Stern’s cast is made up of inactive (at the time) Avengers: Monica Rambeau (now going by Photon), Quasar, Thor, Starfox, Tigra, Moondragon and (against all odds) Jack of Hearts. Maybe I should actually talk about the book now. After a stint at DC writing Superman, Stern returned to Marvel to co-write Avengers Forever and Iron Man with Kurt Busiek, bringing us back full circle to Avengers: Infinity. Stern refused to write such a plot and so was fired due to these irreconcilable differences. However, Editor Mark Gruenwald wanted Monica’s storyline to have her realize she was not cut out for leadership.

Towards the end of Stern’s tenure, Captain Marvel had just been nominated as the new chairman of the Avengers. Joining as a wide-eyed but good-hearted rookie, Monica was allowed to naturally develop into a confident hero able to stand head to head with classic Avengers. in an Amazing Spider-Man annual, before Stern took her to the Avengers book. Monica Rambeau, Captain Marvel (now Spectrum) was created by Stern and John Romita Jr. Alas, not long after writing the classic storyline “Under Siege”, Stern ended up being fired from the title due to one disagreement, likely hinging on Avengers: Infinity’s own lead character. Spider-Woman – who wasn’t an Avenger – even got her own 2 parter.

For the first time, the book felt central, a hub connecting you to different corners: Spider-Man, the Eternals, Namor, tie-ins with Secret Wars (both of them!) and X-Factor. It doesn’t help that Avengers: Infinity War and the 2013’s Infinity event likely bury any chance at finding discussion about this forgotten miniseries.Ī fanboy-turned-writer, Stern wrote Avengers for five years, balancing his own storylines with the larger Marvel Universe. Somehow, this mini had escaped my knowledge. Yet here’s this book I’ve never heard of, published at the turn of the millennium: Avengers: Infinity by Roger Stern and Sean Chen – a 4 issue mini released as a followup to Kurt Busiek’s Avengers Forever.

There were no more good Avengers comics to conquer! When I finished reading Roger Stern’s run from the 80s, it felt as if I had reached the top of the mountain. See, if I’ve done anything worthwhile during this pandemic, it’s read practically every Avengers comic, the 90s notwithstanding.

What’s on sale that’s interesting? Let me buy more comics I’ll never get around to reading, it’s now or never!Īs I scroll further down the rabbit hole, I come across an Avengers book I’ve never even heard of. There I was, like so many of us, mindlessly scrolling through the Comixology app at 3 in the morning, locked in a deeper inner conflict between my brain and my wallet.

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