Article: Review - Avengers #10 - SPOILERS

[Flightpath07]

Does anybody else suspect that they wanted to kill off Alpha Flight themselves in this issue, but somebody decided that was a bad idea after last time?

I DIDN'T, but now i'm thinking about it...

[Phil]

Welcome to the boards Arc-Raver!

I get your frustration - an intro to a new series would be great.

I think having AF come in as well as the Avengers would just have confused the issue and flooded it with characters; the book is an Avengers book after all and I think the point of having a new Omega Flight was to have new characters that readers old and new could know the complete backstory to.

I have a feeling we'll see more of Validator though.

I don't think that it's a case of Marvel not thinking highly of other countries; more that it's been proven that for whatever reason they don't sell. Maybe that's because the bulk of the North American comic reading market don't care for them. I have no idea.

[Chris]

I feel your pain Arc-Raver. I loved the Darkstar & the Winter Guard mini that David Gallaher did a couple years ago and was bummed when they were killed off in Amazing Spider-Man 676. But at least we got to see Big Hero 6 again in Amazing Spider-Man Ends of the Earth 1. Marvel must not hate all non American teams since Big Hero 6 is getting the movie treatment.

And I agree with Phil that we will probably see more Validator down the road in the Avengers. This new Avengers series feels similar to AF v2.

[Phil]

I haven't got it yet, so can't confirm, but apparently Validator is in today's Avengers #14.
Check before you purchase it, because she might not actually be; this is the interwebs after all!

[Phil]

Okay, she's in one panel looking very evil...

[Flightpath07]

Dang it! I was JUST in my LCS and never thought to look at A-14!

[cmdrkoenig67]

Chris, the Winter Guard appeared later in Secret Avengers, so they survived.

Dana

[Flightpath07]

Um...out of curiosity (didn't that land on Mars...and kill a cat?)...in what context is the Validator appearance in issue 14? Obviously, she is still alive. Any word on the rest of her team? Any sense of her being used more next issue, etcetera?

[Phil]

Basically, #14 (&15) connect up everything that's happened in the series so far and lead in to the next Marvel event: Infinity.

A mysterious signal is sent to all of the Garden Sites around the world, and is shown interacting with them all and failing, apart from one.

Validator is shown in one panel from the head down to just below her neck, in a very sinister coloured mood and with either goggles on or something has happened to her face.

And that's it.

The rest of her team is pretty much guaranteed to be dead. I'd say we'll definitely see her again, but can't say how major her role.

[Flightpath07]

Thanks Phil.

[Phil]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=47763

Spidey616 had a one-two punch starting with "Earlier in Jonathan Hickman's Avengers run he introduced and subsequently killed off a new incarnation of the Canadian team Omega Flight, except for member Validator. Does she have some role in Infinity or knowing Hickman does he have some other story plan for her in the future?"Alonso: Jonathan does everything for a reason, Spidey616, as I'm sure you've realized by now. So you'll be seeing Validator again in the future -- you can count on it.

[Ahab]

What happened to Kingdom? I didn't buy the issues but am curious.

[Flightpath07]

What happened to Kingdom? I didn't buy the issues but am curious.

Hickman's Kingdom fell. Collapsed, really. Was over-run, and possibly overthrown.