Copyright © 2012 Raising Jack. All Rights Reserved. Snowblind by Themes by bavotasan.com. Powered by WordPress.
You know how there’s a Secret Invasion: Requiem issue being solicited with no hint as to who’s being mourned?
And you know how it looks like Wasp’s going kablooey in the last issue of Secret Invasion?
Well…last week on MySpace Comics, Joe Quesada printed the first page of Dan Slott’s first script for Mighty Avengers – and if you ask me, that first panel description tells a story.
Panel One – We open on a “worm’s eye view” of the FOUNDERS STATUE outside of AVENGERS MANSION (see ref). We don’t need to see the mansion in this panel because we’re going to pull back to a proper establishing shot in Panel Two.For the purpose of this shot, we don’t even get a full view of the FOUNDERS STATUE. HULK, IRON MAN, CAP, and THOR should be cropped so that only parts of them are in frame. The FOCUS of the panel is firmly on the GIANT MAN part of the statue, heroically pointing forward, with a tiny statue of the WASP poised on his finger.In the sky above, dark clouds are brewing. And through a gap in the sky we can see a small, green figure flying through the air, with a large yellow cape unfurled behind them. (This is VISION from the YOUNG AVENGERS, but he’s too far away to make out.)
The emphasis in bold is mine – but honestly, it doesn’t stretch the imagination to say that I think that two founding members are going to die next issue of Secret Invasion to stop the Skrulls. It’s a given, I think, that most of those replaced by Skrulls are still alive (you know that Bendis’ Spider-Woman series is going to star Jessica Drew no matter how much he evades the question), and that would make sense if they kept them in case they needed to ‘clone’ them again – so I predict a bust-out of prisoners in the final issue.
And I can see Hank Pym’s final act of sacrifice being to take Jan away from the rest of the world – maybe shrinking them both sub-atomic so that her explosion doesn’t kill everyone else. Sure, Hank could shrink Jan on her own but…
…in spite of it all, Hank Pym’s a hero and he loves Jan – and if he needs to die to save the world and make sure that Jan doesn’t die alone then I think that’s what he’ll do.
Well, it’s a theory…
I think you’ve got something there. Though I still think there’s another deus ex machina in the offing to explain how they’ll wipe away the Skrull invasion itself. My money’s on either the Scarlet Witch of the Infinity Gauntlet.
Maybe – although I’m not sure they’ll pull a deus ex machina after the end of House of M. It just seems to easy.
I’m probably expecting too much, though.
You may be on to something, interesting theory. It stinks, because I love both Hank and Jan, but it seems likely.
I had hoped Slott would be taking Hank over in Mighty though!
I think you’re onto something. Much as the Atom shrank away into subatomica after committing his wife to Arkham A, I think Hank may throw himself onto Jan (ewww….) and then use Pym particles to shring themselves away before she goes…or else, he’ll try…and she’ll go up… and Clint will turn to Wanda (from stage left) where he summoned her after MockingSkrull was revealed/killed and plead “Please Wanda, don’t let their deaths be in vein… even if you have to take me to do it, say it… say it with me… say “No more Skrulls!” and Blammo…
no more skrulls…no more Hank… no more Jan…and no more Clint/Ronin… final shot… Wanda and some guy in a blue hunter’s outfit are walking through the transylvanian woods, as an Avengers quinjett takes off in the distance, and they slip away thru that mysterious doorway that we’ve seen once before…