First I got six teasers titled "Change the World":
Then I go the preview proper:
CHAMPIONS #1
CHAMPIONS #1 LAUNCH PARTY OPT-IN
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
Written by MARK WAID
Art & Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS
Party Variant by JAY FOSGITT
Variant Covers by ALEX ROSS & SKOTTIE YOUNG
Champions Variant by MARK BROOKS
Classic Ghost Rider Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
Miles & Hulk Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
Hip-Hop Variant by RAHZZAH
Captain America 75th Anniversary Variant Also Available
Blank Cover Available
On-Sale – 10/05/16
The Marvel Universe is fractured. Heroes who once stood together now position themselves in against one another. The next generation of heroes are fed up! It’s time for a change. It’s time for a brighter tomorrow. Enter...the CHAMPIONS! Six determined young heroes out to change the world. Get ready to meet them in Marvel’s CHAMPIONS #1 – a brand-new ongoing series launching this October as the flagship title of Marvel NOW!
Eisner Award winning writer Mark Waid and Eisner Award nominated artist Humberto Ramos join forces to bring you a brand new super team for a brand new era. A teen team supreme that refuses to adhere to the outdated ways of old and is ready to change the world on their own terms. It’s time to be heroes again, and Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales, Nova, Viv Vision, Cyclops and the Totally Awesome Hulk are striking out on their own to make a new future. Not Avengers. Not Defenders. They are – Champions!
“To their mind – the reputation of super heroes has taken a very public beating and they’re very intent on proving to the world that super heroes still have value and still have relevance,” says writer Mark Waid in an interview with Marvel.com.
It doesn’t take a Tony Stark or Captain America to make a difference. All it takes is six young heroes and you can change the world. A new day is dawning – and these six are just getting started! Be there for their first outing as Marvel NOW! shifts into high gear in CHAMPIONS #1 – coming to comic shops and digital devices everywhere on October 5th!
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Maybe. We'll see.
Since I haven't read the new Vision series yet, who is Viv Vision? I know she's Vision's daughter (somehow) but does she have somebody's brainwaves, like Vision does?
So Vision just built a robot family? That's kind of -- unhealthy, isn't it?
Whose brainwaves does Vision have now?
Why isn't the Original Torch at all robotic? Horton couldn't have been that great a scientist.
Recently someone pointed out that robot and android were originally different things. A robot was always obviously mechanical while an android appeared almost human or entirely human. There is a theory that the original Star Wars calling the robots "droids" muddied the waters. The original Human Torch was an android, not a robot. The Vision, being made by a robot, is more robot-like.
“Since I haven't read the new Vision series yet…”
Aw, man! I’ve been trying to push you toward it. (Then again, I haven’t yet tried the current Doctor Strange you recommended.)
“Recently someone pointed out that robot and android were originally different things.”
That’s probably me you’re thinking of, but my point was that an android is a robot. The example I used was that C3PO and R2D2 are both robots, but C3PO is an android (or “man-like”) robot.
I'm a big fan of Mark Waid, so I will certainly give this a try. I'm not excited that the artist is Humberto Ramos, although he appears to have toned down the heavy manga influence on his art somewhat. Going by his track record as the regular artist on Amazing Spider-Man over the last few years, there will be lots of fill-ins.
I like the concept. Waid is great at this sort of thing. It showed on the LSH series he wrote a few years back that he can write young heroes, to cite one example, and with a smaller cast to focus on, I think he'll do well.
I assume the Cyclops we see here is the younger time displaced version of Scott Summers from the Brian Bendis X-Men series?
Yeah, that's Young Cyclops. Old Cyclops is spoken of as if he's dead, and he apparently did something terrible before he died. That story is coming up; I think it's part of Inhumans vs. X-Men (or "IvX"), but I'd have to look it up to be sure.
Isn't IVX = 6 ?
sorry, couldn't resist.
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