Today Marvel revealed some of the elements behind that teaser image released yesterday of the Avengers “A” in the crosshairs (see “Marvel Teases Avengers Event in December”). Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness are collaborating on Avengers: X-Sanction, a four-issue miniseries launching in December that will serve as an “overture” to the symphony of comic book “events” slated for the Marvel universe in 2012 and which puts the Avengers on a collision course with a revivified Cable. In fact the project was originally announced at San Diego as Cable Reborn. Cable of course died during the 2010 X-event Second Coming.

 

At Marvel's "Next Big Thing"  press conference, Loeb, McGuinness and editor Tom Brevoort were pretty tight lipped about the details of the new series, which judging from the McGuinness preview art clearly has Cable mixing it up with the Avengers. The Marvelistas were coy about explaining how this conflict came to be, though Brevoort noted, “The heart of Cable’s return will focus on the idea of what do you do if you think something’s going to happen to your daughter,” a reference to Hope Summers (of Generation Hope fame), who Cable saved during the Messiah Complex event and raised.

 

Loeb stated, “I always saw Cable as the Captain America of the X-Men universe, a soldier out of his own time striving to help people.”  But he wouldn’t elaborate on how the Captain America of the X-Men universe came into conflict with the real Cap, saying “What you really want to know is that this man’s (Cable’s) daughter is in danger, and he will do anything to protect her. That’s all you need to know.”

 

Guess we will have to wait until December to find out the rest.