{"id":5353,"date":"2012-09-13T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2012-09-13T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:42:56","slug":"the-avengers-meets-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/the-avengers-meets-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avengers Meets Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the time, we joked that Marvel NOW!\u2019s \u201csurvive\u201d teaser last week felt like an ad for The Walking Dead. Little did we know that Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker\u2019s new title had totally different pop-culture touchstones in mind.<\/p>\n

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Arugably the oddest of the Marvel NOW! announcements yet to hit the Internet came today in the form of Avengers Arena, a story that follows up on Avengers Academy by taking a number of the young heroes from that series and shunting them off to Arcade\u2019s Murderworld, where they\u2019re forced to fight to the death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really got to cherry pick our cast,\u201d Hopeless told Marvel.com. \u201cThat was a lot of fun,\u00a0almost\u00a0as much fun as creating the brand new characters. I have a feeling the Braddock Academy kids in particular are going to break some hearts. Not sure if we made it clear yet, but\u00a0people die\u00a0in this book.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later added, \u201cThe important thing is to give each character a chance to shine. These kids were chosen carefully and with specific story beats in mind.\u00a0We definitely plan on taking advantage of the broad personality spectrum we have in play.\u00a0Even the characters [that] die off early make their mark on the story. I didn\u2019t throw anyone into the book as cannon fodder.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an added bonus, in case anyone hadn\u2019t made the Hunger Games\/Battle Royale connection yet, the cover for the first issue, as released by Marvel earlier today, is a direct homage to Battle Royale. The other popular reference point, of course, will be Countdown: Arena, a story that DC published during its notoriously-bad Countdown to Final Crisis series. Besides the title similarity, that book also featured superheroes being forced to fight each other for a supervillain\u2019s entertainment\u2013in that case, Monarch.<\/p>\n

via The Avengers Meets Hunger Games | ComicBook.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the time, we joked that Marvel NOW!\u2019s \u201csurvive\u201d teaser last week felt like an ad for The Walking Dead. Little did we know that Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker\u2019s new title had totally different pop-culture touchstones in mind. 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