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http://www.wizarduniverse.com/conventions/chicago/WZ20040813-avengers.cfm
Spider-Man in the Avengers? Wolverine? Luke Cage?? What the --?! These are just some of the bombshell announcements made at the Avengers/Marvel Heroes panel.
Marvel’s mightiest, including Brian Bendis, David Finch, Jimmy Cheung, Robert Kirkman, Sean McKeever, Mark Ricketts, Adi Granov and Publisher Dan Buckley and Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada gave fans a taste of what to expect with “Avengers Dissassembled” including revealing the all-new line-up debuting in New Avengers #1, following the disassembled arc. The line-up includes: Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman and the Sentry.
Fans may or may not remember who the Sentry is especially since there was a deliberate attempt made by Quesada to mask exactly when the hero first appeared when they released the mini-series The Sentry by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee a few years back. An elaborate hoax was made to suggest the hero was created in the sixties when in fact he was created in the nineties.
In any event, the Sentry, who Bendis thinks is one of the most fascinating charactrers created in recent years, rounds out the team that includes heavyweights like Spider-man and Wolverine, lesser known characters like Spider-Woman (who Bendis assured was Jessica Drew) and Luke Cage and staples like Captain America and Iron Man.
The panel went into detail about current writers Mark Ricketts' (Iron Man) and Robert Kirkman's (Captain America) current 4-issue runs and the task they have in cleaning the slate and ushering in new writers Warren Ellis and Ed Brubaker.
Also announced was a new ThunderBolts #1 on tap for later in the year that got a heavy appluase.