Heard in crowd that in Nova #3, Nova fights Penance. Not sure if that's news or not...

Civil War over... now the aftermath.

Bill Rosemann editing Nova and Ms. Marvel.

Oeming writing Omega Flight and Ares.

Slott writing She-Hulk, Initiative, and FCBD Spider-Man issue.

McCann, sales and marketing.

Initiative, Bendis, Ellis, Silvestri, March 2007, Iron Man holding Cap's battered sheild.

Ed Brubaker Steve Epting March 7 2007, McGuiness cover.

CW: The Confession. Cap put behind bars in preview art.

Stefano Caselli now exclusive to Marvel. With Slott on Initiative. Jim Cheung covers.

Price to pay for being pro-reg. You're drafted. You're in the army now. EVERBODY in in the book.

SHIELD has drafted She-Hulk to fight Hulk bad guys in the absence of a Hulk.

She-Hulk #18, ten seconds later, Hulk #106.

Cover of Nova #3, Nova DOES fight Penance. April 2007. Abnet, Lanning, Chen, Granov.

Essentially the Lone Ranger of space. All the power, all the responsibility. Entire galaxy. Stressed to limit. Knows that Civil War happened, doesn't yet know why. Finds out when he returns. T-Bolts called in. Raising Nova to A-List.

Knaufs, Zircher, Parel. Iron Man: Director of SHIELD. On sale next week.

Ms Marvel, raises her game against higher profile villains to be "the best of the best". Joins Avengers, strikes deal with Tony for access to SHIELD to go after worst of the worst.

Something is brewing in New Avengers, watch closely. Will go toe to toe with Mighty Avengers.

Omega Flight, original idea from Millar, idea evolved. Pretty open characters to work with. Putting alpha male American in Canada.

Paco Medina on New Warriors. Cover image shows character defacing Iron Man poster.

Cherniss, Johnson, Briones, Turner. Sub-Mariner, June 2007

Tease of Thor. Kissing Sif.

Barry Kitson now exclusive to Marvel. MATT FRACTION AND KITSON ON CHAMPIONS.

Questions and Answers:
Avengers The Initiative #2 deals with other countries dealing with America's superhero army. As does Omega Flight.

New Great Lakes Avengers one shot. Great Lakes Initiative (GLI).

Is the natural progression of the Marvel Universe really a superhero army? Yes. Why? Civil War. "No civil liberties" meme in Marvel books? She-Hulk 20 deals with those issues.

Originally Marvel was reflective of things like fear of radiation, war, space race. Marvel still reflects real world. Only natural that artists would express the events around them. That's the core. It resonates with us now. Stories of the fantastic with an underlying metaphor that is real.

Whether you believe in pro-reg or anti-reg, it was government acting responsibly based on wants of citizens on the Marvel Universe. In Civil War #7, we saw the average person wanting registration, and that was why Cap gave up, because he did not see the bigger picture that Tony Stark did. Cap realized he was not representing what the people wanted with registration.

Team forms in issue one on Mighty Avengers, they even fight in issue one, and it was STILL written by Bendis. *Laughter.*

Ares steals the book.

New villain underworld brewing. Organized crime developed its power base during war in the real world. Big thing coming two years away.

Slapstick in Initiative #1. Who's on the NJ team? Will tease it out over time. Delaware? No one's in Delaware. *Laughter.* Those who do bad in training end up in the less important states.

Even Swamp Thing wouldn't take New Jersey. *Laughter.*

Will we see a new take on Mandarin? Kim Jong Il? Very definitive version coming up in Iron Man.

What kinds of new characters in Initiative? Komodo, who stole some on Connors serum.

Jarvis role defined in Mighty Avengers #1.

Deadpool in Great Lakes Initiative.

Spider-Woman and Ms. Marvel share history and are now on two different Avengers teams. Key scene between the two of them in The Initiative.

What did Joss Whedon do to help resolve Civil War? Still can't say. But will be answered within a month. Will tell in Joe Friday on Newsarama. Deadlocked about exact ending. Couldn't figure it out. Discussing for hours. Joss came in, was presented the two sides, and said, are you crazy, it must be this. And his reasons were so sound story-wise that they went with it.

USAgent is the Marvel Universe's Ted Nugent, opinionated, but wants to be a hero for the right reasons.

How is Marvel's draft different than New Universe's? More people reading. And Pittsburgh does not blow up.

X-Men were registered de-facto during the 198. Read Initiative #3.

If you lived in the MU and were constantly wondering if your car would still be there in the morning, if you'd be able to walk to work without having a bus thrown at you, you'd want registration.

Cap realized the people felt that way. Now heroes are all licensed, sanctioned, and trained. Tony spearheaded this and he's the only one with the names.

If Civil War ended with status quo re-established, it would be unfulfilling.

Is Thunderbolts still about redemption? They're really evil now. Those themes will be explored but he can't give anything away.

Is the registration act written down somewhere for consistency?

If you get through training your registration gets upgraded to hero license.

Upcoming She-Hulk issue (#21) will fix 90% of all Marvel continuity issues.