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Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

Gladiator and the Imperial Legion of the Shi'ar Empire created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum as a homage to DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes, with all the Imperial Guard's original members created as analogues of Legionnaires.

Of late, DC Comics has been teasing the idea of bringing back the Legion of Super-Heroes to the DC Rebirth reality, though with Geoff Johns busying himself with Doomsday Clock, who knows when he — or Tom King — will get around to it?

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

So instead, in today's Avengers #676, co-written by a Mark Waid who would love to write Legion of Super-Heroes or DC Comics if Dan DiDio wasn't co-publisher of it, he looks like he's having another go. With the Lethal Legion, a team opposing the new Black Order, with some powerful force arranging for them to fight on the planet of Earth — almost like a kind of reverse eighties Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars. Remember that?

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

Back in the day, the Beyonder arranged two separate teams from Earth, basically the super-heroes and super-villains…

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

,…to fight each other on what was dubbed the patchwork planet, a planet made up of lots of other worlds. That was basically it.

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

Now we have a mysterious omnipotent-ish force arranging for two teams of cosmic beings, who could roughly be sorted into the "goodies" and the "baddies"…

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

…to fight each other on Earth. But only when he says so.

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

So you have the Lethal Legion against the new Black Order. New characters, old characters, revived and relaunched characters, with a handy-dandy guide at the back to who is who…

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

The Metal Master first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #6, then in about four other issues in the last fifty-odd years until his recent revival in Black Bolt.

Is Avengers: No Surrender a Flipped Version of Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars? (Avengers #676 Spoilers)

And a planet that has been stolen and placed somewhere else for everyone to fight on. Earth may not be a patchwork planet – but it might be when this lot have finished with it!

AVENGERS #676 LEG
(W) Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim Zub (A) Pepe Larraz (CA) Mark Brooks
NO SURRENDER Part 2
NOW ON SALE WEEKLY!
The Black Order. The Lethal Legion. Two teams of powerful villains bent on destroying each other have arrived on Earth, and they don't care who gets caught in the crossfire. But who's pulling their strings? And what is the secret of the lost Avenger?
Rated T+In Shops: Jan 17, 2018
SRP: $3.99


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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