting of the former members of A.I.M. that were chased off by Sunspot. The New Avengers fought W.H.I.S.P.E.R. to destroy their Life-Minus experiment which involved capturing the souls of
4209-496: The three of them are now what remains of the New Avengers; during the same story, Cannonball was revealed to be working for A.I.M. as well. Hawkeye, who had been fired from S.H.I.E.L.D., later rejoins the trio of remaining New Avengers to form a lineup jokingly called "Wiccan's Kooky Quartet". During the events of Civil War II , the New Avengers assist A.I.M. on one last mission, which Hawkeye sits out for reasons of plausible deniability. After Sunspot's funeral, Advanced Idea Mechanics
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#17328764105794278-416: The title of Executive Editor with Marvel and was responsible for multiple series including New Avengers , Civil War , and Fantastic Four . In July 2010, Brevoort and fellow Marvel editor Axel Alonso began a weekly column on Comic Book Resources called "Marvel T&A", a new installment of which appears every Friday, along with Joe Quesada 's "Cup O' Joe" column. On January 4, 2011, Brevoort
4347-532: The years to come, it made sense to have a more senior editorial presence overseeing the book". IGN stated that Brevoort replaced X-Men Group Editor Jordan D. White in what "is easily the biggest internal shake-up at Marvel since C.B. Cebulski was promoted to Editor-in-Chief in 2017". IGN highlighted that he "has spent the past 25 years overseeing Marvel's Avengers line" and helmed "numerous major crossovers like 2006's Civil War , 2012's Avengers vs. X-Men and 2015's Secret Wars " which may indicate "that Marvel
4416-539: Was adapted into a prose novel written by comic writer Alisa Kwitney in January 2013 as part of the Marvel Prose Novel series. It is significantly altered to feature Hawkeye and Black Widow as the main characters due to their appearance and relationship in The Avengers (2012), replacing Sentry and Wolverine in the story. Barton is depicted as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent like his film counterpart whilst Natasha
4485-480: Was causing universes to collide with one another, with Earth at the focal point. In issue #3, Black Panther, who had previously opposed the existence of the Illuminati, joined the group, and the Beast was brought in to fill the spot vacated by the death of Professor X . In the same issue, Captain America leaves. In issue #12, after having helped the Illuminati to defeat Thanos 's army, Black Bolt's brother Maximus joined
4554-433: Was launched, written by Jonathan Hickman . With Hickman in charge of the entire Avengers line, New Avengers carried a parallel storyline to the main Avengers series. Rather than featuring a traditional team of Avengers, the book focused on the Illuminati . Black Panther joins Black Bolt , Captain America , Doctor Strange , Iron Man , Mister Fantastic , and Namor when faced with a universal threat. Beast joins
4623-586: Was promoted to Senior Vice President of Publishing of Marvel Comics. As of 2020 , Brevoort was Marvel's longest-serving editor. In 2024, he became the Group Editor of the X-Men for the X-Men: From the Ashes publishing relaunch while "keeping his VP and Executive Editor titles". Brevoort, in his newsletter , commented that the shift was "because the characters were going to be of greater importance to Studios in
4692-425: Was promoted to additionally serve as Senior Vice President of Publishing. As of 2024 , he is also the Group Editor of the X-Men. Tom Brevoort began working for Marvel Comics as a college intern in 1989. Commenting on his rationale for taking a non-paying entry-level job, Brevoort recalls, "Well, obviously, to get a leg up on getting into the business." He went on to say, "In the illustration program I attended at
4761-433: Was still human, but Akhenaten prevents this. The Titan Thanos , who has become aware of the Heart's power, gathers the last of the heroes, including the Defenders and Captain Marvel , in an offensive maneuver on the Order. Thanos successfully destroys the machinery that allows the Order to channel the Heart's power and then absorbs the power into himself. Using the power of the Heart, Thanos travels back in time and destroys
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