COMICS: Marvel To Launch Yet Another X-MEN Title; THUNDERBOLTS Will Become DARK AVENGERS

THEY BETTER NOT TAKE MY THUNDERBOLTS AWAY >:(

OK this is getting ridiculous. They originally said that M Day was a way of 'thinning out the mutant population' because it had got out of hand. They need to do the same with The Avengers. I preferred it when The Avengers were like the celebrities of the hero community, getting a membership was an honour. Now supervillians, teenage versions and anyone who puts on a costume seems to be considered a member. Sort it out Marvel. Give us one team of classic Avengers, the villains should be called The Thunderbolts and maybe at a stretch The young Avengers, but that should be it.

Yea...I remember when it was X-Men & Uncanny X-Men, Avengers and Avengers: West Coast (hell when it was JUST Avengers). They need to have an event (never thought I'd say that) where they just have some badass villain kill off all the characters that don't matter outside of filling a spot on a crap spin-off team. They need a culling...

But as long as sales are up on all 70 X-Men titles and all 50 Avengers titles this won't happen. How the hell do 2 teams with multiple books fight each other and end up with a larger army? That's not how wars or fights work, Marvel.

@Nomis

Unless they bring back Destiny's diary then probably not.

What is going on with Marvel? Who makes these decisions?

These new events that are occurring makes me think about that episode of south park, when Cartman was Aweso-mo and he made up ridiculous movie ideas.

ZombieOverEasy: I remember the good old days when we had only one Avengers and one X-Men book a month. It made the teams more special. Only so many heroes could appear at one time, so it meant more to be a part of it. Now we're to the point of "X-Pets" and "Avengers Sidekicks' Best Pals' Brothers". No wonder the quality has been watered-down to non-existent.

I have no problem with multiple X teams or multiple Avengers teams. The thing I have the problem with is using the same character on multiple teams. It's been pointed out several times that we have SOOO many characters, why don't we actually use them?

Like any franchise, if it's successful, you're going to expand. Just give more characters the opportunity to stand out and go from D-List to at least C-List. Remember, the Initiative was to essentially create FIFTY "Avengers" teams, most with silly names. Wouldn't you rather that be lessened to 3-6 teams w/ different heroes who work independently but can gather forces when needed?

Thunderbolts, for the most part, has been a fantastic book. It seems a bit lost right now, in my opinion, as the writing has lazily slipped into time travel. Unfortunately, it is one of the least read Marvel comics, and only by Marvel's grace have they not canned it w/ all the other individual titles they've canned recently. Dark Avengers was a Top Ten book during it's run a few years ago, outpacing even some Avengers titles. If you can take Thunderbolts, keep it's essence in tact, and just change the name? I'll take it.

Heck, take the "Annihilators" with their terrible name, and make them the Cosmic Avengers. Take the Heroes for Hire, which is an amazing book that can't stay afloat, and call them the Street Avengers. Then there could be an Avengers leadership council, could even be "Illuminati-like," and you've got a crazy long-term storyline to follow, eventually pitting teams against teams.

Thoughts?

i hate the word "xtreme"....