Marvel's hottest new villain team debuts this week

They kicked Shroud's ass and wouldn't let him join the Mission

That's fucking awful.

Reese

Who?

he's right

One of Moon Knight's vampire assistants.

I want his old crew to show up.
Either helping or else there going "what the hell man, you never call, you never write..."
You look at these chuckleheads and tell me they were standard goons that weren't friends. No, these were buds having a blast.

Deadpool, the real one, isn't going to be happy about this. Fucking love 8-Ball though

Just read the old comics.

I want a story about how his old crew interact with him or react to him now that he's semi-reformed and doing stuff with Moon Knight. Reading the old comics doesn't sate that desire.
It's not a desire high on my list, but I think it would be fun.

There's at least a 50% chance that Deadpool will watch the footage and go "huh, don't remember doing that" and just go on with his life.

Ask the black girl to be Chalk

Full 30 seconds of the two just staring at one another

"Yeah, all right."

It was either that or Rack.

Reese: "Why can't I be Pocket?"
8-Ball: "Hunter's Moon called dibs."
HM: "I wasn't going to get stuck as Chalk."

I know he was introduced VERY awkwardly, but I still want Moon Squire to show up in the book. If only for the reactions.

Why validate any of the new champions besides Phantasma? Where did they even come from?

I'm amused that another of the Egyptian gods is trolling Khonshu by finding a champion online. A goddamn tween champion that he has dressing up like Moon Knight.

My understanding of the backstory is that Hydra grabbed a bunch of kids with newly awakened powers during Secret Empire and trained them up to copy existing heroes so they could infiltrate their personal lives as innocent teen sidekicks. Then Spider-Woman uncovered the plot and got them back to their families.

what the fuck did I ever have to be worried about
lmao what are they up to?

I'd rather see more of Moon Knight-chan

Phantasma and Helrune are the only good ones

Is that Scout trying to avenge Hank Hill's decapitation?

That's part of it, but people are letting that overshadow the actual apparently-real origins. Hydra snatched up a brilliant Captain America fangirl that had built a flying rig. They snatched up a Captain Marvel fanboy that had flight & strength powers.
And they snatched up a 10-13 year old nerdy black kid with two moms and like 3 siblings, who spent way too much time online and ended up as the champion of an Egyptian god (whose "forbidden texts" were posted on "secretive message boards") who thought this would be a hilarious way to fuck with Khonshu.

Tigra called that name.

It really says something when the most original new character is Titanoboa of the Serpent Society instead of these hackneyed who gives a shit legacy twats.

Very nice.

Diddy done it!

I'd argue they fucked up from the word "go" because the artists that did the "Variant month" fucked up too.
Spider-Boy is over there in his own book, he's 10 years old, he sorta-kinda wants to be a hero BUT the main reason he's doing this is because he got cursed with a power that lets him see when OTHER people are in danger. Spidey's there going "I absolutely 100% do not like this shit" but he can't very well torture the poor kid by saying "you'll just have to sit there and experience visions of other people about to die, and do NOTHING to keep them alive." It's a decent light-hearted Marvel Adventures-style book in the same vein as 90s DC-kids books like Impulse and Young Justice.

Marvel told artists to draw a bunch of contemporaries for Spider-Boy. Instead of drawing more characters in the same age group as him and Power Pack, they drew yet another slew of teen heroes. We've got those. We've got shitloads of those. A few more light-hearted kids whose powers make it impossible for them to lead normal lives, with vague links to heroes? That would've been something a little unique. Yet another bunch of high-school/college aged knockoffs was retarded.
The only ones I have a soft spot for are Hulkette (because her creator was one of the few that got the assignment right), Phantasm (kick-ass design), and Moon Squire because (A) he's one of the few that appear to be really young, and (B) the concept is so fucking retarded that it loops around and becomes something I desperately want Marc to react to. Another Egyptian god saw a kid fucking around online and went "Imma gonna make my own Moon Knight-knockoff, and he's going to be a goddamn kid whose voice hasn't even broken yet, what's Khonshu's champion going to do, kill the kid?"

Reese: "Why can't I be Pocket?"

8-Ball: "Hunter's Moon called dibs."

HM: "I wasn't going to get stuck as Chalk."

They should have a flashback establishing that this one of of the first things Hunter's Moon ever said to 8-Ball.
"If there ever comes a day where we have to adopt disguises posing as your Billiards-themed team, I will be Pocket. I will not be stuck as Chalk." "Uh... okay?"

Unironically Avengers Arena but with these characters woulda been better cause then it's actually be thinning the herd of surplus unoriginal characters while keeping the ones with value instead of the original being an awful Arcade wankfest that shits on Avengers Academy and is just awfully written.

As an Arcade fan I'm against this, because Avengers Arena WASN'T an Arcade wankfest, it was Hopeless showing that he didn't have the slightest idea what made Arcade fun. Arcade's an asshole, but he's an asshole that regularly throws HIMSELF into Murderworld, with no safeties on. Every year for his birthday his staff are under orders to try to kill him one time each. He had a solid success rate killing "important people," got fucking bored of it, and helped himself to a bunch of robots so that instead of poisoning Elon Musk & Bill Gates, he instead throws them inside a deadly simulation of Alice in Wonderland, John Cameron's Avatar, or Jurassic Park. Or maybe a giant pinball machine. He's there to have FUN, dammit. And he's meant to be a character for the readers have fun with, so you can see your favorite hero stuck in a killer ferris wheel, or fighting Captain Jack Sparrow, Peter Pan, or whatever.

Avengers Arena wasn't just a shitty waste of good fun young heroes, it was a shitty waste of Arcade.

no gambit

i always thought he used especifically a pool pole for his moveset, not a quarterstaff

Is Hulkette one or did she manage to escape it by virtue of being a Spider-Boy character?

they all thought he was still dead

Yeah Spider-Boy villains are great.

She's from the same batch of special covers but she's totally unrelated to the whole Hydra background the rest are from.