“Wait, Al Ewing’s not black? I’m kinda shocked to find that
out! Still, nice job dude!”
For a while now, I’ve been going through different runs of
comics physically or through apps like Marvel Unlimited. One series I was
somewhat curious about was Al Ewing’s run on Mighty Avengers. It was a series
that was supposed to take lesser known known Marvel superheroes and team them
up. The interesting thing was that the team was mostly full of minority
characters. I was curious about getting the series, but when I saw Greg Land
was doing the art, I said “Nah.” After re-reading it and it’s “sequel,” Captain
America and The Mighty Avengers, I’m kind of regretting that.
Volume 2 of Mighty Avengers started to hit shelves in 2014 right
as the umpteenth Marvel crossover, Infinity, was coming out. Luke Cage and a
few other lesser-known heroes (including Spider-Man at times) decided to create
a new team. Unlike the big-leagues, they were more interested in helping the
common folk. They even set up a call center at their headquarters in Gem
Theater. After 14 issues, the book was then relaunched as Captain America and
the Mighty Avengers (CAATMA) just in time for Marvel’s other umpteenth crossover, AXIS. It
then came to an end at nine issues as the next crossover event, Secret Wars,
was starting up… are you seeing a pattern?
Anyway, I came across the series during my read-through of
Johnathan Hickman’s runs on Avengers and New Avengers. I was going to talk
about it last month, but I’m lazy when it comes to this stuff, so you’re
getting it here. Al Ewing, who’s still at it these days, helmed the book for
all its duration. The run did have multiple artists, though. On pencils, we had
the aforementioned Greg Land, Valerio Schiti, Salvador Larroca, Luke Ross, and
Iban Coello. Most of the pencillers like Ross, Larroca, Schiti, and Coello
provided inks for their own work. Other inking was done by Jay Liesten. The
colorists were Frank D’Amata, Edgar Delgado, Matt Milla, and Rachelle
Rosenburg. The lettering was done by Cory Petit and Travis Lanham.
Okay, I can either pick Captain America, Ryu, Wolverine, or that weird catlady from Deathstalkers to beat this mofo.