That's an area of the Marvel Universe that we're going to have to put some emphasis behind.' There's going to be a concerted effort to making a bigger splash with characters like the Guardians, Thanos and Nova than we've done in the past. Certainly we've been talking about it and hinting at it for a while now, and we're getting to the point where you'll begin to see more evidence of that in the books and elsewhere. Then again, a lot of people were probably asking 'Who the heck is that guy?' In either case, 'Avengers Assemble' gives you a great place to find those answers and carry that aspect of the story forward.'Īs for the specific story of the Guardians return in issue #6, Brevoort said it's the first step in Marvel 'doing more stuff with the cosmic characters. 'Certainly a lot of people coming out of the Avengers film were intrigued by the notion that Thanos was there and might be an antagonist for 'Avengers 2' or one of the other upcoming Marvel movies.

However, he also admitted that some groundwork has to be laid in the books for new fans of the film and TV characters. Now, fortunately, we can.'ĮXCLUSIVE: Mark Bagley's cover for 'Avengers Assemble' #6īrevoort explained that Thanos is the road by which the Guardians will make their return to comics, much like they just did on the small screen in the 'Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes' cartoon on DisneyXD.

We could say how 'Avengers Assemble' had the movie cast and was a good entry point for people coming out of the film considering the regular Avengers books are in the midst of 'AvX.' But we couldn't actually say too much about why and how. We built the story in 'Avengers Assemble' accordingly to take advantage of that, though we couldn't say all of what we were doing two months ago. 'We knew that scene was going to be at the end of the movie. 'We do have both oars in the water,' Marvel SVP of Publishing Tom Brevoort said of the similarities between the growing Marvel film universe and the 'Assemble' comic.

The issue provides not only the continuation of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley's movie-inspired storyline but also perhaps a tease for how Marvel will tackle the Guardians when they make their own proposed film debut in the years ahead. Today, CBR News exclusively debuts the cover to 'Avengers Assemble' #6 where cosmic superteam the Guardians of the Galaxy will make their return.

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