The order changeth, in the concluding chapter of Brian Michael Bendis’ acclaimed run!As the Marvel Universe enters a Heroic Age, who will assemble as the newest New Avengers? Where will they call home? And which Dark Avenger is sticking around for the ride? The latest roster has come together to take on the perils too dangerous and bizarre for any other heroes, beginning with an interdimensional demonic threat to all existence! Then a deep and deadly secret Nick Fury has kept buried for decades comes back to haunt the team! And when the madness of FEAR ITSELF hits home, the New Avengers battle alongside the Avengers, super-hero nanny Squirrel Girl fights alone and the status quo gets shaken up once again! Has the time finally come for Daredevil to be an Avenger? Norman Osborn returns! The Avengers go to war with the X-Men! And anyone who gets out alive will face an era-ending mystical force too big for even Doctor Strange to handle! Plus: the history of the Avengers as told by Earth’s Mightiest Heroes themselves!COLLECTING: New Avengers (2010) #1-34, #16.1; Avengers Assemble: An Oral History of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2012)Written by Brian Michael BendisPenciled by Stuart Immonen, Daniel Acuña, Howard Chaykin, Mike Deodato Jr., Neal Adams, Will Conrad, Michael Gaydos, Carlos Pacheco, Michael Avon Oeming & More
Contributors: (W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Stuart Immonen; Daniel Acuna; Howard Chaykin (CA) Stuart Immonen
Award-winning comic-book creator Brian Michael Bendis is one of the most successful writers in the industry today. In addition to an acclaimed run on Daredevil, he has helmed a renaissance for Marvel’s popular Avengers franchise and written the event projects House of M, Secret War, Secret Invasion, Siege, Age of Ultron and Civil War II. Bendis wrote every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man from its launch in 2000 before bringing his multiracial Spider-Man, Miles Morales, to the Marvel Universe for continuing adventures. He took on Marvel’s mutants in the pages of All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men, and launched Guardians of the Galaxy into the stratosphere. Bendis shook up the life of Tony Stark in Invincible Iron Man and related titles, introducing Riri Williams as Ironheart, and then assembled street-level heroes Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil and his co-creation Jessica Jones in Defenders. His creator-owned projects include Scarlet with Alex Maleev, Brilliant with Mark Bagley, and Takio and the Eisner Award-winning Powers with Michael Avon Oeming.Award-winning artist Stuart Immonen began his comics career in 1988, having worked for most of the industry’s major publishers — including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image — in the decades since. In addition to 2011’s Fear Itself, he has illustrated such high-profile Marvel series as Ultimate Spider-Man, Thor, Incredible Hulk, Avengers and the cult-favorite Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. After joining forces with Mark Waid to inaugurate Marvel’s digital Infinite Comics line, Immonen penciled All-New X-Men in the Marvel NOW! era before taking on the ultimate blockbuster project: Star Wars.Spanish illustrator Daniel Acuña began his professional career with the publication of the French series Claus & Simon, later reprinted by the popular American magazine Heavy Metal. Acuña then burst onto the American comics scene with DC’s Green Lantern and Flash. For Marvel, he has illustrated such popular series as Young X-Men, Eternals, Black Widow, X-Men Legacy, Avengers, New Avengers, Uncanny Avengers and Wolverine.Artist Howard Chaykin has been an industry legend for more than three decades. After introducing Dominic Fortune in Bizarre Adventuresand drawing Marvel’s Star Wars adaptation, he revamped DC’s Blackhawk and lent his unique perspective on past decades to American Century, Twilight, Pulp Fantastic and City of Tomorrow, among others. Chaykin’s seminal work writing and illustrating the politically charged series American Flagg! has influenced a generation of writers and artists. He remains a leading creative force in the industry, having illustrated Punisher War Journal, Wolverine, Blade and more for Marvel Comics.