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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 2791450" data-attributes="member: 4090">That's because it never existed. In the wake of Avengers: Disassembled, Brian Bendis (and perhaps a couple of others, but he's the main one) decided why not have a group of Marvel's "bigwigs" get around every once in a while and compare notes- and then why not decide retroactively to have this group in existence since, oh, the original Kree-Skrull war. So the idea was approved and they made their first group appearance in New Avengers #13-14 recently.The concept itself, I suppose, isn't that bad- even though it is kind of hard to justify (IMO) why this group has seemingly never gotten involved in any of the *many* Earth threatening conflicts that have ravaged the Marvel Universe over the years (you'd think that if it existed at all that, say, the Avengers might have had a bit more forewarning about that whole "Onslaught" thing). Still, I suppose it could create for some interesting "flashback" stories where the group was operating "behind the scenes" in some of those events. So, in and of itself, not a terrible idea, though certainly (IMO) not one that was needed.Where I think the idea has just gotten terribly off-track, though, is with this "civil war" event that Marvel is hyping. To just introduce this concept out of the blue, decide to print one one-shot about what it is and what it has been up to all this time, then have it break up and divide the Earth's heroes into opposing camps seems incredibly rushed and far too contrived to have any resonance to me.</blockquote>

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